The attached image shows a 2m primary frequency transmission, with SIX! harmonic spurious transmissions. This is the worst radio I've seen in terms of spectral purity, it's beyond acceptable. Do know that every time you push the PTT, you're transmitting real power into restricted bands, even when you set the radio to a normal amateur 2m frequency. In my tests, the radio also completely desenses in the presence of a 5w nearby HT signal. If you are near another transmitter, even a small one, it will be deaf.

Cannot enter Dmr id Call sign A piece of junk No programing via a win10 or win 11 computer

This product is very good. Easy and to program value for money is great the range is very good the sound is very loud and good. 10/10

Its been a long time waiting for a dual band, AES-256 encryption capable, IP67 rated DMR radio at a good price point. This one checks all the boxes for that. Don't let the sad hams and their irrelevant concern over spurious emissions and falling to their knees for FCC compliance prevent you from picking up one of these.

This handheld radio has great volume and sound. The GPS works great and there are many channels. I am very impressed with the quality and the amount of things the radio can perform. It has a very long range and would be great for any ham radio member. Great product Two thumbs up!

The Retevis Ailunce HD2 is a nicely performing DMR radio. The radio covers the basics, simplex FM transmit and receive, as well as working just fine in DMR. The radio supports blue tooth and the kit came with a blue tooth speaker/mic. I also was able to test the GPS version of the radio. In short, quite a few bells and whistles to this radio. Let's talk about it. The radio itself is made from pretty tough feeling plastic. It has rubberized buttons that press pretty well with a good click, letting you know you pushed it. One knob is for on/off & volume and the other is for switching channels and settings in the menus. They're nicely sized and differentiated enough that you can tell 'em apart in the dark. However, I did find it really easy to adjust the volume when I was changing channels or menus and that was a bit irritating. In addition the buttons on the front and the standard push-to-talk, you get three additional function buttons that you can program through the code plug editor (much more on that below). It has a pretty clear and easy to read color screen. I know the common complaint on color screens is that they wash out in the sun. I generally haven't found that to be true, but it sure is on this radio. I turned the brightness up to 10 and when in sunlight, the screen just washed away. Not a showstopper, or even a big deal, but something you should know. The battery can be charged from the supplied cradle, or, you can use USB-C (I'm to the point where I'll knock a couple of stars off a radio that doesn't support USB-C charging). Battery life seems quite good. The kit I received, pictured above, included a programming cable and a bluetooth speaker mic. I found the programming cable worked, plug and play, just fine. However, I did go and download the driver from the Ailunce support site. It worked just fine with the programming software you can also download from that site. Know that Windows Defender does not like the files and you may need to bypass Defender to get them on your machine (and yes, for some people, this is a showstopper). The blue tooth speaker mic is actually quite nice. Sound quality is good. Signal reports were that it was a little quiet. I did find the PTT to release a little to easily at times, but overall, it worked very nicely. It's a great add to this radio, giving you a very hands free, and more private, experience using the radio (NOTE: not hands free in the car, although, I didn't test that setup to see if it worked). After programming (again, more on that later), I was able to make DMR contacts with the radio. It transmitted nicely to local repeaters and my hotspot, with no issues. Signal reports were that the radio was nice and clear with a good volume. Same for the speaker/mic. I got pretty good reach on FM simplex, transmitting well over two miles in tests. So, programming. Let me start by saying this is my 7th, distinct, DMR radio. I've programmed all of them, including this one, successfully. That said, this was one of the harder ones to program that I've used (not counting the first one when I was both figuring out DMR AND programming DMR, two distinct, but related, and interacting, concepts). It took me quite a while to get it doped and in fact, I finally had to download a code plug from the Ailunce support site. That did the trick. I figured out all the settings I was missing (like, transmission had to be set to color code, if you want color code used, all my other radios were, if you put in a color code, you were using that, just weird). There is a steep learning curve to this software. Further, the defaults when you add a new channel, were extremely irritating. I spent a lot of time turning things off that were turned on by default. Also, I never did find all the settings in the code plug software. For example, I like to display channel names when in channel mode. Easy setting from the radio, but I couldn't find the equivalent in the code plug software, and so, despite reading first from the radio, then programming changes (always a good habit, if your radio is working, reading first ensures it's settings are the one you use, in most software), I still got the display reset, every time. More irritation. However, once you get it worked out, the software isn't that bad (there are much worse out there) and you'll be able to set up zones, channels, listening groups and contacts pretty easily. The GPS works. That's about all I can say about it though. There's just almost no functionality. It transmits GPS coordinates on digital channels, and digital channels only. If someone is set up correctly, they'll receive them. If they're transmitting GPS location, you'll see it on your screen. That's it. No APRS. No tracking, direction, etc.. Really, kind of disappointing. I'd suggest you skip getting the GPS unit since there's so little there for the extra money. Overall, this is a very solid performing DMR radio, especially for the money. While the GPS isn't a big deal, the inclusion of the blue tooth and the programming cable make for a great little kit. I like the operation. I did find the programming software to be real pain and I would have knocked off more stars, but publishing code plugs won them back a star. Once programmed, you've got a functional DMR radio.

