Tacos ???

Phil philmt59 at aol.com
Mon Mar 10 19:36:04 CDT 2014


Hi Frank

How much is the UV-5R in the States now? They're available for £29 over here in the UK now (about a tenth of what I paid for my Yaesu VX-7R).

Phil M1GWZ



On 10 Mar 2014, at 14:00, fgentges at mindspring.com wrote:

> Andre,
> 
> Bill and I had a class for newly minted hams.  We had them buy Baofeng UV-5R ht radios from Amazon before the class.  They brought them, saw they were charged up and then did a simple talk about all the buttons and how to get started.  We downloaded a large list of frequencies on two meters and 440 MHz bands.
> 
> This was in response to our experience of many newly licensed hams that are never seen on the air.  Hopefully, we will see some active hams.
> 
> Frank



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