TYT UV8000E High Power Dual Band Amateur Radio –Upgrade to UV8000D – A Reasonably Good Value I’m W3HEN and have been a licensed amateur radio operator since 1974. The TYT UV8000E is similar to the D model that preceded it. Like the D, the E model transmits and receives on amateur UHF and VHF bands. Like most Chinese radios, both will transmit and receive on frequencies above and below those allocated for amateur use. Like some radios, both TYT models include an FM broadcast receiver. The E model adds cross-band repeater functionality, which…

TYT 8000E review. I purchased two UV8000E’s on Sept 23, 2016. They arrived in about 3 days. They look and feel very sturdy and certainly are not cheap looking. They work very well though I am a novice and still figuring out the functionality. As others have noted the manual is OK but not great. I had to do a fair bit of google searching in addition to reading the manual to figure out how to program it. The Prolific driver that came with the device would not work on my Win 10-64 bit system. I emailed TYT…