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Pros & Cons
Pros
The range and clarity of this radio make it a standout product in its category. This was verified with both analog and digital meters. I am a ham who has been inactive for the past 10 years and had lost touch with so many local hams.
The baofeng bf-f8hp radio is an excellent tool for communication. It has 8 watts compared to the 5 watts of output offered by most other handheld, 2-band radios. The swr varies from 1. To 4 with the rubber-duck antenna that came with it. The nagoya na... Read More
Software makes it a snap to program. For serious use i would recommend getting a programming cable right away and going with chirp. I also wish the scanning functions included a way to tap a button and write a found repeater into memory while scanning... Read More
Cons
Turn it on and the alarm blares for no reason. Stick antenna performance is horrible. Sound quality is very poor, and i could barely hear my companion who was less that a half mile behind me.
Menus are tedious and not all menu items actually do anything. They need to be reprogrammed which is a pain. Too difficult to program from keypad.
Highlights
Quality
The radio is very sturdy, easy to use and has very good sound.
Very nice handheld radio and well built.
After a few tries, i found if you insert the battery with a little elbow grease, it snaps into place and the radio turned on.
5watts out, testing on ifr 1200s .
Price
Lot of functionality in a small price.
Overall i really enjoy what i am seeing with this little radio@ it seems a great value for the money i spent!
If you want to be fully compliant, it is that difficult or expensive to get licenses.
I’d recommend getting a better antenna but for an affordable option it worked great.
Shipping
Delivered unlocked, so works on ham or gmrs frequencies with no modification required.
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radio, great, good, easy and quality. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.6% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 14,998 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 30 2024.
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There is software that can ve obtained from the ham community that can make programming the radio much easier
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Feels sturdy and has a nice weight battery that comes with it lasted me 2 days with it constantly on
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Wasn’t too difficult to program on the computer or even on the radio itself
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Too confusing with many options
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Have not completed setup at this time
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The charger came with a us plug
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I thought would be eu as from amazon
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