The HRD-747 has proven to be pretty decent. My old eyes can't see the display too well, but I knew that before I bought it. A magnifying glass has helped a lot to learn the display. Now I don't really need it, I know what the little stuff means by loaction alone.
Air seems pretty good and Railband are not bad, better than many of my other handhelds, but sad in comparison to my Yaesu VX-170, which is a great railband radio. The audio on the Yaesu is vastly better too. The Malahit V3 is a decent radio, but you have to put an external antenna on it, or the display noise makes it just terrible to listen to. I had it on a mag mount CB antenna in my car and it was doing a good job on CB and Freeband. With the whip or one of my active antennas, it was pretty much useless due to display noise. The noise reduction can only do so much.