Dave524

I have had one now for nearly 2 months. I recently was on a 650 mile road trip up to Portland OR and it performed quite well using a mag mount antenna on the trunk. The audio is loud enough to hear at highway speeds. Good audio reports from people I talked to along the route. While it's rated at 25 watts, most people measuring it report it at 18-20, but certainly enough power to hit local repeaters. In Portland, and other big cities, there is an issue with intermod and it was so bad I just had to turn the vol. down until out of the city. Not an issue in the suburbs. I did have a problem within days of the tuning knob cover coming off. Also the quad monitor can be tricky when engaged in a convo and if someone keys up one of the other channels- it will go there. Work around for me is to set all the other channels to the one I'm using when in a conversation. These can be set at different levels, that is all in monitor mode; none or somewhere in between. Easy to program with CHIRP, but as previously mentioned, the cable provided does not work on Windows 11. I ended up buying the one that works instead of trying the driver work around, which did not work. I mostly use it as a base station connected to a power supply and outside antenna with good results listening to 4 channels at once. Oh, there is a scan function and you can program which channels you want to scan, but it is slow and there is no delay on the channel stopped- just keeps going after the transmission ends. WSEN524, Fremont CA