Baofeng Ham Radio Handheld GT-5TP, 8W Portable with High Capacity Battery, Dual Band High Power Two Way Radio with Dual PTT, Black

I'm a big fan of Baofeng radios, and this model is no exception. The build quality is excellent. It's got a similar "commercial" look and feel to the UV-82 series, the same 1W audio output (many Baofengs only put out 500mW, which warrants cranking the volume—do it on this model indoors and you're in for a surprise!), and has the * / 0 / # keys in the right place.This radio puts out decent power on 'high' and, but 'low' may well be enough and will keep the battery from going flat so quickly. Power requirements depend entirely on one's use case and surroundings. The one thing I found after running tests through an MFJ 894 wattmeter into a dummy load is that the 'medium' setting is more or less useless:High: 6.1W UHF / 8W VHFMedium: 5.9W UHF / 6W VHFLow: 2W UHF / 2W VHFDue to the nature of these super-inexpensive Chinese radios, there's apparently some variability in the output between multiple units of the same model. Unfortunately—for the sake of testing, anyway—I only own one GT5-TP, and those are the readings I have to share.Speaking from experience (as well as reviews: see miklor.com), the stock antenna included with this model exhibits good VSWR characteristics. I don't recommend upgrading the antenna unless you already have something laying around, or unless you plan to stick a magmount on your car and turn the HT into a makeshift mobile. In the latter case, you'll experience a huge improvement due to your car not behaving like a rolling Faraday cage. In that case, the Nagoya UT-72 is a good choice.Let me know if there's a demand for SWR readings and/or video of the actual test results and I'll update this review. Otherwise, take my word that this is a nice little radio for a great price.

Does everything it's supposed to do, I am new to ham and really don't no a bunch yet. But this seems like a solid little radio. The fm radio works great and comes in clear but not with the stock antenna, I bought the sain sonic 661 and it pulls in stations I didn't know we're available to me. As far as the ham radio I was able to pull in a emergency station three city's away from me or roughly 40 miles away and it was clear. Some people say it's hard to program, I had 25 frequencys programed in 5 minutes and scanning all of them. Seemed pretty easy to me. The light is better than a department store $1 light it's prolly close to 1 watt led is has strobe and constant on. I am going to get a outdoor antenna and I think that will improve the range way past the 40 miles I am already at. I would recommend getting a high gain antenna like the 661 or equivalent the one that came with would be good for a few miles but the 661 really turns it into a beast.

Great radio, powerful and varied options for amateur and business use.Easy to setup with CHIRP, though you have to use the UV-82 configuration. Charger is less than resilient, breaks easy and replacements are hard to find. I added a Nagoya shorty antenna, which adds greater bandwidth (Or so I wish to believe).Greater scanning capability, decent FM antenna. Sometimes the power switch can come off, superglue works well to fix it back on.

I bought the two pack of these and was pleasantly surprised of the quality even the antenna was much better than some of the ones I've purchased previously.The radio is easily programmed with chirp like all the other Boafengs.The clarity of transmit and receive is exceptional,Unlike other radios I have, when I run it in narrowband it doesn't lose its modulation quality or sound in the UHF band.FM is unlike AM modululation, as a deviates the frequency that the IF can direct.I'm a fussy guy and won't except just any old piece of crap that will do the job while having a shoestring budget.I can thank the Chinese for that as these are all offshore industry radios. And once in awhile you just find something from them that you just have to have at that price.This radio is just another variable to the baofeng uv-82.And it doesn't pump out 8 watts like it claims. It falls far below that but what the heck right? It just helps sell the radio and gets it out in the market.I don't always share my tweaks however if you can find the belt clip screw an ad about a 15 inch piece of small gauge wire and attach to it, it will give this radio a lot better performance as it completes the antennas ground plane. As you know all walkie talkies are just a dipole without the other half of the ground which seriously degrades your receive and transmit.It may look a little funky with a 15 inch Tiger Tail hanging from your walkie-talkie but it makes all the difference in the world.

Called customer support and was told unable to help. Suggested buying a different baeofeng. If there is no support why would anybody buy anything from Baeofeng.. BUYER BEWARE. CANT RECOMMEND

just like the rest of my Baofeng radios, this one was easy to program and use. Fairly long battery life.

I bought this so that I could communicate with my coworkers. Most of the time it works. Their have been times where I have to turn it off and take out the battery because it skips. That's the best way to describe it. I would rate the battery at about 12 to 16 hours. I can usually get two days of work before it needs to charge. Also it does not have a button to change it to frequency mode. As you turn on the device you have to hold a button to enter this mode, which I use to match the frequency of my store. Overall it's an okay walkie.Follow up-Shortly after my review of this product the speaker went out on the product. When a head set is plugged in it skips like their letting go of the walkie portion repeatedly. I thought this was just the earpiece that was being used, swapped it for another and the same thing occured. Then I also noticed when it was clicking in and out the lights were doing it also, so this is not from the ear piece. Does not have a spot on here that could be found to return the item/.