RAR87 40W GMRS Walkie Talkie Repeater / Base Station

I have found Retevis has always made a good product. I did find programming the repeaters was a little challenging at first, as the directions were not specific enough in that area.

Great radio just wanna eat it in the Jeep didn’t take up much room works great on the trails

You can only program one set of repeater channels at a time. You have to decode the privacy tones and use the corresponding code in the user manual.

It is a good and reliable product that you can trust to keep it on in the car and not get too hot. The sound quality and antenna are good . The sound output from the speaker and base or both is excellent. The hand manual control panel made it very easy to use. The only reason I returned it was that I could not manage two channels at the same time.

This is nice. GMRS does require a license but $35.00 for 10 years and it covers your whole fam. The radio is small enough to put almost anywhere. I put mine under my pass seat.

Radio works quite well. Range is adequate. Bought two units for use in our two Can-Am UTVs. They preformed quite well. Only rates a 4 star rating because the volume of the speaker is not loud enough to easily hear over the sound of the engine. Need to purchase an exterior speaker to correct this issue.

Works as I thought it should, good little radio. Deducted one star because the small wire that is the antenna fell off the antenna base while I was off roading in my jeep. Very annoying.

I have no complaints and it’s awesome! I already got some weather channel frequencies rolling and excited to see how it’ll handle the convoys for the jeep trails. I’m sure it’ll do the job!!!

Works great, easy to install. Looks clean with hidden install and just an jack in the dash for the mic connection.

Bought this for the Jeep. Easy install, mounted the base on the bracket under the passenger seat of a JKU. Seems to work well and better than a handheld. The mag antenna suck on the inside back tub of the Jeep seemed to work as well as the Ghost antenna however, the other people in the group didn't have their antennas mounted well so, could have been a combination of issues.

Works great I live in a big town and i’m getting about 3 to 4 mile range with it

This is a great radio and works great with my adventures! Thinking about getting a couple more for my other vehicles!

This is a solid radio for intro into GMRS. The guts are small enough to mount just about anywhere .The range appears to be pretty good with the provided antenna.

Purchased for our trip out west and it came in handy. Will definitely be purchasing another for our Expedition!

Installed in a Jeep JL Wrangler. Works great. Haven’t measured range exactly, but serves my purpose of communicating with friends while off-roading. The sound is crystal clear. Mic feels substantial and not like cheap plastic. Will definitely be buying a couple more for other vehicles

I installed this in my rzr- it was very simple to install by simply using 12v (cigarette lighter). I like the fact I could easily remove this from one vehicle to another without having to ‘re-wire’ anything

Put in my jeep. Run its own power supply and don’t use the cigarette lighter. You may “be able” to but it draws more power than what the little wire supplies to your cigarette lighter can supply. Took me a hot minute to figure out how to program manually but once I figured it out it was smooth.

Very powerful. Will be much better than the handhelds we have been using. It even came with a small magnetic antennae that was mentioned on the box. Great value for this model. Speaker volume is loud.

I am able to "kerchunk" (look it up) my local big boy repeater from my house which is about 15 miles and speak with others all over the city on it. As you get more versed you will hear about splitting frequencies but for what it is worth, I have not felt the need to as most public repeaters transmit and receive with the same tone YMMV.

Been using this on every offroad trip. No cellphone signal and this thing comes in clutch. I like that you can set this up in a lot of ways. Mine is less elegant and just sitting around but still looks small and clean

I don't like hassle, so I chose the retevis combo. It has been about 10 days since I received the product. Now everything looks good and there are no problems. I am quite satisfied with RA87. It would be better if the price could be better, but the package is very heavy and I guess the logistics will be very expensive.