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This radio is a nice low cost clone of the Yaesu FT-8900 quad band mobile. I have two of these and they work great. All bands on this newest one are working well. Make sure you keep adequate clearance near the radio heatsink/fan to minimize heat buildup on high power usage of 50 watts. Audio reports are good and the receiver sensitivity and selectivity seems good. This one is used in my portable station kit and performs well. It's a good buy and the seller is very dependable......
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Let me start by saying this is a replacement for my handheld in my van. That being said it is a good radio. Other than that yea not so much lol. It definitely works and does have louder audio than other radios of this type that cost more, unfortunatly the audio has that kinda echoey qualitly you get from these. I put a good mike on my handhelp and it sounds better than this and that is only a $30 radio sooo. I am not even going to comparre to my Icom because well it really does not compare, but as far as features are concerned my Icom does not compare so for a backup or backpak rig it is fully function and does transit quite well nice compatct size and has the removable faceplate option included so once again for features alone it can't be beat. I am thinking if I could find a replacement mike that would help but not much you can do for the reciever which has that works great until it has to work and then it falls on its face and no ssb so 10m is basically useless and does not work on 11m so less than useless lol Read full review
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I have one that failed during a 2m simplex exercise. I was using a homemade 5 element yagi and it was tune for 2m. Antenna tuning likely was off and the VHF finals went low while transmitting on high power. My power supply is flaky now too and is over voltage with a load. Consider an antenna tuner, a duplxer, or a well tuned 4 band antenna. And stay on battery.or a very well regulated supply. It only has one antenna connection. This is a good price as when it 1st came out it was over $350.00. I would consider another one if it was priced lower. It has a single board so it is hard to repair with no schematic. The block diagram is similar to the Yaesu version. Aside from that, it had really good reports and range when it was working. Programming doable from the mic keypad and menu system. Chirps also worked. Dual listen, dual volumes and squelch. Read full review
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They fail because heat sink can't handle 45w key down with the small fan. The mic audio is bad, but can be improved on with some new element, or resistor inline with mic element. Run it on low power, and only use high power for short TX....Lots of features, 4 around town are holding up well...
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a good ham radio or scanner. plan on using chirp to set it up. takes some time to get used to it. do not expect it to hear as well as a Japan made radio.
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