Retevis RT95 Dual Band Low Cost Transceiver

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Here we take a look at the Retevis RT95, also known as the CRT MICRON and Anytone AT-778UV.

Overall a simply to use, low cost, dual band radio for vhf and uhf. Maximum of 25 watts with 3 power levels down to 5 watts.

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The RT95 is probably my most used radio. My one complaint was that its US 70cm coverage was not complete. The US 70cm band ranges from 420 to 450 MHz but this radio (at least mine bought 2 years ago) stopped at 440 MHz. The fix is to change the radio's region setting. IIRC, the legit region choices are supposed to correspond to EU and US, but there's a third region: "Mode 2" which is wide open. Retevis themselves told me the region change process when I complained about the incomplete 70cm coverage:

To change "mode": With the power off, hold P4 and FUNC and Power buttons at the same time. Unit powers on to a menu: rotate the knob to select to select the "Mode" menu. Press and hold the PTT button, the rotate the knob to select Mode 2. This opens RX/TX to 136-174 MHz and 400-490 MHz.

Randrew

I've been using the Anytone version for two years now. As a base station, it is a solid performer.

Blaculo

Other videos and websites have reported RT-95 is software locked for bands and can be opened by a keyboard during power-on to get 136 to 174Mhz & 400 to 490Mhz.
I think at some point that model was sold with three different varians like US-lock (like GMRS), ham-bands and fully open for business frequencies.

hoggif

I got my RT95 (VOX version) with the programming cable included just 2 or 3 weeks ago. What a lovely little radio! It's so easy to use that I was able to put the manual back in the box after just 2 hours. It packs enough power to let you hit repeaters within range and most nearby-ish simplex stations. It's simply a joy to use! Plus it costs less than most 5W HTs from the Big Three. It makes me smile every time I use this radio. It does everything that I need and nothing that I don't.

If you have the programming cable it's so easy to program it in CHIRP-NEXT, and if you go to the settings tab you can even reorder and reassign the P1 through P6 buttons (I set mine so P2 is POW and P4 is SCN), change the MON button so it toggles between squelch off and on instead of having to be held down to defeat the squelch, changed the knob's default function in memory mode from channel to volume, and changed the word RETEVIS om the splash screen to my callsign, amongst other things (like changing the scan from timer to carrier and the scan delay to 10 seconds, which both speeds up the (slow) scanning speed a wee bit to around 3 channels per second and prevents scan from resuming too soon if for some reason the carrier is weak.)

Hayden, VK7HA on his Ham Radio DX channel tested his RT95 on a spectrum analyzer and found that the TX is very clean indeed on both bands, with the second harmonic being well below the fundamental, third harmonic barely showing up, and no spurious emissions. I wouldn't have bought this radio if it had dirty transmit but it's just fine.

Bear in mind that with no fan, just a passive heat sink, the chassis can get not just warm but HOT after a long ragchew, so limit your overs accordingly. The bottom speaker has pretty good audio especially in combination with the speaker in the mic (I call it "poor man's Aess") but even a cheap front-facing external speaker is a big improvement. I use a Diamond (no relation to Diamond Antennas) TS-750 speaker which has attenuator and on-off switches on the front. The attenuator's handy for quickly halving the volume without having to turn the knob. Speaking of which, the radio has some quirks as do they all. For instance, now that the lone knob on mine acts as a volume control it doesn't work right away if the radio's scanning. I have to press on the knob to stop scan, then I can adjust the volume, then have to resume scanning.

73 Mat!

jaym

Chassis is speaker definitely better than the mic speaker...no surprise there. I bet if you cranked your power supply up to the maximum spec voltage of 14.4v, you'd see the transmitter power output come up to the advertised specs. Trabsmit audio was surprisingly good .

denniswofford

I've seen this chassis in different band's, across different brand name's. These radio's are a bargain for what you get. I was looking at a CRT version for 10, 11, and 12 metres from Knight's CB. Great video's as always.

TRIPPLEJAY

I have had this radio for a couple of years and it has performed quite solidly for me. Transmit audio always gets surprisingly good reports and receive audio is pleasant enough for me to use it as my main dual-bander in the shack. Excellent radio for the money. I also have the little RT98 mono-bander which I often use back-pack portable and sometimes mobile - again, it seems to have very good transmit audio.

snaggitfishing

I use it as a daily driver for my local and repeater QSO's and I regard it as a solid performer, the screen is readable, and the menu is quite thougtfuly laid out, which is not a given for cheap devices. The power output is also decent. I use it with a speaker from a philips HiFi, so I won't rate the internal ones.

TheMrChyrol

I've got the anyone version - love it as a cheap VHF/UHF FM radio

Stuart_MMSHX

This is a nice little radio. I bought one in order to have around 10-odd watts for use during the previous "145 Alive" event. It does have a few quirks, especially the multi-function rotary encoder which we might think of as a "volume control". It is a little bit annoying having to first press the P6 button in order to have access to the volume function before you can set it, but it's a minor gripe. The internal speaker is quite loud and clear, and emits a good quality sound. By contrast I found the speaker in the microphone to be difficult to use. It could be that the issue is with my particular microphone, yours sound a lot better than mine. In spite of the quirks this is a great little radio, excellent value for money.

janhenkins

I've had the Anytone version of this radio for years and it's my main daily driver, only complaints is the speaker is tinny and the scan speed is slow but other than that it's a cracking little radio.

knoxieman

the screen flip is great so we can always expose the internal speaker for audio quality.

christophersmith

I've had 2 of these for around a year. Cracking little radios

MLWI

I just bought one of these for prime day and got it installed a couple hours ago in my car. Pretty impressed so far, now I need to learn more about what you can do with the built in software.

cranedaddy