Padre1357

I may have been mistaken, it's sold by bridgecom so i assumed anytone. https://www.bridgecomsystems.com/collections/frs-and-gmrs-radios/products/echo-gmrs-radio

Thanks axorlov, will check those out.

Thanks WyoJoe. Half my problem has been looking at this with the expectations I have for my ham ht's. I had pretty lousy luck with Baofengs. I'll look at those again.

The new echo by Anytone. Imho is a huge disappointment. Was hoping they would have come up with something similar to their 868/878 as far as displays and programmable from the ht. Its extremely overpriced at $100 each for what little it offers. Definitely not knocking Anytone's quality. I have the 878uvii+. Solid radio. As for my son, leaning towards the cheap chinese radios at the moment. Prefer he can't go messing around in bands he shouldn't be. If he gets serious about ham down the road then I'll give him one of my wouxun's

It wouldn't be legal to transmit and I'm not sure I'd spend the money on it to risk in the water but, look at the FT3D with a mars mod.

As a ham, I got the GMRS license was to be able to communicate with my family. After plenty of research, santa will be bringing me my 1st GMRS. A KG935g. I was quite excited over the prospect of Anytone coming out with GMRS until they released it. Looks like a featureless, overpriced FRS radio. My 12yr old is interested in coding, computers, and some aspects of the ham hobby, so I think he'd quickly get bored with a glorified bubble pack. But also dont want to invest a lot of money on something he may never get seriously interested in. Thinking maybe something programmable with some memory channels would be a good start. What do you think would be a good radio for a 12yr old?

Can anyone help me out with this? I'm currently looking into which gmrs radios to set my household up with. Liking the features of the Motorola T800 series, as far as the ability of GPS for hiking with a wife and 12yr old stepson with little to no outdoors experience. If I understand it correctly, the T800 is a FRS/GMRS ht without the repeater channels programed in? Is it possible to program those frequencies in? Lots of miss info among the interwebs claiming its strictly FRS with no license needed. I'll always have my ham ht with me but would be great for the family to be able to hit GMRS repeaters if anything goes wrong. Or does anyone have any recommendations for something with similar capabilities.