Radtel RT-470X Multi-Band Ham Radio 256CH Aviation Air Band Radio NOAA Marine Walkie Talkies Long Range Handheld Transceiver USB-C, Wireless Copy Frequency 2800mAh (Standard)

really like this handheld radio, it can receive 5 bands, easy to read display, sounds great. great value for the money. and usb-c charging is the best. I paired mine with a nagoya NA-320A antenna and seems to work great. Nice bright green/red led for tx/rx. flashlight, weather, Airband rx, fm radio. way better than the other cheap radios you can buy at this price. this one is built well, has a connection spot for a lanyard and is one of my go to radios.

I wanted an inexpensive radio to carry with me that would cover 2m Ham, air band, trains, local 911 frequency and Weather, an for an amazingly low price this does it all well!!! Bought 2. Very good reception, good sound and loudness, long lasting battery, universal "C" charge connector, included wall charger. Instructions are lacking, but a little experimenting and watching a couple of YouTube videos and I got it figured out. Got a CHIRP connector (for Baufeng) and managed to get CHIRP going and programmed the radios. Quite the find!

I'm really liking this radio. USB-C charging, finally. I have connected it to my base station VHF/UHF antenna and checked into the local repeater net no prob. The next night I checked in standing in my front yard with the little antenna it came with. I'm sticking with the stock antenna for now (and I have other antennas) So may frequencies available. I love that I can hear local aviation. (my local CTAF is 123.000) Commercial FM is good. WX is good. I'm keeping all the programable buttons as is . I only use manual programing. Super easy on this radio. (repeater menu numbers are 6 ctcss, 27 offset, 28 +/-) I recommend deleting a channel (menu 3) before saving a channel (menu 2). Naming channels (menu 9) is easy. I like the display and dual watch (menu 27 TDR on/off) is handy. I don't believe there are any channel bank option but that's not a big deal. The battery seems like a beast. For the money the 470X is a ridiculous deal. cons - I have heard there may be some spurious emissions on low and mid pwr 2 meter but I have yet to run into that. Hard not to buy this radio

Move over, coffee—there’s a new must-have gadget keeping D & D Home Inspection Services alert and ready for action! The Radtel RT-470X has officially earned its spot as the MVP of our drone inspections in Eastern North Carolina, and let me tell you… This radio is as essential as a parachute in skydiving! Before the RT-470X, keeping up with air traffic during our aerial inspections felt like playing "guess the turbulence"—a game that nobody wanted to win. But now? We’re like top-gun pilots, effortlessly tracking airspace while our drones soar, giving us crystal-clear coordination without sounding like we're yelling through a tin can. The range is phenomenal, the audio is sharper than our infrared cameras, and the durability? Let’s just say that if it survives our roof inspections, it can survive anything. Whether we’re navigating around rooftop hazards or dodging overzealous seagulls, this radio keeps us connected with our drone operators and air traffic like a well-oiled machine. Oh, and did I mention the battery life? This thing could outlast a home inspector stuck in an attic with a chatty homeowner. One charge, and we’re good for the whole inspection—no mid-flight signal dropouts, no desperate battery swaps! If you’re a home inspector, drone operator, or someone who just enjoys feeling like a NASA control room operator, the Radtel RT-470X is an absolute game-changer. D & D Home Inspection Services will be using this powerhouse regularly because when you’re monitoring air tracks and capturing roof defects from the sky, you need a radio that works as hard as we do. 📡🚁 Radtel, you have our signal—loud and clear! 🚀🔊

Great radio but it’s very poor receiving in the 800MHz band

This has way more bands and functionality than my UV-5R. Everything about this radio is good except for the screen and the fact that it doesn’t transmit at 5W. I used my shirt to lightly wipe it and then it scratched. It’s also is labeled as transmitting at 5W not 10W on the back.

All in all a solid radio. First off, the screen “scratching” issue is not accurate. I think folks don’t realize there is a thin plastic film covering the screen that needs to be removed. Yes the thin film scuffs easily bc it’s simply to protect the screen during packaging and needs to be removed. Adding to the confusion is the unit comes with a larger, more obvious plastic screen protector during unboxing. The screen itself IMO is just ok…not super easy to scratch like in reviews but also doesn’t seem very “scratch resistant”. Hope that helps. Moving on…the Aviation reception with supplied antenna is pretty great! Overall the radio does pretty much what it says. Great battery life, good sound quality, and pretty darn good price at around $30. Things needing improvement are the instructions, buttons, and icons which aren’t intuitive and should include a clear “menu” button, red “back” button and green “ok” buttons to make things more intuitive. Also I’d prefer the “0” to be under the “8” like most are instead of to the right of the “6”. Lastly some instructions for using with CHIRP software would be helpful. Took me way to long to figure out how to connect the radio to CHIRP (you have to first “upload radio to chirp”) to connect. And at the time of this posting the software didn’t recognize the 470x had AM capabilities or band coverage down to 26mhz to store Aviation and CB channels using the software. Instead you have to store from radio then sync. U can choose to store aviation channels and select FM so it writes to radio and radio will automatically recognize switch to AM. All in all, pretty cool radio for the price!

I got this radio because I am in a very heavy air traffic path, and I like to listen to them as they take off and land. This radio has some bad reviews, but it picks up a lot of different frequencies that the average Ham radio does not. Not only does it pickup your international air traffic it does a jam up job picking up miliary traffic. I had to stop it from scanning just to make sure I heard what I heard but it does pick up some of the old UHF TV broadcast that I was only to hear on a scanner. the price is low, and the radio does its job, the battery hods out for about 3 to 4 days no problem and it charges in a short time. It's something to pass time and I can use it with my Ham radio when I need it.

Muy confiable radio.

Al recibir señal en la banda VHF-AIR, no tiene mucha fidelidad, se escucha con ruido.