It started with Wouxun, one of the first brands of inexpensive Chinese radios to hit the VHF/UHF FM ham radio market in the US and around the world. We pronounced it like we saw it: Whax-on. Until somebody checked and learned it was more like ‘Ocean’, sort of.

Some of the brands that followed seemed more anglicized: Baofeng… we came close. BAY-oh-fang. Gary K4AAQ favored BO-fung. Then recently, his YouTube surfaced an eight-year-old video with a guy pronouncing many of the Chinese names, including TYT. Watch… listen… there will be a quiz. It will probably be on the final (or the next update of the Tech question pool).

Then we all take a trip through Troubleshooting-land in a segment Gary called “The Trouble With Shooting”. Jim NO1PC and David W0DHG help Gary second and third-guess the problem with an antique Kenwood TH-F6 radio that refuses to accept manual programming on just one of its 400 memory channels… or did it? It’s misdirection and confirmation bias run amok. It could happen to you.

Finally, Jim tells us where he’s been lo these past few weeks, on vacation in a silver hot dog.

And next week, we have a guest lined up: A new YouTuber and relatively new ham, Junie N1DUC has a thing for our web-footed friends, so duck and cover (probably the show title) and check out https://www.hamandquackers.com/

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