Two-Way Radios Reviews

My wife and I rely on two way radios to contact each other prior to our ride home from work everyday. These units are suppose to have a five mile range. They don't have a three block range. The other audiovox walkies (which stopped working after almost three years) had double the range (and were rated @ two miles). Also the power on/off button is also a channel scanner. With the leather carring case on, the power off button if not pressed hard enough starts to scan the channels instead of turning off the unit. Very annoying. The manufacture didn't do their homework in designing these. I thought new generation walkies would continue to improve, not get worse. I'm taking these back to the store. Anyone knowing a better unit out there with a charging base, please recommend it.

I recently purchased this set of radios. I applied for the FCC GMRS license paid [the money] and was excited about using the GMRS channels with 5 mile range. After receiving my call sign I tested them out on both power settings on the gmrs channels and the most range I ever got was 1200ft!!!! These radios are no better than a [toy] walkie talkie...

I had one of these and I must have had the phone knocked out of it at least once a week. To hear your fancy phone go bouncing down the sidewalk is always fun. The clip at the top was always getting bumped by the camera I was carrying. (pro photographer). So I dumped this piece of junk and got a boss bucket heavy duty case.

I have gone through about 36 batteries with these in about 2 days. don't buy these

I have other FRS radios, and I though this would be good for the kids to wear to keep track of them. When someone talks on the unit, the words are totally garbled on the other end. Pretty much useless. J&R does not pay for shipping, so $$ on the way back and $$ for a replacement is not worth it. It's possible I got a bad unit, but I'm not investing anymore of my time, except to finish this review.