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Speaker 1: over here. Good evening, guys. Ham Radio two point zero
Speaker 1: Sunday Night livestream. Today we're going to be talking about
Speaker 1: the brand new jesu FtM five ten, which is right
Speaker 1: there and I picked it up at Gigaparts when I
Speaker 1: was there two weeks ago. I drove through Huntsville. I
Speaker 1: may or may not have invested some money into a
Speaker 1: brand new three D printer that you might and might
Speaker 1: not be seeing videos about, but spent the day at
Speaker 1: gigaparts one day and grabbed that and a few other things.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're going to talk about tonight. Glenn,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for the superchat buddy, appreciate you
Speaker 1: being out there. Fifty dollars superchat, good deal special shout
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Speaker 1: Kelly was in there earlier. Good evening to him. Vic,
Speaker 1: I saw you in there before that, Damon, Wayne W
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Speaker 1: Kale four P I, good morning, KB five U t I, Dave.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for thanks for being in the chat tonight. Thank
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Speaker 1: YouTube member family out there. TC fits no with no
Speaker 1: trashy beer tonight, just regular beer tonight. Actually a good
Speaker 1: beer that Matt eight four m Q gave me at
Speaker 1: him Kashen. It's been sitting in the in the truck
Speaker 1: forridge ever since then. So there we go. Yes, I
Speaker 1: have a refrigerator in my truck runs twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven and I just upgraded the battery system. You guys
Speaker 1: are gonna see a video about that soon. It is
Speaker 1: freaking cool. So a couple of things real quick.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: We were in Galveston a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: we wanted to stay longer. But spring break was the
Speaker 1: week after we were there, and our house got rented
Speaker 1: and we needed the rental income because the rental income
Speaker 1: was way down for twenty twenty four for who knows
Speaker 1: why what reason. Mike, thank you for the super chat
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the super Chat twenty bucks. Appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys being out there tonight. So we we were out there,
Speaker 1: we wanted to stay longer. We couldn't. We were I
Speaker 1: was only there for like five nights. My wife was
Speaker 1: there a little bit longer than that. So we want
Speaker 1: to go back and went. We looked at the calendar
Speaker 1: and between our own personal vacation and a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks and him benchon in May, we chose to go
Speaker 1: the last two weeks of the of May. Last two
Speaker 1: weeks of the year, last two weeks of May, which
Speaker 1: we'll coincide with Memorial Day weekend. So I called Galveston
Speaker 1: Island State Park the other day and I rented a
Speaker 1: pavilion at Galveston Allen State Park for the Saturday Memorial weekend.
Speaker 1: I want to say it's May twenty fourth. I don't
Speaker 1: remember right now. I can't. I'm not looking at a
Speaker 1: calendar right now, but look at your calendar for Memorial
Speaker 1: Day and whatever. That said that, which is a Monday,
Speaker 1: two days prior to that, that Saturday, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: at Galveston Island State Park hanging out doing PODA. Everyone
Speaker 1: is welcome to join us. They say that the pavilion
Speaker 1: will hold up to seventy five people. There's picnic tables
Speaker 1: around it, even if we get more than that. When
Speaker 1: we've done these events in the past, we've usually done
Speaker 1: forty fifty people something like that. We've never really had
Speaker 1: a problem with that. But there'll be plenty of room
Speaker 1: in the park outside of that as well. And you
Speaker 1: will have to pay to get in five dollars to
Speaker 1: get into the park for the daily pass, unless you
Speaker 1: have an annual pass, which I highly recommend if you
Speaker 1: ever go do poda, So check us out there. We're
Speaker 1: going to be doing that Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 1: And I spun up a couple weeks ago, I spun
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Speaker 1: up to this forum right here, and we're gonna give
Speaker 1: away another radio at the end of this month. Is
Speaker 1: probably gonna be April when we do the live stream
Speaker 1: for the giveaway, but you'll have the entire month of
Speaker 1: March to sign up. I think I've got about seventeen
Speaker 1: hundred people signed up so far, giving away a brand
Speaker 1: new icon I see seventy three hundred and something else
Speaker 1: I worked out when I was at Gigaparts a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago is after we give away. We gave
Speaker 1: away a yazu Ft eight ninety one the first month
Speaker 1: in January, gave away a seven or five last month,
Speaker 1: seventy three hundred. This month and the next two months
Speaker 1: will be yazu Ft seven tens and Gigabarts had a
Speaker 1: big hand in helping me obtain those. So yeah, you
Speaker 1: all go sign up for that. Good luck to you.
Speaker 1: So we're switching it back and forth between Icon and
Speaker 1: YESU and giving away some really cool HF radios. I
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Speaker 1: of you is gonna win. All you gotta do is
Speaker 1: reply to the email, and sometimes that's challenging to get
Speaker 1: that done. So okay, all right, let's bring on John
Speaker 1: and Frank. It looks like Frank turned his camera offices.
Speaker 1: Is an excellent opportunity to just go ahead and bring it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm still here. Obs has decided to restart.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well let me know when you're back.
Speaker 3: Frank. Yeah, it's launching right now.
Speaker 1: All right, what's up John?
Speaker 2: How are you? Man?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: How are you guys?
Speaker 1: Oh? Man, I'm I am hanging out and enjoying the
Speaker 1: two two and a half weeks of actual spring that
Speaker 1: we get in nor Texas. It's not gonna last long
Speaker 1: before it gets too hot, I think. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: see how that goes. How's your I know you've been busy.
Speaker 1: What have you been working on? You want to tell
Speaker 1: the audience what you've been working on? Is it super
Speaker 1: top secret or something?
Speaker 2: No, it's it's not super top secret. We get we're
Speaker 2: you know, we're getting ready for him vention. Obviously that's
Speaker 2: on the radar, and we're also getting ready a lot
Speaker 2: of my time for people that aren't aware of it.
Speaker 2: I don't actually work in the office in California. I
Speaker 2: work out of my home office, and we have a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff we're actually getting prepared up. We're actually
Speaker 2: getting education on the five ten, the FtM one f
Speaker 2: the FtM one, fifty thirty five, thirty one, sixty five.
Speaker 2: So we got a lot of that. We released the
Speaker 2: new versions of those radios that if people don't want
Speaker 2: the ASP on there, it cuts down the price a
Speaker 2: little bit. Because I saw that, Yeah, some people just did,
Speaker 2: like I just want a radio. I don't need any
Speaker 2: of the SDXDSP. It's not a future I'm gonna use'
Speaker 2: like okay, okay, cool, fine, So we release this version
Speaker 2: where the board's not included on there. And then of
Speaker 2: course we've been working a lot with just kind of
Speaker 2: you know, having fun at customer education. I like doing that.
Speaker 2: And then on the personal side, I me, I've been
Speaker 2: on my days and nights when I have so much time,
Speaker 2: because you probably heard in the back I run a
Speaker 2: big YCS server which is connected over to different modes
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So we've been on that in
Speaker 2: the spare time. So radio radio radio radio.
Speaker 1: Well that's good. Are you Are you still tinkering around
Speaker 1: with that com jot radio?
Speaker 2: I am, I am. I played with I play with
Speaker 2: that a lot. I got both of those versions on
Speaker 2: there and stuff like that. So in fact, that's where
Speaker 2: I that's the DMR radio that I use of choice
Speaker 2: now and stuff like that on there, so okay, when
Speaker 2: I want to talk to my friends those kind of things. Well,
Speaker 2: it's also have a phone radio.
Speaker 1: Right yeah. I picked up one of those not too
Speaker 1: long ago. I haven't really done much with it, but uh,
Speaker 1: I know that you can do both DMR and fusion
Speaker 1: on it, or at least that's the rumor.
Speaker 2: So do you have DMR right now? But they got
Speaker 2: a lot of people doing a lot of stuff. It's
Speaker 2: a really neat, open source kind of radio.
Speaker 1: Right right right, yeah, good, good deal? Sweet? Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: it was good to see you last month, and I
Speaker 1: hope that you guys had a good show at ham Kash.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time out to uh to
Speaker 1: talk about this new one here. I might the first
Speaker 1: question when you told me about this radio at Hamcash.
Speaker 1: The first question I asked was did they improve the
Speaker 1: APRS messaging menus? And you're like no, So you were
Speaker 1: really straightforward, straight forward with like no, didn't do that, okay,
Speaker 1: but we got a lot of other cool features. And
Speaker 1: I find I found out from a friend of mine
Speaker 1: I was with. I was in I've been in New
Speaker 1: Jersey for the last few days for the Hamsay event
Speaker 1: and uh, one of my friends up there who I
Speaker 1: think he's in the chat. I saw him earlier ed
Speaker 1: into XDD. He has an FTV. Yeah, he was there.
Speaker 1: He's the well it was. It was in the New
Speaker 1: Jersey's part of the Hudson Division. He's the new director
Speaker 1: of a double row for the Hudson Division, so he
Speaker 1: was there. He and Bob were both there, and Nicole
Speaker 1: was there as well. Uh so the what was I saying?
Speaker 1: He has a FtM five hundred truck and he told
Speaker 1: me about a new super secret Maybe it's not that
Speaker 1: secret option where you could like turn the radio off
Speaker 1: and hit a couple of buttons and powered on and
Speaker 1: it comes up and it looks like an FTD X
Speaker 1: ten menu and has the three by four tiles instead
Speaker 1: of just the scrolling menu that goes through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's not really any kind of secret squirrel
Speaker 2: mess that message. Okay, it's really all it is. This
Speaker 2: is actually it's really for tuning the radio, for doing
Speaker 2: things on there. Okay, it gets into more of a
Speaker 2: deeper menu kind of system on there. You It wasn't
Speaker 2: really designed that way. And the reason we designed the
Speaker 2: menu system a little different is because people actually did
Speaker 2: not want the grid menu on there. So that's where
Speaker 2: if you go ahead with the way the five hundred
Speaker 2: set up and kind of even like with the three hundred,
Speaker 2: five to ten, the one fifty even, you know, you
Speaker 2: can actually hit the up down arrows and jump through
Speaker 2: the categories, right, wanted that kind of thing on there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you could turn it on a different key combination on there.
Speaker 2: But what it does is if people notice, like when
Speaker 2: you're in the menu system where it's like kind of
Speaker 2: like you want to say, like grouping and lines on there,
Speaker 2: you'll actually still hear the traffic. But if you go
Speaker 2: with that grid item, it actually turned off the traffic
Speaker 2: on there. Because like I said, it's designed for like
Speaker 2: fine tuning the radio and getting into the sub menu system.
