I purchased this radio from a friend, and it worked well. He hadn’t really used it, so I did a factory reset. This was a bit of a mistake, as it did a few things like turning everything to Chinese. I had to use my phone and google translate to decode it and get it back to English.
But that wasn’t the only problem.
The numbers on the microphone wouldn’t work anymore. It took me months or researching and looking, even asking questions to others online etc. But no one could help me which I thought was odd.
Eventually I found it and I have it below in this video.
Hopefully that helped you. Please subscribe to this blog if it did as I plan on doing more posts on this radio soon.
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