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Hey there i'm wanting to know what u batlabers think of forign or non-nam brand radios. For instance the company RELM who seem to make Kenwood TK-378 radio look alikes however build to the same standard they just stick their label on it. I've got a radio by a chinese company called JINUA or somthing and it's excactly the same as the Motorola GP338 Plus the little radio.

Is anyone intrested in these non-name brand radios?
Also what would u value them at?

Remeber these are the same radio just a diffrent label and mabye some diffrence feautres and programming.

I found a chinese supplier that wanted to sell me 500 decent portables. Basically the kenwoods with a different label. I never followed up but samples were available for about 70USD...

Checkout alibaba.com or global sources web sites...

I'm trying to locate a factory to get "grey market" motorola stuff but its almost impossible. I'm assuming that mother motorola keeps and eye on things.

well what will they think of next FEZ radio's (that 70's show ) lol my big concern would be what programming do ya use and where would ya find it ?

Jhook

Here's an interesting site. I wonder what these things sell for.

http://kenwei.en.alibaba.com/group/5000 ... ivers.html

I can get my hands on radios which are exactly the same on looks as all the major name brands just usually diffrent RSS but usually have all the same features. There is a radio called LINTON which are the same as a Kenwood TK-3107 but just diffrence label.

without that FCC id number there pretty much worthless in the US unless your a ham.

Hmmmm I wonder if they spec'd out correctly .. could they be considered NTIA compliant.... ( Or do they still need FCC to be NTIA ? )

( oh and that is FES for Foreign Exchange Student... still we really need to know his name .. kinda like finding Cramers first name is Cosmo... ok... trivia over load .... )

Ted...

What i want to know is then if there not FCC complayent making them worthless in the US they y do u guys want GP68s and GP2000?
I do have some GP2000 UHF for sale if intrested? They are going for US$200
These are brand new un-opened box.

Most want them for amatuer service, or to use them illegally on the commerical or GMRS bands. I don't know why anyone would want the 68 in the first place as it's a damn weak radio, I'd pay extra and get the jt1000 and have a much tougher radio.

Some of these knock off look like the orginal radio...like the GP338 Plus or the 5150 Elite or EX500. The housing and buttons are the same, it is hard to tell them apart. My guess is that Motorola and other companies will crack down on this maker for Trade mark infringements. They lack DPL and only do TPL, no extra features, but for $100.00 in comparison to the EX500 which is way over $500.00 new, it is not a bad generic. I just bought ten of these radios if you are interested. Granted these are not type accepted but who cares if you are using them for Ham. In regards to the GP68 and the GP2000 these are still popular radios at the ham fest, and for the price a new ham user can get a bat wing radio for under $250.00 new.

Later
Steve
Crimestopper

I myself have a couple rip off brands. I've been researching this however and it turns out that some of these are joint ventures with Motorola, and there just wacking diffrent labels on them for marketing in different countries. I have a rip of GP88 but it's crystal run. I wanted to see how good these radios where so i did a quick test and got permission from the Fire Department to use them in our trainings along with the real macoy, and the radios do stand up pretty well around the same however they arn't as fire resistant as teh JEDI radios. the keypad got a little stick where the JEDI radios where fine. We dropped one from a 3 story building and the battery clips on the battery snapped off but hey what do u expect. We also sparied the radio with water and the were fine. Note in this test if the radio passed one we would use the same radio for the others as it would simulate a real working environment. I personally give the rip offs an 8.5/10 as they don't have the FCC only the international certificates, and some minor faults in design, and a plus is that they usually have the same accsorries connector so u can use your org. stuff.

I heard a rumor that there are some grey market HT1000's floating around...