Speaker 1: I see. Okay, okay, all right, that makes sense. That
Speaker 1: makes sense. I actually like the I like the the
Speaker 1: list you that it comes with. By default. I don't
Speaker 1: use the updown arrows. I just used the bottom The
Speaker 1: bottom right knob does the kind of like the scroll
Speaker 1: through the menus through the categories, and then the top
Speaker 1: top right knob does like the individual lines and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So that's generally what I use when I'm going through
Speaker 1: that menu. And I found that very helpful because you
Speaker 1: can get through the menus really fast. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a cool feature.
Speaker 2: All right. And then part of that also too, is
Speaker 2: like we we tried, if you notice, like on a
Speaker 2: lot of our newer radios, we're really trying to integrate
Speaker 2: a lot of functionality back into the microphone because we
Speaker 2: don't want people yeah, with the radio while they're driving,
Speaker 2: because yeah, that's just not good.
Speaker 1: Right, hmm, yeah, totally totally. Yeah, No, that's good. So
Speaker 1: I just I just opened because I've been out of
Speaker 1: town for the last few days. I just opened this
Speaker 1: radio and powered it up like three hours ago, so
Speaker 1: I've done nothing with it. So I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: give us similar to what you I did recording with
Speaker 1: you at Hamcash that's on the channel. That got a
Speaker 1: lot of hits and a lot of views and a
Speaker 1: lot of comments on that video. But we probably have
Speaker 1: some people watching tonight who hadn't seen that video. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you talk about that. But I'm very
Speaker 1: well versed, probably not as much as I could, Probably
Speaker 1: not as much as you are, obviously, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: very used to the FtM five hundred, so I've I
Speaker 1: used that radio on my truck almost every day, So
Speaker 1: that's what I'm used to. But tell us what the
Speaker 1: big difference is besides the ASP and you can talk
Speaker 1: about that too, but the PMG function. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to getting you to show that, show us that tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's is there a lot of change between
Speaker 2: the five hundred and five to ten Not not really.
Speaker 2: It's not a different RF board. It's not a different
Speaker 2: circuit board. We've we've heard a lot of rumors that
Speaker 2: it's all it's you redesigned the circuit board. No, we haven't.
Speaker 2: What we did is is we actually released a five hundred,
Speaker 2: and what we had was a lot of people that
Speaker 2: actually came out and they said, John I want a
Speaker 2: good analog radio and on a dual ban and one functionality.
Speaker 2: And then so we were like, okay, well that's where
Speaker 2: we released the FtM one fifty, right, So we brought
Speaker 2: out the one fifty, which for the most part is
Speaker 2: sort of like a cousin to the five hundred, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't do digital. A lot of people love that radio.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are saying that. But then we
Speaker 2: started to get a surge of people that were saying, okay, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you're not listening to us. John, Okay. I was like,
Speaker 2: what do you mean. They're like, we want good analog operation,
Speaker 2: but we want APRS. We want to have some of
Speaker 2: that functionality, the big head, the color display, the touch screen,
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. So that's where we designed it.
Speaker 2: And we came up with two main parts of the
Speaker 2: five to ten. So the first one, obviously is we
Speaker 2: added the ability to course do the ASP and the
Speaker 2: SDX function. The SDX function was in the five hundred,
Speaker 2: but now we added the ASP DAL signal digital processing.
Speaker 2: And then we improved on the PMG because we're now
Speaker 2: taking advantage of both receivers in the PMG. So for
Speaker 2: those that may not know PMG. What PMG stands for
Speaker 2: is primary memory grouping, and what the concept was on
Speaker 2: that is, let's say you're at event. Let's say you're
Speaker 2: doing something you want to monitor more than two channels, right,
Speaker 2: because you can do you know that Maine and the subband, right,
Speaker 2: so you can always unit two channels there. But people
Speaker 2: are like, we want to do three four, you know
Speaker 2: those kind of things. So he said, okay, here's what
Speaker 2: we're gonna do. You can kind of put them into
Speaker 2: a temporary group zone on however people want to use
Speaker 2: that term. And then what you can do is with
Speaker 2: the five hundred you were able to either watch manually
Speaker 2: for it, so you watched the signal graph go up
Speaker 2: when a signal's received and then you manually turn the dial.
Speaker 2: Or with the five hundred you could do almost like
Speaker 2: what we kind of call PMG scan And what that
Speaker 2: would do is go through and the first frequency that
Speaker 2: it would hit that had traffic, it would stay on
Speaker 2: that one until the signal went away, and then it
Speaker 2: would kind of go back to the scanning thing. Well,
Speaker 2: people said, you know, hey, is there a way you
Speaker 2: can improve on it? And so what we did was
Speaker 2: is we went along and added this feature to the
Speaker 2: five to ten, which you actually can get now in
Speaker 2: the five hundred on a firmware upgrade. But what it
Speaker 2: will do now is it actually will let you do
Speaker 2: duel basic scanning function. So now can receive two of
Speaker 2: the five frequencies that you're monitoring. You can receive both
Speaker 2: of those at the same time.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that's cool. I use the heck. I don't
Speaker 1: use PMG on many of my radios. I think I
Speaker 1: use it on my FT five when I'm at like
Speaker 1: Hamfest events, I'll use it there. But the most I
Speaker 1: use PMG, I use the heck out of it on
Speaker 1: my FtM six thousand. And the only reason I use
Speaker 1: it on that one is because I have a little uh.
Speaker 1: I have one of the tech prepper Man packs for that.
Speaker 1: So it's got a little battery in it, it's got
Speaker 1: a roll up j poll from ed Fong, and it's
Speaker 1: got a couple other feet. I just now put a
Speaker 1: digi rig in it. But I'll take that to an
Speaker 1: event Poda Hamfest, just going out of town somewhere, and
Speaker 1: I'll set that up and I'll keep six top five
Speaker 1: to two, maybe my all Star node and maybe one
Speaker 1: or two of the local repeaters, and I'll switch out
Speaker 1: the menus, and then I'll go in and I'll put
Speaker 1: those all in the PMG group and then I'll I'll
Speaker 1: go into the scan menu and I'll choose PMG scan
Speaker 1: and I'll hit that and it just says PMG scan.
Speaker 1: I know some people who complained that it doesn't really
Speaker 1: tell you what it's scanning. It just says PMG scan
Speaker 1: on the menu, and I kind of agree with that.
Speaker 1: But it's a very useful feature because you can scan
Speaker 1: through the four or five or up to five i
Speaker 1: think memory channels that you have in PMG. Because that
Speaker 1: is my portable, very portable, backpackable full I mean full,
Speaker 1: full powered, fifty watt dual band radio that I take
Speaker 1: with me and set up at campsites and whatnot. So
Speaker 1: I find that very useful for a radio that's always
Speaker 1: getting the location changed on it.
Speaker 2: Yep. And you know, we created PMG as you kind
Speaker 2: of menta, and we actually went back all the way
Speaker 2: to go back all the way to FT three. We
Speaker 2: HADG functionality on that right, and the reason was is
Speaker 2: that people, you know, people rote touting and this is
Speaker 2: a this is a very big m COMMRA thing. And
Speaker 2: even if it's not an m commra thing, it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, a fairly active Hey we got an event,
Speaker 2: a marathon race, whatever whatever on there that people like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to take all my channels out of scan.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do this, and I want to
Speaker 2: do this, I just need like four or five specific ones.
Speaker 2: The nice thing when you get into the five hundred realm,
Speaker 2: whether it be the five hundred or the five to ten,
Speaker 2: more so of the five to ten, is you can
Speaker 2: do VFO frequencies or you can do memory. When PMG
Speaker 2: first came out, like on the three, for example, it
Speaker 2: was only memory channels. But now no, you can throw
Speaker 2: in things on the fly there, so it's not an
Speaker 2: issue at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, good good. I always just do it
Speaker 1: from the VFO on my six thousand. I mean I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if even I if I even
Speaker 1: have any memory channel saved in that radio. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I've got six top five to two. That's probably about it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, good, okay, Well, let's uh, let's take a
Speaker 1: look at it. It's gonna look just like what you
Speaker 1: guys are frank. Uh do you. I don't. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to ignore you, Frank, are you I'm.
Speaker 3: Here, I'm alive, yay, Hi, what's up?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: All right, I've been I've been doing a lot today,
Speaker 3: watching for right now, watching the questions for the chat.
Speaker 3: I did have one quick question. You were talking about
Speaker 3: dual monitoring is like a full duplas can you transmit
Speaker 3: and still hear the other side? Or is that it's
Speaker 3: only in the monitor mode you can hear both sides.
Speaker 2: No, So the the five to ten is cable just
Speaker 2: like the five hundred of being opposite band, so you
Speaker 2: can transmit on V and hear you at the same time.
Speaker 2: But if you go V B you won't do that. Now.
Speaker 2: The reason being is you have to look at Designer radio. Well,
Speaker 2: it has two receivers on there. It only has one
Speaker 2: antenna port on it, so we can't. We got to
Speaker 2: be careful because if we're transmitting on V and the
Speaker 2: other receivers on V, we're gonna overload the front end
Speaker 2: and blow out the receiver. What this brings up a
Speaker 2: good point, Frank, is at the five to ten works
Speaker 2: great with satellites. I actually have done mobile satellite operation
Speaker 2: with my five ten and a good antenna just with
Speaker 2: it alone. I just program in the on the on
Speaker 2: the sub band, I'll use it for receiving, and on
Speaker 2: the main band, I'll go ahead and tune into the
Speaker 2: actually wire programmed the splits in there, so you get
Speaker 2: your you know, fifteen killer herds above and below, and
Speaker 2: I'll just go ahead and slowly turn and tune in
Speaker 2: that way, and it works great.
Speaker 3: So it's full duplex, crossbanded, but not on the same band.
Speaker 2: Correct, not on the same band, okay, and it is
Speaker 2: a crossband repeater at radio. Also.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just trying to distinguish that because some
Speaker 3: people will probably pick that, so good good, Thank you again.
Speaker 3: Watching for questions, I just came to mind because I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, you kind of said it. The satellite
Speaker 3: guys are gonna ask, so let's let's just stem that
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: It's a good question. One of the one of the
Speaker 1: most common questions I get when a new radio comes
Speaker 1: out is is it full duplex? And uh, several several
Speaker 1: of the new radios that have come out lately are
Speaker 1: full duplex. I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3: Is there a a a way to term that? Is
Speaker 3: there a terminology for full duplex on two bands, but
Speaker 3: not on the same band. Is there a way to
Speaker 3: distinguish between that, you know not?
Speaker 2: You know not? That we think because because usually if
Speaker 2: you're if you're doing that in a band that's like
Speaker 2: a repeater, you know what I mean, you know, on
Speaker 2: the same band. When we usually say full duplex, we're
Speaker 2: usually referencing in any of our material that we would publish,
Speaker 2: it would be being able to receive on a different
Speaker 2: band while simultaneously transmitting.
Speaker 3: On the same band, or a different band on a
Speaker 3: doc band. Yeah, so that'd be crossband repeat capabilities stuff. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, cool. I will sit in the background, y'all
Speaker 3: ask you questions and I'll bring them up when we
Speaker 3: see it.
