For a low cost radio, these do the job. I work in a landscape/masonry supply yard which is very dirty, and dusty, and we have gone through radios left and right. Our owner wont buy us new ones, because the ones he did buy technically work, but they are a nightmare, so we pool up our money to buy some that we can actually use, which means we dont have the funds to buy the industrial grade, larger radios that can cover miles, and not yards of coverage distance. We even went with some high end dewalt brand radios, and the dust/mud/rain just eats them up. These things have stood the test of time far better than any others we have tried, and we have even tried other models in the retevis family. They do get dinged up a good bit, because the case is cheap plastic, but our guys clip them to their belts, and drive around on forklifts all day, bumping in to blocks, and sometimes dropping them, and other than a few scratches, they hold up just fine.