My experience with FT60 is quite different.
The furnished short antenna has what local Hams call "negative gain". It is sad that we need to spend even more money on aftermarket antennas to reach local repeaters or simplex. As I can physically see my local repeater antenna, not being able to hit it is frustrating.
I have no issue to access a repeater on 2m and 70cm that is ~25miles from my place with the factory supplied antenna even from my sitting room.
Batteries need to be upgraded to LiFePo if possible. The charge levels are dying with the NiMH and the price is higher than other radio models and brands.
Again, no issue here. I have two FT60, one has a genuine Yaesu NiMh pack about 7 years old. The other one was repacked with Ikea Ladda NiMH cells. Both can go for days. I have not much to compare with but against Baofeng UV5R they will last almost twice as long.?
Some of the events where I volunteer required some kind of headset or earpiece, and the radio connection does not stay in place.
This is very annoying, I use a rubber band around the connector and feed the external mic cable below the belt clip. Helps a bit.
The channel selection shifts on its own.
There is a keypad lock, one can set it to lock not only the keys but also the channel selection rotary encoder.