Speaker 1: Cool, Okay, thanks Frank. All Right, so here's the radio.
Speaker 1: I've got it sitting over here, and I can I
Speaker 1: can go full screen like this if I want to,
Speaker 1: But this is the view that I'm gonna sit on
Speaker 1: right now. So, uh, John, take us through. Let's uh
Speaker 1: just tell me what to do and we're just gonna
Speaker 1: I just want to go through the menus. I want
Speaker 1: to see how the PMG works differently than the the
Speaker 1: older Now you said something about the firmware on the
Speaker 1: firmware on the five hundred that's that's been released. What
Speaker 1: is it. I know it's not adding the ASP because
Speaker 1: it's got that's a different board, but is it adding
Speaker 1: this PMG function.
Speaker 2: It is, it is adding the PMG functionality on it. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you will be able to go ahead and do
Speaker 2: it that way. So the biggest thing, I guess we'll
Speaker 2: start with the top buttons there to make it a
Speaker 2: little bit easier, so your same button layout. The biggest
Speaker 2: thing is the SDX button is going to go ahead
Speaker 2: and do a dual functional So one of the things
Speaker 2: I kind of want to just make clear on the
Speaker 2: SDX button. Some people have said it's it's a pre amp.
Speaker 2: It's not really a pre amp. If the better description
Speaker 2: of it is it's actually taking the receiver sensitivity and
Speaker 2: dropping it for the frequency you're on, that would be
Speaker 2: a better description of what you're doing. But it's not
Speaker 2: adjusting squelch because a lot of people are like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's just turning down the squelch. Not really what it's
Speaker 2: doing is it's almost creating sort of like almost like
Speaker 2: a squelch history. If people are familiar with repeaters and
Speaker 2: stuff out there where what it's doing is is your
Speaker 2: repeater in your your squelch level, you receive sensitivities here
Speaker 2: when you hit that SDX for that frequency, it lowers
Speaker 2: it to pull in that signal. Now that is going
Speaker 2: to work on analog as well as digital. But if
Speaker 2: you hit that, so hit that SDX button once, Jason,
Speaker 2: if you could just see the upcorn it says s DX.
Speaker 2: That means once again it's dropping the received sensitivity down
Speaker 2: for that frequency. Now if you hit it again, what
Speaker 2: you're gonna do is now it says ASP. Now the
Speaker 2: AP is active. And now what you're seeing on there
Speaker 2: is you're seeing the advanced digital signal processing that you
Speaker 2: don't normally find on VHF and UHF radios if you're
Speaker 2: talking like HF Yeah, DSP is is part of the
Speaker 2: sure right, but that's why this is unique on there.
Speaker 2: So once you have that active on there, that's what
Speaker 2: you're gonna see on that point on there. Now, if
Speaker 2: you go along and hit it again, you're gonna go
Speaker 2: back to normal. But now I want you to push
Speaker 2: and hold long present, Yeah, long pressent hold it now
Speaker 2: you see it says auto F auto F.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Now what that's going ahead and doing. It's actually engaging
Speaker 2: both factors on there.
Speaker 1: Oh, really, it does the the SDX and the ASP.
Speaker 2: Correct, because what we wanted to do is, like I said,
Speaker 2: ASP is not gonna make a hill of beans in
Speaker 2: digital and the reason being is digital ones and zeros,
Speaker 2: right dsp ASP on there is going to impact your
Speaker 2: your actual analog audio waveform. Right, it's gonna go ahead
Speaker 2: and clean that up. But some people want to do
Speaker 2: it so like you're on five to two. Hey, I
Speaker 2: want not only the receiver sensitivity to be fine tuned,
Speaker 2: and I want that ASP at the same time. I
Speaker 2: want both. That's when you can activate the auto F
Speaker 2: function on there, and we'll go ahead and do that
Speaker 2: on there.
Speaker 1: Excellent, okay, good.
Speaker 2: So now, and then to get it off auto F
Speaker 2: so some people where you got to push and hold it.
Speaker 1: Again, Yeah, makes sense to okay.
Speaker 2: And if you notice when you push the SDX button,
Speaker 2: the light lit up over the little kind of the
Speaker 2: channel now there, So if you look at the chair
Speaker 2: the main.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, the white the white light there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't notice that it first.
Speaker 2: Okay, the white light always goes ahead in signals that Hey,
Speaker 2: I either have SDX on desp on or I should
Speaker 2: say a SP or I have auto f on. And
Speaker 2: you'll see that reflective in the upper right corner. So
Speaker 2: if you hit it two more times, turn off both,
Speaker 2: the little light's gonna go by by.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, good go Now.
Speaker 2: PMG is super simple. It's it's gotten better over the day.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, it was kind of a pain
Speaker 2: and about to do it. But all you're simply gonna
Speaker 2: do is, is you notice of the main tuning. Now
Speaker 2: the big knob on the front, the upper left corner,
Speaker 2: it says PMG and then the white is PW. PW
Speaker 2: stands for PMG. Right, so you're gonna simply do is
Speaker 2: select what frequency you want. So if you want five
Speaker 2: to two there, hold the PMG button. Boom, you just
Speaker 2: opted it into PMG. Now you want to get back out,
Speaker 2: hit the VFO memory button there. Now there you are.
Speaker 2: You're out of that. Now. If you want to program
Speaker 2: another frequency into PMG, all you have to do is
Speaker 2: go to that frequency, push and hold PMG again. And
Speaker 2: now what's happening is that you store two frequencies in there.
Speaker 2: Want to go ahead and go back out? You can
Speaker 2: hit PMG again or you can hit the VFO memory
Speaker 2: button on there. And then now what did you have
Speaker 2: on there is you have two frequencies that are going
Speaker 2: in there. Okay, now as you see on there, there's
Speaker 2: no traffic right now. Right you see how the P
Speaker 2: one is flashing. What's happening right now? Is you have
Speaker 2: that or you're you're on P two but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Yeah, the one that's not selected is flashing.
Speaker 2: Correct. What's happening in that case on there is that
Speaker 2: you were going ahead and you have in an autoo
Speaker 2: mode right now you have in a singular mode right now,
Speaker 2: so it's going out and it's just a sampling the
Speaker 2: one frequency right oh okay, okay, push and hold the
Speaker 2: big dial button the main main knob there. Now it's
Speaker 2: just a mode. Now you're doing the full scan. Notice
Speaker 2: how both are.
Speaker 1: Going both of them are doing okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So now you're going to have that that's going to
Speaker 2: be scanning. Now if you put in like three more
Speaker 2: different frequencies for a total of five, kind of see
Speaker 2: how that progresses through that display on there. That it's
Speaker 2: going to kind of be sampling those five frequencies and
Speaker 2: then the first tow of traffic, are going to go
Speaker 2: ahead and come up online?
Speaker 1: Okay, back in man, Okay, So it stayed in auto
Speaker 1: mode even after I added a new frequency to it.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: So is that basically like it's scanning right now?
Speaker 2: Then? Yep, in automode it's okay. For the most part,
Speaker 2: we didn't want to call it scan because that could
Speaker 2: confuse people. Figured, but auto mode means it's automatically going
Speaker 2: to pull up activity on now this case, the first
Speaker 2: two that it I see.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, good Now does this feature? Is
Speaker 1: this feature on the new one fifty as well?
Speaker 2: It is PMG is a feature on there. It does
Speaker 2: like an automode, but it doesn't have a dual receive
Speaker 2: mode in essence.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, all right, good deal. Cool? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's definitely new because I before I would put
Speaker 1: you it's cool because you can if you have three
Speaker 1: or four or five in there, you can see when
Speaker 1: there's activity pop up on one. If I'm monitoring P
Speaker 1: one and there's activity on P two, it shows like
Speaker 1: a little waterfall right there, or like a like a
Speaker 1: like a status bar. But you'd have to manually tune
Speaker 1: over to it to actually hear what's going on. So
Speaker 1: you have to be looking at the radio to to
Speaker 1: actually hear what's going on. So that's that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a neat feature right there. I'm gonna like that, I think.
Speaker 2: Now here's another cool part. Say say you got you
Speaker 2: got that going there, and I'll say, you want to
Speaker 2: go to your PCE three frequency right away? You have
Speaker 2: the frequency at the bottom of the screen. Yep, right there.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So since just touch screen, you can just
Speaker 1: tap on which one you want.
Speaker 2: And the reason we also did that too is because
Speaker 2: remember when a signal comes in, you'll see a bar
Speaker 2: graph go up. Now, the higher the bar graph, the
Speaker 2: more strength the signal is. Right, you can do that
Speaker 2: so instead of you're like, oh hey, here to that frequency, boom,
Speaker 2: you can.
Speaker 1: Tap tap tap tap, gotcha.
Speaker 2: Okay, now you're doing PMG. PMG gives flexibility where a
Speaker 2: lot of times people don't think that it does. So
Speaker 2: if you could push and hold the upper right the
Speaker 2: function button on there, push and hold the gate into
Speaker 2: the deep menu system.
Speaker 1: Oh right here, push and hold it.
Speaker 2: Now do remember a menu number twenty two.
Speaker 1: PMG.
Speaker 2: Okay, PMG, Now go into there. Now you're going to
Speaker 2: see in the PMG function, you can have your PMG timer.
Speaker 2: That's how long it's going to kind of do sampling
Speaker 2: of all them. So if you want to, you can
Speaker 2: actually change that from zero point five, so half a second,
Speaker 2: all the way up to two seconds if you want.
Speaker 2: If you want to clear all the PMG memories right away,
Speaker 2: you're like, oh man, I screwed up. I don't want
Speaker 2: any of these five anymore. You MG clear will clear
Speaker 2: them out, and then the PMG whole time you can
Speaker 2: adjust all the way from two seconds all the way
Speaker 2: up to thirty seconds. Now what that does is that
Speaker 2: basically is almost like a scan resume timers the way
Speaker 2: I'm going to describe that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so if it's.
Speaker 2: Hearing traffic in this case, the lost time will hold
Speaker 2: is two seconds. But if you want to go up
Speaker 2: to let's say fifteen seconds, let's say you can go
Speaker 2: ahead and do it that way on there, and then
Speaker 2: that way it would be our ten I'm sorry, goes
Speaker 2: ten twenty, It goes two five, ten twenty, and then thirty.
Speaker 1: On there, no fifth right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But if you want to hold it for ten seconds
Speaker 2: so that you're not missing a conversation. You can adjust
Speaker 2: it right in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, perfect, that's neat. Okay. I never played with
Speaker 1: that deep menu before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's and it's kind of a it's kind
Speaker 2: of one that a lot of people are like, you know,
Speaker 2: oh hey, I didn't realize this and that kind of thing,
Speaker 2: and you know, we kind of have it on there
Speaker 2: for that kind of aspect on the perfect Okay, let's
Speaker 2: talk about memory, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know a common question is the memory banks.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, so we don't have memory banks. Yeah. Gave
Speaker 2: kind of two little options here.
