If you look on some of the facebook groups you will find a mixed bag of opinions on the GD77, some people swear by them and think that it’s the best radio they have ever owned and some people are reporting serious issues like the radio becoming totally dead, no response from the radio at all, to the screen losing its connection, from what people have said, the ribbon cable inside the radio comes loose and is just a matter of reconnecting it. Radioddity seem to be standing by their product and seem to do regular updates. Programming the radio is not that dissimilar than any other DMR radio really, you just have to remember about the receive group list. You are able to manually dial reflectors in this radio but from what I understand you have to have all your talk groups in a receive group list so dialing reflectors should be OK if you have TG9 in your receive group list. Better than the Tytera MD390 in this respect. The radio is not waterproof neither does it have GPS, but for the money it costs you are getting a Dual Band DMR & FM capable radio. I have used the radio several times both at home through my Hotspot and mobile into my local DMR & FM repeaters, I was very impressed with the performance of the radio and was a joy to use really, at this price point you don’t worry as much when it comes to dropping it etc. I have tested the output power and it seems to be putting out the advertised power, good to see. The radio will transmit 5w on high and 1w on low power, nothing new here really. Let’s have a look at the main menus on the Radioddity GD77:Ĭontact > Message > Call Logs > Set > Zone the keypad on the radio is one of the best I’ve seen on a handie, very tactile and responsive, can’t ask for more really. The display can also be seen without a back-light, this is also very good. The display on the radio is quite small but fully functional, take a look at my Hytera PD365 review as the displays are very similar with a beautiful white back-light.
Below this we have the speaker, this is also very nice and sounds well. The front of the radio looks very nice to be honest and has the Radioddity branding at the top with one of the letters being red, this is a nice touch and makes the radio look more premium. On the right side we have a Kenwood style Speaker mic system, nothing special here, there is also a Yellow “owner” label, useful I guess? On the left hand side of the radio we have a plastic PTT switch and two user definable buttons, one of which is Blue, very nice indeed. The top of the radio has one knob that is used for the volume and on/off only, there is also an orange user defined button and the antenna socket, also located on the top of the radio is an LED that lights up green on receive and red on transmit, lovely and bright too! The radio dimensions are 16.5 x 8.5 x 20 cm and weighs in at 662g Let’s have a good look around the outside of the radio. Let’s take a look at what we get in the box.
My first impression of the radio were very positive, the build quality looked and felt fantastic! Really nicely put together, you can tell this by how well the 2200Mah battery fitted into the main body and the volume dial at the top felt very nice also, the keypad feels nice to the touch and has a very positive feel to it, just a very nice first impression. I made my purchase and the radio came about a week later. So I visited the Radioddity website and saw that they did a couple of other DMR radios but at the time of writing this review the GD77 is their top of the line radio. I have heard a lot of people talking about the GD77, both good and bad but for the price I thought I should definately get one as for the money it’s a no-brainer really. I would recommend doing this as if anything goes wrong you have dealt with them directly, more on this a little later.Īs you may have seen on my other Ham Radio reviews, I do own quite a few DMR radios and its one of my favourite digital modes, Yaesu System Fusion (C4FM) being my favourite. Radioddity GD77 DMR & FM Dual Band Handheld transceiver review.ĭMR has exploded in popularity recently, one of the main reasons for this is its affordability! The Radioddity GD77 DMR & FM Dual Band Handheld Transceiver is one of the cheapest of all the DMR tier 2 mototrbo compatible radios, you can purchase this radio directly from Radioddity for around £70.
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