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Baofeng’s are still available on eBay as of this morning 10-23.
I am sure some these will be available for a while. At some point though, they might be selling what appears to be the same thing, but not with the same free range functions. I’m thinking you will buy one and it will be strictly ham band xmit and wideband rx but not xmit.
I consider Toy Story (and the follow up movies) to already be ‘classics’. It’s one of the few recent Disney movies that avoids subliminal PC and I actually enjoy watching them with my granddaughter.
One simply cannot gather too much information about necessary medical practices. God help both the patient and the practitioner of Grid Down home dentistry. Getting the skills, the necessary tools and as much medication (especially pain and antibiotic) as possible beforehand is absolutely Paramount.
I just checked, the UV5R radios JWR has linked to are now gone. There are other sellers that still have them at $199.88 in a 6 pack. There is also a 5 pack of the 8 watt radios at $142.99. These look to be the same radio with higher power.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SCZCCPN/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07SCZCCPN&linkCode=as2&tag=survivalcom-20&linkId=9b5a7ff902cf5a4fb3815a49ddbdf1c1
Got my 6 pack of UV5R radios a little while back.
They came with a total of 12 batteries of which 1 gave an error indication on the charger. I contacted the seller and they sent me 2 full replacement radio sets. So now I have 8 radios and probably 15 good batteries and one maybe.
The programming cables however were junk. There are a number of cables that have counterfeit chip sets. Mine were apparently counterfeit. There are numerous websites that all basically lead you back to downloading old Prolific device drivers that will supposedly work with these cables. I messed around with this process downloading numerous Prolific and FTDI drivers and wasting hours. I am pretty proficient at making things that are not supposed to work on computers work through all kinds of manipulation. (A feature of my job as we do not update software nearly often enough.) I could not make it work. Some sites say the drivers will detect that the chips are counterfeit and disable them and I think this was happening. Finally I ordered this
https://www.amazon.com/BTECH-PC03-Genuine-Programming-Cable/dp/B00HUB0ONK/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=2X1NW7WDYIUBQ&keywords=baefong+uv5r+programming+cable&qid=1571945007&sprefix=baefon%2Caps%2C348&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyMVo5VEhRWUFWVFY5JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwOTc5OTU5MzlMTDJYR1VOWVlYSiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNTM2NTQwMkxCOEhIWTBJSDdIViZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=
It did not load automatically the first time as advertised. However I was able to easily download and manually install the latest FTDI driver and it works flawlessly with the latest version of CHIRP. I will likely order another.
The radios work OK. For now we are using MURS channels until I get licensed.