Hi Sir, It is amazing that to see your evaluation of our radios ! I am Joey from Anytone. It is great to say that our 778UV is a compact and serious radio. Will looking forward to more of your testing videos ;)

Just bought one, largely based on your review :)

WONDERFUL REVIEW!!! THIS HELPED me a lot as a new ham. Definitely a part of my puzzle. Keep hammering sir.

Love the display on this and other similar anytone radios

That looks a very nice neat little transceiver Peter at a very respectable price plus a very good review as always...73s G7WBB

I purchased one last summer. I am in a rural area with a variety of terrain but I can hit the powerful repeaters 30 to 50 miles away. I'm only using an 8 foot dual band aerial mounted 23 feet up off the side of an old TV mast. It Seems to be more than worth the price.

Who’s the best ham ? The one with the best gear ?, the one with the best Dx ? . Nope. It’s the one who enjoys it the most

Thank you so much for the speech at the start it's refreshing to hear people saying "cost effective" and "good value" is just what you might need

Excellent review and thank you for doing it. I had procured one of these to install in the car as it was not too expensive if someone were to steal it. Thus allowing me to keep a more expensive Anytone D578UVIII in the shack, with similar programming and feel making it easy to transition between the two.

Great presentation thank you😊

Can't speak for the Anytone branded one as I have one of the 'clones', but as others have noted the issue is that on anything higher than the lowest power setting it gets hot after a few minutes on transmit. And I mean HOT! So hot that you wouldn't want to touch the heatsink, so hot in fact that on the highest power setting it actually throttles back its own output to protect itself. The meter on the front doesn't show this happening but an inline power meter does. If you fit a fan on the heatsink - which isn't that hard to do - you can overcome this. But even with that caveat you'd be hard pressed to beat the features you get for the very competetive asking price. I've used mine quite sucessfully for over two years and recommended it to several new licencees just getting started at Foundation level. They all think it's a great buy, particularly as they're using it on the low power setting where heat isn't an issue.

I am and an older and newer Ham from Canada VABXL. I have this little radio and I love it. Just using a mobile antenna on my Poarch and a cookie plate as a ground plane. The menus are very easy to navigate and the display is very nice. It is unbeatable for it's price and performs very well. Love your videos and I am looking forward to the world of HF. Maybe a Xeigu G-90. 73.

Wonderful video sir, you hit the nail head on with your comment about Ham radio is a hobby and to reset the ham radio button. DMR is an added dimension to our wonderful hobby, I started out with a basic Heathkit QRP CW rig in 1964 and have grown from there ... I am late getting into DMR but love my Anytone 878 II Plus handheld and looking at the 778 to add to my mobile applications ... your presentation is inspiring and very informative and I wish to thank you for making this presentation. 73 AD7VV

Nice review if you're really going to do a reset I think you should consider checking the digital voice modes too. Anytone makes an excellent big brother to this radio with DMR (Anytone AT-D578UV PLUS), as I'm sure you know. I think that is an excellent option for new hams since you can do all the same things as you mention PLUS with access to a DMR repeater or a Hotspot you can access the world too with 5W. Many new hams get frustrated that there is no traffic on Analogue repeaters but with a Hotspot that is never the case! I live in Hungary but using DMR and YSF I am able to keep in touch with civilisation back in Blighty as well as here. 73!

Another one to consider in my mind is the anytone at779uv its even better value. Great informative videos all the time

i got one for the shack a couple of years ago. perfect for my needs. local 2m stuff and local repeaters. i dont use it much but.... if i did not have a batter radio in the car this would be my 1st choice as its small and does not cost a lot. i recommend it for shack, gobox or mobile :D

Just need to say that i want the video-review of the background piano.

Awesome review. Allowing me to be educated and confident. You're the G.O.A.T. Sir.

Good video thank you. I also just bought the Retevis branded (same radio). It's very good value and very usable, good audio on RX and TX. Highly recommend. It just works very well.

