RT95 Ham Radio, Dual Band Ham Radio Transceiver for Cars and Trucks

The product arrived very quickly and was well packaged. In the box you get the radio, mounting bracket with thumb turn screws, foam pads to stop the bracket rubbing on the radio body, self tapping screws to fasten the bracket to the vehicle, 2 metre approx. power lead with inline fuse, spare fuse, keypad microphone, programming cable and user guide. My user guide was in German, however the guys at Retevis provided me with the English download.The radio looks professionally designed and assembled. The centre piece is the colour display, which while small is easily readable and displays everything you need. 2 S meters can be displayed when in dual watch mode, they look great. Functions are selected via 6 programmable buttons, all very easy to set up. Note that there is no fan on the radio, the body does get warm particularly if you are transmitting on 25W for any length of time. The speaker is mounted on the underside of the radio and the audio quality is excellent.Minor drawback is that you can only use 5 character channel names on the display. This is OK if you are setting up repeaters, e.g. GB3HG, as they fit perfectly, but would be better if this could be longer.It is very easy to perform Reverse Repeater, i.e. listen on the input of a repeater to determine if you can work a station simplex. This sets it aside from some of the other "amateur" radios available for a few pounds less.Note that whilst you have a dual watch feature you do not have two independent receivers. If you are receiving on one bank the other bank is not available.The hand microphone has a good rugged feel to it and is well illuminated for easy operation in the dark. I'm not sure why the A/B button has to be so large! The LEDs on the microphone indicate which Dual Watch bank you are using, and separate LEDs illuminate either red or green to show when you are transmitting or receiving on each bank. The handset also has a built in speaker that can be turned on / off by the radio software. On the side is the PTT button, up/down buttons and a lock slide switch to stop you changing frequency inadvertently. Yes, you can send DTMF from the keypad, and there are 4 programmable buttons there too. I've had good reports of transmission quality.All in all a very good radio at a very good price.

This is an excellent little ham radio transceiver and especially so because of the budget price. It is solidly built, very easy to operate and program (if I can do it, anyone can). I have mine set up in my shack connected to a Diamond x30 antenna in my loft and the signal quality on receive and transmit is spot on. I’ve also got the Anytone identical clone of this in my car, and it works flawlessly. I highly recommend this radio.

The radio functions great but the microphone cut-out on the mic is obstructed therefore the audio is very quiet and because there is no mic gain I looked online and found the only solution was to make the hole bigger. Other than that the radio is perfect and was easy to program etc and so far have had no issues with using it aside from reports of my mic being quiet.

Great little ham radio great for 2m Simplex and 70cm simplex good for reapter operationsGreat if you need a little radio for the car or for camping trips to go portablePs this is a ham radio and requires you to have a license to operate on these bandsPlz check with your countrys government for regulations

Very good value for money dual band. I use it for my local repeaters in the Bristol area to join our local club nets. I've also used it a couple of times for 145 Alive events.Very pleased with it generally.Only thing I noticed was at 25W it gets rather warm, so I built an enclosure with a couple of fans to keep it cool.

I get good audio reports using this rig. At first, some said it was quiet. I opened the mic and drilled out the tiny hole to the condenser mic. It seems that the rubber surrounding the mic element partially covers the opening on the face of the microphone. Enlarging the opening has solved it completely.I purchased a second one as I was pleased with the first purchase. I paid £102 for this. I feel this is great value. There are loads of options in the menu once this is connected to the PC via Chirp. All the P1 to P6 buttons can be programmed to suit your taste. Any questions, look me up on the well known app, 2E0OPL

Cannot find a single gripe about this radio. Clear bright screen, easy software programming solid build.This radio is the mobile/driver users dream in my opinion. Hand mic can be programmed with shortcuts, swap VFO's and volume etc.Some reviews complain about the modulation being quiet, but I find its only 1 in a dozen operators who remark on quiet audio.Have used it mobile for a month now and I have had copies a good 60-70 miles away and worked repeaters with similar distances on the mobile Nagoya 2/70 on mirror mount.Loud audio with generous number of volume steps (36) mean I can find a setting that isn't to loud or quiet unlike my HT that is one or the other.Runs OK on 7amp mostly for home use into a slim jim im getting into repeaters in Southport, Buxton and Wales with ease running mid power.On 70cm the radio runs hotter on 25w but for general QSO not an issue.Smaller than you imagine when you look at it.The microphone is really solid and not creaky.Nothing bad to say at all. Love it... would buy another just to save swapping to the car!

