I suppose for the price you could try it but personally, give me a 
commercial one any day if I'm going to use one. I'll take a decent used 
commercial HT any day over the ham ones and I'm sure the chinese ones are no 
good in areas with a lot of intermod. Maybe I'll take my wife's to a ham 
fest someday, she has a baofeng, and see how bad that is with thousands of 
radios around but I know a lot of ham gear is not all that great with all 
that noise and I can't see the chinese ones being any better.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: The cheap HTs


>I suspect your dealer is at least partly correct.  It is a direct
> conversion receiver if I remember right.  I haven't tried mine in a
> large city, don't live there any more, but I'd think in high rf fields,
> they would not be good.  May depend on which radio you're talking about.
>
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Scott Gillen wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me how the cheaper Chinese handhelds work in large cities 
>> wi=
>> th lots of RF around?
>>
>> A local dealer told me today that they had terrible front ends. He 
>> basically=
>> said they were rubbish. I suspect it was just because he didn't sell 
>> them.=20=
>>
>>
>> Scott
>> ZL1CHM / N0HOK
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone=
>>
>>