TYT MD-9600 GPS with AES256 Dual Band DMR Mobile Transceiver 50-Watt Car Truck Radio

Good radio for price .eyez program. Light won't come on in cold weather

Was almost unusable with the stock firmware until I put OpenGD77 firmware on it. Then it actually works very well on DMR and analog. Don't bother using the stock firmware. Too frustrating.

Item was a gift. Item was as expected. Recipient had some Questions and the seller was responsive until the question was resolved.

Do not try to upgrade the firmware in this radio. It uses the new 2571 chip in it and works so, so with installed firmware and will not work at all with any upgrade. Look at the white 2571 sticker on radio if you buy one. Finally got mine 100% by building a new code plug with RT sys CPS V01.10 and TYT firmware P026.045. TYT CPS is the issue with these new 2571 chipped radios from this seller. While some have had some success with the Opensource GD firmware, it can be very problematic, RT sys and firmware P026.045 is an easier route but costs some money. Update, I purchased a second MD 9600 and it is also fully operational with RT sys CPS, this time using the stock firmware as shipped. So, in summary, I would try RT sys CPS if you have tx and rx issues on these radios with the 2571 white stickers on the side of them. There is a reason, rest assured, why TYT removed all firmware updates from their site. Their CPS does not work properly with these radios that have the new pll 2571 chip in them. Hope this helps.

The radio performs well in all areas except for the display. It is difficult to read even while sitting on a desk. In a vehicle it is almost unreadable. Lots of uhf and vhf channels available once you figure out the control plug format. Other than the display this radio is a good buy and works well. If you work in bright light like sunlight, I would suggest seeing one in person before investing. Quality looks very good and it is very small in size which is nice..

I got this radio all hooked up and programmed, which wasn’t easy but I did. It would not transmit on most frequencies. After some troubleshooting, I discovered via SW102 that the radio would not maintain frequency. 151.625 was programmed and the radio would start at around 141 when keyed and slowly creep up, about .100mhz every few seconds. Plugged my old radio back into the same power and antenna and it held frequency no problem. Some bad QC on these radios.

Just what I needed. Extremely satisfied with product.

Update 2019-08-20: I've gotten the radio working now, after discovering another problem with the documentation I found with the radio and the downloaded information. Two methods, "manual" and "software" are presented for setting the radio's frequency range, and they're presented as if they're "options" for configuring it. Turns out, they're not; they apparently address separate issues in the radio and are BOTH required. You can use the software to configure the VHF range to 136-174 MHz, and you can then read the setting and confirm that the radio has accepted it, but it will STILL overwrite any frequency you program or key in that's outside of 150-160MHz on VHF (a similar limit exists for UHF frequencies). To get around this, you must also do the "manual" process, holding down the first two soft keys while connecting power to the radio. No user feedback is given during this process, no confirmation message -- just do it, then turn the radio on. So, having gotten the radio to work I've now tested it, and found it putting out only about 39 watts at high power. The SWR I got was 1.5, so I may want to tune my antenna a bit and see if that helps. My original review follows. ~~~~ Turns out, this radio has been a miserable experience so far. I'm somewhat accustomed to poorly-written CPS software and confusing user interfaces, uninformative and actually misleading documentation, etc. on Chinese import radios. But this radio has taken these frustrations to a new level. And what I'm left with is a radio that silently accepts frequency settings in the amateur 2-meter range, but silently rewrites them internally to 150.0 Mhz. Any frequencies I've set that were above that (my company has 2 licensed frequencies that I've programmed), including UHF, work as expected. All of my local ham repeater frequencies are rewritten however, with no messages from the radio or the programming software that this is happening. Manually tune a channel's frequency directly on the radio itself to 147.5? Ok, no error, it's 150.0. Apparently this is a common problem, and there are a number of conversations online about it, discussing various ways to use the "Factory" software to set the radio's frequency ranges. None of it works. Using the Factory software according to the written instructions in the box (primary range as VHF, range B as UHF) makes the radio incompatible with the programming software; they're supposed to be vice-versa, UHF first. (No option exists in the CPS for VHF first, and if it doesn't match then the CPS will refuse to write to the radio.) But even specifying the full VHF range, 136-174, gets reinterpreted by the radio as 150-160 after the Factory software finishes writing to it, and it won't accept any frequency below 150 from that point on. I'm going to keep trying for a little while longer, and I'll update this review if I resolve the problem or decide to send it back.