How could they have gotten certified when they are keypad programmable?
Again, there is no legal way to use them outside of amateur radio use. And many of them are not “clean” enough on VHF to even be legal there. (Harmonics are not adequately suppressed).
I don’t really care who uses them where. I own a few myself, because they make for decent cheap throw away radios, particularly good for general purpose monitoring. They de-sense quite easily due to unfiltered front ends so they aren’t any good near other high power transmitters or antennas.
But what do you expect for 30 bucks?
re: “How could they have gotten certified when they are keypad programmable?”
IF you will notice, it’s a complicated and painful experience/process to do so.
Its NOT as easy and straightrforward as on an amateur band a Kenwood, Icom or Yaesu.
There are Motorola radios that meet Part 95 in the same boat, on top of that ...