Dakota Alert MURS Wireless 2-Way Handheld Radio, M538-HT
Trash.    Arrived with mode up-selection button inoperative - it is *possible* (but in my opinion *highly* unlikely based on the nature of the failure and the condition of other equipment received the same shipment) that this defect was created post manufacture, it seems to me to be much more likely the result of poor or nonexistent post-manufacture QC at the factory and/or the US distribution facility (it's made in China).    And even if this portion of the unit (which is obviously going to be operated fre