Speaker 1: Okay, and let me.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and take a drink here real quick, because
Speaker 2: this is this is gonna be a good one. So okay,
Speaker 2: all right, what we did is we we made what
Speaker 2: we call a memory group option on there. Now, what
Speaker 2: you can do is if you go into memory right now.
Speaker 2: So if you back out and go into memory, you're
Speaker 2: going to see the normal. So yep, go all the
Speaker 2: way back back out out to the everything completely. Okay,
Speaker 2: there you go, Now, go into your memory or do
Speaker 2: you don't have anything of memory?
Speaker 1: Do I don't have anything in memory? H zero? Is
Speaker 1: what came in there?
Speaker 2: Why don't you put like put five two real quick
Speaker 2: into memory. So just easy to put that one in there,
Speaker 2: even if you want to push and hold boom yeah, memory.
Speaker 1: Function knob funk yeah right there, right right, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: easy just to put the memory in there. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all that there.
Speaker 2: So, now here's what you're gonna do. Go ahead and
Speaker 2: hit back.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: Now, once you go ahead and go to memory. Now
Speaker 2: hit v A v M in the upright corner. It
Speaker 2: goes ahead and it says m all.
Speaker 1: Uh upper left corner. Yes, I'm sorry, yes, huh.
Speaker 2: Hit the band button once.
Speaker 1: The band button Uh here yep.
Speaker 2: I can see it's m VA CHEF. So now what
Speaker 2: happens is when it's an m v H chef, any
Speaker 2: VHF memory frequency we have in there, regardless of it's
Speaker 2: memory one two, five hundred seven hundred nine oh one,
Speaker 2: it's gonna only allow you to turn to the VHF frequencies.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, if you hit band again, you have a
Speaker 2: UA CHEF frequency in there, it's gonna go to m
Speaker 2: U A chef. But this says mg RP right, that's
Speaker 2: the new feature. Oh, the M group now allows you
Speaker 2: to program any of your memory channels into a separate group. Okay,
Speaker 2: So now this kind of gets you around that bank,
Speaker 2: that zone, that group issue. So if you have let's say,
Speaker 2: like me, I travel obviously a lot, I drive down HONTL. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm going along and I'm going through, I can adjust
Speaker 2: this memory group now and so instead of my two
Speaker 2: hundred and soent the memory channels I have for all
Speaker 2: the repeaters I travel within nine ninety four and all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, I can start throwing the individual
Speaker 2: selected ones I have into the m group section there,
Speaker 2: and now I kind of have my own scratch pad
Speaker 2: memory grouping, which is going to give me more than
Speaker 2: the five and PMG, but is not going to have
Speaker 2: me have to use all my memory functions.
Speaker 1: How many does it holds?
Speaker 2: As many as you want to put in there? So
Speaker 2: I guess okay, because you can load them up with
Speaker 2: all your memories.
Speaker 1: Kind of defeats a purpose. But yeah, okay, it does, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done it with. The most I've done it
Speaker 2: so far has been twelve. Because as I travel here,
Speaker 2: living near the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, I kind of travel
Speaker 2: to the city's lot. I throw in my fuse select
Speaker 2: that I always like to talk on and I know
Speaker 2: on there, so I've done about twelve on there, which
Speaker 2: is not an issue whatsoever, but once again, it kind
Speaker 2: of gives you that flexibility that you want to do
Speaker 2: on there.
Speaker 1: Gotcha? Okay, yep, okay, And it's all.
Speaker 2: Done by hitting that band button just will you're in
Speaker 2: memory that band button and then boom, you're good to go.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Now, one of the cool things is see how the
Speaker 2: M groups is the blue color? Yes, Notice the little
Speaker 2: light above your main tuning knob is blue. Yes, hit
Speaker 2: your band button again and you're gonna go back to
Speaker 2: M group. Now, look at M group is green. The
Speaker 2: light above the knob is green. Hit your man one
Speaker 2: more time, M VHF and it's right. So it kind
Speaker 2: of gives you a quick reference of like, hey, why
Speaker 2: can't I find my favorite VHF re Peter, Well, look
Speaker 2: at it. You want to be in green then, or
Speaker 2: you know, whatever the case may be on there.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, No, that's that's good because I'm I'm very
Speaker 1: used to looking at colors. So that's gonna once you.
Speaker 1: You just got to memorize it and know that red
Speaker 1: is VHF and green is memory h okay, good yep.
Speaker 2: Now what are the other things that we like to
Speaker 2: go ahead and kind of help people on. Here is
Speaker 2: dealing with kind of the way that the memory channel
Speaker 2: list is laid out and everything. So if you actually
Speaker 2: go to no memory list mode, you can go ahead
Speaker 2: and turn that. So go into the deep menu system
Speaker 2: and go to memory twenty one twenty one.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, memory list mode.
Speaker 2: So memory list mode you can have that on or
Speaker 2: off if you want to. Okay, But then when you
Speaker 2: have that, if you have that on, then you go
Speaker 2: up to memory or number twenty there if people want
Speaker 2: to go through it in a more organized fashion, you
Speaker 2: can have more of that list because people are always like,
Speaker 2: how do I get to the list easy? How do
Speaker 2: I go ahead? And how am I able to do that?
Speaker 2: That kind of adds that little functionality on there that
Speaker 2: we want to tell people about, because this is where
Speaker 2: you're gonna go ahead. If you want to change names,
Speaker 2: if you want to change yeah, you know, tones or
Speaker 2: frequencies or something, go into that memory list mode and
Speaker 2: now that you can go ahead and select through.
Speaker 1: All of them there, gotcha, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: But go back to the main memory on there you
Speaker 2: can also still go back to the main memory and
Speaker 2: then still operate it. But if you have that on,
Speaker 2: now go hit back button. Now go to memory which
Speaker 2: you are. Now tune one more time. Now tune the
Speaker 2: big job when you change, and automatically goes through that
Speaker 2: list for you. So instead of going like channel by
Speaker 2: channel by channel by the name, it puts you into
Speaker 2: that list mode. Now, what you can do is if
Speaker 2: you have the microphone connected, for an example, have it
Speaker 2: in there. But if let's say you had a channel
Speaker 2: number one fifty, you can enter one five zero on
Speaker 2: there and then it takes you to that channel in
Speaker 2: the list there.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, nice, Okay. I like the fact that
Speaker 1: you can just go in there and like you're in
Speaker 1: this right here and you start turning this big knob
Speaker 1: and then it goes back to that view.
Speaker 2: I like that, yep. And then when you have it
Speaker 2: what you want to use? Do you select the channel
Speaker 2: of frequency you want, then hit the main knob.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Now you're there, So it gives you that better quick look.
Speaker 2: Hey I'm driving, I don't wanna you know, I don't
Speaker 2: want to scroll through and stuff, and it gives you
Speaker 2: more Some people like that list view context on there.
Speaker 1: I do, I think I do like that? Yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 2: So a lot of those are the main functionality on there.
Speaker 2: One of the things I'll go ahead and comment on there.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I love the five hundred is
Speaker 2: if you quickly push that function button on there, it's
Speaker 2: going to give you what we call your CFL Customizable
Speaker 2: Favorites List. Right, you can move anything you want to
Speaker 2: on there except keep head and home channel so you
Speaker 2: can change. So, let's say you don't want scan function
Speaker 2: on there. Let's say you want to, you know, do
Speaker 2: APRS messaging whatever. You could change any of those eight
Speaker 2: different combinations on there, and all you simply do is
Speaker 2: you select the one you want to change, push and
Speaker 2: hold that favorite list button, tune it to the menu
Speaker 2: item you want. Then when you tune it to the
Speaker 2: menu item you want, push and hold the favorites list
Speaker 2: again or the function list again. Now you splashing, Then
Speaker 2: go ahead and hit that function button. Now boom, you
Speaker 2: just locked it into it. Your new item has been
Speaker 2: changed on there.
Speaker 1: I use the heck out of this menu on my
Speaker 1: five hundred for APRS messages, APRS HERD HERD stations to
Speaker 1: turn the beacon off and on because I'll sometimes listen
Speaker 1: to APRS, but I'm not beaconing APRS, so I'll use
Speaker 1: it to turn that off and on sometimes. But I
Speaker 1: use that's probably the most common feature that I use
Speaker 1: on my current radio setup in the truck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of people like that. A lot
Speaker 2: of people are really unfamiliar with it there because it'll
Speaker 2: be like I wish you could do this, I wish
Speaker 2: you could do this. We're like you will here here
Speaker 2: do this and do this, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: right really and we're.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I know you and
Speaker 1: I talked about this when we did the video about
Speaker 1: the original five hundred on this channel. So people don't
Speaker 1: know about that, then they're not watching my videos. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of hurt by that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm disappointed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, I appreciate all the new people out there,
Speaker 1: for sure, But yeah, No, that's that's a that that
Speaker 1: quick menu is is is really is a really fun menu.
Speaker 1: So just short press that to get into the quick
Speaker 1: menu and then you long press that to get into
Speaker 1: the deep menu.
Speaker 3: Now, quick question when we're on the menu is how
Speaker 3: large is that screen?
Speaker 2: Uh? It's like a three it's a three inch screen.
Speaker 2: It's a it's it's a smaller screen. Maybe it's two
Speaker 2: something on there, but it's a fairly large size screen
Speaker 2: for the for the small size it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's larger than the FtM three hundred and two
Speaker 1: hundred screen, but it's not nearly as big as the
Speaker 1: ft and four hundreds.
Speaker 3: Can you just like hold your hand up to it
Speaker 3: well fast? I know you've been poking it all the time,
Speaker 3: but I saw that question like three times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's my hand right there.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean you can.
Speaker 2: You could take like a tip of a pen like
Speaker 2: I have. I have, you know, and I can easily
Speaker 2: tap it on there and stuff like that. By the way,
Speaker 2: it's capacitive touch. It is pressure sensitive touch.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, which is much better. Wat's to frequency?
Speaker 1: Can it crossband repeat? Yes, sir, it can. We talked
Speaker 1: about that like ten minutes ago. I was just typing that, Yes,
Speaker 1: it will crossband repeat for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I know, I know you're a big APRS guy. Yes,
Speaker 2: but I want to I want to help you out here.
Speaker 2: I want to help you. Okay, Oh you can do it?
Speaker 1: So, okay, you go into your menu system.
