Uniden 980 or Galaxy 959

I’d agree with that. 979-size and 99V2 performance.

 

Great gift!

 

I never put much stock in the built in meter. Still a virgin radio?

 

VR16 is your AMC

 

Everybody has their favorite, I'm leaning towards either a President McKinley, President Johnson II, or Uniden 980.

Admittedly not as pretty to look at, but eyes focused on the road won't notice.

 

That's the radio I have and it has one feature that I LOVE that NONE of the other radios have, AUTO SQUELCH. OMG it's a lifesaver. Set it to auto and forget it. And it actually works!!!

I also love the weather alert feature that, if you turn it on, will automatically switch to the local weather channel and alert you of impending bad weather in your area if NOAA has decided you need to be alerted. I also love the front firing speaker and front mounted mic jack. It allows for seamless installation into a DIN slot for a radio in the dash.

Another feature it has that almost no radios have is adjustable RF output and that works very well. If you are really close to another station and don't need 4 watts out you can turn it way down to even a quarter of a watt or anything up to 4 watts. It's really a feature filled radio and worth the money.

It has a unique way of helping you set the SWR in that it beeps and the faster it beeps the lower your SWR. It worked really well with my basic ground plane antenna but it gets tricked with the NGP antenna I have now so I have to use an external SWR meter. But for setting SWR its neat because you don't need to be near the radio. Set it to SWR and it starts beeping. Tune the antenna slowly until you hear the beeping get faster and faster and once it hits a steady tone you're at 1:1. No need to see the radio at all and no need to key the mic. As one reviewer stated, simple yet brilliant.