Haha, I have chirp and thought it was hard. I never even attempted to program the radio itself.I dont know. I always use a data cable and CHIRP to program. Life is too short to try to hand program. LOL
And other than feature details, they are all pretty much the same to program in CHIRP.
BFs are good for playing. Not a fan of the spurious emissions, but if you need a bunch for SHTF, they're cheap and they work well enough.
I cant stress this enough: The data cables are worth double what they cost. I can have ALL channels filled, with PL tones and display names that make sense before you can get the first 5 channels done by hand. Its like working in excel.
Download a copy of CHIRP and play around. Its free and you can load up a sample and play around with the interface.
Ok, it was hard because the first cable I got didn’t work and that discouraged me from working on it for 6 months.
The other discouragement is that whenever I would ask a friend a question they would go off the deep end about high end stuff. I KNOW I’m making it harder than is is, somehow.
I have a decent program loaded into my radios with repeater channels, some off road groups, and emergency stuff. I just need to sit down and use it to figure it out.