Retevis Ailunce HA1G GMRS Radio, Chirp, GMRS Handheld Radio with Cable, IP67 Waterproof, NOAA, 2800mAh, Repeater Capable Two Way Radio with USB-C Charging, for Blizzard, Hurricane, Emergency

The battery life on this radio is good and the range is good and can go about 8 miles. It is very easy to program with the menu options. You get what you paid for the product is very sturdy and durable. The communication is great on this radio. It is also very functional, your value for your money is great. I had this radio for about 2 months and it is still going strong. I would highly recommend this item. 10/10

Own about two dozen HT radios and this one is one of my favorites. Purchased this one due to it being a bit more rugged and waterproof. I wanted something i could take in the woods and could have on me while at work. I didnt expect it to be as nice as it is though. -First of all the speaker is one of the best ive heard on a HT unit. Volume gets way louder than most and clarity is great. Even when at high volume doesnt seem to distort the sound quality like some.- mic seems to be great as well. Tested it compared to others and seems more crisp. Also got positive feedback from others when hitting repeaters testing radios asking which sounds better. Others on the air all responded back the clarity was better and had a crisp sound to it.- The menu is easy to use. I had trouble at first with it due to being used to most other radio menus. This one is a bit more n depth, but just remember it has a selector knob at the top near the volume, so u can use this in conjunction with the up and down arrows to go through the menu a lot faster. Also allows selecting ctcss tones for repeaters really quickly on the fly.- programming on the radio is convenient. I did get a bit irritated that it doesnt like the windows 11 systems very much without installing different drivers. Tried a few, already had the prolific driver from other units, but still kept getting failed error codes when reading the radio. Started programming on the keypad and found out i could program it just as quick on the unit as i could by using the programming software on a computer and constantly reading and writing the radio. Really nice feature to be able to add text and label a channel name on the radio itself. As of right now it isnt chirp compatible but did notice its listed as a new radio they have in the works on the chip page. Hopefully can get around the driver issue, read my current radio, make a radio profile with these channels saved, so that i can simply plug in other HA1G radios and duplicate these channels to those to replicate my programming. That is the only current downside i see to this unit but hopefully is in the works of getting resolved. All in all, i think this unit is going to be my new carry radio that gets to go with me the most.

This is a very solid feeling radio. Buttons and encoder do not feel cheap. Display is excellent.If you update the firmware the display improves dramatically. If you program using the CPS it makes it easy to create multiple channels and zones.The only things I don’t like about this radio so far are the scanning and the receive display.Scanning: I thought I would be able to just create a scan list and scan it, but each channel can only be assigned to one list, and the channels scanned are determined by which channel you start scanning on. Kind of strange and confusing. This needs to be reworked. Also the display stays on while scanning regardless of the setting which drains the battery. Even if I just set it to monitor the two channels with no scanning. It will awake the display when any signal is detected regardless of pl tones. The display should only awake when the unit passes audio to conserve battery.Receive display: I’m not sure how the old firmware treated the receive display but on my radio when a transmission is received it only shows the frequency with no way to display the channel or name. This leave you guessing what you are listening to while scanning. This should be an easy firmware fix.Update: A few more nitpicks and suggestions.The radio wants to tip backwards when sitting on a table or flat surface. There are some tiny supports on the bottom but they need to either be wider or slightly longer to balance properly.The CPS does not allow rearranging/cutting/pasting channels. Once you make a list you can not rearrange it. This is kind of silly considering the flexibility of free software such as chirp.Would be cool if this would feature the Noise Reduction that is available on the NR30/NR30S.Would like to see a battery delete kit offered by Retevis for extended base station use.Considering the ability to transmit DTMF tones, it would be cool to see a Morse Code ID feature.If this radio had 10w capability like the Tidradio H8/NR30/Boofwang AR, it would be the best GMRS radio on the market.