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Three out of four ain't bad ? I just pulled the trigger...10 percent off from Radioddity, so that just happened. It's fine and a great unit for my current needs. I got a old five gallon water bottle that'll be used now for my savings towards a top shelf unit in the future (maybe by next Christmas when all the sales come back around).

Rich, I commend you on the new website. It looks great and provides a nice, clean experience. I'm still trying to figure out where everything is on the new site, but I had to do that when I was new to the old site, too. Anyway, I love the new look and feel of the website. Great job on it!

The 10m portion of the TYT TH-9800 Plus(+) is useless for Tech since their only portion of the band is SSB only. The allocation for Technicians is pretty small anyway: 28.300 - 28.500. It's really only useful for General, Advanced, and Extra hams. However, the TYT TH-9800 Plus(+) is still a very nice radio for the money on the other 3 bands.

Just like any radio I own, it seems like the "go to" ones have the keypad on their face or in the mic. Menu's become a mess after a few levels in, and I get tired of remembering programming trees for so many different devices, to include actual radios. For my entire professional career, dealing with radio equipment, I tend to prefer those that have keypads over those that do not. For front panel re-programming, on the move programming, and quickly changing channels, frequencies or memories a keypad helps a lot. I also tend to prefer actual buttons over touchscreens, as they just show fingerprints, and tend to have more layers of menu's to them. Whichever way you go, enjoy your radios.

Good Day PartsMan. Welcome to myGMRS. By GXT1000G I assume you are referring to Midlands GXT1000 handheld radios. Is that correct? Different feature sets and uses of your radios will ultimately influence whether a keypad is beneficial to you or not. The simplicity of a radio without keyboard is nice. My EDC GMRS radio does not have a keypad. Of the radios I do own with keypads, they are all field programmable. This is a nice feature if your use of radios necessitates frequent channel additions in the field, on the fly. However programming with a keypad is very laborious (IMO) and it is not something I cherish doing. I consider it nice to have in an emergency, but not something I want to do except in an emergency. Programming with software is much more friendly and flexible. I personally have worked out a system that I use now, in all my GMRS radios, keyboard or not, that has completely eliminated the need for field programming any new GMRS repeater channel. So I have removed that obstacle for myself. A keypad is nice if you have a radio with perhaps 100s of channels programmed into it (like I do in my amateur radios). The keypad will usually allow you to directly enter the channel number you want. Of course this is an asset only if you can remember what you frequency(s) you assigned to what channel number. A keyboard can be an asset for direct entry of CTSSC or DCS codes if you change them frequently or need to enter a custom one in the field. This is so rare and such an edge case situation as to be insignificant. Every radio I own has all the standard codes available and they selected at will and saved on the fly. No keypad needed. Now, on my mobile radio, it does have a keypad. In my case I want and need the keypad because it provides access to features and settings I want direct access to that are not directly available on the radio. For example, power, squelch and some other settings are only available via the keypad in my configuration. Of course if the radio were bigger and had more buttons on its control panel then perhaps the keypad on the mic would become less of a need. Food for thought. Hope this helps. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM

This comes up often. there is not one and no need for one. This isn't ham radio.