a tentative thumbs up .........
all the mode,steps are written in. no user defined parameters. yes, the radio is pretty darn well behaved hooked to an external antenna. i've noticed hardly any interference,or birdies. one slightly annoying feature on mine, around 154.280-154.295, it has a "hashing" tick,tick,tick noise while the fq. is active, i tuned 154.295 mhz as 154.300 mhz. it took care of the problem for the most part.
the radio is definetly louder than i thought it would be. even with the lower speaker facing the inside of the cup holder in my car.
the batteries seem to die out pretty quickly. have not done any scientific measurments. probably because it's 2 batt's, not 3 or 4.
i was a little disappointed that the key's are not backlit.
the 10 bank's of 50 ch's each, are pretty well suited to me.
the stock antenna was pretty decent. i replaced it with a fatter antenna off an old bc200.
the display is nice and big. pretty big for a hh of this size.
again, the case is a bit cheap. i'm afraid to give it a hard look.
for $135.00 shipped, it does not seem to be too bad a radio. again, a nice backup or adjunct radio. it serves my need's. i enjoy taking it in the car. i can listen to some dedicated channel's, without tying up my primary radio.
note: i was happy to see uniden make good on the incorrect step size, with the promise of a firmware update.
