It is not often I get new products and hate them from the first turn on, but this is basically, junk!
That seems harsh, but the product is unusable!
I strongly advise not wasting money.
They are cheap and claim to be a 6W typical spec airband hand-held radio. I have sitting here in my hire stock some Yaesus and Icoms. They just work. Enter a frquency and press the PTT - both very sensitive and well made.
This radio, however, is just badly designed. The spec is impressive. Dual superhet design, 25/8.33KHz in big letters on the box. First problem is that available channel selection is 2.5/5/6.25/10/12.5/25 - no 8.33KHz for our systems in EU and GB. attaching the antenna makes the radio perk up and the squelch is open. At first I thought it didn’t have squelch for AM, the sql-fm menu setting is easy to find, but there is an AM squelch but it’s hidden away in a different menu tree! It mentions in the manual VFO mode - which works great, and there’s memory mode. Unless I am dim, you need to add memories via the computer which is madness.
Worse - sticking on dummy loads, it seems unable to transmit properly either. On the icoms and Yaesus the audio level is so low that it’s difficult to hear. I will stick it on the analyser at some point, but for now it’s back in the box. Receive wise - the local aircraft are loud and clear on the icom and yaesus and unreadable on the QYT. I have dealt with the supplier before so I’m hopeful I can get a refund on the stock I have bought. truly a dire radio. For the price, I guess it is OK, but it is nowhere near the level of a proper aviation radio. I can see maybe ground use - perhaps at a parachute centre where 99% of the time it’s on receive, but not as a pilots only radio - for safety reasons it’s just not quite up to it.