Supacentre Oricom UHF

I was thinking about purchasing the same units Shane, but there seems to be some battery problems. Not good when you need to be able to communicate.

Dusty

I have one I use with 5 watt hand held. Only good over short distances. No good for vehicle/vehicle over a few hundred metres but for the price, handy to have. My mate makes his missus take one when she goes on toilet break.

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Shane always a fan of GME or Uniden over Oricom. I have nothing negative to say about Oricom and no experience with them although reviews I have read have been average to negative.

For similar money or a fraction more, I'd be looking at the GME TX665. On sale here for $119TX665

IMHO, I think your overall reliability and quality are better with the GME. I use the TX6100 5 Watt's for quad expeditions and have found them brilliant with great range. Very Robust as well. Cheers Mick

GME TX665 are cheap shit produced for GME in China so they can match the price on the cheaper brands. GME TX665 are 1 watt were Oricom are 2 watts. The build quality on both are very ordinary but all I use the Oricoms are for winching and close range communications which they do very well.

Stick with GME and get the TX675 twin pack from Prestige Communications. Poor experience with Oricom telephone. Won't go near them again.

Regards

Get what you pay for - as I used to work in radio comms industry we only supplied the GME for 4wd installs, majority into mine spec per clients request.

For portable depending on client was choice of vertex or Icom -both similar tiered radios and quality

I don't believe oricom has been out in field long enough to give it a rating as yet.

Also don't forget ACMA only permits maximum of 5 w output portables generally .5w (1/2w) 1w or 2 w and occasionally 5 w - all radios need to be C ticked approved for use in Australia as well

I have two Oricom 2 watt handhelds and they have been superb - no issues and great around the camp site or for close convoy comms. We also have a 5 watt Uniden in car unit as well.