Speaker 2: I want you go to number twenty nine, like program key.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, go into it now, go, let's go. Let's
Speaker 2: you know. P one is nice because that's the second
Speaker 2: PCT if people aren't familiar with so just by going
Speaker 2: ahead and if you are, you going down the road
Speaker 2: and I'll do it. I'll listen to two frequencies. If
Speaker 2: I need to talk on the submand I put automatically
Speaker 2: key up on there. Right, here's what I want you
Speaker 2: to do. Go down to P two, push your function button. Now,
Speaker 2: tune it and you could see guess what you can
Speaker 2: tune in program with the button to do. See if
Speaker 2: you see it. Oh, look at that reply yep, reply,
Speaker 2: but go.
Speaker 1: Back message list and go back station list.
Speaker 2: List, so you can program P two, three and four
Speaker 2: for station list, message list, and reply. So all you're
Speaker 2: doing microphone now you can hit P two, P three,
Speaker 2: P four for what you want to do.
Speaker 1: For a messaging Okay, okay, okay, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I like having the station I mean I thought it
Speaker 1: was really conveniant to have the station list and the
Speaker 1: h and the message list in that quick menu. Whatever
Speaker 1: you whatever you call that quick menu.
Speaker 2: I know I'm not using the REFL CFL.
Speaker 1: CFL okay quick function list.
Speaker 2: Right customers, well favorite.
Speaker 1: List see okay, customizable favorite list. Yeah. But yeah, but
Speaker 1: but having reply in there, that's neat. I like that,
Speaker 1: that is uh.
Speaker 2: Now. The reason the reason I bring it up to
Speaker 2: people is because like for me, when I'm dropping and right,
Speaker 2: and I don't do that much APRS. If I do,
Speaker 2: if you ever see me beacon on APRS, it's usually
Speaker 2: I'm just beconing to be honest with you, okay, because
Speaker 2: be honest with you. I'm on the Meshcastic bandwagon now
Speaker 2: and I bought a whole bunch of mescastic stuff, but
Speaker 2: that episode.
Speaker 1: I did a whole we had a whole lot of
Speaker 1: meshtastic activity up in New Jersey this last week. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2: And and but what I what I what I like
Speaker 2: about it is is that I can do some of
Speaker 2: those APR stuff in those buttons there, but I can
Speaker 2: use that CFL for more of the stuff I want,
Speaker 2: so like scan or or the the once again, the power,
Speaker 2: the repeater shifting, all those kind of things like that.
Speaker 2: That's what I like to put in my CFL.
Speaker 1: I usually put I definitely want to put the tone
Speaker 1: in there too, to turn on an off tone squelch
Speaker 1: or CTCSS tones and whatnot, so I do that in
Speaker 1: mind as well. So yeah, yeah, no, I really, I
Speaker 1: really do. I really use probably that feature more than
Speaker 1: any other feature. And I'm not a big microphone button person,
Speaker 1: just because I forget about it really and I don't
Speaker 1: use it enough to have it memorized. But that's good
Speaker 1: to know. If I can hit P two and reply
Speaker 1: to a pres messages, that's excellent. So Mike's asking, will
Speaker 1: it do that on the FtM three hundred, You.
Speaker 2: Don't, to be honest with you, I'd actually have to
Speaker 2: take a look on the three hundred because it's it's
Speaker 2: been so long since I've spent mine up and I
Speaker 2: and you know, the other thing too is I don't
Speaker 2: really use my three hundred that much for APRS stuff.
Speaker 2: I usually use it as as a comm thing. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, good.
Speaker 3: Richard says, go mestastic, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. We had some cool meshtastic stuff going on
Speaker 1: in uh well, we were at New Jersey Institute of
Speaker 1: Technology and they have meshtastic nodes. Actually at the campus.
Speaker 1: So we were we had a good, good mestastic. I
Speaker 1: started typing ed and I were typing back and forth
Speaker 1: to one another, and some other random guy came in
Speaker 1: there and says, Wow, it's nice to see activity on here.
Speaker 1: Like you guys must not use your own system, but
Speaker 1: it's cool, all right, Cool? What else, John?
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of the same functionalities in there
Speaker 2: that we have on there then the five hundred, Like
Speaker 2: I said, we made a little few improvements on some
Speaker 2: things there. You can kind of see on there. The
Speaker 2: biggest thing is is we wanted it to be versatile.
Speaker 2: We wanted we wanted to be a vh excuse me,
Speaker 2: we wanted well VHF HF obviously, but we wanted it
Speaker 2: to be an analog user radio as a digital user radio.
Speaker 2: We don't want that to be like, oh it's digital,
Speaker 2: it's going to digital and screw the FM users and
Speaker 2: vice versa. No, we r we wanted along there. And
Speaker 2: that's why you know it's got a data jack on
Speaker 2: the back. I'm going to tell you, I hook my
Speaker 2: stuff up to it so that I can actually in
Speaker 2: my car, I have it with the data jack on
Speaker 2: the back. I have a separate radio completely set up
Speaker 2: for it that I can take my public safety portable
Speaker 2: on an amateur frequency though in FM, go into my car.
Speaker 2: My car then will repeat it into the five hundred
Speaker 2: or now the five to ten, and I can actually
Speaker 2: use fusion within analog radio because I'm repeating it through
Speaker 2: what I have up in the car. That's that data
Speaker 2: jack on there, that's that versatility. People are like, how
Speaker 2: can I interface a desktop microphone use the back of
Speaker 2: the data jack. It still has all the other functionalities
Speaker 2: on there. So for example, if you go to and
Speaker 2: push the main volume knob on there, it still has
Speaker 2: that AESS functionality on there, so you're gonna go ahead
Speaker 2: and have that great audio response on there. So between
Speaker 2: going ahead and using ass technology like I'm seven ten,
Speaker 2: you can also do with that SDX. And I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna tell you you're you're I'm picking stuff out of
Speaker 2: the mud that that other stuff is not hearing. Combining
Speaker 2: all three of these things together.
Speaker 1: HM, that's cool, okay, yep.
Speaker 2: And once again, you know this is one of the radios.
Speaker 2: You know the five ten started at the five ten continues, right.
Speaker 2: You can mount the whole main body unit like in
Speaker 2: the trunk out of the way. You have the speaker
Speaker 2: in the head, you have the microphone head, you have
Speaker 2: the SD card in the head. You got everything right
Speaker 2: from there. You don't even have to worry about that
Speaker 2: other radio or the other part of the radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's one of the great things about the
Speaker 1: FtM five hundred in the truck is that not only
Speaker 1: does it have the microphone jack in the head, which
Speaker 1: is right here if you guys can't see it, the
Speaker 1: microphones plugged into the side of the head, same as
Speaker 1: the five hundred, but having that having that speaker in
Speaker 1: it means I don't have to hook up an additional
Speaker 1: external speaker for the one of the four or five
Speaker 1: radios I have in my truck. So yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: all inclusive. It's it's all right there mounted to the
Speaker 1: remotely mounted to whatever system you have in your vehicle.
Speaker 1: And it does make it nice for sure.
Speaker 2: Yep. And like I said, full touch screen, don't be
Speaker 2: afraid to go ahead and do it. I like it because,
Speaker 2: unlike you know, the four hundred, which is a touch screen,
Speaker 2: if I want to change modes or bands or stuff
Speaker 2: like that on there, I can, you know, I gotta
Speaker 2: you know, basically tap the screen or tap the modes,
Speaker 2: like if I want to go from f M to digital,
Speaker 2: I could just write the FM on there. Makes it
Speaker 2: so much easier, so much more simple to do.
Speaker 1: Yes, yep, except for when you grab your HT and
Speaker 1: you tap it by mistake because you forgot to lock
Speaker 1: the screen, which I.
Speaker 3: Do, or you keep touching the screen and it goes.
Speaker 1: Well, and when you do lock the screen, you grab
Speaker 1: it and it goes tries to take like uh, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say retarded, but retarded more code to you,
Speaker 1: so making noise. So all right, Frank, do we have
Speaker 1: any questions?
Speaker 3: Oh? So many, so many.
Speaker 1: Well, let's let's let's stick to the questions about this
Speaker 1: specific radio and then we can get okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: and we can we can get into some some some
Speaker 1: more generalized YASU questions because I have the same questions
Speaker 1: you guys do. But John's not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: tell us much, I don't think. But let's let's just
Speaker 1: go ahead and see.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, I love it, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: Know what if you feed me some lines to say,
Speaker 3: you can say I I have no control what Frank
Speaker 3: says I don't know where he's getting his epiphanies from.
Speaker 3: But kind of off the bat, how much does this
Speaker 3: radio cost?
Speaker 2: You don't it is newer radio. There is a little
Speaker 2: bit more of a cost to it. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the dealers are selling it for, and we leave
Speaker 2: that to the dealers. We don't do any sort of
Speaker 2: MP pricing or mean advertised pricing or anything like that
Speaker 2: with Yazu. So the best thing to do is to
Speaker 2: contact your favorite authorized when a stress authorized dealer, And
Speaker 2: there's always specials and sales going on and everything like
Speaker 2: that on there for this radio and any other other
Speaker 2: Yaser radios too, so I would check to see what
Speaker 2: the pricing is through them directly.
Speaker 3: Is this the R version, Jason?
Speaker 1: This is the R version? So yeah, So I'm pulling
Speaker 1: up the gigabarts page right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's so.
Speaker 1: No, this is the seven to fifty one, oh with
Speaker 1: the R A SP So the RASP is seven fifty
Speaker 1: And then John was talking about how they had released
Speaker 1: a version without the ASP with just the just the SDX,
Speaker 1: and that one's one hundred dollars cheaper, and that's that's
Speaker 1: what gigaparts has it for right now. Now. When those
Speaker 1: when those last three models came out, they were announced
Speaker 1: at one price and they were at that price for
Speaker 1: a very short period of time before the price dropped.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of typical of new radios for in
Speaker 1: any everybody.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and anything you know, news comes out in there.
Speaker 2: I want to stress though, all the R means, and
Speaker 2: this is a good point on there. People ask, well,
Speaker 2: what does the R mean, what does the E mean?
Speaker 2: Those kind of things like that. Our means that it's
Speaker 2: the North American model, so it's going to be good
Speaker 2: for the American frequencies one one forty eight and four
Speaker 2: thirty to four fifty a version which you can't buy
Speaker 2: through a dealer in the US or the North American
Speaker 2: market because it's a European version that's going to only
Speaker 2: give you one forty four to one forty six and
Speaker 2: four thirty to four forty There are other versions for
Speaker 2: other parts of the world. Only by the version for
Speaker 2: your region, buy through the dealer for your region. We
Speaker 2: have a lot of people now that are coming and
Speaker 2: buying radios online and then they bring them over to
Speaker 2: the US. One, they're not the right frequency band split.
Speaker 2: Two we can't operate and honor the warranty because it's
Speaker 2: not in our same region here, especially when it comes
Speaker 2: to HF, and then people will be like, oh, I
Speaker 2: can upgrade the firmware, I can modify the radio and
Speaker 2: stuff some radios out of different regions. You can't modify
Speaker 2: at all, and we cannot update the firmware on it.
