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Reviews For: Alinco DR-605TQ

Category: Transceivers: VHF/UHF+ Amateur Base/Mobile (non hand-held)

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Review Summary For : Alinco DR-605TQ
Reviews: 62MSRP: 339.99
Description:
2 Meter/440 FM Mobile/Base Radio
Product is not in production
More Info: http://www.alinco.com/usa.html
# last 180 days Avg. Rating last 180 days Total reviews Avg. overall rating
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KF4RGU Rating: 2000-02-21
Low Price - High Performer Time Owned: unknown months.
Excellent radio for the price you pay for it.
The above review pretty much sums it up. My only drawbacks are that it doesn't do vhf/vhf or uhf/uhf and you only have two power options 5 or 50 watts. My last radio had three (3) low power settings of 5, 15 or 25 watts and 50 for high.
K2LES Rating: 2000-02-15
Lots of radio for the money Time Owned: unknown months.
For $340, you get a true dual band radio with dual VFO's, 102 memory channels, excellent transmit audio, and reliabitliy all in a compact rugged package.

Advantages:

- True dual VFO
- Crossband repeater
- Easy to read display
- Very sensitive receiver
- Excellent transmit audio punches thru the noise
- Antenna duplexer built in

Drawbacks:

- Top firing speaker is a bit tinny and distorts easily
- DTMF mic is not backlit and only offers up/down controls
- Programming isn't very straightforward
- Control labels are hard to see