Need some advice

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I agree, 5R is easier than the 3R. The 'Chinglish Destructions' that come with them are completely unintelligible but there are very good instructions all over the place online and I think LS posted some too. Lots of people have jumped on the 'omg they're so complicated to program' bandwagon but in my experience these are people that forked out for Yaesu HTs that do less and cost a huge amount more or people that are too nervous to give it a go. I think that if you can follow GOOD instructions they're quite straight forward to program manually without bothering with the data cable. I do mine manually however the data cable gives you the added benefit of an alpha numeric display which is really quite useful.

Don't believe the hype!