Packed full of features, big beautiful meter, adjustable power, talkback, roger-beep, dimmer

Other features are mic gain, RF gain, a dimmer knob, and adjustable RF power

received today hooked it up tuned all the knobs in hooked up to a 5/8 skip master aerial had some good reprorts i also tested with a Galaxy Echo Master powered base microphone with even better reports

Francis was recommended by an old timer who said those fancy high power antennae were inefficient for a stock radio

Radio is grounded by negative power wire and by a chassis ground to the case of the radio

HG M75 power mike set to 50%,Mic Gain 100%, RF-out 25%(about 10w

Put a decent power mic on this Radio and it will do what you expect it to do