Preface - Baofeng UV-5R Documentation

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Preface

Lennart Lidberg

November 10th, 2012.

Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn't have time to build it

to scale or paint it.

This manual started out as a bit of a joke between friends, saying that "Someone should

write a better manual!". As it turns out, that someone turned out to be I.

Never having written any real documentation before (aside from short how-to documents

online), I turned to the masters of documentation themselves for inspiration; O'Reilly

Media and the Safari books. After reading around on their website I stumbled upon their

design guideline documents, and in turn stumbled onto DocBook [http://docbook.org/]

- an entire format designed for writing documentation - perfect.

As a result this manual is a bit rough around the edges. A learning exercise using essen-

tially defaults from the DocBookXSL stylesheet collection. However, despite not having

the polish of a professional publication, the content should be the best it can be.

Many thanks to all of those who donated to make this possible. Also big thanks to

O'Reilly Media for their inspiration and wonderful documentation.

Regarding CHIRP and the upcoming revised edition

Originally I intended to include a whole section in the programming chapter dedicated

to the free and open source programming tool CHRIP [http://chirp.danplanet.com/], but

unfortunately I couldn't for the life of me get it playing with my hardware, despite trying

three entirely different setups.

CHIRP will therefore have to wait for the revised edition of the book, which in turn

will have to wait for me to get CHIRP working. Other than the addition of CHIRP and

inclusion of any errata from this edition, the revised edition will include the Glossary

and Index sections that were cut due to time concerns (unfortunately I didn't have the

foresight to index things as I was writing them as I was still learning about how to use

DocBook). There is a high probability that I will further refine the book's layout and

design as well.

Baofeng UV-5R

—Dr. Emmet Brown

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