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Simple but versatile. Concise appearance with nice and solid feel case, fits right in the hand. Tokmate TU30 is designed for the needs of various occasions such as construction and manufacture plants, resorts and hotels, public safety agency and government department, metro station and airport, etc.These radios were last known to be distributed on eBay by the company Link Delight www.linkdelight.com under one of a handful of eBay accounts. These are Chinese radios and the seller is located in China. Support is extremely limited. The value of these radios is approximately $10 per radio. Two knobs to switch channels and adjust volume. Rotate the channel selection knob to switch the present channel from 1 to 16, there are numbers marked on it. ON/OFF knob also function as volume"+" and "-", just turn it clockwise to open and increase volume, though the voice is really loud enough even in those environment full of noises.These are essentially Baofeng variations. They are often sold in pairs and may not be programmed with matching frequencies. Use caution in the United States because radios may be programmed with out of band frequencies that are illegal for you to transmit on. Do not transmit until you have verified the frequencies programmed into the radio and you know you are properly licensed to operate on them.Hard enough, shock poof, dust proof, unique lock buckle on battery pack. The whole body is compact and rigid in case any accidental falling or shocks, and splashing in rainy day won't be mattered. 1500mAh Li-ion battery last for 8 hours, if not transmitting frequently. In addition, battery buckle is placed on the battery pack unlike many other radios. It is a tiny trick, but now you don't have to throw the whole radio once such part is damaged, a new battery would solve it quickly.The following is from the manufacturer:CTCSS doesn't protect your privacy, but you won't feel annoyed now. There are standard 50CTCSS and 105CDCSS to filter those channel jams while talking, only note that such settings won't protect you from being overheard, and side monitor button is helpful when signals are weak. VOX function makes you really hands free, good solution for construction or driving on the way.''Simple but versatile. Concise appearance with nice and solid feel case, fits right in the hand. Tokmate TU30 is designed for the needs of various occasions such as construction and manufacture plants, resorts and hotels, public safety agency and government department, metro station and airport, etc.''Saving mode for longer performance. Left non operation more than 5 seconds, TU30 would entire saving mode automatically. LCD and keypad are not available on this radio, which slows the battery drain down to a longer working. ''Two knobs to switch channels and adjust volume. Rotate the channel selection knob to switch the present channel from 1 to 16, there are numbers marked on it. ON/OFF knob also function as volume"+" and "-", just turn it clockwise to open and increase volume, though the voice is really loud enough even in those environment full of noises.'' ''Hard enough, shock poof, dust proof, unique lock buckle on battery pack. The whole body is compact and rigid in case any accidental falling or shocks, and splashing in rainy day won't be mattered. 1500mAh Li-ion battery last for 8 hours, if not transmitting frequently. In addition, battery buckle is placed on the battery pack unlike many other radios. It is a tiny trick, but now you don't have to throw the whole radio once such part is damaged, a new battery would solve it quickly.'' ''CTCSS doesn't protect your privacy, but you won't feel annoyed now. There are standard 50CTCSS and 105CDCSS to filter those channel jams while talking, only note that such settings won't protect you from being overheard, and side monitor button is helpful when signals are weak. VOX function makes you really hands free, good solution for construction or driving on the way.Saving mode for longer performance. Left non operation more than 5 seconds, TU30 would entire saving mode automatically. LCD and keypad are not available on this radio, which slows the battery drain down to a longer working.''As of July 2015 this radio is not supported by CHIRP. Baofeng programming software for 888S and similar models also does not work. As of July 2015 this radio is '''not''' supported by [http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home CHIRP]. Baofeng programming software for 888S and similar models also does not work. During installation of the software you may be prompted to overwrite newer versions of VB OCX controls. Do not overwrite. Keep the version of the control already on your system.* Link: [http://ftp1.linkdelight.com/TU30_program%20CPS(1).rar Last known source of the software and driver] Link Delight http://www.linkdelight.com/ Chinese seller / eBay seller with multiple eBay usernames.Enter frequencies into table manually, do not cut and paste. After entering a frequency, press the tab key then use the mouse to click on the next field in the table. It seems to work best if you enter a frequency using all available digits, including the last zero. It is advised to save often because when the program crashes, which it often does, any customizations will be lost.Each time the software is opened, although the interface language will remain English, the radio programming language will reset to Chinese. Remember to change this to ENGLISH each time before you write the frequency table to the radio.* Click EDIT -> OPTIONAL FEATURES -> and change "Voice Annunciation" to ENGLISH, or Off. You will have to manually do this each time you restart the software or it will set the language flag in the radio to Chinese. It is best to adjust the volume to near maximum to program. If communication fails, simply turn off the radio, unplug and plug in the programming cable, turn radio back on and wait about 10 seconds before attempting to program. This procedure may require repeating one or more times before the radio will accept communication from the software. Be patient and simply retry until it works.If you have never used this type of software or programmed radios of this nature then do not attempt to program the Tokmate TU30. It is not a recommended system to start to learn on since the software is not stable. Only attempt if you have worked with programming similar units before such as the BaoFeng radios. === USB Cable COM Port Assignment ===There is a bug in Windows which sometimes causes the com port assignment to fail to be release on each use of the Prolific USB-to-Serial cable. This might have to do with the use of the hacked-Prolific chips or it might just be a problem in Windows.THE TOKEMATE TU30 PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE WILL NOT WORK WITH VIRTUAL COM PORT ASSIGNMENTS ABOVE COM8[[File:TU30ComPortAssign.png]]You can force the com port assignment for the Prolific driver in Windows Device Manager.# Open Device Manager. # Click "Ports (COM & LPT) and then right click "Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (XXX) and choose "Properties"# Click the "Port Settings" tab# Click the "Advanced" button# At the bottom note the dropdown menu "Com Port Number."Choose a Com port you know to be available. It may indicate com ports up to 9 or higher are in use. This is the glitch. You can ignore this and choose one that you know to be available. Legacy devices may already occupy Com ports 1 and 2. Choose something such as Com 5 though 8 for this software.[[File:drivercommportassignXP.jpg]][[Category:HAM Radio]][[Category:Ham Radio]]