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Reviews For: Retevis RT23

Category: Transceivers: VHF/UHF+ Amateur Hand-held

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Review Summary For : Retevis RT23
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Description:
Cross-band repeater dual PTT
Product is in production
More Info: https://www.retevis.com/rt23-cross-band-repeater-dual-ptt-walkie-talkie/
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CA7OKD Rating: 2020-10-01
Nice HT, very comfortable for occasional use. Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
A nice HT, very comfortable in the hand nice keyboard, feels solid.
My purchase was waiting for a full duplex crossband HT to make satellites ..., it is not full duplex (later I saw in other reviews), also it is quite deaf in relation to my Baofeng GT-3TP with which I make satellites. What it does very well is the V / H, H / V, V / HH / V cross band repeater work, and it is very easy to use, but I would not recommend it for this either as Retevis does not offer a battery eliminator like to leave it in a car or at home, it does not offer additional batteries; If you need more batteries, you must buy another RT23. It allows manual programming or the program supplied by retevis which is moderately good, CHIRP until today can only read the configuration, it cannot write to the equipment, all versions give me an error. The other problem I have had is the screen, sometimes it fades (for me it is not so important) and the AC adapter got bad.
I did not return the equipment due to the high cost of return and but mainly because I liked it.
The antenna that comes standard is very good, I also bought Retevis RHD-771 antennas that also turned out to be very good, they are the ones that have given me lower SWR values.
In short: a nice equipment in my opinion very comfortable for occasional use as HT or repeater just don't expect great things.
Would I buy another ?, already knowing what it is good for ..., yes, I would buy another.