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Great radio at an affordable price.
I got mine as a gift after passing getting my Tech and General within two days of each other. My little radio tests at 5 watts for VHF and about 4 watts for UHF. I can talk through repeaters that are 50 miles away and come across very cleanly. I use it on VHF and UHF with the tri-band Nagoya antenna. Someone tried to talk me into a Diamond, but the Nagoya is just fine. I use Chirp to program it, but learned to program it by hand. Not a big deal and easier than a old Kenwood that I have. We have a second one that tests around 4.6 watts that was purchased at the same time so you don't aren't really sure until you test it with what you got. We bought the HP 8 watt dual band version, but tested it and it didn't perform as advertised. Returned it. I have programmed in the 220 band, but have yet to talk to anyone on it. Our ARES group uses VHF/UHF and the nets are on those bands too. Looking forward to making contact with someone on 220. If you don't use that band, you may not need the tri-band version, but so far mine is superstar. I also bought the larger battery for it.
06/10/2019
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