It great set I use it just for mobile I didn't want to put expensive radio in the car just incase if the car gets broken into. It has incoming and outgoing audio I've had great report value for the money I do run extension speaker. It a great starter for the new ham.

I really want to love these radios... I have two of them and like them a lot. They, however, suffer terribly in the big city with front-end overload.

I have the Retevis R95 version of this radio, which for some reason is more expensive than the Anytone 778UV, so by all means grab the 778UV! I bought mine especially in order to take part in the 145 Alive events, and combined with even a tiny little mag-mount antenna on the roof of my car I could reach amazing distances. From the top of the North Downs (near Oxted, Surrey) I could reach the Isle of Wight, as well as parts of Essex. Amazing! The built-in speaker sounds great, and I have received positive feedback on what this radio sounds like on the air. Even though it's maximum 25 watts in power this radio is not a compromise, it's a serious bit of kit.

Thank you. I would say it's same radio than Retevis RT95.

Spot on and great review. It is also capable of split for working the ISS, and the all important mute button. I agree the menus are some of the best I have used. Cheers and 73.

I have the Retevis badged version, great radio for the money. Yes, they get warm but it's never been an issue for me, I wouldn't want to put it in an enclosed space, really does need some air flow across it! Dead easy to program with Chirp. One irritating feature I find is that if you make any changes with P1 to P6 then it has to be confirmed with a further press.

I'm currently looking at 25w mobile radios for SOTA & Trig Point operations and this radio for its size and weight would be ideal. Does any body have any experience of operating this radio on elevated ground with an high gain antenna. Will it suffer with brake through and/or front end de sensing? Great over view video, thank You

I have 1 but have never really used it, haven't even got a 2m/70cm antenna installed

I have the Retevis RT95 vox - the same model rebadged. I love the look of it and its functions. Unfortunately the receiver gets swamped by paging interference and makes it unusable in my shack. My cheapest HHs connected to the same antenna have no problem at all. I'll try it in the car some day to try to redeem its usefulness.

Thank you so much!

Very good review

Is it possible to configure the P1 to p6 keys?

Got one…..it’s a good radio.

Does this radio have scramble feature

This one also has RT Systems programing available for it.

Do you have any antenna builds for the 2m/70cm bands?

What a fantastic video, love your channel, I’m going to buy this has my first radio, can you recommend me a power supply to use at home with this radio please

Great review, did you know the CH control can be changed to volume in the function setup!

@watersstanton Which antenna would you recommend for this unit? I would like something versatile, so both 2m and 70cm. I would put it on the roof of my building, would like it to be omnidirectional. Thank you! 73

I like the radio, but who wrote your intro music? Ronnie Hazlehurst?

Will this radio TX on GMRS?

I have Quite a few radios, Iv'e been on the radio now on and off since the 1980's. I only use PMR now cause It's more private for me and the wife, And it keeps her safe when Im'e not at home. I only want to use this radio on the PMR channels. Does it even do PMR. I have a HYS TC-B25 watt PMR battery pack radio, And it is a very nice unit. But when i saw this on amazon I thought It was really good for the money. Cause i does the 400mhz i want to put it on my disabled shooter, What do you think pall. is it a good radio for what i want it for.

program via Chirp?

I will never understand why everyone touts these radios as being so great. They’re cheap for a reason. That being they’re splatter boxes on TX and have barn door receivers on RX because they lack a lot of the filtering required to make them to spec. It’s bad enough that their low power offerings suffer the same fate. But this is much higher levels of RF splatter. Not to mention they drift frequency quite a bit as well. So as part of a review I’d like to see a demonstration of one of these radios on a spectrum analyzer, not just a watt meter, if not for anything but to prove me wrong. I’m not sure about the rules over there across the pond, but here in the US it’s a violation of spectral purity rules that make these illegal to operate. This also takes sales away from the manufacturers that produce proper radios. Don’t be so cheap. I’m not saying you have to buy top of the line, but certainly a lot better than this.