They’re cheap, poor-fidelity, horrible propagation radios with handfuls of bugs (the one I bought years ago has a lot of trouble with frequency bleed).

But they’re also now less than $20 USD on Amazon.

  • Mark Cornick@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    FWIW, they’re still under $20 (or under $30 for a combo pack including what looks like a charger and some other stuff.) Although I’m not licensed (yet), I ordered one and will put it on the shelf for when I do get licensed, on the same principle that one’s first motorcycle shouldn’t be a Harley because you’re going to wreck it - I don’t want to spend big $ on a radio until I’m sure I’m going to stick with it as something I do.