Uniden GMR 5089-2CKHS Submersible GMR/FRS Two-Way Radio with Charging Kit

• Submersible/floating design allows for the radios to be submersed up to one meter (3.28 ft) for 30 minutes
• 6,270 Channel combinations gives you many options for keeping your group together
• Direct call with caller ID lets you contact someone directly without disturbing others in your group
• Receive emergency/weather broadcasts from the NOAA National Weather Service with the Weather Alert feature
• Emergency strobe

I bought this pair to replace my old pair of Cobra MicroTalk PR260 WXC radios (which by the way were cheapest on the market, but served great for the price of ~30$). So I had an experience and a chance to compare. Overall I can say that this Uniden 5089 radios behave far much better, but do not forget that they cost triple of the PR260s price. Uniden 5089s shewed not bad range for consumer products for about few miles in the city (this is not bad) with few hills in between and some buildings (stone, 5-7 floors) and traffic of course. When I reached the limit where Cobras lost the signal Unidens were still perfect to understand everything said by other party. Want to mention that this radios have BOOST function that increases transmitting power thus extending the range or making voice more clear, without any interference or noise in cases when standard (black) button begins transmitting with some noise due to distance or terrain. The only drawback was that pair of headsets that comes with this radios are for VOX operation and do not have button on them, you must use VOX to use them or press transmit button on the radio itself when used without VOX. This all I can say so far. I'll update my review with time when tested in other conditions.

EDITED 10.2012

Want to note that radios are performing well in the city, I have normal signal in the small center for about 0.5 km to 1 km in the city! My old cobras showed a result of 100 m in the same city conditions in comparison. But there is something I did not like the headset. Headsets are not bad actually, buy the cushions on them are too thin so the hurt your ear if worn for a long time because there are plastic edges which push to your ear and thin cushion on them is not enough. One thing more, there is no PTT button on the headphone so you can push it to talk, thus you are forced to push the talk button on the radio itself or use VOX (which is really unusable on any device I ever had, be it a radio or a cell phone).

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These are good radios. I use it to communicate on different job sites and I get very good quality. They are a little big but they work.

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Just a heads up u need to rent bandwidth with the FCC to get your 50 miles.. otherwise you only get 2 miles..

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I have to say they look to be of high quality radio sets, however, at my first time using them, one unit broke down and it keeps showing low battery sign if I push the PTT button. The battery level was not low actually, the PTT on the broken unit still did not work after I used a battery that worked normal on the other unit. I am still able to use the VOX set talking to other units but not using PTT. It is really disappointing since they are really high priced.I did not return it because I am not in the U.S. and cannot request for refund or return.

Per our testing, this product doesn't have sufficient range neither indoors nor out. We purchased it for 2 reasons: for indoor use (as we live in a crowded Asian capital filled with shopping malls, and wanted an alterior mode of communication to cell phones) and for emergency use during monsoons and flooding. So far, these do not work in malls, where there is a lot of interference but no signal reach. Hopefully, they'll work adequately in an emergency!