Set your radio to 12.5KHz steps, then the missing '.5'steps are put in for you, even though the display can't manage them. Although I expect you found that out and tried it since the topic started.
I was a bit surprised by the Baofeng radios should be banned. UK law is fairly simple, and I'd assume the US is similar. You can import whatever you want, because the import laws allow it. Licensing laws specify what can be done with them. So here, adhering to the absolute wording of the law says that you cannot have in your possession equipment for a which a license is not available. This is rather clever, because it means that as a member of the public cannot get a license for say, military airband or using a police radio (even if you could beat the encoding) then having one means it could be seized and ultimately destroyed. They don't go around confiscating airband scanners, but they could. Years ago, to use any transmitter apart from amateur ones needed somebody to come and test it and give you the OK. Now it's done by self-certification, you say it complies, they believe you until you cause grief to others. Hams have bands and powers as per their license, and as long as they police themselves, all is well. A Baofeng technically has a pretty decent specification, so using one on a business radio band would be OK, as long as the users didn't fiddle with the programming and operate outside their license.
Here, Hams are expected to police themselves. Pressing the transmit button outside the amateur band is wrong. Surely banning radios because they 'could' break the law is a bit silly, when you allow gun owners to do far, far worse without banning them!
Perspective!
