BTECH GMRS-50V2 50W 256 Fully Customizable Channels Mobile GMRS Two-Way Radio. Repeater Compatible, Dual Band Scanning (VHF/UHF), FM, & NOAA Weather Broadcast Receiver

Enjoying the radio. Works great.Best customer service I have honestly encountered!! Had a backlighting malfunction with the mic. Reached out to the company and they responded within minutes, Informing a replacement was being shipped immediately. I wish others would follow their lead with customer support!!

This radio is outstanding. It has a quality build and is a great sounding radio. It is easy to program and the user manual is easy to navigate while providing all the capabilities you need. I had one minor issue with the hand held mic. I contacted customer support (on the weekend too) and the responded to my message within 10 minutes via email. The shipped me out a replacement hand held mic which arrived quickly. Shout out to Katy, thank you. I also own their BTECH RPS-30M regulated power supply that powers my BTECH 50V2 with zero issues. Overall I am pleased with the company, their products, and the superior customer support. I will continue to purchase products from this company.

Get ready to talk long distance. This radio really is amazing. Pair it up with a Midland GMRS antenna and you’ve got the combo.

This radio has everything you need for GMRS and a few things you don't (remote kill). Overall it's a great, powerful radio. With the right antenna configuration, I can trivially hit repeaters 20-30km+ away with glowing signal reports. If you need a GMRS radio, it doesn't get much better than this. If you're not able to get 40+ watts out of this unit in simplex (i.e. 462mhz) you need to review your feedline and antenna configuration.My main compliant would be the programming. Perhaps, I am spoiled by the BTECH GMRS Pro HT unit where not only can I program the entire radio with a fairly decent Android app via Bluetooth, but that app also captures all audio so I can play back transmissions I receive, among MANY other features like Morse code transcription, switching channel plans, using the phone as the microphone, etc.Sure I can download the source code for some Python app on Linux and wait for my $30 USB to 3.5mm(???) cable to arrive and plug it into my RJ45 to 3.5mm splitter dongle(@_@) and do some programming, but now that I know it's possible to have a modern, wireless programmable device without proprietary cables well, yes that's what I would want.Overall the radio UI is thought out well enough, but there are some... quirks. The is no volume meter. Think about that. When there is no one transmitting, there is no sound. And there is no volume meter. You turn the knob blindly and pray you didn't turn it to mute or turn it to levels which feel like will the case off the unit--screws and all. The manual recommends disabling the squelch (monitor mode) so you can be soothed by CMB radiation while you dial in your desired volume--which you absolutely have to do to in order to change it.The "power" meter bar plastered permanently to the top absolutely useless. I guess it's trying to be some kind of poor-mans SWR meter since it appears to show reflected power back at the transceiver as well. I already know if I'm configured to use low, medium, or high power TX. And I have already measured my VSWR and power with an appropriate meter. What I don't know is the S-unit of transmissions I am receiving. What I want here is an S-meter.The Call button needs to be the Scan button.The backlight never turns off despite being set to 1 second.There are a few cute features, though. I do like the "Star/*" button feature. When monitoring a repeater, you can switch the inputs and outputs with the "*" key to see if you would be able to make contact in simplex mode. Tone scanning could be useful for sure. I do plan on pranking my other unit with remote stun at some point.All in all, a solid radio that performs admirably despite being eclipsed by their own GMRS Pro product in almost every regard except power. However, if BTECH where to incorporate those features (minus APRS of course) into a 50 watt unit like this and clean up some of the UI, I would almost buy it again.

For GMRS transmission and multi-frequency receiving, this radio does well, as advertised. Its menus and owner's manual explanations are limited, but once you get that these Chinese-made radios are using pretty much the same electronics and menus, you understand how they work. It takes a bit of time to understand all the features, to experiment with the menus, but you will find the radio to be quite versatile - for the $. I like it well enough that I am considering adding another to a second vehicle so I don't have to keep swapping radios and antennas (sometimes use it as a base station, connected to a discone, mostly for scanning public services). For mobile operation, I use a GMRS -specific magnetic mount antenna - works great!

Do yourself a favor and stay away from this radio. When I first got mine , I connected to my outside antenna , new , fed with lmr400 , so I tried some repeaters ( with the correct tones) , I could bring them up , but could not hear any of them. My first gmrs radio , I just figured gmrs must suck because I can hear nothing. So , I let it sit and bought a different radio , much cheaper , now I can hear repeaters and simplex . So I hooked the Btech radio back up , same tones, power supply , feedline, antenna and once again , can hear nothing. I finally contacted Btech , of course they tried to say I was doing something wrong . I have been a amateur radio op for over 30 years , I know a little something. I told them I swapped radios and I can hear , connect the Btech / nothing , even at zero squelch. Now , if I am 10 foot away with an ht, it will receive. I sent it back for repair , as I left it sit too long for a refund , cost me $25 to ship it back. I get a replacement, same thing / it transmits great , as advertised, frequency is right on , they just have no receive unless you are right next to the source. Like I said , same everything , other radios connected, all is great , Btech connected / total nothing even at zero squelch. I'm not wasting another $25 to ship it back again , that would line me up at $50 wasted . My buddy has been through this same ordeal , only he has 2 of them just sitting. They are worthless for receive , they transmit great , they feel great , seem heavy duty , but they are horrible on the receive side. I say stay away from this , I have been through 2 now , both same issue , my buddy has been through 4 now , all have the same issue / no receive. I'm not one to post usually , I just am tired of playing this silly game , as my buddy got tired of the game also , so yes , we have 3 worthless radios just sitting , as we can't use them / they would be great one way radios , transmit only. I just don't want to see anyone else get stuck like we did .

This is a great budget GMRS transceiver and 2m/70cm scanner. I have it hooked up to my vehicle to a ghost antenna clone and can pick up repeaters 50-75 miles away no problem.