📻 Randy FCC Handheld or Mobile CB Radio with Weather Channel, Alerts, and Enhanced Searchability Review

Nice size and battery life for the day. Surprisingly, he also speaks well. But don't expect miracles with a foot-long antenna.*

Finally a portable CB radio that works! Great battery life we have land and this radio is great for keeping in touch, I get 3 miles from the mailbox to my house with this little beauty, squelch, NB and everything works great. great radio

Fantastic radio for its size. I don't know of any other HT CB that is as compact as this one. Lots of features, decent reception and range for a rubber duck antenna and a whopping 4 watts. The only thing it lacks is SSB, but it's not long-range radio. If you agree that this is essentially an 11-meter walkie-talkie, then great.

I liked the amount of features it has. Although I don't like that he doesn't have ssb. I don't know how strong the dead key is, but it must be very low because the range is very short. The battery life is not very good. And the fact that it is an internal battery is another minus. Not to mention the belt clip, which is seriously lacking. If I had to buy it again knowing what I know I wouldn't. I would wait for another product that really reflects the reason for the high price. Although the…

I have a Lafayette base station from the 70's. When it was new I had the antenna over my head and was ready to broadcast from time to time. Then we moved and put it aside. Years later I pulled it out and added a two foot long RS antenna big enough to hear nearby truckers. Unfortunately, Lafayette is dead. Both. I needed to listen again, so I bought the President. I tried it with ASC (Automatic Squelch Control) enabled. It just kills your reception. Even strong signals become intermittent. I…

My first impression of the radio was good, it's solid and well made. The radio itself is packed with great features! Now for the not-so-great stuff: The full cell phone kit that comes with the President Randy III in the EU version is NOT included in the US FCC version. This makes mobile operation much more inconvenient as the antenna's coaxial cable comes out of the top of the radio right in your face. The EU version cell phone kit adapter has a long coaxial connector that comes out from the…

Possibly the coolest portable CB radio I have ever seen. So far the reception has been very good. Some of the features are rarely, if ever, seen on portable CB radios. The radio itself feels very solid and the layout is very intuitive (especially if you're familiar with other President radios). In fact, it doesn't even look like a portable CB radio, more like a GMRS radio on steroids. Unfortunately, this review needs a little background: I have many CB radios and devices. Mainly Cobras and…