[Jeffhs]

I just purchased a Baofeng UV-5R handheld 2m transceiver on Amazon.com, to use as a backup to my Icom IC-T22A HT. I would appreciate your thoughts on and opinions of this radio.

One thing I wonder about, however, is the transmitter's deviation setting. Are the settings programmed into the UV-5R usable for North American repeaters, or will I have problems with overdeviation? (I think the radio has only two deviation settings, wide and narrowband.) I ask this because I remember reading a review of the UV-5R a while back, in which a new user was in fact getting reports of his transmitted audio being "too loud" (which I took to mean the signal was overdeviating just short of chopping out of the repeater). Is this something worth being concerned about with the UV-5R?

Thanks much and 73.