Not technically a Baofeng but...

So there is this company called Anytone. They make a radio that cost about twice as much as Baofeng, but are designed in the US. It is even sold by Baofeng dealers. (Made in the same factories? Who knows!)

Their basic 2m/70cm HT is called the NSTIG-8R and costs $60. A review of the radio is here. Probably a good little radio if you are rough on HTs and break them. It feels sturdy. People's only complaint is simple: no support in Chirp.

But I'm not posting this to try to sell you on Anytone. I'm posting this because I've added support for this radio to Chirp. Very crude support. Very beta. If anyone has this radio and wished they could program it with Chirp, please consider beta testing.

Installation is simple. Download this file and overwrite your existing anytone_ht.py with it. (Where you find that file depends on how Chirp was installed. Good luck!)

Most stuff works fine. I'm still exploring the weird corners of the radio looking for errors. The code is based on the TERMIN-8R radio, so there are probably options that don't do anything since the TERMIN-8R has features the NSTIG-8R lacks.

It is good enough for me to use. If you find a bug, just say something here and I'll try to fix it.