Great video!

Trust the chickens! 😅😅

Hello, It defaults to Upgraded Mic when you click the info tab, the standard mic is 6.99 & two upgraded are 19.99

Comet #CA-712EFC 9.8dBi Gain, put it on a mountai.

Does it work with others frs radios or with retevis only?

How many watts is it ?

Why didn't they send me one?

Do these blow up?

Late to this review, Donald. I agree 100% that the manual, if you can call it that, is woefully inadequate. I have a DB-20G too and that manual is 28 pages. OTOH, the radio is rated at 40 watts but bench tested at over 50 watts. with good audio quality. So manual aside, it appears to be worth the money based on performance. A basic radio for sure but with powerful guts.

Hello ' this is John ,WSEJ563" Question what would be a good coax to use for a GMRS Midland 400TX that I'm using for a base

If you have a windows 10 or 11 computer, this is as easy as pie to program. All you have to do is download the retevis programming software, and your good to go. Trouble is, not many learn how to use the software which is as easy as any HT using chirp. It took me less than 10 minutes to figure it out, and another 20 minutes to fully program.

Herea my question , if i have a repeater that has 50 watts ouput and the duplexer is a 50 watt but obvious can only run about half that so it doesn’t get into receiver couldnt i just put a 100 watt diplexer inline so i can run repeater at full 50 watts ?

Mine doesn't doe that. I had no issues at all.

Mine never worked right out of the box

Got about halfway through this... the no backlit buttons on the handset, no naming of channels, and when I found out you can't program it with CHIRP..; nope. Don't need this radio.

Great video. Which antenna were you using to test range?

Great video. How did you program the reverse frequencies and can any handheld Gmrs radio do that?

Thanks for the review. Glad I saw it before I purchased.

Thx for this! it also seem very solid in build! 73 Levi in Sweden - one question: what is used as datacabel?

I got the iPhone version and I had trouble to find it, as not much information online or the information book. No links or anything. That what lets it down. Otherwise I’m like the radio. Bluetooth software doesn’t show what to use. But when you find it i found it interesting. I love technology and communication, pmr 446 work well. And I have a few different radio for if day out with my family. It’s a learning curve but it adds understanding as mostly same as other radio with some interesting features on it. Thanks for the video i enjoyed watching it.

Yagi directional antenna from Amazon there for the frequencies specific for gmrs they have different sizes that have different dbi ratings The bigger the antenna the more the DBI so the more energy you're putting towards range or focusing in one direction directional antennas of course you get more power more range out of them I have been able to hit repeaters 37 mi on the other side of Tuscaloosa County in West Alabama and it's very wooded here and hilly I have a 30 ft antenna outside and just say it works great I can pick up all over the county very large County at that I paid like 40 bucks for it it was the 7 dbi 400 to 470 MHz UHF Yagi directional antenna

Got mine yesterday. Easy to program my local repeater. Seems like it's just what I need.

Does this radio need a license?

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Can you turn that awful ‘welcome tone’ off? It reminds me of an Instant Pot pressure cooker. 🤦‍♂️

I also didnthee rt99 setnthe rt99 up ant.60 foot up on my tower . Paired to the rt29 i now have a nearly 40 miles in any direction repeater.

Those are great little radios. You would also find thee rt29 uhf radio gmrs programmed are 10 watts hooked to a mobile antenna does as good. For similar short distance

Great video just ordered one,they have a ton of features for the price,and the are doing custom firmware for it,and make it even more better..

Is it hard to program for the GRMS channels though and to use a repeater? This I think is a business radio. ?? They usually are 16 channels in the UHF frequencies and sometimes you need a license. I would like to be able to use it for GRMS and it would be great to do so and be encrypted if needed. I don't know if that's allowed though so I probably wouldn't use it. Was it easy enough to use the software to program the GRMS channels? Thanks . Good video. ❤

I have mine setup as a base unit. I love the straight forward no bells and whistles operation. Does everything I need it to.

Interesting radio. We have a DMR (Ham) repeater in the GMRS club repeaters group here.

That's a Hytera style antenna. I don't like how the shroud is flat along the socket end. If you thread that antenna on a UV5R there will be a gap. If you try to thread a UV5R antenna onto that radio the rubber shroud might get in the way because the radio's antenna socket is deeper. There's nothing wrong with that antenna, and spares are easy enough to get on Amazon or Ebay. They're just a bit oddball. Hang on to it, one day the FCC will wake up and allow digital on GMRS just like PMR446.

Rt68 works with rt86 ?

So is it a LMR radio? Or just a digital amateur radio.

How long does it take you to charge it? Are there simply problems with charging this radio? Привет с России ))

I have a set of 6 of the regular RB17 for passing out when I do audio gigs and they are fantastic! I might give the RB17P a try to put in the kit to have a couple dual monitor radios that are simple to use.

What coax are you using from radio thru the duplexer to help with loss there ? That be where you lost watts !

Keep up the good work boss

You stated your case well. I live in Baytiwn and enjoy a wide variety of two way radio cmmmunications. Your group sounds like what should be the standard for such groups. I haven't heard much about a group like yours in the Baytown area, yet am looking.

Interesting. Yeah, it's okay, but I would probably go all the way and get a new Midland .. Just me though. ❤ Thanks for sharing.

Just order one this morning, should be here,,tomorrow, I will compare it with my baofeng 5G plus I really needed this video wouldn't know how to operate it with out you,,,thanks bud !!!

Thanks!

Thank You for the review. I bought a DB-40 G about a month ago. I was fairly happy with it. It is pretty basic radio for the money. It output just under 45 watts, which was unexpected. Now the bad. I made a rookie mistake. I had run a coax to the other side of the house for a future antenna. It was not terminated, not shorted, just open. I hooked up that coax instead of my coax hooked to my GMRS antenna (I have been using the radio for a month with zero problems). I keyed down for less than 3 seconds. Smoke pored out of the radio. I opened the radio and the main chip was melted. Any quality radio will fold back the power to save the radio when the antenna port is open. Not this radio. Again, the coax was open, not shorted...I checked. Bottom line, if you have any problem with your coax or antenna, this radio will roach itself. Not an ideal thing as it cooked itself so quickly. Even with a SWR meter in line, if there was a problem, your radio would be toast before you could hardly realize there was a problem. Radioddity promptly sent me another radio, so kutos to them. Be very careful and be sure to check your coax/antenna on a regular basis. For the asking price, this radio should have high SWR protection. It does not. Buyer beware. Given what happened to my radio, I would not buy one if I knew how easily this radio will fry itself.

It's about $93 on the Retevis web site now. You can program it via the mic port.

looks like my Radioditty DB 20

Just ordered one of these and can't wait to try it I am from the UK and have a ham licence and use radios and walkie talkies all the time, love this hobbie. I have too many radios lol 😅😊😂 great review. I chosen this because of the display and hopefully for the long range.

My 1st H3 went out in flames while charging, replacement radio doesn't transmit at all. TID refusing to send the replacement, advising me to put the battery of replacement radio to 1st radio (one that burned out in flames). Tragi-Comedy...

lol just hook up an amp for a 50watt sms location to ping nearby APRS SMS integrated radios for your location in an emergency. I really believe they should add something similar to these types of radios for holding down an emergency button so that anyone nearby can get a constant pinging GPS location like VHF marine radios mayday feature.

Can i use my bafeng bf 1904 it is a 12 watt will it work on my radio

Hi can you tell me did this repeater work good on the amplifite