I’ve been quiet on the radio front as I’ve been working behind the scenes with BTECH for over six months on a new radio. It was announced today as the BF-F8HP Pro.<\/p>\n
Here’s what I posted to the various Facebook radio groups I participate in:<\/p>\n
This is where I (and my modified CPS) disappeared to.<\/p>\n
I’ve been working extensively with BTECH to make this the best possible Baofeng, both firmware-wise and CPS. My modified CPS will reappear as 1.25m in December or January, with all of the improvements that aren’t unique to the BTECH 1.2.5l (so no firmware upgrade tool, etc.). In 1.25m you will be able to just open a .dat file from any of the radios supported by the modified CPS and write it to the BF-F8HP Pro, and vice versa. This is for user convenience – it won’t give you the features that are in the BTECH radio, but there’s none of the CHIRP “export to CVS” workaround needed to move configs between different radio models.<\/p>\n
You may remember me saying that “I want to do a radio that fixes everything that’s wrong with the UV-17 Pro GPS, as well as a whole lot more”. This is that radio.<\/p>\n
I’d suggest you download the CPS<\/a> (it will happily coexist with any other CPS you have installed) and the radio manual<\/a> and look at the radio and CPS features.<\/p>\n There are too many improvements to list here, but some highlights are:<\/p>\n I did my work without knowing what the final market price would be. The selling price is $10 less than the low end of my ballpark guess.<\/p>\n I’ve been involved with this since late March. Baofeng creates new models on what seems like a weekly basis. BTECH are going to sell and support this radio long after other models have come and gone.<\/p>\n\n