I've been a Ham radio operator for 20 years now, so I have to overlook some issues, such as receiver sensitivity, but every model I've owned has held a charge extremely well

They blamed the issue on low mic gain

The issues with the UV-5 were not corrected in this variant, but it is cheap enough and is an effective rig in amateur service once you are familiar with most aspects and issues common to the Chinese radios

Was a little dificult to program but after figuring out how it works I like it.