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Before you buy check they are still shipping to the USA. Many countries have suspended shipments due to all the unresolved tariff and trade issues & threats. Someone posted a long list on here recently of all the countries which will no longer ship to USA. Some will still ship by courier but...

Yes. There is a main menu accessed from the front panel, but many of the adjustments are in a "service menu" which is not intended to be user-accessible, but the way to access them can sometimes be found online. These radios can also be custom configured by the user using what is called...

955+ is a totally different radio inside than the original 955. The 955+ is all Anytone inside and is SDR based, meaning it has no internal adjustments. Everything is done through the regular and service menus.

He's asking about programming software, not the service menu.

I would be careful. For one thing it's hard to tell whether the HS4 is a clone of the 5555Plus or the 5555PlusN which would likely have different firmwares. And even if you know that part, there is still the possibility that Retevis uses a different proprietary firmware that is different from...

Those are both older versions of the 5555 series of radios. Though still available from some places it seems........ The latest short case version of the 5555N2 offers many more features and improvements over the Plus & PlusN. I guess if you want a more traditional CB appearance then go for it...

Got on the radio for a short while this afternoon. Conditions were good. Made contact with 745 on the island of Trinidad in the West Indies on the first call on 37LSB. Followed up by several contacts in Florida, Louisiana and the Carolina's on 36. Strong signals from Brazil again up above...

Not enough groundplane. You need to bond the ladder to the RV body with some good quality ground straps. You could also cut a couple of wires 8 feet long and just run them out from the grounded base of the antenna across the roof of the RV. Doesn't really matter how you tie them...

Anytone is really the only game in town worth considering when it comes to radios. They are also sold as Radioddity, and the newest Stryker radios are also Anytone on the inside. I'm a huge fan of the Anytone 5555N2, which has largely replaced my Cobra 148GTL as my go-to radio. Outstanding...

Nice one Larry! Congratulations!

Did you try Google image search? I have had a surprising amount of success using it to identify mystery bits and peices.

I heard JJ booming in all alone on channel 37 up here around noon today, talking to a station in Texas I could just barely hear. No luck making the return trip though...... I called a few times but couldn't get through the wall of high powered Texans LOL!

Exact same story here! When I got up at 8 it was booming. Had breakfast and went back out to the shop at 9:30 and crickets.........dang!

Glad I wasn't the only one! Now it's wall to wall Brazilian stations up here...... Impressive signal strengths on some of them.....like S9+. Pretty wild.

No. 10 Amps is not enough. 10 A @ 13.8 VDC is only 138 watts. An 80 watt radio requires at least 150 to 160 watts DC. So it's close, but I wouldn't run with less than a 15 Amp supply otherwise there will be distortion on the audio peaks. Not understanding why you aren't getting audio from...

Amazing conditions up here this afternoon. I had the radio on 555 USB for just over an hour around 4pm PST while I was working in the shop and along with tons of US and Canadian stations I heard South Africa, including a mobile in Johannesburg, Phillipines, Indonesia, Martinique, Jamaica...

I think you may be onto something there doffo! Up here we have hot dry summers and then the infamous Canadian winter cold. Temperature extremes are never very good for electronics...........

You did the right thing! The displays are notorious for failing. Everyone I know that bought one of those had the display fail within two years. On top of that, it's just a 40 channel, 4 & 12 watt radio. They sound pretty good on air but beyond that.......meh.

It's almost certainly supposed to be 5 volts. Not sure why super lids reading is so high..... voltage regulation must not be very good. edit: never mind I see JJ figured it out.

We had spectacular conditions up here until a couple of days ago, and then the latest solar eruption hit and today and yesterday we had nothing... That's 11 meters for you! One day your talking to the other side of the world and the next there's nothing LOL!