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I thought great, I just paid a fortune for another dinky family radio. The battery life is awesome too, I could ski for two days without charging it, maybe longer. This is a pro quality radio. The range and signal quality are hard to beat. No doubt about it, this is an expensive radio.
The only better built radio you'll find is in the pro radio class, like a Motorola HT1000 which costs 3 times as much, is bigger, heavier and you have to have a professional program it for you. This thing is solid like a brick. If you want one of the best made consumer GRMS/FRS radios that works out of the box, this one can't be beat. I'm sorry I underestimated it by its size, in the real world it's a winner. Don't be fooled though. It's speaker gets way louder than you'd expect for its size.
For the $140 it costs for one of them, you can 4 consumer cheapo radios. It doesn't feel like a cheap TV remote control like most consumer family radios. I also use it with an external speaker mic and it works superbly. But you get what you pay for. This is best made, well built radio of it's size you will find short of $500+ professional gear. It's about the size of all the other family radios.
Give it the knuckle rap test. When I first got it, I was disappointed because it was so small.
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