Radio Reviews

This box has the best sound I could find for it's size. It only has 2 disadvantages: the tuner doesn't receive signals well and you can't change the order of the cd tracks (i.e. no random or programmable buttons). I live in the northern part of San Francisco and the radio is unable to receive stations 20 miles away clearly (like 105.3). Strangely enough, I get better reception when I remove the antenna. Also, rotating the boombox seems to help.

Good solid quality and excellent sound. The controls are all laid out nicely and easy to operate. No gimmicks here. Very nice appearance. Mine gets excellent radio reception. Some improvements I think would be volume control on remote, auto reverse, and a clock.

This boombox is absolutely terrific! It has excellent sound, and it has it all, a radio, CD player and a tape player. It is excellent. It has a compact size, so you can take it absolutely anywhere. Once, I took it in the car with all of my CDs, and me and my friends turned it up so loud it was at it's limit, and nothing happened to it, it just kept playing and playing. I spend hours listening to music on this. I also like the cloth speaker covers. I love this and if you buy it, I think you will too!

These FRS radios worked ok but have a terrible, very hard to see display. The LCD backlight color is RED. Very poor contrast and hard to see display functions. Also since buying them I have seen many other brands with many more features for less money.

This walkie talkie is great! I just got it a couple of days ago and the quality of the sound is clear. It's also smaller than I expected. It could easily fit in your pocket. One great option about the T6200 two-way radio is that if you have more than two people on the channel you can set an individual ring so when you call someone they know its you. The walkie talkies are well worth the price and if you don't want to pay too much then these are good for you.

I had a pair of older motorola talkabouts. I was pretty happy with those, but I decided to up grade to the T6200. I'm really glad that I did. Overall this product is great. I have tried it both inside and outside of the house and on the road. I have found that I can't get the whole 2 mile range, but over all it's clear and easy to understand the other person. They are pretty lightweight and the looks arn't bad. These things are a great buy. It was cool

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You are required to have a FCC GMRS license (extra $...) before you can use the GMRS channels. Some cell phones provide walkie-talkie type capability locally and I think Nextel is going nationwide with their walkie-talkie type service soon. Nationwide is a lot farther than the 5 mile max. for these units. You might have a recurring need for a pair in which case the rating would probably be higher. As for me, my need is limited and I have returned the units.

Weather feature is great.
Very Compact.
Most features used and neccessary-not like higher models.
Great scan feature.
Very easy to use.
I love the easily detachable clip feature.

Motorola no longer builds this radio. Buy it used here if it's available. Motorola really blew it by not continuing to make this item. Cobra and Audivox quickly moved in to fill some of the voids left by the exit of this item from the market. Maybe Motorla thought it had other customer information on the features that most people want. The result: every other Motorola consumer 2-way radio, except for the t7200 (much more expensive), has fewer features, is much bulkier, and in most cases, inferior, to this unit. For example the t5950 has NOAA weather channels, but no alert for severe weather bulletins. Why take away such a basic complementary feature? I don't get it.

I preface this review by stating that I purchased this radio primarily for its weather radio feature (not many others have it) and I use it only on FRS channels so far.

This radio has an unparalleled wealth of useful features for its price. I have found the following features useful, and you'll have to pay more to get them on another radio.
--Voice scrambling: Good but it takes time to adapt to it.
--Scanning: An awesome feature; scans all 22 channels quickly.
--Weather radio: Excellent. I get three channels in the Chicago area.
--Range (FRS): In an outer-suburb setting you do get 2 miles.
--Vox: Hands free does work but it takes time to adapt to it.
--Batteries: Uses 3 AA batteries. Other manufacturer's comparable radios take 4 AAA, thus representing a bigger expense over time for batteries.
--Size: Comparable radios from other manufacturers are much larger than this unit.
--Shortcomings. Battery case does not seal totally, but it has not fallen off during my use. The PTT button is on the front, though it has not been as much of an inconvenience as I thought it would be.

I upgraded to this from the Motrola 5420 (sold in pairs), itself an excellent FRS radio. I have found this unit to be equal or superior in all comparable respects (except for the PTT button on the front, and battery lid sealing), and I have yet to upgrade its use to GMRS--the license costs $75.00 per household for five years.

It is not as good as i hoped. Bottom line, too much batteries, (batteries are expensive) and it goes through them like a fat woman through chocolate.I will write a review on batteries as soon as i find them and boy will they get theirs.Motorola is not the best walkie talkie company. Its range is only 5 miles that five miles can make the difference between life and death when you are lost in a vietnamese jungle during the rainy season.And it is too quiet and their are not enough channels. And when you are playing mission impossible in the heating vents the range is reduced to like, 30 feet more or less. And shortly after mission impossible it ran out of batteries.

This is my first radio, I bought it last week. Used it over the long weekend in Lake George, NY. It was really useful to talk to my friend to find parking or ordering food. As cell phone coverages was not good as you go 3 to 4 mile north from village, this radio helped us a lot. I bought a AA battery model because I have bunch of NiMH (not NiCd) rechargable batteries (used for my digital camera). NiMH is FAR Superior than NiCd batteries.

Okay...forget what you've heard. FRS/GMRS is very limited range. You 'might' get 3-5 miles over water or open terrain, but typically much less. 1/2 mile is quite typical for ANY 500mw, 1 or even 2 watt radio. Due to the small antenna, wattage is not much help. In fact your position is the key factor, not power! Other external factors can effect range, which is why one person can't get range, while another can. Here in Queens, NY I get 1/2 to 1 mile. My friend's radios get the same. Over water on my sailboat I get MUCH more range and that's what I wanted them for. The range advantage using GMRS is small, compared to my set of regular FRS radios.
Included nicads are nice but a bit tough to get out when you want to switch to standard batteries. The charger allows you to charge just the nicads...nice. The display is hard to read when you look directly at it for some reason. Angle the unit and it's fine. These are not the smallest units around, but fit well in an adult hand and appear to be sturdy. Overall, very good units at this price point.

