https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/4731b185-4f56-4c30-a5f3-ec9b48a5445e Dave Casler, KEØOG, reviews the new TYT UV8000E, a great radio for all hams including new Techs. Purchase via my affiliate link: https://goo.gl/6kuRVn (very slow--be patient!). Or try http://amzn.to/2fIsjPB. Click "see more" for a Table of Contents. My UV8000E support page is at http://ke0og.net/UV8000E. Subscribe to my channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaBtYooQdmNzq63eID8RaLQ. 0:10 Introduction 0:43 Key Features 1:01 Top level recommendation 1:26 Link to buy radio (www.ke0og.net/uv8000e) 1:36 About Chinese radios 1:46 Chinese manuals are hard to read 2:28 About Radioddity "A Better Store" 2:49 A look at the radio and functions 4:33 Let's open the box 7:23 Notes about knobs and buttons 8:00 Front panel special buttons 9:23 PTT, Moni, and Call buttons, mic and phone jacks 10:28 Screen 10:47 Modes--channel and frequency 11:27 Dual Watch 12:42 Finding a description of the screen symbols 13:15 Screen color options 13:28 Screen easily viewable in full sunlight 13:33 Function descriptions in the manual 13:44 Use case: using radio for simplex communications 14:35 Using keypad to set up a repeater frequency 18:40 PROGRAMMING: Intro 18:45 PROGRAMMING: Trying and failing to use mini-CD 19:02 PROGRAMMING: Cable issues 20:05 PROGRAMMING: Locating the software on the Radioddity website 20:58 PROGRAMMING: Finding the RAR decoder on the Microsoft website 21:12 PROGRAMMING: Overview of UV8000E programming software 21:48 PROGRAMMING: Read all the radio's memory information and settings to the computer 22:33 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Radio Information 22:44 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Freq Information, which sets up defaults for frequency mode 24:48 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Channel information 25:05 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: FM broadcast reception 27:16 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Scan information 27:29 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: Optional items, including enabling the cross-band repeater 29:26 PROGRAMMING: Menu item: DTMF, including demo of sending DTMF tones 29:50 PROGRAMMING: Saving all the settings to a backup file 30:00 PROGRAMMING: Write all the new info to the radio 30:24 Demonstration of cross-band repeat function 33:15 Dave's evaluation of the UV8000E 33:55 URL for Dave's UV8000E support page: http://www.ke0og.net/uv8000e 34:22 Credits Thank you for watching my videos! 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