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<blockquote data-quote="p238shooter" data-source="post: 4234878" data-attributes="member: 24583"><p>Been an interesting thread.&nbsp; I had a friend who purchased a new Baofang UV5R-MK3X&nbsp; off of Amazon that was supposed to be a triband.&nbsp; Yep all the specs show that, stickers were right but it would only do 2m and 70cm working.&nbsp; As I did a lot of research and found how to unlock it and use the old Chirp to get the 220 band workingalso, I ran across other info that this would work with older Baofangs.&nbsp;&nbsp; I took 2 of my prob 3 year older UV5Rs and did the same thing.&nbsp; Wala shezam, they are now triband radios also.&nbsp; They receive well and transmit something 220, not sure of the power output yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; I guess I need to purchase a couple triband antennas.&nbsp; But first I will run a swr test on a couple of the longer Nagoya antennas I have that look similar to my friends triband first and see how they do on 220 also.&nbsp; Be a couple days till I can get to it if anyone is interested in my results.&nbsp;&nbsp; MTC and Radiodity are involved with Baofang progams.&nbsp; Each having different programming for what looks like the same radio.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="p238shooter, post: 4234878, member: 24583"] Been an interesting thread. I had a friend who purchased a new Baofang UV5R-MK3X off of Amazon that was supposed to be a triband. Yep all the specs show that, stickers were right but it would only do 2m and 70cm working. As I did a lot of research and found how to unlock it and use the old Chirp to get the 220 band workingalso, I ran across other info that this would work with older Baofangs. I took 2 of my prob 3 year older UV5Rs and did the same thing. Wala shezam, they are now triband radios also. They receive well and transmit something 220, not sure of the power output yet. I guess I need to purchase a couple triband antennas. But first I will run a swr test on a couple of the longer Nagoya antennas I have that look similar to my friends triband first and see how they do on 220 also. Be a couple days till I can get to it if anyone is interested in my results. MTC and Radiodity are involved with Baofang progams. Each having different programming for what looks like the same radio. [/QUOTE]

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