Radtel RT-470X Multi-Band Ham Radio 256CH Aviation Air Band Radio NOAA Marine Walkie Talkies Long Range Handheld Transceiver USB-C, Wireless Copy Frequency 2800mAh (Standard)

really like this handheld radio, it can receive 5 bands, easy to read display, sounds great. great value for the money. and usb-c charging is the best. I paired mine with a nagoya NA-320A antenna and seems to work great. Nice bright green/red led for tx/rx. flashlight, weather, Airband rx, fm radio. way better than the other cheap radios you can buy at this price. this one is built well, has a connection spot for a lanyard and is one of my go to radios.

This is a great little radio for the price. I can't speak for other bands, but it receives well on Aircraft, WX, and FM broadcast. The sound quality is good, and the battery charges quickly and holds its charge a long time.

I'm really liking this radio. USB-C charging, finally. I have connected it to my base station VHF/UHF antenna and checked into the local repeater net no prob. The next night I checked in standing in my front yard with the little antenna it came with. I'm sticking with the stock antenna for now (and I have other antennas) So may frequencies available. I love that I can hear local aviation. (my local CTAF is 123.000) Commercial FM is good. WX is good. I'm keeping all the programable buttons as is . I only use manual programing. Super easy on this radio. (repeater menu numbers are 6 ctcss, 27 offset, 28 +/-) I recommend deleting a channel (menu 3) before saving a channel (menu 2). Naming channels (menu 9) is easy. I like the display and dual watch (menu 27 TDR on/off) is handy. I don't believe there are any channel bank option but that's not a big deal. The battery seems like a beast. For the money the 470X is a ridiculous deal.cons - I have heard there may be some spurious emissions on low and mid pwr 2 meter but I have yet to run into that.Hard not to buy this radio

I got this radio because I am in a very heavy air traffic path, and I like to listen to them as they take off and land. This radio has some bad reviews, but it picks up a lot of different frequencies that the average Ham radio does not. Not only does it pickup your international air traffic it does a jam up job picking up miliary traffic. I had to stop it from scanning just to make sure I heard what I heard but it does pick up some of the old UHF TV broadcast that I was only to hear on a scanner. the price is low, and the radio does its job, the battery hods out for about 3 to 4 days no problem and it charges in a short time. It's something to pass time and I can use it with my Ham radio when I need it.

This scanner makes a loud squelch noise after the dispatch is don't speaking

The radio was nice and loud, and strong, however the screen is horrible. My screen came already with a scratch, and I noticed that it easily scratches. I simply wiped a soft towel over the screen and it left marks.

The radio works very well i like that it has the weather radio on it and can monitor it durning severe weather events also works very well on the armature radio bands. This radio can do GMRS. The battery seems to hold up pretty well when the battery is fully charged up I’ll recommend this radio to anyone who would want to purchase it.

All in all a solid radio. First off, the screen “scratching” issue is not accurate. I think folks don’t realize there is a thin plastic film covering the screen that needs to be removed. Yes the thin film scuffs easily bc it’s simply to protect the screen during packaging and needs to be removed. Adding to the confusion is the unit comes with a larger, more obvious plastic screen protector during unboxing. The screen itself IMO is just ok…not super easy to scratch like in reviews but also doesn’t seem very “scratch resistant”. Hope that helps. Moving on…the Aviation reception with supplied antenna is pretty great! Overall the radio does pretty much what it says. Great battery life, good sound quality, and pretty darn good price at around $30. Things needing improvement are the instructions, buttons, and icons which aren’t intuitive and should include a clear “menu” button, red “back” button and green “ok” buttons to make things more intuitive. Also I’d prefer the “0” to be under the “8” like most are instead of to the right of the “6”. Lastly some instructions for using with CHIRP software would be helpful. Took me way to long to figure out how to connect the radio to CHIRP (you have to first “upload radio to chirp”) to connect. And at the time of this posting the software didn’t recognize the 470x had AM capabilities or band coverage down to 26mhz to store Aviation and CB channels using the software. Instead you have to store from radio then sync. U can choose to store aviation channels and select FM so it writes to radio and radio will automatically recognize switch to AM.All in all, pretty cool radio for the price!