Highlights
Quality
The build quality is excellent and it puts out 8 watts of power which is double what my car cb radio puts out
4v and stays at that with the alternator running
This unit came with the radioddity antenna which i believe is a saisonic
With the right conditions im getting qsos from an astonishing distance
Price
Works a treat dont be put off by the cheap price dose everything it should with ease and can be programmed with chirp
He could not believe the price for a fairly powerful handheld
Packaging/appearance
It arrived quickly but it arrived with damaged packaging and wasnt fit to hand over as a gift
This one is a thin metal type that gets bent very easily unlike the rubber one on the uv5r
Competitiveness
Many thanks to radioddity for an excellent service
I highly recommend this radio for new amateurs
This was a radioddity purchase and it came with the baofeng 3800 mah battery as well as the standard 1800 mah
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- This product had a total of 438 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 26 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This radio suprised me in that it is senctive and as powerful as listed although fails on the design plugs dont fit correctly and it takes a little time to get used to charging cradle but that said it is still a great value buy it and see awkward at first baofeng should have stuck with there own designs
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The user needs to be aware of local regulations as to user frequencies as operating on many frequencies is possible
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Out of band operation must be avoided
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is a little tricky to program from the keypad
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Prospective purchasers should refer to several youtube clips on the procedure
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It arrived quickly but it arrived with damaged packaging and wasnt fit to hand over as a gift
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Has loads of memory slots you can store 100 channels into the memory making it also excellent just as a cheap pocket receiver have all the marine vhf channels the iss and a stack load of repeaters programmed into it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Great radio a step up from the uv5r but as with all the baofeng radios i have when fitting an uprated antenna nagoya na24j the front end becomes overloaded and it goes deaf depending where you are so dont expect miracles