BTECH UV-PRO IP67 Dual Band VHF/UHF Two-Way Radio - APRS, Bluetooth, GPS, Text Messaging, Aviation Band Scanner, NOAA Weather Alerts, USB-C Rechargeable Battery

I’m. Long time Ham operator. This radio is my new favorite radio. So many cool features. One FYI. The program software is available for iPhone and android. If you want to use the satellite feature, where the software adjusts the frequency for Doppler shift, you have to use the droid software. iPhone version works great to program and configure the radio, but not for satcom. Love the BT option to use with normal BT (phone type) headsets. With the added PTT works like a charm.

Okay to start I currently own and have used nearly every low to high dollar HT radios. The Superhets are worth their weight in price. Their tuners and filtering are truly a cut above 99% of the pack. You will soon know why spending over $300 on an HT has peak coms both in and out. There are only 3 radios that I’ve had people just offer up a signal report right away that include “That radio you are on is Cristal Clear and just sounds amazing”. Followed by “What is it”??? Surprisingly the Uv5r-mini is one of them. It’s is showing up on the bench test to be a very clean radio for the it’s price. My belief is that radio is a trash in thrash out sort of world. Clean going out translates to clean going in. There are so many things that influence clear and notable differences in the way a radio sounds to others. Checking all the boxes. We form an opinion to what others sound like to us. Baofeng has landed a winner at a remarkable price point. However most of us will agree that 5w radios just fall short in being able to push through some obstacles. Many will agree a10w radio is going to fill the sweet spot for a walkabout better over all. B-tech has made its name in being considered an upscale division of Baofeng. Clearly a fact of the matter. The use of a BT Mic has a bad rep in radio. The delays and garbling Tx gives them away every time. They do work without a doubt but with a compromise in quality's in both in and out coms. Now my point here is finding that balanced combo that checks all the boxes while using A remote BT mic. This balance simply does not exist. UNTILL NOW! Both in and out with UV-Pro combo with the BS-22 BT mic. Has a sound apparently breaking the illusion we have had in the belief it can’t be done. I have not been able to actually hear this combo myself. But the reports I’m being offered out of the blue about how it sounds Screams A CLEAR WINNER. Over and over I’m getting this. Now comes the range between the two is not a game changer but nails down a new zero delay or lag aspect that blows away everything I’ve tried. And there are many. 10 out of 10 checking the box’s. Every time. Now comes the 3rd radio. The B-tech once again. The combo of the GMRS-50Pro and the BS-22 rules the roost. I never expected to ever get further away from a radio and maintain amazing reports of how it sounds. Normally any thing over 20ft away from the radio its over. Well not any more!!! How about over 100 ft.??? Or even out to 180 ft. Still working. You will not believe this combo. At 90ft. Penetrating 3 wire fence and 2 cinder block walls with tile. Also 2 slabs of dry wall. Then inside of a bathroom steal stall. NO WAY!! But it’s true. Still able to switch channels through all that. Now to be honest the garble comes on about the last drywall but still able to speak and hear with legible notes. What a pair. Hats off to B-Tech for setting the bar way up there for the rest. Now if we could just fill the gap in 70cm on the 50pro it will be in every house and car over the land. Lack of a MARS mod is the only short coming. Sorry about the short review. Now have 2 of each. And another pro50 for my shop on the way. Down sizing on my collection. Over 25 that can’t run with this combo. The IP64 rating is just a bonus in this pairing. Just get a pair and don’t look back friends. Out!!

This radio is amazing. It works as advertised, has frequent firmware updates and is very well constructed. You really cannot beat the features for price. USB-C charging and the app is very intuitive. There is a learning curve as with all ham devices, but I figured most things out quickly. The NOAA weather alert I slowed and works as well as a standalone device. Thoroughly enjoying this radio.

