Yaesu Original FT-65 FT-65R 144/440 Dual-Band Rugged & Compact Handheld Transceiver, 5W - 3 Year Warranty

great quality. built rugged. dropped it a few times and withstood the abuse. reception is good but improved with better antenna. voice quality is excellent. overall very happy with my first HT

Easy to use, good life on the battery and the quality is great!

I really love this little radio!...it is VERY rugged (believe me, I have REALLY put it to the test) I have always been a Yaesu guy, and will always be...Great raidios at an affordable cost. Lots of features...like all radios, it can be hard to program by hand, so I recommend getting the programming software ( RT systems ADMS-65-USB) which makes it REALLY easy to do...battery charge lasts a couple of days after medium use, but get a long life spare battery...I highly recommend this little radio

Great value for the money. A little complicated to use. Seems extremely well made. Very light.

Great radio. So much so I bought one for each of my sons and they love it. Inspired them to get licensed. Also, I was doing a dumb thing with programming. Very frustrating. Good, excellent, patient and wonderful help from Rodger at Yaesu in CA. Great ham, great company.

I have been using it for a few weeks now and I get good signal reports from other ham operators. I hit a repeater 30 miles away with it after I installed a dual band antenna on my truck. I can get 15 miles out with just the rubber antenna it comes with. Its also built well. It has metal on the inside of the battery compartment instead of plastic like most electronics nowadays. Its heavy. Im not afraid to break it, and it is water resistant. You get a lot for the little extra money you pay instead of getting a cheap Chinese version. Top notch!

El único problema es que al usar el radio para llamar dice error pero se le ingresa un código y queda abierto para utilizar deberían enviarlo sin ese problema por lo demás buen producto se ve robusto y de buena calidad

Nice HT solid construction easy to use menus... It only comes with a condensed version of the manual. Need to download the full version “advanced user” manual from the Yaesu website to understand all the functions. The stock antenna is a solid performer. Radio seems very well built. Most problems are because it is such a new product in the Yaesu line. Not many accessories available yet, no CHIRP support yet as of 2/2018. No real YouTube tutorials yet. This is an awesome first radio for a new Tech or a nice glove-box rig for an experienced ham.

easy to program and set up

great replacment radio for the one I lost