Radtel RT-860 Multi Band Ham Radio HF UHF VHF Dual Band with AM USB LSB CW CB LW MW SW SSB Reception, 1024 Channels, 2000mAh Battery, Type-C Charging (Without SW/MW Antennas)

What a Great Radio but hard to program manually. In any case I use the passive loop antenna outside my apt overhang balcony. AM/SSB comes in good and SW comes in good. Have not tested all VHF/UHF or aero bands yet. HF comes in reasonably well with SW loop antenna that is included with radio. The AM loop one does not seems to do as well except using a passive am and HF loop antenna (sold on amazon--search for passive loop antenna). The SI 4732 chip that is used in these radios internally needs a little more better antenna that the portable ones. This chip is revolutionary and made small enough inside your radio to bring expanded coverage for the especially for SW on this hand held radio. Programming by cable is simplest way and also you can reprogram the key buttons using the software and programming cable (which does not comes with it.) Watch you tube on the explanation of how to program by software and manually. Manual is hard to follow or understand!. I ordered the progamming cable separately. Anyway, Now I could monitor NOAA Weather Band, GMRS and Ham Radio. I have both the GMRS and Ham radio licenses. But will first check and make sure it properly operates on both those spectrums. Make sure your radio operates on the right FM bandwith setting so that you operate properly on ham radio and GMRS/FRS spectrum. Also check on FCC accepted specs before operating and transmitting. Otherwise, this radio has all the bands and frequencies to monitor for emergency and for enjoying leisure times. If traveling or at home with this radio get a small passive loop antenna to setup like at a park and you will be amazed how well it works. Most of all it feels and handles very weill in your palm of your hand. Feels like a well-made radio! Enjoy.! Paul K. --Meteorologist.

Happy to see this type of radio being manufactured. The first one I bought and it works absolutely perfect. An absolute joy to learn how to use. The selectivity and sensitivity are amazing for a radio several times this cost. So far I've spent many hours enjoying the Radtel. Great to use alongside an online sdr shortwave like kiwisdr or using your own sdr based hf reciever to locate stations. In dense fm broadcast locations an fm band stop can be a good investment although the selectivity of this unit is excellent. Battery lasts a very long time. This is by far the coolest radio in my collection. Hit the add to cart or buy now button. You'll be so glad you did!

A very good purchase for combined receive (RX) of HF + airnav + broadcast FM, and 2m/440 transceive! Very strong audio, good HF RX, good airband RX, very cool spectrum view & scan, RX RSSI indicator, HF seems fairly sensitive, large amount of customization - which is not for the timid! You will either love or hate this radio - there is no in-between! Tinkerers will absolutely love it! (There is a lot to play with.) Solidly built radio. Included "ring" antennas are kind of cheesy, but they do actually tune and work well. I recommend removing the VHF/UHF whip if you want to use the ring antenna. Otherwise the spacing is tight and coupling may occur between antennas. I absolutely recommend programming this radio using a computer. Doing so via the keyboard/menu system can be done, but it will get a bit tedious after 10 or 15 channels. Those wanting a "technical radio" will enjoy this unit. If you just want a 2m/440 band transceiver, you probably won't find a less expensive HT with better audio than this one! The spectrum scope is awesome and doubles as a scanner with 2MHz bandwidth. All in all, a solid purchase for the price!

Ham bands ok but fm radio no reception of strong signal unless radio held high in air for strong station. Am no reception with the am antenna and squelch has to be set to zero to hear anything on fm and for am at least you hear noise. I will use the Hf and am antenna to make a crystal radio. Software only accepts 3 digit am frequency so 870 550 950 works but 1070 1170 etc software does not let you put the frequency in so assume they are Chinese frequencies that only use 3 digit am frequency. Ham radio vhf uhf works ok. Weather reception poor and have to hold in air to catch wx channel. My other handhelds have fm radio that catches stations as good as any table radio and wx station 10 times more sensitive. It does work on 220 ham bands. I also updated to the latest firmware. Radio worth $10 because the ham bands work only. Menu system poor and I programmed one button for radio and it just sits there in radio mode doing nothing and no key makes it works and no channel displays. I will let you know if those extra antennas work for crystal radio.

Normally I don't say good things about a company's mistake. I ordered 2 RT 880 batteries from Radtels website but got 860's instead so instead of making it a big hassle I bought the Radtel RT 860 radio and was surprised by it now I actually like it maybe a happy accident.

This radio has many features that supplement the typical VHF/UHF radio, like its powerful programming abilities and many listening bands, e.g. air band. The negative for the radio is the poorly written manual, which makes the learning process very time consuming. Additionally, like many low cost ham radios, spurious emissions are problematic. Overall for the price, it's a nice radio.

Lots of functionality if you can figure it out. When I sit down with this radio, I usually have the manual and youtube close by. If you want a two meter radio, get a 2 meter radio. If you want to do SWL, get a separate radio. If you enjoy puzzles, get this radio lol. The software works well. They could use some better documentation on programming and general use of the radio. Dont forget, if you are going to listen to shortwave, you need an antenna. If you use an external antenna, dont forget to order SMA adapters, cables etc .. I think I'll enjoy this as I figure out what buttons to push for what, but until then, its a good build with a poor interface.

Ce colis s’est perdu, on se demande bien pourquoi , donc je ne pourrai pas dire si ce produit fonctionnait bien mais sachez-le, vous serez obligé de le déclarer si vous voulez l’utiliser

Muy bueno llegó antes del tiempo acordado Excelente producto lo recomiendo

guter empfang auf kurzwelle,für die menüeinstellungen braucht es etwas zeit,prima gerät!

neat little set that fits in the hand like it was born there Very quickly got lost in the menu... not that easy to navigate, although it is a lot easier to plug in a programming cable (my Baofeng cable works just fine) and load up a couple channel lists. Zoning works great for block scanning too. Sounds OK on broadcast radio, haven't figured out Airband yet but I'll get there. Can't comment on battery life just yet, though it did come with the battery nearly fully charged. What's not handy is the USB-C charging port being on the radio not the battery. PSA: don't key up on 10m or 11m, the harmonic bleed into Airband is obscene and will likely get you into a LOT of trouble. PPSA: Replace the stock antenna with a Nagoya NA-771 for night-and-day difference in reception strength on 2m/70cm. I used an 11m "rubber duck" for the CB stuff on the other socket that seems to work great as well. Might have to make a ferrite core winding for the MW stuff. Anyone know where I can get a hold of 300m of doped copper whisker?

qualità e prestazioni superiori alle aspettative!