Affiliate Disclosure

Amazon Associates

As an Amazon Associate, Radio & Range earns from qualifying purchases. When you click a “Check price on Amazon” button and buy something, Amazon may pay us a small commission. The price you pay is the same whether or not you use our link. Our Amazon tracking tag is mako-radiorange-20; if you see it in an Amazon address after clicking from this site, that's us.

How our links work

Buy buttons on this site point to addresses that start with /go/. That's a simple redirect on our own domain: it adds our Amazon Associates tag and sends you to Amazon. We use it so a radio's destination can be updated in one place (for example, when a model is replaced) without rewriting every page. Clicks on buy buttons are counted in aggregate through our analytics. The redirect adds no fee and only forwards to the retailer named on the button.

Every earning link is marked rel="sponsored" for search engines, and every page with picks carries a short #ad note above its first buy link that points back here.

Other programs

At launch, Amazon is the only retailer we earn from. No other affiliate network is active on this site. If we join another retailer's or brand's program later, it will be listed here and the buttons will say which store you're going to. When we mention a radio that isn't sold on Amazon, the link is a plain reference link and we don't earn on it.

What we don't earn on

We earn nothing from GMRS licensing. You apply to the FCC directly and pay the FCC's own fee, and we don't sell or refer license-filing services. Links to fcc.gov, the rule text of 47 CFR Part 95 and makers' spec pages and manuals are plain source links, there so you can check our facts. We earn nothing on them.

Why we don't print prices

Prices come from the retailer and change often. No live price feed is connected yet, so rather than show a number that might be wrong, every button says “Check price on Amazon.” If a live feed is connected later, prices will show with an “as of” time and disappear on their own after 48 hours. Tiers like “Budget” or “Premium” describe the maker's list price when we researched a radio, not a current price.

Editorial independence

• No brand pays for placement, and we don't accept free products in exchange for coverage.
• Commissions never set a score or pick a winner. Scores come from the published rubric on How We Rank.
• Every pick names a reason to skip it, and we say plainly when a cheaper, license-free radio will do the job.

Questions

Email mike@blackironathletics.com or use the contact form. Our full standards are in the editorial policy, and who runs the site is on the About page.