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Ham Radio Mobile Dual Band Mobile Radio VGC VR-6600PRO

Has anyone ever used one of these? I'm thinking about getting one, and I am wondering how you would program it. The company's website doesn't list any software for it, and I haven't been able to find anything elsewhere online.

Two words: STAY AWAY.

I don't know anything about this radio or manufacturer (except it's apparently a CCR*), but that you can't find programming and software support should be a major red flag.

* CCR=Cheap Chinese Radio. The term has been tossed around a lot on RR and references a plethora of inexpensive Chinese branded radios of varying quality and attributes.
 

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I did some more research and discovered that you can only program it by using the keypad on the mic.


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Does anyone know where I can get a manual for this thing? I can't seem to find one, and it didn't come with one.
 

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Can you download a manual from the manufacturer's web?
Can you download a manual from the dealer's web site you bought it from?
If not then see post #2.
 

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I emailed the seller, so I’m hoping he’ll be able to help. The manufacturer’s website does not list a manual for download, but all indications I’ve seen leads me to believe that it was supposed to come with one.


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I did some searching and it looks like this is either bleeding edge CCR (which might or might not fade away) or it is obscure and abandoned. Either way, it's not a radio I would want to mess with by choice.
 

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I did some searching and it looks like this is either bleeding edge CCR (which might or might not fade away) or it is obscure and abandoned. Either way, it's not a radio I would want to mess with by choice.

Agreed. In case you haven’t figured it out, I actually went and bought one. It’s an “okay” radio, but while I’ve gotten it to work fine on 2 meters, it seems to give me an “ERROR TX” message when I try to talk on a local 440 repeater (I’ll still get through though). Also, text tagging is a pain. I can only get letters to show up, but not numbers. This makes it virtually impossible to tag a repeater with its callsign.

I also discovered that even when you turn the radio off, the mic still remains powered on. The keypad stays lit, as (sometimes) does the keys on the radio faceplate.

It also has a NOAA Weather Radio function, but you can’t control the volume.

Surprisingly, the manual for the radio is not full of the normal borderline-indecipherable Chinglish.

I just went and ordered a Baojie BJ-318. I hope that’ll work better.
 

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It certainly sounds interesting. I'll continue to keep my eyes open for any information around zee interwebs in the the coming months.
 

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You have as good a chance of getting a manual for that thing as we have in getting a release date for the Yaesu FTDX-101D
 

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No worries. It was mere curiosity. :cool:
This guy has s thing for CCRS BY now hes well on his way to having bought a decent big four radio that just works , without having a pile of garbage in the junk drawer. Some people never learn they spend the equivalent of a decent entry level radio without actually buying one, get fed up and abandon there ticket.

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