"Alan WA4SCA" wrote in message
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They are very popular, especially based on price. However, they
normally do NOT meet specs, though they are sold with the claim that
they do. Often the 2nd harmonic of 2 meters is 10 db or more above
spec. QST found this in a test of one of the many versions.

An organization I know was planning on having some custom units made
up. After several weeks of going back and forth with the manufacturer
and not being able to get a straight answer, they gave up. At least
one picture from their spectrum analyzer was clearly doctored.



the other freq issue that caught my eye was the PL tones -
since most repeaters around our urban area are all PL encoded,
the xmit tones have to be dead on - in both winter cold & summer hot
weather -