qyt kt8900

martinedwards

a baofeng for the car!

heard someone using one of these locally a few weeks back.

My car rig was a Kenwood with only 3 memories that can be used for repeaters.

the QYT has 200.

I have kids at Uni in Durham and Cardiff so long drives through many repeater areas and obviously you can't stop and reprogram the radio every 25 miles......

delivered from the far east.... less than ?60.....

first thing is the size. it is TINY. you could fit two, side by side into a standard DIN slot for a car radio. THAT small.

programming, like the baofeng is straightforward once you learn the process. I was able to get 15 repeater channels programmed in 10 mins. why people complain that these are hard to work with I don't know.....

receive? WOW it's loud! Mounted in the vacant DIN slot in my car, with the speaker buried deep in the fascia, its clear and bright at about 20% volume. LOTS more room if needed.

TX.... honestly... mixed. some reports are 100%, others say the audio is fully readable, but not as good as the kenwood. I can live with that.

for £58 a 2m/70cm 25w mobile rig?

why not?

humaxf1

hi,

There are so many of those smaller chinese mobiles, it is difficult to choose a good one. There are also re-badged versions of each other which makes it confusing as well.

It certainly does look tiny - handy if you don't have any slots in the dash so you can bolt it somewhere and not take up much space.

People are just lazy when it comes to programming from the keypad. OK yes, it is a bit convoluted but easy when you try it a few times. I would personally prefer the SW and cable if you had a large number of frequencies to enter and name though.

You get what you pay for audio wise and you'd expect a bit of a drop in quality - but you knew that already I could be in the market for a cheap n cheerful dual band mobile so thanks for your review.