Speaker 2: That's actually illegal for US by FCC law. So that's
Speaker 2: why we tell people if you're in the US, you're
Speaker 2: in North America market, just buy from a dealer. Make
Speaker 2: sure you're getting the R version right.
Speaker 1: Interesting and good advice.
Speaker 3: When you were talking about the SDX on this radio,
Speaker 3: is there any negativity to just have that writing full
Speaker 3: time or is it recommended to?
Speaker 2: That's a very good question. So having SDX no once again,
Speaker 2: that just goes ahead and lowers that receive sensitivity. You're
Speaker 2: gonna maybe pick up more possibilities inner mod and like interference,
Speaker 2: possibly because the receiver becomes super hot. The ASP. Yes,
Speaker 2: if you have the ASP on, it's going to possibly
Speaker 2: cause some issues. And here's why. Remember and these are
Speaker 2: my my HF people understand this. And if you're not
Speaker 2: an HF or and you don't necessarily know about DSP
Speaker 2: not talking down you. I'm just trying to give you
Speaker 2: education here. When you have an advanced signal digital processing
Speaker 2: like this does what it does, it kind of refines
Speaker 2: what is bad. Right. If it's good, it can't refine it,
Speaker 2: and if it tries to, it's actually going to impair it. Right.
Speaker 2: The example I gave to someone and I said, okay,
Speaker 2: so let's say you go on the beach and you
Speaker 2: pick up a rock. Right, you pick up a rock,
Speaker 2: and the rock's got sand on it. You take water.
Speaker 2: Water is are asp an example here, Right, it's going
Speaker 2: to clean the rock with the sand off and everything.
Speaker 2: That's going to make the right rock nice and clean, right,
Speaker 2: so you can see it. But if you already have
Speaker 2: a clean rock, you're gonna put more water on it.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna do anything for it on there. And
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, it actually after a while
Speaker 2: you put more water on the rock, you know, it
Speaker 2: could go ahead and make it look wet and make
Speaker 2: it look horrible. That's what it does. Because we've had
Speaker 2: a lot of people like when the thirty one eighty
Speaker 2: five came out, the thirty one sixty five, the one
Speaker 2: point fifty, they were having like a full S S
Speaker 2: nine even full signal strength on there. They hit the
Speaker 2: ASP button and then the signal almost disappears. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: because you're you're overprocessing a good.
Speaker 1: Signal, you know, right right it's somebody said in one
Speaker 1: of the videos that it almost sounds like you're turning
Speaker 1: the analog signal into C four FM, And it can
Speaker 1: sound like that. I mean, if it's a good strong
Speaker 1: signal already and you put the ASP on it, it
Speaker 1: can almost sound digital.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It will sound it will sound waterfalls,
Speaker 2: sure like. Yeah, there's what we hear a lot. Once again,
Speaker 2: that's because it's so much you know on there and
Speaker 2: or like the HF people, it's like really cranking up
Speaker 2: your DNR when you don't need it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, thank.
Speaker 3: You, thank you. Chris. Is this a dual bender or
Speaker 3: a tribender because I'm looking at the listings and I
Speaker 3: think it's two meters four forty, but I saw a
Speaker 3: couple of people ask and lidded to it was also
Speaker 3: to twenty.
Speaker 2: It's it's transmit VHF UHF so two meters and seventy centimeter,
Speaker 2: but it is wide band received, so we'll receive two twenty,
Speaker 2: will receive nine hundred, it will receive eight hundred, you know,
Speaker 2: cellular limitations blocked and everything like that. So it does
Speaker 2: have a nice wide open receiver on there. So so yes,
Speaker 2: it will do that in that regards there too. It
Speaker 2: goes down to the aircraft, so the aircraft listeners. It
Speaker 2: goes as low as one to weight, and then I
Speaker 2: think it goes up to nine nine ninety nine. I
Speaker 2: actually have to try it here. I don't remember nine
Speaker 2: nine nine. No, so it goes it goes way up
Speaker 2: into nine hundreds.
Speaker 3: Okay, so is well all right that speculation. Let me
Speaker 3: move past that. So we'll transmit on two twenty then
Speaker 3: well not no, okay, that removes that question. How many
Speaker 3: wats it? We'll transmit on two none?
Speaker 2: None.
Speaker 3: Do you need a tnc with this radio or a
Speaker 3: dig you rig.
Speaker 2: Yes, if you want to use a different data mode
Speaker 2: on there, if you want to do like wind link
Speaker 2: or all those kind of things like that, yes you
Speaker 2: will need to go ahead and have like a digirig
Speaker 2: something else on there on it. There's no built in TNC.
Speaker 2: What is in there for APRS is more of an
Speaker 2: algorithm kind of based APRS on there. There's not an
Speaker 2: actual TNV in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom, I've asked that question already. Go check out
Speaker 3: the earlier but yeah, we're not talking about duplex. And again,
Speaker 3: does this have a waterfall?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not a waterfall, but it has a band
Speaker 2: scope on there, so if you actually hit the DSP
Speaker 2: button on there, it will go ahead and show an
Speaker 2: actual active bar graph on there with the you can
Speaker 2: adjust a display on there. So I think it's uh,
Speaker 2: what is it? Is it twenty twenty six channel? I'd
Speaker 2: have to to be honest with you, I'd have to
Speaker 2: go ahead and look at it again, but I know
Speaker 2: it does the bar graph on there. And if you're
Speaker 2: in memory mode, here's the other cool part. When you're
Speaker 2: in memory mode, it will go ahead and show you
Speaker 2: the activity on the memory channels alone. It won't go
Speaker 2: ahead and show you the whole frequency range on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So don is asking? So there is a port
Speaker 3: to connect a T and C two.
Speaker 2: Yep? There is. The standard is a ten pin mini
Speaker 2: DIN style jack. You can buy the cable from us.
Speaker 2: You're really only gonna use pins one through six. That's
Speaker 2: the standard packet data layout kind of jacks on there.
Speaker 2: But once again, it's not just data like I said.
Speaker 2: It can be data, it can be voice, it could
Speaker 2: be a whole bunch of different things on there.
Speaker 3: Nice. Nice, How many different memory groups did you say
Speaker 3: this radio can use?
Speaker 2: So the different memory radio groups it has so automatically
Speaker 2: has a standard memory going on there. Then it has
Speaker 2: memory VHF has grouping for VIEWHEF, we'll have grouping for air,
Speaker 2: We'll have a grouping for public safety. And then it
Speaker 2: also has a that new memory group which is just
Speaker 2: all of your own grouping on there. So that's the
Speaker 2: one that you kind of put it in there. So
Speaker 2: in essence, it has a couple of different ones on there,
Speaker 2: depending on how you want to take a look at it.
Speaker 3: Nice, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Don wants me to show the back, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and show the back of it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: turn it around, go ahead, Frank.
Speaker 3: All right. While you're doing that, I'm trying to find
Speaker 3: is the ASP the same as the one fifty and
Speaker 3: does it have ASP interface with TNC?
Speaker 2: So the ASP is part of the receiver circuitry, so yes,
Speaker 2: it is the same ASP chip that's used in the
Speaker 2: one fifty as well as the five ten. Here in
Speaker 2: the thirty one and five thirty one sixty five. As
Speaker 2: long as the signals analog, ASP will work on it.
Speaker 2: So what would end up happening is is if you
Speaker 2: connected a device off the back of it with the
Speaker 2: data jack on there, Yes, if you turned ASP on,
Speaker 2: it would hit the receiver. The receiver would use the
Speaker 2: ASP technology and would put it out to the backside
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: Nice. So what we're showing is the den ten pen
Speaker 3: underneath the power cable here right right there, and what
Speaker 3: are the other ports there?
Speaker 1: There's two external speaker reports. It looks like yep, there's.
Speaker 2: Two external speaker reports. So what you can do is
Speaker 2: in the manual states how that you could do a combination.
Speaker 2: So what you can do is you can do both
Speaker 2: the main and the sub out of the one speaker port.
Speaker 2: You can do just the main out of the one,
Speaker 2: the sub out of the one. So whatever configuration you
Speaker 2: want to have on there. Some people will take and
Speaker 2: separately remote mount this radio, so that what it we'll
Speaker 2: do is they'll be like, Okay, here we go. It's
Speaker 2: it's the head is in the front of the the
Speaker 2: head is only there. The main drawers in the back
Speaker 2: of the rate car somewhere and then they'll have a
Speaker 2: speaker and that speaker will put out the subband, but
Speaker 2: they'll always have the main come out of the main speaker.
Speaker 3: Nice. Okay, that's interesting since you said it, can we
Speaker 3: connect a Cat six cable to this if we need
Speaker 3: a longer cable.
Speaker 2: So no, we do not recommend that. And here's here's why.
Speaker 2: Two things. One, I cannot believe to tell you or
Speaker 2: begin to tell you how many people have sent their
Speaker 2: FtM five hundreds in because I was like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: just a simple Cat five cable. They wired up wrong
Speaker 2: and they fry things. Okay. Secondly, the CAT cables do
Speaker 2: not provide enough shielding with it on there, and I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people are like, nope, Cat, we'll
Speaker 2: do it, and stuff like that on there. We have
Speaker 2: had testimonies from customers that have said, you know what,
Speaker 2: I took Cat six E cable and I hooked it
Speaker 2: between the radio and the head and they were having
Speaker 2: issues and we said, no, you can't do that. They said,
Speaker 2: yes we can. We said go buy the cable, and
Speaker 2: they went out, bought the cable, went to their favorite
Speaker 2: Yazu dealer. That kind of thing got the cable hooked
Speaker 2: it up, all their problems went away on there.
Speaker 3: So that external cable, how long is it? And if
Speaker 3: we need a longer one or shorter one, how do
Speaker 3: we get like kind of a customized one for our setup?
Speaker 2: So there is a ten foot and a twenty foot
Speaker 2: cable that you can purchase on there. Like with anything
Speaker 2: we use with our cables on there, we know that
Speaker 2: the maximum amount that the radio can operate without issues
Speaker 2: in this case would be twenty feet. Okay, So if
Speaker 2: as somebody needs something longer than twenty feet, yeah, you
Speaker 2: are going to have to manufacture something on your own.
Speaker 2: But we can't say that it's going to work past
Speaker 2: twenty feet because we've only tested it and we can
Speaker 2: ensure that it'll work up to twenty feet.
Speaker 3: How about if we need one short like six feet
Speaker 3: or seven feet, can we cut it and we put
Speaker 3: the head in there? Or is this is a standard
Speaker 3: cat plug or is it it's not.
