TYT UV8000E

Dave Casler, KEØOG, reviews the new TYT UV8000E, a great radio for all hams including new Techs. Click “see more” for a Table of Contents. My UV8000E support page is at http://ke0og.net/UV8000E. Subscribe to my channel at http://youtube.com/davecasler.
0:10 Introduction
0:43 Key Features
1:01 Top level recommendation
1:26 Link to buy radio (www.ke0og.net/uv8000e)
1:36 About Chinese radios
1:46 Chinese manuals are hard to read
2:28 About Radioddity “A Better Store”
2:49 A look at the radio and functions
4:33 Let’s open the box
7:23 Notes about knobs and buttons
8:00 Front panel special buttons
9:23 PTT, Moni, and Call buttons, mic and phone jacks
10:28 Screen
10:47 Modes–channel and frequency
11:27 Dual Watch
12:42 Finding a description of the screen symbols
13:15 Screen color options
13:28 Screen easily viewable in full sunlight
13:33 Function descriptions in the manual
13:44 Use case: using radio for simplex communications
14:35 Using keypad to set up a repeater frequency
18:40 PROGRAMMING: Intro
18:45 PROGRAMMING: Trying and failing to use mini-CD
19:02 PROGRAMMING: Cable issues
20:05 PROGRAMMING: Locating the software on the Radioddity website
20:58 PROGRAMMING: Finding the RAR decoder on the Microsoft website
21:12 PROGRAMMING: Overview of UV8000E programming software
21:48 PROGRAMMING: Read all the radio’s memory information and settings to the computer
22:33 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Radio Information
22:44 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Freq Information, which sets up defaults for frequency mode
24:48 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Channel information
25:05 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: FM broadcast reception
27:16 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Scan information
27:29 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Optional items, including enabling the cross-band repeater
29:26 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: DTMF, including demo of sending DTMF tones
29:50 PROGRAMMING: Saving all the settings to a backup file
30:00 PROGRAMMING: Write all the new info to the radio
30:24 Demonstration of cross-band repeat function
33:15 Dave’s evaluation of the UV8000E
33:55 URL for Dave’s UV8000E support page: http://www.ke0og.net/uv8000e
34:22 Credits
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