Cobra Electronics MicroTalk PR 165 VP (14 Channels) Two Way Radio
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- Maximum Range: 6 Miles
- Battery Indicator: With Battery Indicator
- Channels: 14
- LCD Display: With LCD Display
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Poor quality, bad reception
Pros
None
Cons
No reception, very low volume, poor durability, low range, overheats when charging.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
AVOID THESE RADIOS! There is nothing good I can say about them. Make sure to thoroughly test your radios within a return period!
I'm in a group that bought 10 of these radios about 2 years ago. From the start, they had problems. Voices could not be heard on the other radios. Someone would try to speak the simplest of messages, like "I need (name) to come here" and everyone else would just hear pops, clicks, and static. Messages would be repeated sometimes 3 times, just so that enough sounds would get through so that everyone could hear whose voice was sending the message, and then the main security guy would then have to start asking everyone he saw where that person was, assuming that he was supposed to come to the voice. Some people in our group tried using earbuds to hear better, but that didn't help. The radios were very, very bad. Terrible!
Our group has endured about 2 years of using these radios because they cost us about $30 a pair (about $150) and we're just a group of people in a show where no one gets paid, so we didn't want to spend any more of our money on radios. Finally, after all this time, we've replaced them with new radios and we're finally getting rid of these.
The static problem was not based on distance, because no one in the group with radios would be more than 100 yards apart, which even that was rare. Mostly, the radios stayed within about 30 feet of each other.
The volume was never very loud, either. We'd have them on maximum volume and, at first, we'd clip them to our belts or pants, but we found that we weren't hearing anything at all, even static. Others in the group were complaining that they had no indication that someone called them on the radio. So, after a week or two, we all had to start wearing the radios on our shirt collars, which put them closer to our ears, so we could hear when someone was trying to say something.
The radios weren't very durable. The clips weren't very good, so the radios would fall off of people's shirt collars, and then the clips would sometimes break off. One stopped working alltogether about a year into its use, but we're unsure if it was dropped or not. A few of them had their antennas split apart at the seam, like a warped board, which would then lead to even worse reception. We tried using different frequencies, but that never seemed to help.
Finally, when charging these radios, you need to be sure not to charge them for too long (more than about 24 hours) because they get way too hot.
Our group has endured about 2 years of using these radios because they cost us about $30 a pair (about $150) and we're just a group of people in a show where no one gets paid, so we didn't want to spend any more of our money on radios. Finally, after all this time, we've replaced them with new radios and we're finally getting rid of these.
The static problem was not based on distance, because no one in the group with radios would be more than 100 yards apart, which even that was rare. Mostly, the radios stayed within about 30 feet of each other.
The volume was never very loud, either. We'd have them on maximum volume and, at first, we'd clip them to our belts or pants, but we found that we weren't hearing anything at all, even static. Others in the group were complaining that they had no indication that someone called them on the radio. So, after a week or two, we all had to start wearing the radios on our shirt collars, which put them closer to our ears, so we could hear when someone was trying to say something.
The radios weren't very durable. The clips weren't very good, so the radios would fall off of people's shirt collars, and then the clips would sometimes break off. One stopped working alltogether about a year into its use, but we're unsure if it was dropped or not. A few of them had their antennas split apart at the seam, like a warped board, which would then lead to even worse reception. We tried using different frequencies, but that never seemed to help.
Finally, when charging these radios, you need to be sure not to charge them for too long (more than about 24 hours) because they get way too hot.
