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If you already have the cord (others have provided link) you should be able to connect it to any power supply sold for use with two way radios. A switch mode power supply will be less expensive, lighter, and smaller. A linear power supply will be heavier and bigger but many people like them for their longevity.

They said it is a different one for the RT97L And they don't have any yet for sale.

This is where I tell the "cell phone" people you need an alternate means of communication. You know the one's. Walkie Talkies aren't crystal clear and I can't call someone on the other side of the world. Sometimes the $100 option beats the $250 billion dollar option.

Guess I was too sloooowwwww.....

https://www.retevis.com/products/rt97-power-adapter-power-cord

https://www.retevis.com/products/rt97-power-adapter-power-cord-us This is about the only thing I find, you might call them directly to purchase.

It's 12 volts. Take the plug off the dead one and attach it to a 12 volt power supply. It also came with a cigarette plug with the same end, you could use that. Or... Retevis.

Any one know where I can get (don't say retevis) a power supply for my Retevis RT97L repeater? The box that plugs in to the unit & the wall.

Pretty wild stuff. Glad they had working radios with them and people to correspond with, too. If they were in trouble, it may have saved their lives. Just being stranded or cutoff from leaving is enough to make someone panic. Sometimes, just having a voice on the other end and some mildly useful information can really make the difference on the psychological impact of a situation.

Normally there’s a product box that fits the white plastic liner better. See how there’s a sizable gap between the plastic liner and the brown cardboard box? It looks like whoever shipped that to you removed the product box ( which is made of white tagboard and colorfully printed and fits inside the brown cardboard shipping container) and put the white liner with the radio in it and the plastic wrap directly into the corrugated cardboard shipping box. That may have been done to provide room around the inside of the shipping box for your longer antenna.

Wondering it anyone on here might have a copy of the band change software for an anytone at5888uv dual band, for the 1.0 firmware (pre 08/2013 build dates) that they could send me, just got a steal of a deal on a 5888, but it is currently locked to professional mode, which only allows freqs on the 430-440 mhz spectrum for uhf. The version 1.0 cps does not allow band changes, and i have tried the 2.0cps to no avail, as well as the 5888uvIII unlock tool to no avail either.

Wow, good to hear you and your friends are safe.

My RV Friends are just now getting out of Bear Creek Texas, untouched by the floods because they were camped high enough.. They say the devastation is unmanageable and the amount of rain they got in short period was beyond belief.. They've been staying in touch with the world via their GMRS radios, which they say were very busy by both rescue groups and people in general. There cell service has been spotty and just now coming back, they even had a hard time senidng text, which i thought worked off satellites now.. I would have been on the trip with them but had last minute issues with my VGT Exhaust break and still in the shop for a $4,500 repair.. (3weeks latter)... Thank god they are all safe..

Somewhat related to my comments about the Comet 2x4, on the roof of my car, the Austin Metropolitan tri-band antenna performs quite nicely across 5 bands. Well, at least 4 bands. Like the Comet, I haven't tried it on MURS, but it has an acceptable SWR. I can't tell that it gives up any distance to the Comet on 2m or 70cm. It does cost me about a mile, maybe 2 miles in some directions, versus the Comet on GMRS, but IMO that's not enough to quibble about. On 1.25m, it actually outperforms the 52" dedicated 1.25m antenna on my truck. I already had it ordered before I thought to test the 1.25m SWR on the Comet and it's several inches shorter than the Comet, so I just swapped it without trying the Comet on 1.25m. As I said above, I probably will someday.

I was very impressed with the Midland Ghost antenna. If I didn't need an antenna for multiple bands, I'd still be using it. Where I do most of my driving, distance is limited mostly by terrain, not by the antenna, so I can't say for sure whether you'd give up some farz with it, but it's definitely worth a look. The Comet 2x4 is a remarkably good antenna. If I didn't want to use the 1.25 meter band, it's the only antenna I'd use. Mounted on the roof of my car with a good ground plane, it has good SWRs (~1.2-1.4:1) and good performance on GMRS, 70cm, and 2m. It also has an excellent SWR on MURS, although I haven't tried its performance on that band. Surprisingly, it has a very good SWR on 1.25m as well, but I haven't tested its performance on that band. It's not claimed to be tuned for that band, and I'd be amazed if it performed well, but I'll probably try it someday.

Getting back to the original post, it’s truly unimportant whether it was an original Baofeng box, an oversized shipping box, or something else entirely.. What’s important is that the OP must contact the vendor to get the antenna that was advertised.

the first radio i bought from Baoefang Tech was a BF-H6.. It came completely unlocked and operable up to 520Mhz. I notice now they shipped locked at 450MHz.

i have 3 5rQ's each one shipped with the Antenna laying in the box (top) diagonally across. The antenna would not fit in the box placed straight vertical. Each box is identical cardboard with Baofeng on two sides.

+1 on the speaker mic. The sound on them is legible but tinny and the PTT button is waaaaaaay too sensitive.

I'm not trying to be confrontational, but you are demonstrably wrong. I bought this radio in October for a project I didn't end up doing and it has been packed just the way I received it since. This is how the radio came with the antenna wrapped around the inside of the box. As you can see, it comes out of the box almost perfectly straight. I have gotten several this way and all of them lost that little bit of bend eventually.

@TerriKennedy If you have any influence with BTech, two things I'd like to see them make higher quality versions of are (1) battery eliminators (my experience is with ones for UV-5R and compatible models), and (2) speaker mics. A third would be earphones with mic button with a more durable cord (I've replaced a bunch of those). I use the earphones indoors but would like to use the speaker mic outside if there was a good one available.

This is a good thing. My first hand held I bought was a GT-5R from BTech's Amazon store. I was missing the ear piece and they were very quick to respond when I contacted them. They went above and beyond, they sent a new charging base, ear piece and a hand mic.

That should be an interesting review. People have had bad experiences with through glass antennas when installed on vehicles with tinted windows. Some of those use metal in the glass. Surprised nobody mentions to watch out for this.

Wow! looks a lot better than my collection of radios stuff into plastic food storage boxes on a couple of roll-around shelve units.

Terri, that’s an impressive stack of uniformly sized boxes. At least through BTech, it appears that Baofeng has a standard single radio box. That makes sense from a cost standpoint. I wouldn’t want either a small rattler or a long antenna bent nearly double in one of those boxes. Randy, let Terri be. She’s one of the good ones we really want to keep. She doesn’t come here and act like one of the several resident assholes we’ve had. She backs up her points with facts, figures, and photos. I have no idea whether the boxes you’ve experienced are differently printed but same size (as her photos indicate happens) or whether you have received 34 different sizes, but the argument isn’t really important enough to drive one of the good ones away. I don’t doubt that some sellers bend 15” flexible antennas to fit the boxes, but one time it happened to me the antenna took on a bit of a permanent arch. A friend gifted me a Wouxun and couldn’t find the original rubber duck so he bent his 15” antenna into the outer shipping box and sent it instead. The other time I received a 15” antenna it was in my packaged with my very first Baofeng, in a larger box with a “covert earpiece”, a PTT microphone, a charger, etc. some of the pieces, like the antenna, were marked TidRadio, and others said Baofeng. Perhaps some value added reseller put together a special package of accessories as so many on the Amazon Marketplace do. In any case, it’s not important enough to berate people over.