I just got the New Baofeng 5RM Tri-Band Radio. Programming & Field Test In Colorado.

After some conversations on our morning 220 MHz simplex talk group here in Teller County, Colorado I decided to purchase the 2023 Baofeng 5RM tri-band HT from Amazon. I heard it only ships with a 2m/70cm rubber duck so I also included the 18" Abbree tri-band antenna as well as a 42.5" version of the Abbree tri-band antenna. Once I got the radio in and at least the 18" Abbree I got to programming it up for local communications and set out to do some field tests using the radio and antenna combination. I will show in the radio how to use Chirp to download the image file from the radio and then import a previous channel list setup from an older Baofeng model so I didnt have to manually program in over 55 repeaters. Once that's done I will also show you how to upload a 160x128 bitmap picture to use as a startup logo. Finally I will take the unit out to the field and do some distance tests and audio quality transmit tests on 220MHz as well as 2m.