Serial Data communication Arduino

I currently am trying to read the serial output from a small capacitance meter(model DN060-02v04 from JYETECH). I have the arduino UNO set up to read the meter output. I do get data, but it is not readable and does not correspond to the format outlined in the manual. My baud rates match at 38400bps. The meter claims a 8-N-1 configuration. I'm using the SerialSoftware example in the Arduino Library to read it.

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

SoftwareSerial mySerial(2, 3); // RX, TX

void setup()  
{
  Serial.begin(38400);
  Serial.println("Begin");
  mySerial.begin(38400);
}

void loop() // run over and over
{
 if (mySerial.available())
    Serial.write(mySerial.read());
 if (Serial.available())
    mySerial.write(Serial.read());
}

This is what i get:

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