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- Mar 9, 2013
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"Someone still has to program the radios. They don't come out of the box on an agency's frequency."
Sometimes they do. Both my UV5Rs came with a few HAM frequencies and about a dozen or so other seemingly random frequencies I didn't recognise, although they both included 154.680 (a Washington State Patrol frequency used in my area; formerly FM, now P25.) I think they're actually programmed as "test frequencies" at the factory or at Sain Store, and it's just by chance that one of them happens to be a public service frequency in the area the radio ends up in.
i have bought 4 this is just a flat out lie . youre telling me the chinese people making these things over seas know or care what washington state patrols frequencies are... just cut the b**l s**t ... there are NO frequencies programmed in the memory... maybe the vfo is always at its lowest value of 140.000 or something like that when you first turn it on....