Speaker 2: It's not even like a cat cable if you actually
Speaker 2: take a look, it's actually like a coiled cable kind
Speaker 2: of in there and stuff like that. Well, we tell people,
Speaker 2: if you need shorter feet, just get to ten foot
Speaker 2: one and then just loop it up.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, Yeah, Jason, where you're say in the
Speaker 3: back of the radio. This is another question came in.
Speaker 3: Does this radio have a GPS jack? I didn't really
Speaker 3: see one.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't see that, Jonah.
Speaker 2: It's yes, above the microphone on the right hand side.
Speaker 1: Oh, right there. Okay, Yeah, there's a port right here
Speaker 1: that you can't see right right now, but it's looks
Speaker 1: like a three point five milimeter jack.
Speaker 2: It's a three point five milimeter jack and it does
Speaker 2: take it in the manual like what it's looking for
Speaker 2: for the data pin connections on there and everything like
Speaker 2: that on it. So we don't have a recommended GPS
Speaker 2: for it. You would just need something that can do
Speaker 2: the NMEA output of the GPS receiver. The reasoning is
Speaker 2: that some need to be power amplified GPS antennas, some
Speaker 2: are not, so it's kind of all across the board there.
Speaker 2: So that's why we give you what the pinouts we're
Speaker 2: looking for. To be perfectly honest with you, if you're
Speaker 2: using an inside at a fixed location, just at the
Speaker 2: GPS coordinates manually, and if you're using it in a mobile,
Speaker 2: I personally have never had any issues even when I've
Speaker 2: been like in downtown big city parking garages, it's always
Speaker 2: been able to get a GPS signal.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I've never had any trouble with with my
Speaker 1: five hundred getting GPS signal either. Okay, does it have Bluetooth.
Speaker 2: It doesn't, so the five to ten does not come
Speaker 2: standard with Bluetooth. If you want Bluetooth on there, then
Speaker 2: you can. To be honest with you, it kind of
Speaker 2: came down to, like, well, do we add the ASP
Speaker 2: and keep the Bluetooth or do we eliminate the blue
Speaker 2: tooth because not a lot of people use Bluetooth as
Speaker 2: much as people want to use Bluetooth or say that
Speaker 2: they use it. So it's kind of one of those
Speaker 2: things where to save some costs to kind of do
Speaker 2: some things, we just said, you know, we'll take out
Speaker 2: the Bluetooth board, but we'll keep the We'll put in
Speaker 2: the ASP board in in a lieu of it.
Speaker 1: So but you can't add it after the fact.
Speaker 2: You can add it after the fact, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay. I think that one of the questions I
Speaker 1: saw earlier was and I've heard this question before about
Speaker 1: bluetoothing a keyboard to it. So that you could type
Speaker 1: APRS messages.
Speaker 2: Nope. All the Bluetooth does is just simple audio profile.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I had a customer that
Speaker 2: messaged me this week and the saying, hey, I want
Speaker 2: to hook it up to I got like a Sony
Speaker 2: speaker or something like that on there. And if it
Speaker 2: has any sort of AD two P protocol, which is
Speaker 2: a normal protocol used by a lot of Bluetooth devices
Speaker 2: for control and syncing and everything like that on there, yes,
Speaker 2: if you have like earbuds or like whatever, you can
Speaker 2: tap the button and skip a song that kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not going to work with it. This is a very
Speaker 2: very simple Bluetooth audio profile.
Speaker 1: Audio only okay. Okay, good to know.
Speaker 2: Yep. And Jason, I do want to correct myself on there.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Unlike its ancestor, the five hundred, the five ten only
Speaker 2: goes up to five hundred and fifty megguards as does
Speaker 2: not go nine hundred. I said that earlier. I do
Speaker 2: want to apologize for it on there. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to double check on there because I was like, oh
Speaker 2: wait a minute, no wait, there was a slight difference
Speaker 2: in there. So we'll do one o eight up to
Speaker 2: five fifty I.
Speaker 1: Want to Okay, so it does aircraft ban receive.
Speaker 2: It does aircraft ban and UHF aircraft ban so UHF
Speaker 2: mill airy air. Oh yeah, we'll also HF mill air too.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people ask that on there. I
Speaker 2: will go ahead and do that. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: that's why I looked up here. It will do one
Speaker 2: oaight tow one thirty seven thirty seven seventy four, one
Speaker 2: seventy four to four hundred, four hundred and four eighty
Speaker 2: and then four eighty five fifty. So therefore that one
Speaker 2: seventy four to four hundred, it will do the mill
Speaker 2: aircraft band.
Speaker 3: Gotcha listen to the aircraft band?
Speaker 2: Well listen, Yes, yes you can. You can't. Go ahead
Speaker 2: and talk to Sully.
Speaker 3: Since y'all were talking about keyboards, the text entry keyboard
Speaker 3: on screen, is that the standard keyboard you used throughout
Speaker 3: the menu systems.
Speaker 2: As in like for putting names in and everything like that. Yes,
Speaker 2: it and it is. It is a through z. It
Speaker 2: is not quirty. The reason it's not quirty is is
Speaker 2: because when we make the different versions of the radio,
Speaker 2: not everything translates in quirty around the world. I know,
Speaker 2: some people say, well Courty is the standard. Well, it
Speaker 2: might be the standard, but when you start trans laning
Speaker 2: it into you know, other languages like we have to
Speaker 2: for the radio and stuff like that, it doesn't. It's
Speaker 2: not a it's not a complete translation over. So that's
Speaker 2: why we do a to z and then you hit
Speaker 2: the button and then you can go one through zero
Speaker 2: through nine and then your symbol mother.
Speaker 3: Okay, I do like this question. We're still coming the
Speaker 3: Bluetooth ish. Is the ASY going to adopt the Bluetooth
Speaker 3: Hearing Aid standard here?
Speaker 2: Well, here's the issue with Bluetooth right now. There are
Speaker 2: technically nine different Bluetooth protocols. Yeah, and on all of
Speaker 2: the Bluetooth protocols are slightly different depending on what happens
Speaker 2: or takes place place with it. Part of those protocols
Speaker 2: also include low energy so the blue the bt L
Speaker 2: E s and stuff like that on there. It's really
Speaker 2: difficult because when you start looking at it, it's all
Speaker 2: of what does the Bluetooth access does it access audio?
Speaker 2: Does it access data? Does it access both? What kind
Speaker 2: of is? What kind of is to do it? On there?
Speaker 2: Engineers have taken a look at it and to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, it's like traveling down a path and
Speaker 2: we just came to a you know, a nine half intersection,
Speaker 2: like which one do you go down on there? And
Speaker 2: then in addition, what kind of support of hardware do
Speaker 2: you need for it to do that? We have been
Speaker 2: told by different hands that have hearing gaid issues, those
Speaker 2: kind of things like that on there that a lot
Speaker 2: of find the aess just like on the seven to ten,
Speaker 2: they can adjust the ass that if they're slight tone
Speaker 2: deaf on there with and they need the hearing gates
Speaker 2: for that, and we can do that. We've had other
Speaker 2: people that have said that there's a third party out
Speaker 2: there that can adopt a device that will kind of
Speaker 2: transmit to a t coil on there. It's a third
Speaker 2: party device, but it plugs in I don't know if
Speaker 2: plugs and speaker or plugs into the data jack on
Speaker 2: there for the speaker output. I don't know. We don't
Speaker 2: test third party devices because we would we'd have a
Speaker 2: whole division of that alone, right, But it gets difficult
Speaker 2: for us. It's not that we're insensitive to it, it's
Speaker 2: just which path do we go down?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I understand, let's see here kind of speculative, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna agree with this one, this digital dreamer. What does
Speaker 3: the eager keep using those dang tea connectors? Can we
Speaker 3: just get power poles already?
Speaker 2: To believe it, Believe it or not, Tea connectors are
Speaker 2: more standardized across the entire world than actually power poles.
Speaker 2: They are they and it is, And you got to
Speaker 2: remember it's if you actually take a look at back
Speaker 2: in the day, we used to have a different antenna connector,
Speaker 2: and we're going way back in the day for some
Speaker 2: of our radios that we're built in different countries than
Speaker 2: than in in like the US, and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: On there, we've actually kind of standardized on there. Because
Speaker 2: what ends up happening is once you start getting different connectors,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it gets difficult because you know you're
Speaker 2: gonna do all of this one region. And I'll be
Speaker 2: honest with you, like it's easier for us to order
Speaker 2: ten thousand power chords as a T connector and know
Speaker 2: that they're going to interface not only the five to ten,
Speaker 2: but the five hundred, the three hundred, the two hundred,
Speaker 2: the one hundred, you know, every every radio almost underneath
Speaker 2: the song that we've ever made too, then if we
Speaker 2: start to get more of a different kind of thing.
Speaker 2: So that's the reason why we've stuck with the tea connectors.
Speaker 3: I just had to bring it up because I clip
Speaker 3: them off too, you know.
Speaker 1: And somebody said earlier that they said that they fail
Speaker 1: after a year or two. I was like, dude, I've
Speaker 1: got I've got T connectors on my V seventy one
Speaker 1: from like nine years ago that's still working.
Speaker 3: And be honestly, the tea connector, I haven't really had
Speaker 3: that much of an issue.
Speaker 1: I haven't had it.
Speaker 3: I've never had since that that clip and we do right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I give you that.
Speaker 3: I don't understand that they fail in a year. No,
Speaker 3: tea connectors are better longevity.
Speaker 1: I agree with that.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, heard the T connector. And the only reason
Speaker 2: being is in a pinch, the T connector, it's the
Speaker 2: male on the radio. So if I don't have a
Speaker 2: power cable, I can get two female spade connectors and
Speaker 2: I slide it on. Yeah, and I'm I'm I'm cooking again.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. Yeah, yep, I've never I always
Speaker 1: hesitate to cut minep I usually do an adapter. I'll
Speaker 1: do a tea connector to a power pole cable and
Speaker 1: then I'll go power pole into my And that's what
Speaker 1: I do with my truck on all my rates in
Speaker 1: my truck, I go tea connector to power pool, power
Speaker 1: pool to rig runner in my truck. I just I
Speaker 1: never have been able to bring myself to cut the
Speaker 1: tea connector off, just because if I ever go to
Speaker 1: sell that radio, maybe the person wants power pools on it,
Speaker 1: and maybe they don't. But I hate the guys that.
Speaker 1: I hate the guys that cut off the power cable
Speaker 1: in the back of the radio and leave this much
Speaker 1: wire sticking out of it. It's just bare wire and
Speaker 1: it's like, I give you that three inches long. I'm like,
Speaker 1: come on, butt.
Speaker 2: Right TwixT thing with power and.
Speaker 1: It kind of yeah, yeah, it kind of is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I love power poles. I do, but they uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're they're they can pull out easily
Speaker 1: and they're not waterproof. The tea connector is not waterproof either.
