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I've had a UV-5R for four years. Receives fine. The handful of times I've used it to transmit on a local net nobody mentioned vomiting in disgust at its poor tr
by sbierwagen 6y ago
I've had a UV-5R for four years. Receives fine. The handful of times I've used it to transmit on a local net nobody mentioned vomiting in disgust at its poor transmission characteristics. The original battery even still holds a charge, which I really didn't expect, since it's probably spent 3.9 years sitting on the charger being kept at the float voltage.
- Johnythree 6y agoHow would people on the same band be aware that it is radiating harmonics?
- buck4roo 6y agoHave both, still love my 15+yo Yaesu VX-5R way more than the UV-5R. I won't be getting more Baofengs.
- jhallenworld 6y agoI had a VX-7R- it was nice, but I didn't use it enough for the amount of money sunk into it, so I sold. I bought a UV-5x3 when I again wanted an HT. It's pretty good- I like that it now has alphanumeric channel memory and I get to see what's happening on 220 MHz. But this is a $90 radio...