Dale's Random Ramblings ;-)

I bought one of theses Wouxun dual band HT off of eBay a month back for bit over 100USD which amounted to around 99AUD. The unit didn’t come with any extras like 1700mA battery or USB programming cable as sold by others on eBay.

Down side is the HT is pita to program off of the keypad till you get used to it, altering power setting etc to a channel already saved is a pain as you have to delete the channel and re enter it. I ended up buying a USB programming cable off of eBay for the HT and it makes the programming of the HT a lot easier and faster. The other is the SMA Female antenna connection, as if you want to use a external antenna you have to make or buy SMA female to BNC female adapter, which are also sold on eBay for couple dollars each.

As I use Linux, I have been lucky as there is a Linux program called OWX, which is a command-line program for programming the KG-UVD1P and others. As I didn’t do the make install part of the compile/install of the OWX program, here is an example of how I use the program to do what is explained in the OWX documentation.

./owx -c check -p /dev/ttyUSB0
./owx -c get -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -o radio/original.bin
cp radio/original.bin radio/backup.bin
./owx -c export -i radio/original.bin -o vk5-repeater-list.csv
cp radio/original.bin radio/vk5-repeater-list.bin
./owx -c import -i radio/vk5-repeater-list.csv -o radio/vk5-repeater-list.bin
./owx -c put -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -i radio/vk5-repeater-list.bin -r radio/backup.bin

Overall the Wouxun KG-UVD1P is a rather good and not bad for the monies, feels sturdy and comfortable to use, it be a good starting out HT for beginners to Amateur Radio. I would also recommend if getting this HT to get it with the USB cable and the 1700mA battery.

References:
Programming the Wouxun KG-UVD1P – this make programming the from the keypad a lot easier to understand well worth the read.
Open Wouxun (OWX) – Linux command-line program
VK5 2M/70CM repeater list for KG-UVD1P – CVS file to used with OWX