I am stationed in IRAQ and thees radios work great.

I SHOPPED AROUND FOR WALKY TALKIES AND FOR THE PRICE I PAID ON AMAZON THEY ARE WELL WORTH THE MONEY. WE USED THEM WHILE CAMPING AND THEY ARE A GREAT ITEM TO KEEP TRACK OF THE KIDS WHO WERE NEVER AT THE CAMP SITE UNTIL WE CALLED THEM ON THE RADIO. BEATS THE HECK OUTTA HAVING TO DRIVE UP TO WHERE THEY WERE TO TELLEM IT'S TIME TO EAT!!!

These are terrific little units with awesome range.

I keep a pair in every car I have for trips to Costco, the Mall, Seaworld or wherever.

My only complaint if the NiCAD batteries. They do get a memory if you don't use them a lot. NiMHD would have been a better choice considering the way you'll likely use them. The batteries will lose their charge whe sitting unused so they are less available for last minute emergency use.

The Cobra 1000 is a basic and reliable 2-way radio. It could be better with the addition of some other useful functions like a scan mode or privacy mode. As a receiver, it lacks sensitivity at times to catch the faint signals but in the trasmit mode, it really sounds very good. My only major problem with the radio is the design of the battery compartment. It is a "snap" cover which doesnt really snap that well and which will be a problem as the radio is used more frequently. I already have to use a rubber band around one of the radios to keep the battery in place.

I recently purchased 2 of these radios, first thing I did was get rechargeable batteries, a recharger and DC car adaptor. I then went to my local professional radio shop and purchased 2,6 inch, 1/4wave rubber antennas cut for 460 mhz. I also purchased 2 mobile magnet mount antennas cut for the right frequency. All antennas and accessories improved radios peformance dramatically, especially the two mobile antennas. It was no problem for my brother and I to talk 15-20 kilometers (roughly 9 1/2 to 12 1/2 miles) with our two vehicles through our hilly, vegetation terrain here in Atlantic Canada. My next step is to purchase a base antenna for the house and the Audiovox 2000 GMRS Base Station.

I bout a pair of cobra PR1000 at officemax store. They put out 2.0 watts on high power and 1/2 watts on low power.They have a high/low RF power output.They are a good gmrs and frs radio. Channels 1-7 are frs channels 8-15 are gmrs frequencis not frs.Up to a 5 mile range. I haven't test them out yet to see how far they go for a range on these radios. Can someone give me a range how far a 2 watt radio goes.

Bought a pair, from circuit city, and it didn't even work. FYI, made in China.

I was a little hesitant to purchase a pair of GPX FRS100 radios because of the low price and no previous experience, however they have lived up to the billing. I was pleasantly surprised at the range they work at. In my testing, I could communicate up to 2 KM (from inside our home to the inside of my office building with a large two-storey structural metal building in between). I read the review about sturdiness. It's housed in a plastic case but one of my kids dropped one on the sidewalk and it's still kicking with no ill effects. There's only two channels, but in my area that's plenty. After all, you can only use one channel at a time anyway and if the kids inadvertently switch channels, there's only one other channel to try to reach them.

This product is great! If you are looking for a 2-way radio to use with your family or friends, this is the one. It is not to take to sports games because it only has 2 frequensies, but otherwise it is the model radio. Great for events where many people have to communicate because it costs only $22. The "monitor" function that blocks out noise and background is great. There is NO static at ALL! You need new batteries because any that have been partially used will not work correctly. This gave me crystal clear reception from a mile a way.

Very convenient for vacations. It is good rule of thumb to have a radio anyway.

The batteries last up to 30 hours (I actually got about 35 out of them.)

If you are concerned that these are not made well they are so cheap, I tell you that I had the same concern. However with other radios costing up to $50 each, I had no choice. Now I realise this was the correct way to go!

We bought these so we could keep in contact with our kids at the greenbelt just down the street from our house. They worked great and the sound quality was good. Our only problem was my kids were there when the sprinklers came on, so they were playing in them. You guessed it, the unit was pretty soaked, so we let it dry out but it still doesn't work. The next pair I look for will be water resistant.

I had to return a set because one radio display was bad. The replacement set has one radio that doesn't display the transmit and receive signal indicators. I kept this pair because of the range and price but quality control of the display could be better.

therese are the best and their cost effective in the frs two mile range these are number one avoid others it will take two weeks to learn to use them!!!!!!!!!!!!

We bought these so we could keep in contact with our kids at the greenbelt just down the street from our house. They worked great and the sound quality was good. Our only problem was my kids were there when the sprinklers came on, so they were playing in them. You guessed it, the unit was pretty soaked, so we let it dry out but it still doesn't work. The next pair I look for will be water resistant.

I had to return a set because one radio display was bad. The replacement set has one radio that doesn't display the transmit and receive signal indicators. I kept this pair because of the range and price but quality control of the display could be better.

therese are the best and their cost effective in the frs two mile range these are number one avoid others it will take two weeks to learn to use them!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since I have had this unit it works only when it wants to. I have had it into several CB shops and they all say the same thing. It Sucks. STAY AWAY from this unit.

I have only had a short time, and I am very happy. The features are great, especially the weather channel. I think this is a great value! I do agree with another review do get a good antenna, and you will enjoy it more.

I bought my 77-115 about 5 months ago and it has been wonderful. I also have a K40 5'6" whip on my car and I love it.