Yaesu Original FT-65 FT-65R 144/440 Dual-Band Rugged & Compact Handheld Transceiver, 5W - 3 Year Warranty

All in 1 package: VHF/UHF, NOAA weather, FM radio, GMRS Transmit if licensed and Mars Capped. Great sound and text clarity.

Works well

It is way too hard to enter UHF frequencies into this radio and tech support is non existent. They want $50 for a disc and cable to program it from your computer. The manual is no help at all on UHF programing. Very disappointed.

Excellent craftmanship. Easy handling. Top quality materials and very customizable.

great quality. built rugged. dropped it a few times and withstood the abuse. reception is good but improved with better antenna. voice quality is excellent. overall very happy with my first HT

The reason why I am stating that this radio is the best radio is based on using the following radios 1. Yeasu FT3D - Waste of money fancy but reception or transmission is not good. 2. Yaesu ft-70dr - Nice but short battery life and reception/transmission was okay 3. Baoefeng bf-f8hp - Good but not certified for use in USA. 4. Other GMRS radios Now coming to Yeasu FT-65, the range and the power is outstanding and just to give you an example my son was driving down the road to hill side and I was in our house and there is no line of sight and it is through traffic and flat terrain, we were able to communicate up to 22 miles and it could have been more since my son was driving up the hill the Tesla battery was down but FT65 was still doing good. Transmission and reception is very strong and is very clear. The only challenge is programming this damn things is a pain so I purchased programming cable and now it is a breeze to set this radio up. I have done MARS Mod for emergency use and I was able to communicate with my son on GMRS when hiking with no repeaters. Also applying Mars Mod is simple and through keypad unlike other radios. This proved to be a good radio with my real time test and I dont believe in 5watts, 8 watts and signal test equipment all that stuff. This is real deal.

The Radio came brand new in original box with all accessories the only thing is that price what is too high cause they usually sell for 89 dollars at buy two way radio and ham radio stores the only reason I bought it here is cause I had some Amazon gift card or els I would have bought somewhere els for a better price I even called yaesu and told them that they we’re selling this item way to expensive on Amazon they were going to look into that well other than that everything seems to work just fine I also did the Mars mod on it and it unlocked right away so I’m happy about that

So I bought this radio and it feels good, looks good, it is easy to use. It came with an awesome belt clip....... but no screws to attach it. None in the box, none in any of the wrappers, or in the back of the radio. I am still happy with the radio but a lack of quality control is going to cost this guy a star.

Good, rugged radio. Manuals are good as far as they go, but they do not cover programming memory channels. I had to find an operator experienced with this radio. Since its pretty new, they are hard to find. CHIRP programming software does not support this radio.

This radio has incomprehensible programing algorithms and very poor disply. Unless you are computer programmer dont buy it. On the positive note it is very well build and has no harmonics = clean signal