>>1088547Spend some time using something that's actually a good quality radio - kenwood, icom, yaesu/vertex, motorola, harris, even EFJ or BK... give you something "good" to reference to.
>>1088627basically this
>>1088639Get what you pay for.
I dropped my FT60 off a tower about a month after I bought it. Couple of scratches, continued to work for another 8 years.
Talk to radio fleet techs for fire/law agencies and the stories of the abuse their shit goes through.
Yaesu's stashed in a box in my trailer right now. Baofeng was disassembled and shoved into the baggie.
Licensing/updates/service for XTS/XTL/XPR runs me about $200/year.
>at least it's a business expense 