Radioddity DB40-G 40 Watt GMRS Radio Review - #1 Best GMRS radio! & Best Review

This past 2 weeks I have been testing the new Radioddity DB40-G 40 Watt hi powered GMRS radio that is Repeater capable and has many many features. This is one awesome radio!
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[johnk]

Thank You for the review. I bought a DB-40 G about a month ago. I was fairly happy with it. It is pretty basic radio for the money. It output just under 45 watts, which was unexpected. Now the bad. I made a rookie mistake. I had run a coax to the other side of the house for a future antenna. It was not terminated, not shorted, just open. I hooked up that coax instead of my coax hooked to my GMRS antenna (I have been using the radio for a month with zero problems). I keyed down for less than 3 seconds. Smoke pored out of the radio. I opened the radio and the main chip was melted. Any quality radio will fold back the power to save the radio when the antenna port is open. Not this radio. Again, the coax was open, not shorted...I checked. Bottom line, if you have any problem with your coax or antenna, this radio will roach itself. Not an ideal thing as it cooked itself so quickly. Even with a SWR meter in line, if there was a problem, your radio would be toast before you could hardly realize there was a problem. Radioddity promptly sent me another radio, so kutos to them. Be very careful and be sure to check your coax/antenna on a regular basis. For the asking price, this radio should have high SWR protection. It does not. Buyer beware. Given what happened to my radio, I would not buy one if I knew how easily this radio will fry itself.

[RyanGregory-nnfh]

Mr. Mac would this be a good beginner radio for someone who is just looking for a home radio to talk with the local NC area..?

[centralfloridagmrs]

It works very well. Never runs hot and puts out the watts it claims. I was getting 48 watts on a few of the repeater channels. 35 watts on the 15 to 22 channels. 5.2 watts on the lower channels. Running it on my base with a power supply. As for simplex it matches the distance I get with my Wouxon 1000g plus. The manual is not very good. It actually has some mistakes it in. You can label the channels with names however.

[qwertyuiop]

Good review. What kind of antenna are you running? I'm getting 45W on CH 30 with SWR 1.36.

[MrSo]

Good vid! What type of repeater was used?

[amorris]

Man 28 watts is a long way away from 40 watts.

[djsoundzentertainment]

Why do you care where that guys location is? All that matters is he is getting into the repeater from his location and you too are getting in to the repeater. He might be 60 miles from your location but that doesn't matter on repeaters, your talking through the repeater. What matters is how far he is from the repeater and how far you are from the repeater. It doesn't work like simplex on a CB.