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Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2025
Bottom line up front: This is a good $100 VHF/UHF DMR radio.What it is not, is a 2m, 1.25m, 70cm DMR radio. There's no 220MHz band capability here. It's also only capable of 50k digital contacts, not 500k as stated in part of the description. The pictures also show a two PTT configuration like the UV-82 has, but there's only one here. There is, however, the capability to program one of the other buttons as a sub-band PTT if you really need that.One thing that I really like as an improvement over the DM-1701 is the ability to change VFO modes from the front panel without having to resort to the CPS.I would like to have more battery capacity, and more digital contact storage, but overall, I like the radio, especially at this price point.
WYCowboy911
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2025
Don’t believe the AI generated “review overview”.Even on full brightness, the screen can’t be seen outdoors.Decent, but nothing remotely special and NOT worth the cost. Save your money and get one of the other DMR radios from Radioddity, BTech, etc.NOTE TO USERS NEW TO DMR:Unless you’ve done it before, programming DMR radios is NOT EASY like analog radios. You WILL face a learning curve.CPS software is buggy and anemic even by Baofeng’s usual poor standards.Contrary to the product description, the radio DOES NOT ALLOW 500,000 DMR contacts! It only allows for 50,000. This means you can’t even import the US DMR user contact list; you’ll have to filter out the users for your state before importing and then use Talker Alias and hope the other user is too if you want more than just their DMRID.Although it’s an “APX-like” radio, it disappointingly doesn’t include the top screen like other amateur “APX-style” radios.GPS sensitivity is actually great. Managed to get 6 satellites locked in an adobe house with a metal roof.
David Martinez
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2025
Radio works as expected but it appears the radio may have been used or returned by another previous shopper. The screen on the radio had no plastic protective film and the screen has some faint scratches on it.
Wes
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2025
This radio is awesome. Easy to program if you know DMR. Works better than most of my HT’s that were $300 plus.
Phantasm
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2025
Item will not turn on . Battery fully charged. Return has it going back to China.
kurt thienes
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025
An awesome ham radio the best in feature wise that ive ever owned This radio is unbelievable I had never dreamed a radio like this!!! it is just unbelievable the features!!! Just unbelieveable!!! Thank you baofeng you did just beautiful on the features of this radio it beats my hamgeek apx 8000 radio!!! Thanks again!!!! Kurt.Thienes.
Mrflashport
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2025
Great DMR ham radio. Yes, it's a Baofeng, but after looking at the output on an Astronics R8100 test set calibrated in Dec 2024, the spurious outputs were WAY down on both bands, a less than 2Hz freq error (even some Motorola APX radios can't hit that mark), and power output measured at 5.9 watts on UHF, and 6.7 watts on VHF- respectable and plenty for a portable.Both transmit and receive audio are stellar and clear. Was able to program it on local VHF/UHF analog and DMR repeaters using the downloadable CPS with an existing 2-pin USB programming radios I've used on other CCRs. What stands out is the battery life. I left the radio on for 3 days straight on DMR with some transmit and mostly listening, and it still had a charge. Being able to charge with USB-C directly is also a big plus though they do include a drop in charger as well as a nylon carry case with belt loop.This unit is comparable to the Alinco DJ-MD5 performance wise but in an "APX" form factor. The only thing you may have to adjust to is the mike being on the back (keypad side) and speaker on the front. Don't worry, it gets plenty loud if you have the radio flipped around you will have no problem hearing it.
Grant Fritchey
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2025
I've really been enjoying experimenting with the DM-32 UV radio. I already own a couple of DMR radios (OK, I'm up to 7, I don't have a problem) so I only got this one as an experiment. I wanted to see what Baofeng could do in the digital space. Overall, I'm pretty happy. Broad strokes, this is a great radio. The screen is very clear, nice and big, easy to read (except, it's a bit dim in sunlight). Overall construction is good. The battery life seems outstanding and you can charge it over USB-C, which is great. DMR operation has been fine and I've received good signal reports. The GPS unit works nicely and shows the position well. Digital APRS beacons nicely and wasn't that hard to set up. It uses a standard k-plug and works with FTDI or CH340 programming cables, same as most other Baofeng radios. You can receive AM on the air band and it does a decent job.The devil is in the details though. A lot of the operation of this radio is quite limited. For example, as of this writing, on the latest firmware (.46), you can only scan 16 channels within a zone. You can have a lot more in a Zone (I generally program about 19 channels). The radio can only hold 50k contacts, out of 280k. The Customer Programming Software (CPS) is buggy and a little weird. For example, instead of Talk Groups or something similar, it has "Frequent Contacts". I had it crash multiple times while trying to import data rather than typing everything in (I finally used an AI to convert my channels and zones from other DMR formats to the one necessary for the DM32, worked a charm). Radio operation can be weird too. The four way control is easy to mess up. Scanning is just a bear to get going on the radio and the CPS. The placement of the speaker on the back of the radio makes it odd to use by hand, so a remote speaker mic is probably preferred. Also, a lot of people were getting bad signal reports due to mic gain. However, the problem was simply that the microphone is at the bottom of the radio. Raising it a little higher improved sound quality a ton. Another reason for the remote mic. I love that it has functional digital APRS, but hate that it doesn't support analog APRS or messaging through APRS. I don't like the screwed in battery either because if I wanted to make this a go-to radio, I'd want to be able to easily swap batteries, but there's nothing easy here.That said, there's reverse engineering of the firmware going on, so we can expect to see some interesting new functions coming out. And, it really does just work on DMR and analog. It's a fun radio for experimentation and play. I don't think I'd recommend it as a starter radio for DMR though. The bugs and quirky nature will just add to the learning curve for DMR. If you are looking for something to really experiment with though, great radio.
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