QYT KT-8900D Upgrade Version of KT-8900 Dual Band Mini Car Radio Mobile Transceiver VHF UHF Two Way Radio+USB Programming Cable

Great value for the price. I have received excellent audio reports on a couple repeaters I have tested on so far, on the first day with the radio. Love how you can customize all the display background and text colors. Tempature sensing fan works properly. Unfortunately, they do not send a programming cable with this radio, very annoying! It will not save offset and t-ctcs tone into memory mode when programming by hand, which is unfortunate because it is easier to program by hand than some other cheap radios, like the Baofeng keypad. I really wanted to upload all my channels via Chirp, and to make sure Chirp is actually supported before posting review, but it is what it is, and now I have to find a proper programming cable, then hope I did not pick one that does not work. Other than this very disappointing fact, this radio is well worth the money and I highly recommend if you are on a budget or just getting into the hobby. I have mainly been working HF since getting my General ticket and have made contact all over the world, so you can rest assured this review is by someone who knows what they are talking about. Grab one while you can, you will not be disappointed, except for them not including a programming cable!Edit: Have to return, squelch not working on second day. Right in the middle of a net, had to use monitor button to finish my contact. Turn monitor off and the receiver will not open squelch, which is set to 1. Can set squelch to 0 and receive but anyone who runs VHF/UHF knows that, unlike HF, an open squelch is just too noisy. Spent hours trying to fix, no joy!73, Stephen

Love this little radio

DO NOT USE THE INCLUDED MOUNTING SCREWS! Several reviewers complained of display failure, one specifically after mounting it. Looking in the mounting holes one can see the edge of a circuit board; a label on the packet says to only use M4x5 screws; yet they supply m4x8 and wonder why reviewers complain of display failure. I found some m4x6 screws and added flat and lockwashers and have had no problems. Aside from that fatal error on the part of the manufacturer it's a fine machine, I've set it up as a base station, and it works quite well, with clear audio and enough power to reach repeaters 15-20 miles away even though it's located in an urban area with large trees. I had no trouble programming it with a recent version of CHIRP, the included cable, and my cheap mini-desktop; it's nearly useless until it has something in its memory. Fortunately CHIRP is a fine piece of software capable of doing most of the work for you, looking up local repeaters and such. I'm a bit less impressed with the mic/handset, the keypad has a cheap feel to it, sometimes requiring a second push to activate a button and has no "click" to it. So far it hasn't failed though. All in all I'm quite happy with it, but you'd think somebody would have fixed the problem with the screws by now!

Excellent product, excellent quality. Buy it without hesitation.

I took it out of the box and mocked everything up to test it and it seemed to function fine. As soon as I mounted it and turned it back on the LCD screen failed. Could possibly have happened from wiping a finger print from the screen, I'm not sure. Everything seems to work, as it powers on, and the buttons beep, and the backlight works, but it's useless without a display. Have worked with the supplier to get it rectified, which was also pretty painful (overseas company). They finally dispatched a new display for me to swap out on my own. I'll update this review if I can get things right, but for now, I can not recommend this unit.

THE GOOD.. These are very good radios for the money, we currently have 6 of these the oldest is probably 3 years old, we can mounter all local emergency services, easily get into all of our local ham 2 meter and 70 cm repeaters. It IS NOT part 95 compliant by the FCC which means it IS NOT LEGAL for GMRS use, but it can broadcast and receive on all FRS, MURS and GMRS frequency's, use at your own risk on these frequency's. One of these radio's are in a ranch jeep it is our oldest radio, this thing has lived in hot dusty environment, been soaked with water and mud and has held up great. Easy to program with CHIRP.THE BAD.. They claim the they are 25 watt VHF 20 watt UHF, The ones we have only put out 18-19 watts, which is plenty of power for most repeater operation. The data port and speaker port are side by side on the back if you have your radio mounted to were you cant see the rear and put the programing cable into the speaker port it WILL blow your speaker.

So, a few things, make sure you are running 50 ohm cable and a 50 ohm tuned antenna, but also, I had to do a little digging to get it programmed. There is a download that also contains a driver, and not just the progra.ming software, that worked wonders. Up to that point, I found that if the radio was tuned to a frequency with no traffic, and put in FM radio mode, programming was much more reliable, just make sure to download from the radio first, it plays nicer that way. Having gone through that, it works great, I've hit 50 miles away just with it's 25 watts on 2 meters with a halfway ground plane antenna.

Screen on one of the 2 units is no longer working got them both at the same time they got programmed at the same time and one unit has failed. Don’t agree with the policy from Amazon that it’s 90 day return when there should be a manufacturer warranty for these issues not really impressed.

Radio Uhf y Vhf compacto programableRecibe señal de las dos frecuencias tiene 200 memorias de canalesEs muy compacto y transmite con mucha claridadVolvería a comprar otro radio igual

No hacía contacto con el mando, venía defectuoso, lo devolví, buscaré otro proveedor

No tiene buena señal. Las perillas muy mala calidad.

No agarra ninguna frecuencia ya cambie la antena a la que indica y no agarra ninguna frecuencia