I can't say for sure about the Baofeng UV-5 series, but my UV-3+ certainly can. The drawback to perating that way is that the radio does pick a lot of QRM off the power feedline (in my case, I had plugged in to an extension cord that was also running a fridge at the same time) Larissa VE3KGC On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Assaf Shool <assaf_x@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know if the UV-5RE can charge and operate at the same time? > Assaf > VA3PCI > >