I'm looking for a couple or a few walkie talkies with individual charging cradles.
Only want to use to communicate upstairs to downstairs, maybe in the shops, or in the garden or paddock to the house.
Usual conflicting desires of not wanting to spend a fortune versus not wanting to buy rubbish.
Would HF 27Mhz or UHF 477Mhz be better for my purposes?
Does anyone know if Baofeng brand is terrible? Does Uniden make any with individual cradles? Any other suggestions?
Depends on who you ask, plenty of reviews on youtube.
I have a wuxon which seems fine. has cradle and a bunch of accessories.
Most people who sh*t on the cheaper radios are upset because they allow you to broadcast on any frequency. So spend the time, program them correctly, and just cut out all the non legal frequencies (or make it listen only).
Are you in a farm area where you're not going to get interference/other people?
Baofeng is great. Cheap too.
The Baofeng radios are great but you need to program the Australian UHF channels into the radio. Its not to hard to do you just need to buy the cable and download the software and you can program all 80 UHF channels into the radio.
You can also manual select channels if you want to do that but it becomes old after a while.
Make sure you get a radio with the right band width for Australian radios UHF is 477mhz. So don't buy the 430mhz radios i was told? Its probably only software locked any ways.
Most are the Baofengs have a wide range band now of 400-520mhz these will work fine.
I recently purchased "Uniden UH45-4 80 Channel UHF CB Handheld Radio with Kid zone" and has the ability to recharge if you put rechargeable batteries in them. No cradle, comes with USB charging cables. Hope this helps.