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I totally second everything in this review. I don't think I could have said it all any better. I also fielded my identical radio at BW with a Cavalvy Elite II headset, and it performed remarkably well. Reception was loud and clear, with extra emphasis on the loud part. I had to just barely turn the volume on with the headset or it was almost deafening. Despite getting hit with BBs on my radio pouch on 3 separate occasions, it performed flawlessly and shows no sign of damage.
Just a note on the programming - I would recommend that even if you use the software to program it, you should at least try to program a couple of channels manually so that you know how to do it. If you show up somewhere on game day and your team decides to run subchannels or customs frequencies, you're sort of screwed if you don't know how to program your radio.
Also, when it comes to range, I was receiving loud and clear from opposite ends of the field. When I was a POW and held at the American base at the far SW corner of the field, I could clearly hear transmissions from my CO who was at the opposite far NE corner of the field at the Canadian base. So if it covers that kind of range clearly through that thick brush, I think it has a much longer effective range that anyone would ever encounter on an airsoft field.
And to quantify what I meant when I described the programming to T_A_N_K as "tedious". A single channel (once you know what each of the 9 channel settings are for and how to navigate through them), can be programmed in under 30 seconds. Doing that 22 times while trying to figure out how it works with its rather vague instruction manual takes some getting used to. LOL
But yeah, if you need a decent radio and don't want to have to break the bank to get high end radio features, this is it. For the price, it surpassed my expectations and I would highly recommend it to anyone considering a reasonably powerful, very vesatile, programmable UHF radio. For this kind of money, I see it as quite a deal. If it proves itself in terms of longevity, this could be the ultimate airsofter's radio.
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