![]() Zero issues hitting a tall UHF repeater 7 miles away, the UHF club said I was coming in nice and strong, standing in my backyard.It's a cool little radio for sure. I love the spin dial up top, but it's still slow trying to type the channel name with.The power seems fine. Okay, maybe not that bad, but they are hard to read, as poorly translated as they are.Inputting/saving channels on the radio's UI without software is horribly tedious. If LED is to be blinking, please to off for time of a moment. They read like you'd expect a cheap chinese radio to read. For under 100 bucks, that's a darn impressive couple of features for the price.The instructions. But I have read that this radio can do 1.25m, making it a tri-band with cross band repeat. I'd love to get a 1.25m antenna and check if opening up that range actually works. Think I'll get an SWR meter to check, but I think the stubbier rubber duck antenna is better with transmission. It's much better, the long whip antenna is awesome for recieve. Chirp works bug free as of 20190718 daily build.The radio's squelch is a bit more aggressive than my Baofeng. So far, it seems pretty cool.Edit 1: It took me nearly 48 hours on scan mode to drain the battery. USB cable worked with no effort as well, plug in and just worked.Will update this review as I play with the radio. ![]() Just was able to program the radio and confirm that it works with chirp on my mac. Chirp now works just fine with this radio.-Confirming that chirp-daily-20190713 works with this radio I just got today, including enabling the cross band repeat option. Update: chirp-daily-20190718 has the stepping bug fixed for this radio. Chirp now works just fine with this radio.-Confirming. ![]()
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