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Ordered a Retevis C2

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Apparently this is a new GMRS model. Ordered to see what's what.

C2 walkie talkies brings users an unparalleled sound quality experience, built-in AI noise reduction chip, equipped with 10-level noise reduction, and also designed 9-level squelch function and microphone gain to reduce noise, enhance communication clarity, and bring clear and bright communication to enterprises around the clock

Coming fresh from China however so the shipping will be slow.

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Be careful out there folks.
I have not had a 1st class experience with the Retevis Ebay store. I received a used and already played with C2 sold as new mind you, missing the usb charger block and wrist strap and channels messed with and battery already installed as well. I am not an idiot I've bought 7 new radios within a month, I know what new condition of these is. When I inquired why I received a used unit this was not addressed but dodged. Nor was my complaint that Retivis took my post here, altered it to look like a review and posted it to their main site under a false name. All that I was told was well this is a different site and your purchase didn't include these items. I grew weary of arguing with someone dodging the obvious so I let it go. Needless to say I am not happy nor will I be purchasing any more Retevis equipment as to my knowledge the ebay site is official Retevis. This posting fake reviews is junk behavior as well and does not give a favorable opinion of the company. Extremely disingenuous behavior.


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Also as a side note the software from Retevis site for the C2/C62 is broken. When you try to unpack it once downloaded it reports the package is corrupt and won't open. Not a pleasing situation. So I have a radio I can't even program properly unless via the radio itself which is no fun with large meat hooks such as I have and these fingernail end sized buttons. CHIRP does not yet support this radio leaving me in a bit of a lurch. Haven't had a chance to evaluate it's top feature it's AI noise blanking aka DSP yet. Hopefully do some testing this weekend.
 
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lonestarbandit said:
Also as a side note the software from Retevis site for the C2/C62 is broken. When you try to unpack it once downloaded it reports the package is corrupt and won't open. Not a pleasing situation. So I have a radio I can't even program properly unless via the radio itself which is no fun with large meat hooks such as I have and these fingernail end sized buttons. CHIRP does not yet support this radio leaving me in a bit of a lurch. Haven't had a chance to evaluate it's top feature it's AI noise blanking aka DSP yet. Hopefully do some testing this weekend.
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This does not bode well for Retevis, not at all....
Thanks for the report, and update!

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lonestarbandit said:
Also as a side note the software from Retevis site for the C2/C62 is broken. When you try to unpack it once downloaded it reports the package is corrupt and won't open. Not a pleasing situation. So I have a radio I can't even program properly unless via the radio itself which is no fun with large meat hooks such as I have and these fingernail end sized buttons. CHIRP does not yet support this radio leaving me in a bit of a lurch. Haven't had a chance to evaluate it's top feature it's AI noise blanking aka DSP yet. Hopefully do some testing this weekend.
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I was able to download the C2 software and unpacked/installed just fine. I use 7zip for my archiver program to deal with zip files and RAR and the rest of them. Windows does comes up warning you about running the software, but I just Run it Anyway and opened up. The one for the C62 my browser complains about it "being unsafe", but downloaded it anyways. That one too opened up ok and installed.
 
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I was able to download the C2 software and unpacked/installed just fine. I use 7zip for my archiver program to deal with zip files and RAR and the rest of them. Windows does comes up warning you about running the software, but I just Run it Anyway and opened up. The one for the C62 my browser complains about it "being unsafe", but downloaded it anyways. That one too opened up ok and installed.
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Strange, I've tried it with serveral unzip programs, I will try again.
 
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As a side note - I dislike the fraudulent use of my post here as a review on their site, I disliked receiving a used unit, I disliked their response to the issues I had and I dislike it not being CHIRP compatible (thought that was my failing for failing to notice) and the trouble I've had with the factory software, as mentioned ill try with 7zip maybe that will eventually work.... I DO like the active noise canceling quite a bit as at medium ranges where you get the static fading in and out on HTs it does a fairly good job of removing it.
I DO like the Retevis RA25 (that factory software unpacked and functioned flawlessly) enough I ordered a second for use in my mobile.
Also ordered a RA89 again with the noise canceling though curiously it was not labeled as "AI" to try out but I have confined my purchases to Amazon in the future so if I have a unsatisfactory experience as I did on Ebay then I can just return the item.
 
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*Update 7zip worked as @doffo suggested. It did install acted a bit flakey a few times but eventually got it programmed. SO one additional complaint to add, you will not get this thing to stand up on its own with the slightest movement it falls over. Bad feet design I suppose. Otherwise other than the aforementioned problems the radio itself works fairly well and feels sturdy other than its freestanding issue.
 
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*Update 7zip worked as @doffo suggested. It did install acted a bit flakey a few times but eventually got it programmed. SO one additional complaint to add, you will not get this thing to stand up on its own with the slightest movement it falls over. Bad feet design I suppose. Otherwise other than the aforementioned problems the radio itself works fairly well and feels sturdy other than its freestanding issue.
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Glad it worked for you. But after looking over the Retevis website, it just seems super generic like many are.. I just hope someone looks into the Retevis RT85 and does a mic mod for it like they did for the Baofeng UV-5R. I just don't like the idea of yelling into the mic.
 
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A warning for the Linux folks … I bought a C2 cheap on Amazon and have just returned it. The radio … was fine? Except for a couple problems. First, it was less compatible with chirp-next than expected. Reading from the radio caused it to reset over and over again. Apparently when that happened CHIRP would basically pick up and continue reading … although whether correctly or not I don't know because chirp eventually errored out on the thing partway through. And second, doing it by hand didn't work well.

Didn't program, a defect? Recent chirp support too recent to be reliable? Or unlock required? If this radio can be unlocked from GMRS, I didn't do that because I use my ham radios for ham radio. I'm interested in emcomm anyway so more radios is good. (Like I need an excuse… )

No matter, there's three repeaters in the Portland, Oregon area and I expect I can only hit one of them reliably. I'll do it by hand and learn my new radio, I said. And then I tried to input the Lake Oswego repeater. LkO … 7 … where's S? Can I just press 8? No, just 1-6. I can enter P, p, Q, q, R, r, … no S or s. Okay, screw it, I'll just get something I CAN program, then. And so I returned it.

Problem on Windows? Probably not, unless there's a defect in my C2 where it isn't working with programming cables as I noted … but really, I'm just saying the C2 is not the product for me unless or until it gets better support for chirp and a new firmware. Which of course I probably couldn't really install from Linux anyway.
 

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