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Got them for about 10 months now, still working fine.
They are bulky but work good. There are less accessories for them than the 5Rs. You will need to get the correct USB cable if you want to program them with a software on the computer but you can also program them using the built-in keyboard although a bit more painful if you have many channels to enter.

Yeah, I've got the cable to program. I worked up a program of local repeaters for my group of guys to use.

What I meant is if you have a 5R you would need another cable for 9R+ Not same connector

Ohhh, okay! Damn, that's a whole nother expense lol

Maybe one day. Our local 2m channels plus murs/frs/gmrs is 120 channels.