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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Impressive Radio.

    posted by ozdx on 05/21/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    Very complete VHF/UHF radio. The reward according to the price is very good. Good assembly and materials, good package and accessories. The building and quality of materials like buttons, antena, etc... are so good. In use until now the TX and RX are workin...
    Cons:
    Nothing until now.
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 3
    • Usefulness: 4
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    Decent radio for skiing in groups

    posted by hakonlarsen on 05/21/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Radio is relatively small in size It comes at a nice price It's easy to use once properly set up Meny system is actually easier to use than other more expensive radios (Yaesu)
    Cons:
    Does not give a "quality" feel
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 3
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Best walkie with best price

    posted by nandi01 on 05/19/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Good and very cheap radio for amateurs. Range and battery are very good. Customization, automatic battery charger, repeater function, headset, belt clip...etc.
    Cons:
    None that I have discovered. Does not ship with programming software and programming cable. US plug... I bought an EU connector...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    One of the best radios, which already had the pleasure of using. – BAOFENG

    posted by daci01 on 05/01/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    One of the best radios, which already had the pleasure of using. Very easy to reach excellent, the battery lasts a long time, has a good grip, easy handling and robust, speaks in two bands with excellent quality of transmission and reception.
    Cons:
    To date not think anything against him and not for all
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 4
    2 DXPoints
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    Excellent cost benefit

    posted by RicardoCorsaGsi on 04/16/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    I recommend to everyone, because I use the Baofeng at a good time and so have excelent impressions about the radio, good reception, good quality audio, commands easy, but a little complex, but nothing that leaves something to be desired, all recomendoa this...
    Cons:
    - A bit complex - Manual with little information
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 4
    2 DXPoints
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    Professional radio at low cost

    posted by diazsaez on 04/14/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    -A powerful radio, about 5km in the open, the battery lasts 2-3 days in passive mode, solid construction. -Easy programming with enough accessories (handsfree)
    Cons:
    is good to change the antenna, dx $ 9 http://dx.com/p/replacement-antenna-for-kenwood-and-more-walkie-talkies-144-430mhz-10w-ma...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    Good Radio for $50

    posted by JeepinPete on 04/08/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Radio has a good range of frequencies it will operate on Can transmit at up to 5W Lots of features Detachable antenna Nice backlit keys Loud and clear speaker
    Cons:
    Antenna is using a reverse sma connection, so you will need an adapter to use some antennas with this radio Didnt come with a d...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    ht 5w radio with excellent price

    posted by Robkellermann on 03/30/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    great extent, came as ordered. It has no problem and works 100%. The price is unbeatable and even has FM. Has built-in flashlight and dual band, which did not have utility, but dfa is one more point to the product. Your charger is 50 and 60 Hz, this is very...
    Cons:
    nothing to complain. The manual is not so cool, but for people like me do not need it
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Great

    posted by izakcz on 03/21/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    Great radio station for HAM and PMR (must be set manualy) Control is non standard, but people can solve all, because exist FAQ for many non strandard control. This isn't Walkie Talkie (PMR) device, this is universal HAM, so can manual define PMR channels. P...
    Cons:
    NONE NONE NONE
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    great little radio

    posted by ockert on 03/20/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    It has what you need for a start up ham radio.. easy to use. has a great feel to it. build quality is excellent.. battery last almost forever. charger is well set up.. menu easy to navigate and display is well presented..sound quality is great, the receive...
    Cons:
    does not include the program cable. so make sure you buy that as well ..
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