Compare the two

Ok I have had the baofeng for a while now and I have to say I'm very happy with it, it's a gt3tp so I have the maximum transmit power of 8watts and a long life battery on it and fully charged it happily lasts a week in my works van, I take it out on the weekend to charge it but it still has power to work and operate.

Good points:

Big battery

8watts of transmit power

Doesn't discharge when left off for weeks

Quite easy to operate 

Cheap to buy

Comes with 12volt car charger plug for the base

Bad points:

Feels cheap 

The charger pin bent 1st time I put it on charge

Not many optional accessories as the uv5-r or the wouxun has

Need to be careful with the programming cable as the socket is quite a way down

The audio gain is quite low and no way to adjust it

The packaging is a lot less

The operating manual is not all that good

The torch button didn't work (found the issue and fixed)

I haven't had the wouxun for as long but it has a lot of good points and some bad points

Good points:

Packaging is very good

Manual is very comprehensive 

It has a very rugged feel to it 

There are lots more accessories than the gt3

You have a tune dial that comes in handy doing things

The fm radio has presets 

It has a nice feel when you hold the radio 

Charger is a better fit 

Audio is better than the baofeng

Bad points:

The way you operate the menus is a little more complex 

The battery's discharge naturally when turned off

No charger socket for the base (optional extra)

Can't find a bigger battery so have to charge every other night

Not as much transmit power as the baofeng 

My opinion of the radios.

Ok I have used both radios fo a little while and I can't fault either of them and I think both are good radios for what they are and I feel if I had to buy another radio I don't think I could say I'd buy one over the other as each are unique.

Baofeng gt3 a good cheap radio, maybe next time I'll buy a uv5-r tp instead if the gt3 

Wouxun a more expensive radio when new but I can't fault it, maybe a bigger battery would help with using it

Summary: you get what you pay for, if you want a better quality more refined radio buy a wouxun, if you can't afford a wouxun then get a baofeng tp radio, I would recommend either as I'm more than happy with them.

Baofeng GT3 Arrives

Well it arrived today my gt3 radio I opened the box to see the radio and I was impressed it didn't look bad for a £40 radio I was expecting it to look cheap and nasty but it didn't look bad.

I plugged it all together and went to charge it up, I fount issues with the charger, I seated the radio in the base and found it bent one of the pins, so i made a repair on it, the mains plug went from a two pin charger to an adaptor to fit mains sockets, not a big deal but none the less it was disappointing.

31/12/15
After a few days use I upgraded the antenna as it would not pick up much from the local repeater from in the house, I ordered the bigger sansonic areal to see what I get from that, I also found the gt3 badge had come away from its glue.

To programme the memories of the unit it is easier to download the software, drivers, manuals and information from sainsonic

I found the software unstable on windows 10 and it needed reinstalling twice before i gave up and used a different bit of software for it

My 1st radio

well now I have my ham licence its time to order my 1st radio, I have been searching for a good radio for a while but as a foundation licence i'm limited to a max power of 10 watts!

a lot of the people in the club have hand held radios made by baofeng so i did some research and a lot of them have a maximum transmuting power of 5watts but i found the GT£ mark3 TP has a Max wattage of 8watts and found them on eBay for around £40 with a long larger battery so i took the plunge, now I guess I need to wait for it.

I also found a wouxun going cheap on eBay so I had a cheeky little bid I guess ill see if I win it!