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Summary: Excellant Value
Review: After looking at many brands, I decided to try these Midland units. I received 6 for all my sons friends in the neighborhood. They have great distance, quick recharge, and I think what I am saving in buying regular AA batteries, I am ahead of the game. These boys are all 9 thru 11 so these radios get a work out both in use and in the drop test. They stand up to the challange. I highly recommend them for play or for business use ( as long as you are in a 2 mile range, it gets to be a bit broken up over 2 miles)
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Summary: Works Great
Review: I got this thing for when my friends and I play paintball, so that we could communicate with each other. Lets just say that these worked better than expected. Some of my other friends have Cobra's and Motorola's and I think that these (my radios) came with better features and sounded clearer. Definitely a good buy.
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Summary: Midland 75515xlbpr - a bad buy
Review: I purchased this product not in small part due to the positive reviews I read. LUCKY THEM!!! There was unacceptable distortion on one of the units in the set. A quick replacement was forthcoming from Amazon
which worked well. Than the other original unit acted up. And another replacement was quickly sent by Amazon. Defective buttons!! So, at this point, I have one radio that works well and one radio that works fair. I suggest you look elsewhere if you want something of quality!
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Summary: Midland 75515xlbpr - a bad buy
Review: I purchased this product not in small part due to the positive reviews I read. LUCKY THEM!!! There was unacceptable distortion on one of the units in the set. A quick replacement was forthcoming from Amazon
which worked well. Than the other original unit acted up. And another replacement was quickly sent by Amazon. Defective buttons!! So, at this point, I have one radio that works well and one radio that works fair. I suggest you look elsewhere if you want something of quality!
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Summary: Midland 75515XLBPR 2-Way radios w/ Batteries & Charger
Review: I was hopeful but greatly disappointed. Couldn't even communicate with family less than 1/2 mile aways with cracking, hissing and cutting out. No hills, electrical or other interferring objects. Greatly dissatisfied. Even more dissatisfied that I have to pay shipping to return something that doesn't work to begin with. This has been an all around discouraging transaction that makes me leery of internet purchases.
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Summary: Great radios, average charger
Review: Summary: I give the radios 4.5 stars, and the charger only 3 stars. The radios compare favorably with high-end FRS radios, but at a mid-range price. (For what it's worth, I've never seen an FRS radio I would give 5 stars.) I bought this set for me, then gave them to my nephews for Christmas. (I plan to buy myself another set soon.) The sound quality is excellent, and my nephews have used them with no dropouts while hiking and camping in the mountains (on Boy Scout outings). The radios are designed as fairly traditional "walkie-talkie" radios, with a knob for volume and with the PTT on the side rather than on the face, so your don't talk to your thumb (as on those with the PTT on the face of the radio). Other features are accessed via menus and the LCD display. The display is clear and easy to read, with one exception. The top row of indicators is very close to the upper bezel, so you may have to tip the radio away from you to read the top row. The radios have only one call tone, but that's all that's needed. The digital coded squelch (DCS) and the more common CTCSS tone squelch make it easy to ignore undesired signals. (When using DCS, remember to wait 1 second between pushing the PPT and speaking, to allow the other radio's receiver to recognize the DCS.) The CTCSS codes are the same as on all the other radios with Tone Squelch, so they are interoperable. The DCS codes are uncommon, but are great when using just the 75515 and/or 75517 radios. The VOX works well, but takes some practice to use properly (as VOX always does). Setting the VOX level is a bit finicky--it's done via the menu system--but it seldom needs to be changed once set. The advertised "1694 codes" is actually the standard 14 channels, with 38 CTCSS codes and 83 DCS codes ( (38+83)*14=1694 ). Sometimes marketing dweebs just have to turn information into gibberish. What's missing? A "silent" or "vibrator" ringer option in place of the audible call signal. Also, the charger is not "smart". It doesn't detect full charge and switch to trickle-charge, so you can't leave the radios in the plugged-in charger. Instead, charge them up, then unplug the charger to use it as a simple stand. Unfortunately, I was unable to locate a smart charger for these radios. (Doesn't mean there isn't one, though; just that I didn't locate one.) The radios also lack the "voice security" (voice scrambler) offered on some FRS radios, but the only practical purpose of that "feature" is to encourage people to transmit "private" information to the world.
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Summary: Excellent Value
Review: The radios work great. As with all products that use rechargeable batteries, you get little advance notice as to when the batteries are about to die on you. The only thing I don't like about this product is the charging time for batteries. 10 hours for NiCads and 16 hours for NiMH. You cannot leave the radios in the charger after they are charged, so you have to keep track of time. I was able to use these radios in Disneyland and with the digital codes available, I heard no interference from other yokels also with radios. (Even though they could still hear me.)
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Summary: Works Great
Review: These little radios have exceeded my expectations. Based on reviews of similar products, I expected the range to be far less than the two mile maximum. Instead, we were able to use them at well over two miles with one person in a car and the other in a house. YMMV, but I was very impressed. There is some static near the end of the range but clarity is excellent at close and medium distances.
Battery life has been excellent. I've been using them for a couple of weeks on a set of alkalines. The batteries that ship with them are NiCd, not NiMH.
The units seem solidly built with the exception of the rubber flap that covers the top headphone/mic jacks. I don't use it but it might be irritating trying to close the flap.
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Summary: A great package for the price.
Review: These little radios have exceeded my expectations. Based on reviews of similar products, I expected the range to be far less than the two mile maximum. Instead, we were able to use them at well over two miles with one person in a car and the other in a house. YMMV, but I was very impressed. There is some static near the end of the range but clarity is excellent at close and medium distances.
Battery life has been excellent. I've been using them for a couple of weeks on a set of alkalines. The batteries that ship with them are NiCd, not NiMH.
The units seem solidly built with the exception of the rubber flap that covers the top headphone/mic jacks. I don't use it but it might be irritating trying to close the flap.
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Summary: Best budget FRS set I've seen
Review: This is probably the best deal I've seen yet. The radios are of relative high quality, included are the chargers and the batteries, belt clips and lanyards. Has a VOX/PTT switch for use with other manufacturer's VOX sets. Has 2 sets of VOX jacks, 83 channel DSC in addition to the 38 channel CTSS, advertised as "water-resistant" though I haven't tested it out yet. Good range, picks up transmissions my other FRS usually can't. Crammed with features. Only complaint is that the buttons are a bit small and seem crowded, but that's a small quibble.
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