DMR446 radio to give to the kids

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DMR446 radio to give to the kids

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Zastone Mini9+ seems to tick all the boxes:

http://www.zastone.com/product/showprod ... =en&id=691

About £40 a pop.

2W/0.5W output, USB charging, fiddle-proof controls [hopefully]. I think with the 0.5W output it might even be legal as well!

The manual comes in what must be my favourite file format ever, a pile of JPEGs with chinese filenames that unrar chokes on [7Zip was fine]:

http://www.zastone.com/upload/file/1524559483.rar

From one of those tedious "unboxing" videos it looks like it emits an annoying low battery message every 10s once it gets down to 25%. Hmm. Not so sure any more...
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Personally I just use these. I have programmed them with the PMR freqs only.

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They are cheap to replace, easy to use and work alright. ideal for the kids to use IMHO. Ideal for the kids checking back to you on a camp site or similar or shouting them back for food etc. brilliant for them to play with amongst themselves too. :-)

£18.89 delivered from a UK vendor for a pair. few more quid for the programming cable. Job done :thumbup:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-Baofeng- ... Swi49bKv5L
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Also from the same video, the charging plug might be USB-shaped but it's 4.2v so it's not really USB. Another one for the "Hmm" list.
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MrWeetabix wrote: 21 Jun 2018, 12:47 Personally I just use these. I have programmed them with the PMR freqs only.
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Me too, I think they're great for the price. Did you know they do them in different colours too - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Origina ... 72273.html :lol:
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Oh god...that's horrendous! :lol:
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MrWeetabix wrote: 21 Jun 2018, 12:47 Personally I just use these. I have programmed them with the PMR freqs only.

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They are cheap to replace, easy to use and work alright. ideal for the kids to use IMHO. Ideal for the kids checking back to you on a camp site or similar or shouting them back for food etc. brilliant for them to play with amongst themselves too. :-)

£18.89 delivered from a UK vendor for a pair. few more quid for the programming cable. Job done :thumbup:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-Baofeng- ... Swi49bKv5L
These radios work remarkably well by any standards. There is a school that is 2 - 3 miles away as the crow flies from me that has purchased a load of them. They have been programmed with a mixture of 446 and 'other' frequencies shall we say. Hard to believe the signal strength I get some days from them!
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There good baofengs but I don’t think the eu approved
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I almost bought 2 of these back in 2011 for a camping trip to America to use on FRS but I didn't order them because I wasn't sure I'd get them in time but would have been nice to have over there plus I could program in a police frequency too RX only as some police forces were or still are using analog over there. I own a about 4 of these 888s now and there not bad radios for the price.
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TYT MD-430 aka Radioddity GD-73 looks pretty good and it has USB charging as well which is a bit more "family friendly". £60 a pop though...I was briefly excited when I first saw them as I thought that was for a twin-pack. Hopefully they'll come down in price a bit.
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