There we go, that's much better. Had to use CHIRP to give channels names, but that's fine, it's way better than Baofeng's software anyway and now I have it set up on the pocket PC.
Also I definitely need to relabel these little handhelds Beifong insead of Baofeng.
What this does is let me have basically the same labels on here as I set up on the Midland 40W unit, instead of frequency which is the default. Why frequency? I _do not know_. GMRS is _channelised_. This radio _does_ let you _receive_ on arbitrary frequencies and lets you store like 1000 presets, which is _great_, but the default on the bottom 30 should bloody well be the defined channel numbers.
But no, big string of digits showing the frequency that literally no one in GMRS needs to care about. Arf.
oh neat
this thing also has an FM radio which is nice enough - it doesn't sound amazing but it sounds better than you'd expect - but if you're on a GMRS channel in the background and it gets activity, it'll silence the FM and play what's coming in on GMRS.
i mean idk maybe that's normal on these little HTs but I hadn't encountered it yet, nice little feature baofeng
Solarbird 