FCC ID: 2AGND-UV-PRO An amateur or part 90 radio license is required to transmit with this radio. This radio is a dual band amateur radio. It receives and transmits on the 2 meter, and 70 cm bands. It also receives the civilian aircraft band. This radio has many unique features. It has send and receive APRS capability. It has transmit and receive I-gate capability. It has digipeater capability (which currently does not work). It has a relay (parrot) function that receives and retransmits the received audio. It has a nonstandard microphone connector. BTECH sells an adapter to allow K1 style accessories. A bluetooth microphone is available also. Transmit and received audio is great. The radio has a mic gain control. The radio is programmed via a smartphone application. Also, most radio functions can be set and adjusted from the app. The app does NOT need to be running for the APRS and other functions to work. The radio has a GPS system and can work autonomously. This radio is NOT CHIRP-Compatible. APRS is awesome, supporting send and receive. It supports all common APRS symbols and allows you to send and receive messages. The I-gate works well, sending received stations to APRS-IS and receiving the same. There is a digipeater function that you run from the app. This radio uses standard amateur AX.25 protocol for amateur use and a proprietary "BSS" protocol for business/Part 90 use. The radio uses AX.25/BSS to identify and indicate position for group use and can display onscreen the bearing of other UV PRO radios in the group. It can also display bearings of received APRS stations. A Bluetooth KISS TNC is now implemented! It works great! You connect it to your computer and run your packet program, directing it to one of the comm ports Bluetooth opens and you are running. This radio has more features than any other analog radio I've ever seen. It is firmware upgradeable, and the app is upgradeable. This future-proofs the radio and allows future development of the unit. I look forward to the future with this series. It is maturing fast! Firmware updates come often. It still has some development to go through yet, before it reaches its full potential; but it is darn close. The price is very attractive. You get a lot with what you pay for. I highly recommend this radio. Edited: Digipeater works, KISS capability, Added fifth star. UPDATE: Digipeater function only works with other UV-pros. I tried with my Yaesu and it didn't work. Also, another vehicle mobiling along wasn't picked up by the UV-PRO. Also, the radio is not a s sensitive as other radios I have. Very noticeable. So..... I'm taking a star back away.

I have had the UV PRO for about a week now and have been putting it through its paces. WOW. It is quickly becoming one of my favorite radios! The app works great and it's really fun to mess around with. The only downsides i have found 1 - There is no chirp support for the radio due to the zones - but there are workarounds using CSV Files 2 - The Zones don't have tons of memory channels in them... and with dual watch on you can only monitor a single zone at a time. That seems odd to me Things i Like The menu on the radio is super easy to navigate and i find what you need The Sensitivity is really really good It sounds Fantastic Feels Solid and IP67 -WIN! USB C Charging! The app Is fun It has satellite info and tracking built in the app - Even adjusts for Doppler Shift - I heard the ISS with only a signal stick - WOW Tone scanning is super easy and works fast! APRS with the Map in the App is addicting! Fun to see what and where what u are receiving in real time. I was picking up packets from over 200 miles away (on a roll up J- Pole) East to update and they seem to be rolling out updates to fix glitches quite often I like to rotate use through all my radios often... but since have received the UV PRO i cant seem to put it down For the Money i find this to be a well balanced and fantastic radio I think i will pick up the new VGC Bluetooth Mic (the one with the screen) as i have seen that it works with the UV Pro - Perfect for hiking is what I am thinking Love it 73's

Let me start by saying that I REALLY wanted to like this radio as I have other BTECH radios. The UV Pro is a solid 2m/440 radio although it is a bit heavy as compared to other radios that I own. BTECH has chosen to use a cell phone application as the primary CPS software for the radio. As of this review, there is no desktop CPS software to read, enter and edit channel or any other radio information from the desktop. This is a clear departure from the rest of the industry that use programs like CHIRP. BTECH does allow you to create a .CSV file on the desktop and then upload the file to your cell phone. From there, you can import the .CSV file into their application and the app will write the info out to the radio. Butt there is a very specific format that you have to use to create the .CSV file. Fortunately, BTECH does give you an example of how the file should look. Bottom line is that it is "clugey" to read/ride mass files to and from your desktop. If you only need to edit a small number of channels, you can easily do that with their app and the changes are reflected in near real time on the radio. All that said, there are some clever features in the phone app (Android and Apple versions) that allow you to use a BlueTooth link to the radio. As a radio by itself, I would rate the UV Pro as 5 stars. But the documentation is really bad and if you want to add, edit or otherwise modify a bulk number of channels, this radio falls short of other radios in the industry. There are only 180 channels available broken into 6 "Groups" with a max of 30 channels per group which will be a limitation for some people.

This HT can take some abuse. I am clumsy and have dropped this sucker several time, including once on my driveway. It still keeps on booming. I like programming the radio through the app. The Bluetooth connectivity is very convenient. I am still figuring out the APRS stuff, but I have seen stations come in via repeaters from around a hundred miles a way or so. The radio sounds great, and when I can get out of my local noise floor I can make decent contacts. It's not to big or too small. The battery life is surprisingly good. I had expected it to die much sooner, but it kept going. I have used it out in the rain without any issues. My only complaint, and I don't think this is necessarily the radio, but I do seem to pick up some digital static from the local area. I live in a high noise environment, so it could just be that this radio is particularly sensitive compared to my other HT. I don't feel compelled to knock off a star for it.

This radio can not be programed by computer. I am use to programing all my radios with RT or Chirp Software. You have to use your phone. Programing channels was a pain using the phone app. You could create banks but when you viewed channels on the radio I could not tell which bank I was using unless I went through several menus. The transmit function was a bit weird. Not like any of my other BTECTs or other portables. I could not follow the radio function logic compared to the other 10 portable WT I have. I found it difficult for the phone to pair with the radio. The radio seemed to be of good build quality. The sound was good quality. The screen was bright. Maybe its a good radio but not for me.