It's early days, but I am impressed by the radio, so far, for the price. I still have to get used to all the functions, and button options. I found the retevis softwear is in my opiniun easy to use compared with chirp, as the tx and rx frequancy has to be entered in each memory location. in chirp I had to work out the shift direction and freaquancy shift. Make sure to download tge correct softwear, there is RT95 and RT95 vox versions, I found the p.c would not talk to radio as I had vox version radio and downloaded the RT95 version, wrong softwear. It would not comunicate.

Esta emisora doble banda es una muy buena opción para un radioaficionado que empieza y no quiere gastar grandes cantidades de dinero. Funciona perfectamente en las bandas de radioaficionado de VHF y UHF y dispone de todas las funciones básicas para hablar en rondas locales y en los repetidores que tengamos cerca.Esta emisora es muy compacta y pequeña, ocupa un poco mas que dos walkies de tamaño intermedio.Se trata de una emisora puramente analógica y modulación FM, por lo que no sirve para modos digitales. Tiene doble recepción, pero no simultánea. También tiene la función de escaner las memorias que hayamos programado (tiene 200 en total, lo que debería ser suficiente para la mayoría de usos) funcional pero bastante lenta, a unos 3 canales por segundo.Tiene 3 ajustes de potencia de salida: 5W (Low), 15W(Mid) y 25W(High). En el modo High y con una antena del tipo X-30 montada (de momento) en mi balcón llego perfectamente a un repetidor a unos 80Km de mi domicilio y por supuesto a todos los repetidores locales de mi ciudad (Sevilla), para los que la potencia "Mid" de 15W es mas que suficiente. En todos los casos tengo muy buenos reportes de señal y de calidad de audio con el micrófono que incluye de serie.El altavoz del equipo también tiene bastante buen audio, si bien se encuentra en la parte inferior de la emisora. Las conversaciones son perfectamente inteligibles.La emisora se controla mediante un solo mando giratorio y una serie de teclas programables a lado y lado de la pantalla. El mando giratorio tiene un tacto y manejo bastante firmes, lo que impide que cambiemos accidentalmente algún ajuste al tocarlo sin querer. Al contrario de muchas otras emisoras, en la pantalla se muestra la funcionalidad de cada una de las teclas, lo que hace el manejo estremadamente fácil, al no tener que memorizar estos datos.La conmutación entre transmisión y recepción es un poco larga. Si el repetidor tiene una "cola" muy corta, puede ser que la emisora no la escuche y equivocadamente pensemos que no estamos llegando.En cuanto a la programación, por lo visto se puede utilizar el programa Chirp-NEXT gratuito y de código abierto, pero también el propio del fabricante que se puede descargar de la página oficial. Este último está disponible únicamente en inglés (o en chino) pero es sencillo de utilizar, cubre todos los ajustes de memorias de canales y de toda la emisora y se incluye el cable de USB a la toma de micrófono (la emisora se programa de esta manera) que ha funcionado perfectamente y sin instalar ningún controlador o driver adicional y a la primera.

Sehr schönes, kleines Gerät. Von der Haptik her recht angenehm und wertig wirkend. Sehr gut, daß das Programmierkabel mit enthalten ist. Glücklicherweise ist die Bedienung recht intuitiv, da die mitgelieferte Bedienungsanleitung doch recht marginal ist und zudem mit einer Übersetzungssoftware wohl aus dem Chinesischen übersetzt wurde. Empfehlenswert ist es jedenfalls die Anleitung gleich von der Webseite des Herstellers herunter zu laden, wenn man sich schon dort befindet, um die entsprechenden Teiber und Programmierungssoftware zu bekommen. Es kann für die Programmierung auch Chirp verwendet werden anstelle der Retevis Software.Für weitere Tipps und Tricks gibt es bei Youtube entsprechende Anleitungen, welche im Manual leider fehlen.Nettes Detail ist, daß die Sprachausgabe sowohl über den eingebauten Lautsprecher, als auch über den im Mikro erfolgen kann. Auch wenn die Wiedergabe recht quäkig ist.Die Grundeinstellungen sind einfacher über die Programmierungssoftware zu erledigen, auch wenn die Bedienung des Menüs auf dem Gerät selbst relativ selbsterklärend ist.Insgesamt ein nettes kleines Teilchen für einen guten Preis.

Mycket nöjd med denna radio, enkel att programmera, liten och nätt. Bra pris och kvalitéEnkel att låsa upp frekvens-spannet om man behöver det.Hållit på med amatörradio i 45år och helt nöjd som kund.Men mikrofonen hade lågt ljud, fanns ej nån mick-gain i radion då min var tillverkad 2023.Kontaktade Retevis och dom skickade mig en nyare firmware och nu fungerar det 100%Tänk dock på att det är svårt om man ej är erfaren och läs dokumentet för att göra rätt.

De Retevis RT95 werkt prima en de modulatie is boven verwachting.

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