these are a good deal, and much better than my old Yazoo 2800M which came with a bad mic connection and never did work quite right The old one and the new one are both working great. i pulled it from service during this summer (2019) and installed it on the bench in the garage, then replaced it with another identical unit after cloning the frequency data (any FTDI USB cable and works) Rig has been working FB after a couple years of being installed in the car - it has survived super-hot conditions from the brutal sun down here in the near Tropics, yet still works fine. If you are looking for an affordable compact rig that doesn't cost much I say buy it, but don't expect it to be as friendly as a Yeasu or Icom. Lastly gripe on the radio is the microphone, its lightweight and feels cheap, the audio reports I get back are sometimes i'm quiet and muffled, and the PTT button is sensitive and does not have a good feel. The software is buggy and poorly translated, but once you get it working it's okay. Repairing and maintaining computers is what pays my bills, and it was a struggle to set up. Here's my problems with the unit, the software is pure garbage. The radio does a good job at hitting repeaters that may be hard to reach with a handheld, its lightweight and does not use a lot of power. I bought this radio to put in my truck, I wanted something small and affordable, QYT nailed it on those two things.įor under $100 I got an antenna, and a radio, it was a perfect solution for me at the time when I was only a tech class license. I would buy this thing again, but there are some things to consider.
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It 's acceptable, but you're going to need to work a bit to understand how to make it so. even mediocre would be an improvement! The Chinese for decades have refused to recognize this and suffer more black eyes than they sometimes deserve as a result.
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I know that good manuals cost money (my wife is a Technical Writer and I worked in hardware design for 40 yrs) but people don't even ask for "good" manuals, just accurate and somewhat complete. Then they proceed to issue a nearly incomprehensible, incomplete, and or misleading manual. The manufacturers go to great lengths to create (and/or copy) a design, which by and large functions as a decent radio. Therein lies the basic fault of so much discount Chinese-ware.
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Nowhere in the manual is it defined what these actually are. There's high power and low power settings. No it doesn't appear to prioritize them in any way. I *think* it displays the contents of the first 4 programmed memory locations but that's about it. I'm still not sure what it does, nor is it mentioned in any sort of detail in the manual-ette. The Quad Watch function is hard to figure out. I still have mine, but they've fallen off multiple times if I'm not careful in using them in programming mode. You're gonna lose the knobs, as they fall off when using them to make some settings.
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It works, it still works after a year + (granted with low transmit duty cycle) and it's OK for the price. I was looking for a throw-away price dualbander in case it was stolen from my truck.