This ain’t the best review but my thoughts on these.Bare in mind that I’m not a radio guy that has use all sorts of radio’s.I can only compare these to the ones I’ve got and used.
I put one radio in the metal building where I work and I drove to town.
Building to Car at first red light - .244 mi. with a little static.
Building to Car at a bridge going towards town - .736 mi. nothing,a little static hit the radio to set off the recorder but couldn’t here nothing.But on the way back from town it went thru with a lot of static but I could understand my talk,about the same distance (+/- 1 tenth).
At another intersection on the way back it hit a little too,right at .5 mi.
At my house last week I left one with my son as I drove around the block.
House to car at bottom of hill of street - .144 mi with very little static.
As I turned left I kept in contact with him all the way to the stop sign - .595 mi.
Turned right and went down hill a little and lost him - .685 mi. no contact.
When I got to the top of the hill I could talk to him ,but there was a lot of static,distance around .740 - .8 mi.
Drove on and found a spot on a hill that I knew would pick up - .45 mi.
Then drove to where it should have picked up but wouldn’t.It’s only .26 mi. and 95% trees (mostly hard wood),no hill between me and the house.Very disappointed in that.
Then Saturday went to the lake so my son could learn to ski,after about 6 tries he got up and went about 100 yards,two times in a row.
After that we went to the other side of the lake the was LOS with my mom on the shore. - .687 mi.I had both TSX and Motorola T5710 set on FRS (legal for me) channel and both picked up.
The Moto’s has a pretty good bit of static for some reason,but the TSX300’s sound as clear as if I was 50’ from her,no static at all.
Still,I don’t think I’m satisfied with the performance of them,even though they may be operating to spec.
Couple of things I think should make them better is a better antenna,longer or something.Could that be done and still be FCC approved?
And I hate the belt clip,it just feels like junk.But I did pull one out of my back pocket and it fell about waist high and skid a little,scratched the bottom a little,seems tougher made than what I’ve read.
Just realized I put it in wrong place,sorry.
And I don’t know how to edit these post too good.