That is a pretty nifty radio!. Only $180 compared to thousands of dollars for a Moto APX8000!. They seem like good radios may pick one up to try. Now if they did the TPT like a real 8000, then that would be great!. My ham radio buddies will be jealous of my new radio!!.
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Found a Chinesium APX 8000 on ebay.
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Thanks for that. No reverse burst=no sale!
If you're a minitor fan it has the nice ker chunk at end 😂
How did you get around the USB not being recognized, I have tried for several weeks and still not program radio. Does look nice however!
I didn't have this issue as some described for the USB cable that was ordered.
Keep in mind it is NOT the charging USB cable to programs these. It's a separate USB adapter cable you must get. I imagine one could make one if you take the one apart to figure it out
Pretty cheap more like a ham novelty. The software you can name a channel but it still only shows ch1 2 3 etc. I haven't figured out how to not allot it to tx without the software so this is a issue for those wishing to monitor a channel and not it tx in simplex without the software. The scan sucks worse than a baofeng. It will stop for split second then resume not holding. I'll be handing it off to a ham user soon to monkey with free of charge.
Robbie1984
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G'day everyone i know this post has been somewhat inactive since March I've just taken delivery of a hamgeek apx-8000 contrary to some of the replies seen so far about how hard it is to program and features being confusing I am having an absolute ball with mine after a confusing start have managed to get repeaters programmed in for the interim until my e-bay seller sends out the separate programming cable so I'm able to utilize the hamgeek apx-8000 programming software to program it much easier
As someone who served for 20 years as a volunteer fire fighter this apx-8000 is reminiscent of the early Motorola MTS2000 handhelds that were issued to CFS brigades here in South Australia as part of the transition from 163 MHz VHF system to a UHF Trunked network known as the SA Government Radio Network
As someone who served for 20 years as a volunteer fire fighter this apx-8000 is reminiscent of the early Motorola MTS2000 handhelds that were issued to CFS brigades here in South Australia as part of the transition from 163 MHz VHF system to a UHF Trunked network known as the SA Government Radio Network
