ORICOM ULTRA550 WATERPROOF 5 WATT HANDHELD UHF CB RADIO

Description

The ULTRA550 is the latest and the ultimate in UHF CB Handheld Radios. It features a large backlit LCD display – one of the largest in the Australian handheld radio market. It is super compact and fits comfortable in the palm of your hand. The ULTRA550 is water and dust proof rated to IP67 and will go wherever you need it to, ensuring reliable communication no matter what the situation.

The ULTRA5500 is the ultimate in Australian hand-held market. Here’s why you gotta get your hands on one…

As far as camping and 4WD products go, a hand-held UHF might just be one of the most abused bits of gear in your kit. Think about how we use them – on the tracks, at camp, anywhere. They get dropped, thrown, fall out of the vehicle when the door gets opened, stood on, rolled up in the swag accidentally, chewed by the dog and a multitude of other forms of punishment. If you don’t love the idea of replacing your hand-held UHF every couple of trips out bush, then the brand-new flagship ULTRA550 from Oricom is definitely worth a look at. If you’re hard on your gear, then the new flagship ULTRA550 hand-held UHF CB radio from Oricom is built to withstand just about any punishment you can dish out!

OFFROAD-PROOF ENGINEERING
The ULTRA550 might just be one of the toughest hand-held UHF radios on the market today. It all starts with a die-cast metal chassis, which provides a huge increase in strength over cheaper alternatives that often use a plastic chassis. Oricom have engineered the ULTRA550 to have an IP rating of 67. Put simply, that means that the unit is protected from the effects of dust and immersion in water to depths of up to 1m for up to 30 minutes. Like all electronics it’s not exactly a great idea to go swimming up in Fruitbat Falls in the Cape with it in your pocket, but you don’t have to sweat it if you drop the ULTRA550 in a dirty great mud-puddle!

SERIOUS POWER AT THE FLICK OF A SWITCH
There’s nothing worse than not being able to pick up or transmit to your mates at the top of a hill because your tiny little 0.5w cheapy hand-held UHF doesn’t have enough power! What’s extremely clever about the ULTRA550 is you can switch between 1W and 5W power. You’d use 1W when you’re just outside the vehicle, spotting a mate through a tricky off-road obstacle and you didn’t need the extra power. You’d switch to 5W when you needed to get ahold of a vehicle in your convoy that’s up over the next ridge, or perhaps sitting a kay or two back out of your dust.

A BATTERY TO GO THE DISTANCE
The ULTRA550 has a serious trick up its sleeve that sets it even further apart from the competitors. It features one of the biggest batteries of any hand-held UHF on the market – a thumping 2600mAh lithium-ion rechargeable battery. It’s so big that it’ll provide up to 30 hours of operating time (depending of course on usage and power settings) – definitely a big upgrade if you’re sick of hearing that
annoying flat-battery beep halfway through your trek.

EASIER TO USE THAN EVER BEFORE
Oricom understand that it’s all well and good to have the most features possible, but if a UHF is a pain to use, then that defeats the purpose of it. The ULTRA550 has been designed to be as user-friendly as possible, with a beautiful large back-lit LCD display, and other clever features like a large, simple rotary volume control. No need for messing about with tiny buttons or struggling to see what setting you’re on. It also features unrivaled audio clarity – a massive bonus.

FEATURES TECH-HEADS WILL LOVE
If you’re a tech-head then you’ll love the features that the ULTRA550 has, including three programmable instant channel buttons so you can go back and forth through your most-used channels in an instant. There’s also 38 CTCSS and 104 DCS codes, an audio scrambler, signal monitoring and key lock function, a duplex range extender and squelch tail on/off. The handheld also features the standard 80 channels and includes the unique Oricom lock screw connector. Oricom offer the option to purchase and add a Throat Mic, Heavy Duty Speaker Mic, or a Compact Speaker with Inline Mic as well..

BUILT BY THE BEST
Anyone who knows electronics knows that the Koreans make some of the very best in the world. The ULTRA550 is designed, engineered and produced in Korea to ultra-high, exacting standards that make this one of the very best-built hand-held UHFs you’ll ever use.