BAOFENG GT-18 Walkie Talkies for Kids Adult, License Free Long Range Rechargeable FRS Two Way Radio,1500mAh USB-C Battery, 22 Channels with NOAA for Camping Hiking Family, 3 Pack (Yellow, Green, Blue)

after reviewing the tech websites, I landed on this product as a Christmas present for my 11 year-old nephew. Not only did he and his friends have a super blast with them, they have a long list of functionality that could be used at a near commercial level. I was skeptical because of the price, but they are hefty and durable the batteries life is impressive, range is impressive. Great product, good value.

First off, I am a Baofeng fan. I have several versions of their hand held. The GT-18 is a pretty good hand held for kids,they seem well made,the price is right, very easy to use and transmit is about a mile or less due to low wattage. Programming is easy( use CHIRP). Clear transmit, sound is a little on the low side. Great for kids to use in the neighborhood or camping or 2 or 3 cars traveling close by,but that's it, Baofeng has better models of GMRS radios if you are expecting more.

These appear to work pretty well. I purchased these because they looked identical to the retevis RB18s I already own. They are preprogrammed to not use any ctcss/dts tones which is good, but also they can't be programmed to work with ctcss/dts tones if you need that. I tried using chirp and the Retevis RB18 config setting and it looked like it worked, but couldn't communicate when on the same tone as my other radios.

Great radios to keep with our camping gear. Great for letting the kids explore but still keep in touch. Love the fact they are USB-C, so we dont need to carry extra cables. Batteries have lasted for unto a week with kids playing with them.

Both my 3 year old son and 7 year old daughter is following in my footprints on everything. Recently I got into ham radio and purchased a few handhelds. Of course my rugrats wanted their own, but I did not want to get something cheap or simply a walkie talkie. I wanted something that gives my kids a learning curve into frequencies and channels. These are just perfect. I got them and automatically installed the belt clip, lanyard and even downloaded the program to easily put the NOAA channels ( along with ctcs codes on the frequencies we will be using ). My son had a blast with it. Wife and her mother was impressed as well. For the NOAA programming, it is a bit confusing, do not follow Baofengs instructions. 1) you need a Baofeng program cable ( i already had one, thats how easy and fast i was able to program ). 2) download the official program under the GT-18 section - https://www.baofengradio.com/pages/download , extract and install. 3) highly urge to backup the default firmware, once the radio is plugged in an on, on the program, go to settings and choose port of where the program cable is connected to. read from device and click file and save. 4) when you open the GT18 program the NOAA channels are already showing. Simply write to device and that is it. NOAA channels did not work indoors since these radios are low watt but works perfect outdoors.

Got these for a long move across the country that was going to be done in a convoy, so we could communicate without needing to use our phones. They worked well for a time, but one of the sets started failing after a day. It would charge extremely slowly (it only gained 2 bars overnight) and wouldn't hold the charge for long at all. It basically became unusable and we had to fall back on phones and hand signals again. The other 2 sets otherwise worked fairly well. We only experienced slight interference in big cities (which was to be expected) and the range was pretty good. Sound quality was also solid. I just wished that all 3 worked that well.

Perfect for kids at the right price. Has good enough range and audio quality too.

2 of the 3 are fine. One battery doesn't work and I have 3 kids so now there is a constant fight over the two of them..i reached out to the company email for help and they never ever got back to me. Don't buy if you want your battery to stop working after two days.