Ham Radio Baofeng Radio UV-21R Ham Radio Handheld Long Range Two Way Radio for Adults 5RM Rechargeable Walkie Talkies K5Plus with NOAA Weather Receive VOX 999 Channels 771 High Gain Antenna

Good battery life. Good range for the money. Works well with my other communication accessories. Buttons are very tactile and easy to use.

This is a wonderful radio that is a lot of fun to use and works extremely well. Please DO NOT be discouraged from purchasing the radio because of my review. This is my 7th Baofeng radio, and the best Baofeng radio I have ever owned. There are several design problems that I am surprised the company did not catch. First the screen is impossible to see during bright light. Also, when switching to the NAME mode, the names are very small and hard to read. However, when in the frequency mode the numbers are very large and bright and easy to read. The name mode should also have large letters. The belt clip does not have a study hook at the bottom. Do not count on the belt clip to keep the radio secured on your belt. There is no channel lock out option. I frequently monitor fire and police. However, they can be annoying. There is no way to lock them out. They only way to stop them is to delete the channels. This means you have to manually program them back into the radio or by using Chirp software. No lock on scan mode. You can easily lock the radio's keyboard when both channel banks are not scanning. However, if one of the banks is scanning you cannot lock the keyboard. This radio did not come with a programing cable. You will need a cable to program the radio when using the Chirp software. Look around and see if they offer a UV-21R with a programing cable. I have three from the other radios I have purchased over the years. This will NOT be my last Baofeng radio. I already have my eye on one of their 10-Watt radios.

The first thing I did with this thing after charging it up was talk to a friend of mine that is six miles away from my house without using a repeater and using the stock antenna that it came with im super happy with this purchase! He said i was blowing his doors off with my transmission! We live in Northern Illinois so the landscape here is not flat at all we have hills and valleys as well as trees and buildings between us so this 6 mile test was not done on flat line of sight land. So for the money I wouldn't hesitate one bit! I liked it so much that I purchased a 10 watt version and did the same thing with it! I will be reviewing the 10 watt one as well. I'm not sure if it says the wattage on this particular unit but I did some research and it's a 5 watt unit. It is made of great quality materials doesn't feel cheap at all. It's programmable from the unit so you don't have to use chirp software. The speaker sounds great 👍 It's very customizable light color,sounds,Roger beep Ect.. (see the description) The charger base it came with is a great fit! It's not loose in the base at all . And the charger feels like quality materials as well. I don't know how they can sell these so cheap ? But don't let the price fool you these units are amazing for the price! Can you get a better radio? Absolutely. But you're going to pay for the name brand as well as the radio. I hope this helps. (I am not affiliated with baofeng. And I am not paid for this review. )

Pretty consistent with the power of 5-6w in the three ham bands and the MURS and GMRS bands. Display needs to be brighter and the font size needs to be bigger like the frequency display is. There's no reason for it to be smaller than the frequency fonts. The center button between the arrows should have been utilized in some way such as an OK button in the menu or maybe a reverse shift of the repeater you are using. Or even as a programmable button would be nice. As it is it's not used for anything. Can't testify about the battery life except for the first night I used it to play FM radio as I slept and that was out of the box and played with it and programming it and it lasted a good 18 hours. I am still cycling the battery in that manner for the first three times to get the best performance I can from the battery. Had to use the UV-17R Pro settings in Chirp to program it. Airband reception would be nice but not really a big deal for me since I have several scanners if I want to do that. The short antenna is junk and I recommend not using it if you want to be able to use your new radio for very long. The AR-771 that came with it seems to be ok even in the 1.25m band but it's not perfect. It's just OK meaning it's SWR in most of the bands were below 3 and mostly around 2 and lower. I like the ability to use the USB-C to charge it but it's not clear if you can use the faster charging that you can use on your phones like the 10W and higher chargers. It just says faster USB-C charging, so I take it as faster than the cradle charger but I don't find any maximum charging rate and don't really want to burn my house or car to the ground for a $25 radio. The audio both transmit and receive is pretty good. The programming on the fly is ok but could be better. Haven't tried the frequency cloning feature but it did pick up my base radio from inside the house correctly. I like the weather radio option but I would like to have seen an alert feature especially since I live in Tornado Alley. If I find anything that I need to update on I will edit this review.

Comprè 3 unidades hace un año y son fenomenales! muy largo alcance, sonido fuerte y claro, la baterìa le dura muchìsimo, se puede cargar con USB C. en cualquier parte. La pantalla es grande y luminosa aùn a la luz del dìa. No es pesado y es muy fàcil de programar con su sistema de emparejamiento.

Salió bien el radio, funciona muy bien , excelente

Funciona bien, trae un instructivo simple, de alcance radio de 2km está bien, no lo he probado más lejos. Se usa en promedio 6-8hrs diario, Trae linterna, fm, y varios canales ... No sé si se pueda programa tono de llamada entre los 2🤔, es ligero comparado contra Motorola ...

Éste es el segundo pedido que realizo de los Radios y son de excelente calidad, tienen buena durabilidad de batería y muy buena alcance, no se les mete mucha interferencia

Uno de los mejores equipos y más sencillos de utilizar. (a pesar de ser robusto) Tiene un buen tamaño para manipularse bajo cualquier condición climatológica, posee buen alcance, capta muy bien las frecuencias. Recomiendo ampliamente este producto. ¡Es de esos equipos que no te arrepentirás de comprarlo!