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I like this radio.
Good points are
1. tough antena
2. came with nimh batteries
3. Good range through trees
4. earbud
5. very easy to open up the squelch and keep it open with having to keep pushing a buttion
Bad points are
1. Belt clip is easly broken
2.VOX dose not work with the earbud
3. When scanning the radio dose not show the sub coad of the radios it picks up.
4. can not connect a exturnal antena
5. No lanyard loop

If you get a deal on one of thease go for it. Other wize go for one of the new 2 watt mortorla radios. Or get a midland G11. I can't say I would buy them again but they are overall good radios.

After considering the uniden GMRS 480 and Audiovox 1535, I chose the Cobra GMRS 900-2-DX because of size, the layout of buttons,overall feel, two year warranty, and more price competative if you didn't want the charger etc.. All of the ones I considered appeared to be 2watt with similar specs. (althought the Audiovox may have been 1.8 watt). Both the Uniden and Audiovox did have NOAA but since my wife and I were going to use them mostly in mall shoppoing, weather would not be a problem. The Cobra could fit in my shirt pocket or wife's purse with no problem. The longer antenna in the uniden may not have been as convenient to carry although may get a little better range and audiovox's screen and buttons were smaller, which may have caused a problem with my bad eyesight. The Cobra range is around 1.3 to 2.0 miles,depending on terrain, obstacles etc., sound is adeqauate but high frequency lacking. Compared to FRS I can achieve 4 times the distance since I could only get 0.5 - 0.8 miles with a 0.5watt FRS radio. I don't think you will ever achieve 5 mile range or even 3 miles unless you are on top of a 5 mile mountain talking to someone on the ground. Overall I am pleased with the Cobra. The FCC license fee is a bit pricey at $.. but that's life.

This is a nice machine. Lotsa features, I get pretty good reception. Bought mine at Farm & Fleet for 60 bucks a piece. Figuring that you can easily spend that on a 500mw radio, why get anything else. As previously written by another reviewer, the sound quality lacks but is still audible. It is missing the highs so it can be a little muffled. Would I buy it again? Yes.

Shopping malls are noisy... yes. Casinos are much much worse guys. This Cobra was a very good help to myself and my friends who used to comb the casino searching for each other. I have no complaints at all. The earbud came with the kit and so did the batteries and charger. Very well worth the money.

My brother-in-law has a set of these recently introduced GMRS radios from Cobra....our transmissions were fine...we thought we had better fidelity than some police radios we have heard. Range was pretty good inside a large mall; one of us in a basement store and the other at the far end (about 3/4 mile) on the second story...that is a lot of concrete and steel in between, but reception was clear, vioces easily understood - a bit of static now and then, but that is to be expected from all the lights and other things "in the way" between the 2 units. I imagine the range in the open would be considerably more than standard FRS radios...but again, the law of physics apply....an FRS radio with 500mw (1/2 watt) goes say 2 miles on a good day; this unit with 4 times the theoretical power will only double the range, on average (the inverse square rule). But really folks, how far apart are you going to be from each other most of the time? Usually a mile or less...here, the extra "juice" gets the signal thru buildings better...we have no complaints about this new addition to the Cobra family...a great bargain with NiMH batteries, in-unit charging plus the earbud mike...even with an FCC license it is a good deal.