The other drawback is the manual which is very bare-bones with few explanations

The manual is not too good but you can get all information to program it off the internet

Love the radio, hate the manual that it came with

Absolutely great for the PRICE!Doesn't have the best noise rejection, manual is very poor and programming is difficult by hand but buy a programming cable a longer antenna and use CHIRP (free) to program it

The manual is hard to follow but I used a blog site baofenguv82.blogspot.com to learn the step-by-step programming.

Manual was almost useless.

Quite a bargain for so little money, came in retail packaging, but the manual is miserably sketchy

The manual is hard to follow but if you have had any experience in programming, you won't need to refer to the manual.

The manuals are utter junk and good only for starting fires so it takes a little time to learn how to operate the radios and discover the

However, the manual could certainly be much more improved.

But it needs help in the antenna department, operation and programming is obnoxious, and the manual is useless.

The manual that comes with the UV-82 is better than the manual that comes with the UV-5R, which is to say it is nearly useless rather than completely useless.

The manual is easy to understand

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Just picked up this radio to replace a Wouxon radio that has known factory defects that they wont fix as well as to replace my Anytone mobile radio that was stolen when my car was broken into and i must i a pleasantly surprised by the quality and function

Programs weird a and software is flakey but the hardware is rock solid and (as a ham

It just /works/, it works as you'd expect, it feels GREAT, it sounds GREAT, audio reports are GREAT, battery life is /insanely great/ in comparison to the UV-5R, its subtle operating changes to be more efficient than the 5R are

Programming the radio is just as easy as the 5R as it uses the same operating system

They are a little longer than the Bao Feng UV5R, which I like as it fits my hand better.

I'm guessing the radio has increased in popularity as it has suffered from price creep, now at $49 here on Amazon

Just picked up this radio to replace a Wouxon radio that has known factory defects that they wont fix as well as to replace my Anytone mobile radio that was stolen when my car was broken into and i must i a pleasantly surprised by the quality and function

Programs weird a and software is flakey but the hardware is rock solid and (as a ham

It just /works/, it works as you'd expect, it feels GREAT, it sounds GREAT, audio reports are GREAT, battery life is /insanely great/ in comparison to the UV-5R, its subtle operating changes to be more efficient than the 5R are

Programming the radio is just as easy as the 5R as it uses the same operating system

They are a little longer than the Bao Feng UV5R, which I like as it fits my hand better.

I'm guessing the radio has increased in popularity as it has suffered from price creep, now at $49 here on Amazon