Most baofeng handhelds do not come anywhere close to 7 watts , there claims otherwise have been disproved in labratory studies the highest most baofengs generate to my knowledge is 4.8 watts , the will happily take your money for a claimed high power radio , and be warned on amazon there are cheaper copies of baofeng high-powered being sold that are not even real baofeng they are counterfeit. For a dual band radio at this point spend the $49 extra($249) and buy a Yaesu FT 1 XDR it has more than 128 channels is digital so you can access both C4fm & DMR when your ready, it comes with the cable and has free version of rt systems programmer on there website or you can use regular chirp ,it's a great little radio it even has preprogrammed seperate memories for shortwave marine and air band as well as fm broadcast ,and it will give you a full 5 wats out,its one of the best deals on HTs right now ,its batteries are the same as older yaesu rigs so you can already purchase higher power(lower $) battery packs and chargers from third party manufacturers. It has single pin mic but for about 12 dollars you can buy the adapter to use a dual pin kenwood/ Icom/ baofeng style mic with no problem , and you can play with it the rain as it's pretty robustly made with seals . So you can buy a CCR for less that claims the world but doesn't deliver or you buy one of these for a little more and get a lot more , it also has TNC & GPS built in so you can play with APRS , and it will do backtack never lose your car in parking lot again!
LOL, Its a lot of radio for $249 , i didnt "need" another radio as have about 20 others but for the price , i couldnt walk away i had recently purchased a hotspot that does all digital modes and did not have c4fm so back around dayton I picked one up for $229 , but it's still an incredible bargain at $249, it exceeds your budget slightly but will give loads of stuff to play with and do in a quality rig . Good luck with whatever you get? And the alpha tagging works nicely, it also is capable of password protecting the radio the radio ,a nice feature to have , and the sd card allows you to have a ready backup of your frequencies and settings so if you ever need to reprogram the radio on the fly ,you just tell it to read the sd card .
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