Unfortunately the manuals are usually in badly translated English. Maybe not "show vengeful force to the button when electing new lunches" but not black and white either.

I thing the best way to deal with the grey area handhelds is to pick ones that let you either plug into a laptop or physically link to another similar radio to copy the channels over.

Just wondering if the talk about list are the ones that I have to program in. Just got puxing 888 and was looking for help with programming it. and what freq's to put in.

By any chance anyone own a WACCOM WUV5R? The English manual doesn't really help with the programming by hand.

<NOTE: Just found out this walkie talkie is actually a UV-5R. http://hamgear.wordpress.com/2012/04...ng-your-uv-5r/ shows you how to program it.>

I just obtained a Kenwood TH-F6A, and I'm wondering if anyone here knows of and could suggest a military-style whip antennae for it (the long, flat type that folds into sections, such as special operations troops are frequently seen using), and maybe an extension/patch cord for same.

Midland makes the GXT1000, and it is a 5W GMRS radio.
https://www.buytwowayradios.com/prod...-1000-vp4.aspx

Holy necro batman!