The GMR5089-2CKHS Two Way Radio features Tru Waterproof that combines rugged durability with watertight construction to create a radio that can take on the most extreme outdoor conditions and can be submersed into over 3 feet of water for 30 minutes. You can use this radio from up to 50 miles away and it offers 22 channels with 7 FRS and 15 GMRS. There are 6,270 channel combinations that gives you many options for keeping your group together. The radio features 284 privacy settings, 142 privacy
$ 85.22
Waste of Money, Disappointing Uniden Product,
There is a few seconds of static right after talking and sometimes just random static. Also, I am looking for a louder speaker, but the speaker is not as loud as some other radios, so it would be difficult to hear in a noisy environment, without the headset.
I use 2 way radios at work(noisy environment in the city) and on the ranch(open space in the country) so I am very familiar with these products and how they should operate. I’ve tried several Midland products that don’t perform any better than these particular Unidens and a couple of Motorola products that have their own set of problems, like random channel changes and turning themselves off.
The best product I’ve found so far, is Cobra’s CXR825, which do not get random static and the speaker is the loudest, even louder than the other cobra radios I’ve tried. The lock button keeps the Cobras from changing channel and powering off, but still allows the radios to be used.
As far as distance goes, everything on the market is going to get far less than what is stated, due to conditions and terrain. Everything I’ve used (with the exception of some Midlands that were usless after 1/10 of a mile), reaches about 1 mile in the city and as far as 5 miles in open areas.
I only purchase radios that state a 30 mile range or greater, because some of my co-workers who bought radios with a 16 mile or 22 mile range cannot be heard the 1/2 mile across the property at work.
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|Good product, I’m satisfied…,
EDITED 10.2012
Want to note that radios are performing well in the city, I have normal signal in the small center for about 0.5 km to 1 km in the city! My old cobras showed a result of 100 m in the same city conditions in comparison. But there is something I did not like – the headset. Headsets are not bad actually, buy the cushions on them are too thin so the hurt your ear if worn for a long time because there are plastic edges which push to your ear and thin cushion on them is not enough. One thing more, there is no PTT button on the headphone so you can push it to talk, thus you are forced to push the talk button on the radio itself or use VOX (which is really unusable on any device I ever had, be it a radio or a cell phone).
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|Nice!!!,
Update: I finally used these on my recent hunting trip and theyre great. We spent most of our time in areas of a lot of small bushes, tall but spread out trees and a few rocky small hills other than that it was mostly open fields and the reception and clarity of these is great, if it got static we just changed the channel and we were back on. Battery life was good, I didnt have to recharge until the end of my day and we got to our site at 7am, finished at 7p so it lasted a good 11 hours (off when we ate), the waterproof feature is a must since I dropped mine at a small brook we came across but it had zero effect on them, all in all I would recommend these to anyone who hunts.
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