[amsat-bb] Re: WOUXUN Radio

[tosca005@umn.edu]

On Mar 27 2010, Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield wrote:

>Has anyone bought and played with one of these ultra cheap WOUXUN dual band
> hand helds that are selling on eBay? Do they hear well enough for 
> satellite
>operation?
>
>73,
>Joe kk0sd

I have zero first-hand experience, but according to...
  http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/7344

...these are NOT dual-band radios. There is a VHF model and a UHF model, 
but no dual-band model. You can read the eHam review quoted above yourself, 
but to summarize, most folks seemed to think it was a decent radio for the 
price, as long as they didn't really need dual-band operation, could put up 
with the mangled English of the manual, and used the software to program it 
instead of fighting with the buttons to program it...

73 de W0JT