Advantages of flashing radios?

**Sim-X** · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2009, 10:05 AM

So I was looking through the radio thread and see there is 6 to choose from. There really isn't any information on what exactly the advantages are for flashing the radio and which one to pick or if I even need to. I haven't done any kind of radio flashing yet just because I don't know a whole lot about it or couldn't really find any information about it as far as what it is actually doing.

#2 (**permalink**) 03-05-2009, 10:13 AM

No one can say which radio is the best, only which radio works the best for them. In my case I run 1.11. It gives me the best signal strength for my area, battery drain isn't horrible and the original radio had a nasty echo. So, basically it's like trial and error. If you're getting good signal strength in your area and voice quality is ok then i wouldn't change it. Hope this helps.

**schettj** · #3 (**permalink**) 03-05-2009, 10:51 AM

Research "Placebo Effect" - mostly that's it. Plus, it makes you feel like you're improving the device in some way.

I'm running 1.11 and I updated my PRI as well. I'm sure it's made it better, somehow.