I was in Beijing in 2010 and could not resist shopping for a new dual-band hand held. I went to the Zhongguancin Electronics District and found a vendor selling all kinds of portable radios. I asked about this model and a Wouxun model, and ended up purchasing the Quansheng. The amazing thing is the price, it cost less than $C70 for the radio and a USB programming cable.

I'm not writing a review of the radio, rather just a collection of references to other useful information that I found on the net. You can find reviews of many amateur hand-helds, including the TG-UV2 at eHam.net.

The manufacturer's web site is here (you may have to select English and search for the TG-UV2). As of 12/2010 there is no manual online, so I scanned mine in and you can download it from here.

I did have one small problem, the charger came with a 220V 50Hz wall wart, which is useless to me here in North America. I substituted a 15VAC 1A 60Hz transformer and now it charges just fine.

I also purchased a SMA-F to BNC-F adapter from Buxcomm, p/n AT7070 for $US6. (I found a vendor at a local fleamarket selling an adapter like this but it would not screw into the radio, which I had fortunately brought along with me. Later I found out that there are metric versions of the sma that look almost the same. For more information on this complex subject see WA1MBA's web page on RF connectors.)

And I found an eBay vendor selling Kenwood compatible headset-microphones for $3 (plus $3 shipping) which turned out to work fine with the Quansheng.

Go to http://tg-uv2.blogspot.com/ for all you want to know about the TG-UV2.

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