Revetis/Ailunce hit this one out of the ball park again. If there's a company that listen to it's customer, Revetis/Ailunce is the one. Is it a perfect radio? No, but they are constantly improving with firmware updates and newer models. My first DMR radio was the Retevis R3TS and it's been a solid digital radio. There are many reviews of this radio stating there were some issues like the radio is unable to encode and decode or unable to waking up from NOAA channels. Well I don't have any of these issues. There's an updated firmware you have to download from Retevis website. The only issues I have is that the exe file to flash the radio. Windows see it as a Trojan virus. After disabling Windows Defender, I was able to flash the radio with the latest firmware. The CPS is not perfect but it works like the CPS for the R3TS and HD1. It took me a good hour or so to set the radio up with a few DMR channels and a few 2m and 70cm repeaters. Was able to hit all repeaters about 44 miles away with a solid clear audio and full quieting. On the DMR side, the audio is night and day better than the R3TS and HD1. Again they are constantly improving the radio this one, the HD2 is a big leap forward over the HD1. The battery last over a day of heavy use and you can either charge it via the USB Type-C port on the battery or use the cradle to charge it. The one thing I didn't expect that this radio now support Bluetooth audio and it comes with a nice Revetis brand earpiece with a PTT button on the bottom of the earpiece. Pairing with the radio was fast and easy. Very nice.. I also test this radio on 2m and 70cm simplex (National Calling frequency) audio was a bit crackling but was able to talk to another station about 10 miles away. Power output is around 5 watts and that is all you really need. Getting a better antenna would improve the range much more but you will lose the IP67 rating. This is one of the few radio in this price point that is has a true IP67 rating. I took my chance and hose this radio down with a garden hose for a good 20 seconds while listening to a NET. Shook the radio of the water off and it works with no issues. Currently using this radio with a pi-star hotspot so all the DMR channels are set to low. There's 2 DMR repeaters around me and I was able to make full contact on the World Talk group and check it with a Parrot and audio feed back was nice and clear. Again much improved over the HD1 and R3TS. This radio is packed with features pretty much comes with everything you need to start talking on DMR . And I think any issues with this radio that most users have is not knowing how to properly setup the radio or there was a setting missed while programming it with the CPS. I also took several photos of this radio next to my R3TS and the Ailunce HA1G to show the size reference. Overall this is a great digital radio that has a great range on analog and the audio on DMR (12.5k narrow band) sounds great.

Having used the GMRS variant of this radio, I already knew I liked the build design and characteristics of this radio. It has a feeling of heft that gives you confidence it would hold up to a harsher environment. The part that makes me subtract a bit is the internal system. The software seems clunky and has options that the user does not use with a DMR radio. I don’t feel like its been given the time needed. The menus just leave me with more questions. The good thing to that is, It’s all a software issue which can be updated overtime. As far as FCC regs, I won’t bother touching on that subject but you should do some research prior to deciding making sure you are getting a radio that best suites your needs.

I've had this for a while now and all-in-all it is a great radio with some stand-out features. I do feel like they could have done *more* with the bluetooth capabilities since they took the trouble of putting that in there. In this day and age we know have sub-$30 FM radios that can be programmed by bluetooth from a phone app, it's too bad that this much more expensive radio can't do that as many of the pain points of setting up DMR and the limitations of the small screen and buttons can be overcome with the use of a nice phone app, but it seems that is still a ways out yet. At least there is the bluetooth audio and the inclusion of the bluetooth earpiece is quite nice. It works well and it also works well with their handheld wireless mic that is sold separately. Unfortunately it seems it only works with their brand bluetooth stuff that was made for this radio so it won't like pair to your car or at least I couldn't figure out a way to do that. Beyond the limited (but still welcome) BT features, it of course is DMR capable and works well if there is a lot of DMR repeaters in your area or if you setup a DMR hotspot at your QTH. In terms of interface and usage I kind of prefer my GD-88, but, I have to admit the extras on this like the BT and the USB-C charging make it hard to pick an outright winner between those two. This is a little bit larger of a radio than most and feels good in-hand. Once you learn the battery of operations it's easy enough to use, just takes some searching online as with most of these advanced radios.

Hams won’t like this radio but it’s almost the perfect Prepper/SHTF radio Analog/DMR(digital) Ip67 Text message SMS USB-C TRI band uhf/vhf 220 (136-174MHz 222MHz-225MHz 400-520MHz) FRS/GMRS/MURS/ham AES-256 encryption Front panel programmable Bluetooth Proper multpin waterproof accessory/speaker mic port. (Motorola m3) (same as Motorola gp328plus) they also sell a $15 adapter to use kenwood 2 pin(baofeng) acessories What could be improved : the sms/text should have the option to encrypt it,APRS, single frequency repeat mode & cross band repeat mode should be added. There should be a way to import repeaters from RepeaterBook.com To make ham crowd happy fix the spurious emissions.