Highlights
Quality
Charging cradle, big battery that is usb-c chargeable, belt clip, ear piece, usb cable, wrist strap, instruction manual, and 2 antennas.
The audio quality is good, and with the 2500mah battery it will run a day or two on standby.
The keypad abbreviations/settings make no sense at all to me, i have to keep referring back to the owner manual, and i find it ... Read More
Wound up sending the radio back to standardize on the tidradio h3 radios for my ham radio and my families gmrs needs.
Price
Right now this radio is only $27 after coupon.
This is a low-priced portable ham radio/scanner that i find very difficult to operate -the display is very small and the abbrev... Read More
It's hard to beat at its price point.
Great radio for the money although i'd like to test it for spurious emissions.
Competitiveness
This radio is almost identical to the uv-5rm, which is pretty comparable to any of the current generation of ccrs.
The major difference with the k5 is the addition of the 220 mhz (1.
One thing i don't like about the inexpensive baofeng products is that, unlike competitors such as quansheng and tidradio their ... Read More
This radio was larger than i was expecting, but was otherwise familiar to those who have used many other baofengs.
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- This product had a total of 12 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 29 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The performance of the radio was on par for baofengs
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Wound up sending the radio back to standardize on the tidradio h3 radios for my ham radio and my families gmrs needs
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Right now this radio is only 27 after coupon
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is less popular than the 70cm2m bands but it is nice to have that capability if im in an area where it is in use
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is a lowpriced portable ham radioscanner that i find very difficult to operate the display is very small and the abbreviationscodes on the keys make no sense at all to me
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
That said i am a newbie to ham radio and thought i would be able to use this as a scanner as i get into ham radio license etc
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It came with 2 antennae neither of which seems to be very good i can barely get any reception of anything