Yup and here is a good page from K6BEZ showing pictures of the trash some of these radios have been putting out since Dec 2015. I'm curious if any of the current radios have improved here but I doubt it.

https://sites.google.com/site/k6bezprojects/ht-harmonic-output-testing

For a triband radio, the Kenwood TH-F6A is still an amazing little radio. I haven't experienced the physical fragility issues as reported in this thread but I do know if you plug in a power cable into it's charger port "hot", they are reknown to blow their Li-Ion charger circuit. Not good. It's replacement is the D74 which is way more expensive, way more complicated, way more bigger/heavier, etc. Nice radio though.

--David
KI6ZHD

On 08/04/2018 09:10 AM, mike-2007@elp.rr.com wrote:

And Wouxun has a pretty clean transmitter too. I have the 144/440 and the 144/220. You get what you pay for. Unfortunately, the folks with the noisy transmitters don’t know it….. only their neighbors get the negative benefit of the cheap radios. A spectrum Analyzer shows the real story. I wish more folks would look at that.

Vy73 – Mike – KD5KC

El Paso, Texas – DM61rt