My Comms let me down

[CharlesHarris]

The Chinese radios are better than no radio at all, but they are not rugged, durable or stable. If you put one on a spectrum analyzer many of them do not meet ICAO or FCC specifications for sporadic emissions, etc. The ARRL tested a bunch of these and published the results in QST last year and I would not swap my converted military ICOM gear which I bought cheap and reprogrammed myself, for a whole trainload of Boefengs.