Hi N6TDG - since I have a small investment in UV82 batts, chargers, I picked this tribander up as well to work the local machines.
Thing is, on 220, I seem to be experiencing some random instability not related to local noise or signals - I get kind of a machine-gunning squelch that sounds like being on the "knife-edge", and at first using much larger values of squelch in Chirp mitigated it somewhat.
BUT, it is still there on some problematic freqs for some reason. None of my other radios / scanners exhibit this, but *something* I can't quite track down is waking it up. Even with larger values of squelch with Chirp, PL/CTCSS and so forth, with the "ABR" enabled, I can see the rig waking up and machine-gunning the squelch when nothing should be happening. It's almost like an internal instability, but only on certain freqs.
So I'm still hunting for something local that the lna in this sdr transceiver is picking up, but at the end of the day, I'm wondering if mere cpu shielding and the like needs to be better? Don't know yet, so I'll let you know if it's just my unit perhaps...
Happy with it for what it is - despite this - yes.