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Reviews For: KG-UV980PL

Category: Transceivers: VHF/UHF+ Amateur Base/Mobile (non hand-held)

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Review Summary For : KG-UV980PL
Reviews: 1MSRP: £280 UK
Description:
4 band mobile with cross band capability
Product is in production
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G6ATJ Rating: 2020-04-19
OK but...... Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Wanted a cross band repeater for the shack, and this fitted my criteria: (1) Cost (2) availability (3) spec.
This (for the UK market) has 10m band replaced with 4m.
Works great as a "standard" mobile, and as a X-band repeater in the shack. But the programming is a nightmare. I got the wouxon cable (with a REAL silicon labs chip it seems) and this works fine with Windows 10, but using the wouxon program. software if not so good.
It reads from the radio OK. I add a couple of memories (you cant delete 001 & 002 apparently), then clicking on "write to radio" results in a large (empty) text box with the title "Frequency out of range".
Checked all frequencies and they all look "in range"!
So....go to the best I thought, and downloaded the RT systems software.
Now I didnt realize that you HAVE to have their drivers and THEIR cable before the software will even install.
More expense...that will now have to wait.
Overall: Radio 9/10. Software: 1/10