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What I am and what I represent? Are you kidding me?
Baofeng, Wouxon, TYT, Pofung et-al are garbage, throw away radios. They are extremely low quality radio. Although it seems the TYT MD-390 are much better than the rest of them.
The proof is listening to them on the air. The muddy, muffled audio is horrible. The radios are buggy and unrefined. The software is almost unusable. So much so CHIRP actually looks like decent software.
FYI I actually own a Baofeng. I also own an IC-92ad, VX-170, FT-277 hammy radios.
I have used a wide variety of ham and LMR gear, both for amateur radio.
I also have used a wide assortment of LMR Icom, Vertex Standard, Kenwood and Motorola gear for actual LMR use. Both digital and analogue. I currently have a POS Motorola HT-750 that is issued to me, that I can't wait to get rid of for something of higher quality. Likely along the lines of a XPR-7550.
My personal LMR gear ranges from an ancient IC-H16 to an APX-4000 single knob.
What I am about is trying to keep lousy garbage crap off the ham bands. Encouraging new hams to buy quality radios. Showing new hams that spending $200-500 bucks on a Yaesu/Icom/Kenwood big three radio is going to be better bang for their buck rather than wasting $50-100 bucks on a 'CCR' only to end up buying a 'big three' down the road.
The garbage the Chinese are dumping in North America is just that. Mass produced garbage with ZERO quality control. The muffled bassy audio, and the poor spectral purity is proof of that.
