Without getting into the serious commercial grade radios like the Icom V10mr, the Btech MURS V2 is considered one of the better consumer MURS radios. It is not only built on the back of the iconic Baofeng UV-82HP, which means it has over a decade of use, refinement, and manufacture of accessories before becoming a MURS radio, but it is released by Btech who has a reputation for providing nice radio kits.

The Radioddity MU-5 is a budget MURS radio with a few additional features that make it interesting. MURS radios are few and far between, making any one of them worth reviewing. This one happens to be made by Radioddity, which is a well-known brand in ham radio circles. In fact, it appears that they took one of their existing ham radios and modified it for this frequency band and re-released it as a MURS radio. That is not necessarily a bad thing.

The Retevis RB17V is my favorite inexpensive MURS radio. It is also one of the few inexpensive MURS radios at all. Most people have probably never heard of Retevis, especially people looking for their first MURS radio. Retevis has made sure that this radio is an excellent introduction to the brand.

The Baofeng NA-K61 (or just K61) is part of the family that includes the K68, NA-K6, and might have a distant cousin in the UV-K5. These radios have a large orange volume knob on the top with a shield on the side to prevent accidental volume adjustments. They also tend to have a monochrome square LCD with a pale blue backlight.

The Baofeng UV-98 Pro is another variant of the Baofeng UV-9R, sporting the same basic shape, waterproof design, unique clip, and other design aspects. This is not the first offspring of the UV-9R as it joins the likes of the UV-9R Pro, UV-9G, UV-3WP, UV-XR, and others that share many of these features.