Speaker 1: But you know, when I was building my battery box
Speaker 1: for the back of my truck, I use those SAE
Speaker 1: connectors because I was like, I'd love to use pourpoles
Speaker 1: but they're not waterproof. So but you've got options. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. You've got options.
Speaker 3: This is a fun question, John, What chair are you
Speaker 3: sitting in?
Speaker 2: I'm sitting This is.
Speaker 3: An excellent question.
Speaker 1: I saw that question ghost men, don't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know which one it is. I'm a
Speaker 2: micro micro center geek. Yeah, and I'm in my office
Speaker 2: so much. And if I could show you a disaster,
Speaker 2: even if I can't, I'm not going through. I got
Speaker 2: a green screen behind me. You don't want to see
Speaker 2: the bench, but I'm here so much. That was like
Speaker 2: an office chair would kill me after being in it
Speaker 2: for like ten hours. So I'm like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: I've seen these gamers on there for hours an hours.
Speaker 2: So I bought myself a gamer chair years ago and
Speaker 2: I love it absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You can buy gamer chairs at gigaparts now. They've
Speaker 1: got some really cool ones in there too. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I've almost walked out with a chair a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I am driving home, so I could take
Speaker 1: this chair over right now, but I haven't done. I've
Speaker 1: been able to resist so far.
Speaker 2: But we'll see. Robbie needs to open up a gigabarts
Speaker 2: by me and Minneapolis and the goal there. But right,
Speaker 2: I agree, all I have is microcenter and I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like I'm gonna captain Kirk here.
Speaker 1: You know that's right. There's a good question from Smoke Signals.
Speaker 1: Go ahead with that one, Frank.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I was gonna tweak it here zos asking
Speaker 3: what's the last cigar you smoked? And I think we
Speaker 3: should do a round table on this one.
Speaker 1: I'm good with that.
Speaker 3: So let's start with John's.
Speaker 1: The lone goes first.
Speaker 2: So if anybody has follen on me, I had a horrible, horrible,
Speaker 2: horrible incident happened to me on February twentieth. My cigar
Speaker 2: cabinet control panel flipped out and it oh from seventy
Speaker 2: degrees all the way down by itself down to fifty
Speaker 2: four degrees. So it was like, oh no, oh no,
Speaker 2: because cigar mold is my my my worst worst fear,
Speaker 2: so I am plugged it. The house is nice and warm,
Speaker 2: but I finally got my new humidor in about a
Speaker 2: week ago, so that's all up and running. It's a
Speaker 2: heater and a cooler. Because I decided to live where
Speaker 2: my face hurts from the wind.
Speaker 1: Yes you do.
Speaker 2: That's another episode. So the last one I actually had
Speaker 2: was Ah, I just got it for Christmas. Oh, I
Speaker 2: can't think of it Carbot. No, I just I just
Speaker 2: literally had the other hang on, let me look it
Speaker 2: up here because I I just I posted a picture
Speaker 2: on Faithbook of me with it. Oh yeah, okay, there,
Speaker 2: but it was a I think it was a Carbot,
Speaker 2: but I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 3: John says in the chat, put drone two thousand. Nice cigar.
Speaker 1: That's a good one with that one. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: a good every day cigar.
Speaker 3: Looks that up. I will say I had a Tennessee
Speaker 3: Waltz and I smoked it with Mike when he was
Speaker 3: here over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he came up for the the Go
Speaker 1: Kit challenge. Right. So I was in I was in
Speaker 1: Jersey for the last two nights, and the first night
Speaker 1: I was there, I didn't have anything to do. That
Speaker 1: was Thursday, and so I google cigar shop and I
Speaker 1: walked because we're downtown, so everything's pretty much walking distance.
Speaker 1: I walked to a place called him Inez a cigar shop,
Speaker 1: and he's going there and it's like an old house
Speaker 1: and the front. The front rooms like a living area
Speaker 1: and nice couches and chairs. The back rooms like a
Speaker 1: kitchen area, but it's like a like a wet bar area,
Speaker 1: not really a kitchen, like a wet bar area. And
Speaker 1: that's he's got some liquor behind the thing back there.
Speaker 1: Very cool place to smoke, just plus chairs and couches
Speaker 1: every are. I had an upstairs, I didn't go up
Speaker 1: there and see what was up there. Had an outside patio,
Speaker 1: was a little cold for me, so I sat inside.
Speaker 1: He only had his own brand of cigars, so he
Speaker 1: had like six or seven or eight different sizes and
Speaker 1: Vitola's Maduro Natural Sungrown. I don't know if I asked
Speaker 1: if he made that. I said, are these your cigars?
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, I make those, and I don't. I
Speaker 1: didn't get the impression he actually made made him. I
Speaker 1: got the impression he had them made for him, but
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't ask him for details. So I
Speaker 1: smoked a Maduro Torpedo. That was good. I wouldn't call
Speaker 1: it great. It's certainly not the best cigar I've ever had,
Speaker 1: but it's always fun to go to new places when
Speaker 1: you're out of town, go into a cigar shop and say,
Speaker 1: what have you got here that you know maybe isn't
Speaker 1: distributed worldwide nationwide or something. So yeah, but the ambiance
Speaker 1: of that place was excellent. If I ever go back
Speaker 1: to to Newark, which I can't imagine, why'd ever want
Speaker 1: to go back to Newark? I mean it was a
Speaker 1: Newark was okay, it was all right?
Speaker 2: Oh were you talking about?
Speaker 1: Uh? I'm gonna agree, yeah, but uh it was okay,
Speaker 1: it was all right. But yeah, if I ever go
Speaker 1: back there, I'd like to hit that cigar shop again.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't I don't have my rapper I have.
Speaker 2: I have my producer off screen here looking that up hopefully.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you my my favorite, my favorite
Speaker 2: cigar that I have now because I I coach. I
Speaker 2: coach my daughter's seventh grade volleyball team, and and of
Speaker 2: course I'm from Chicago, and people know when you think
Speaker 2: of coaching and you think of Chicago, who do you
Speaker 2: think of my did got right?
Speaker 1: Of course? Yeah? My bears, bet bears.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you my favorite cigar is actually
Speaker 2: the one that he smokes, which is a Camacho triple Maduro.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you that is a full flavored
Speaker 2: being it's a triple maduro. It is a it is
Speaker 2: at least an hour cigar because if you try to
Speaker 2: smoke it any faster, go ahead and get a cigarette.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you that that is a beautiful
Speaker 2: I love them. I buy him, I I I get
Speaker 2: him every single time, I if I if I'm short
Speaker 2: on the box, and they're so hard to get sometimes
Speaker 2: that I have to buy him by the individual stick
Speaker 2: because no one will sell the box because I saw
Speaker 2: it so quick. But it is it is a it
Speaker 2: is a six by sixty ring on there and it's
Speaker 2: a it's no tar, I mean, it's perfect. My wife
Speaker 2: got me a Deadwood Tobacco Company, uh cigar holder for
Speaker 2: me for Christmas. I'm going to try to do the
Speaker 2: screen on the screen thing here, so let's see if
Speaker 2: this will work here. But this was the this will
Speaker 2: let's see if this works here, so that without too
Speaker 2: horrible of a glare. That was the cigar I was
Speaker 2: smoking the other night. But that's the holder that I
Speaker 2: got there. And then of course I had men uh
Speaker 2: men jewel up right, because you can get I'm sorry
Speaker 2: you have.
Speaker 1: To, and you have to have the ya zu next
Speaker 1: to it. Also I was talking on the radio. I
Speaker 1: do that all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally communications and cigars is I was.
Speaker 1: Gonna ask do you still do that live stream on Mondays?
Speaker 2: I because I've gotten but yeah, I'm going to get
Speaker 2: back into it now.
Speaker 3: Okay, hopefully I think both of us will be happy
Speaker 3: to be over there, and if yeah invite us, we'll
Speaker 3: be guests with you.
Speaker 1: Cool and you need to uh, you need to set
Speaker 1: aside if you can. I know you're gonna be busy.
Speaker 1: You set aside some time at him vention. Uh, we'll
Speaker 1: be there on Wednesday, and I've got my camp site again,
Speaker 1: I've already paid for it. They give me first right
Speaker 1: to refusal every year. So if you walk out, if
Speaker 1: you well, right next to you guys, you guys are
Speaker 1: right next to Giggleharts. If you walk out that back
Speaker 1: at the back door of that building and go kind
Speaker 1: of towards there's the their hamshack over there with the
Speaker 1: big tower. We're just to the left of that. Yes,
Speaker 1: and we'll be out there smoking cigars Wednesday and Thursday
Speaker 1: night at least.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, because you're kind of like right out
Speaker 2: that back like almost hatty or the pathway that the
Speaker 2: correct pathway.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, we're like the second row. Once you
Speaker 1: get past the blacktop to the first row of r vs,
Speaker 1: we're on the second row, gotcha. So it's right there.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, it's so we'll be out there smoking
Speaker 1: cigars this year.
Speaker 2: Because you were well, yeah, you're always you're always close
Speaker 2: to the birthplace of Papoda.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, correct, So absolutely right.
Speaker 3: Some of our friends around the YouTube sphere. Digital Rancher
Speaker 3: says he's smoking a He smoked a Java State Drew Java.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are okay, yeah, those are pretty good.
Speaker 2: Ate a box press, I will tell you this, if
Speaker 2: you really want a good one, any Drew State Javas
Speaker 2: and a box press cigar. It's weird, but I think
Speaker 2: those taste the best.
Speaker 1: I used to smoke those Rocky Totel box pressed all
Speaker 1: the time. There was this cigar shop. There used to
Speaker 1: be a cigar a chain of cigar shops around North
Speaker 1: Texas called Up and Smoke, And I guess they just
Speaker 1: there was so many different stories. I guess they got
Speaker 1: good prices on stuff because we were and they'd be
Speaker 1: on the bottom shelf, be on the bottom of the
Speaker 1: Rockettel box pressed on the bottom shelf. I'm like, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with these? They're like nothing? And I was like, man,
Speaker 1: they were like at the time, they were like six
Speaker 1: or so and bucks of stick. They were fantastic.
Speaker 3: I think is a and I miscopied his but I
Speaker 3: think he said he was also smoking a Podron four thousand,
Speaker 3: and then Mike, he said he was smoking a tendency whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Whatever Frank said.
Speaker 1: Because I gave I gotta I gotta check out the
Speaker 1: triple Maduro. I got to see if I bet they
Speaker 1: I bet they don't have that but up in Michael's.
Speaker 1: But I bet your Grapevine has it.
Speaker 3: Michaels are just finicky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you're here's the one that's a Tabok
Speaker 2: special by Drew Estate.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Can remember the exact name of it. But like I said,
Speaker 2: my my producer off the screen here, I told her,
Speaker 2: and then yeah, let me just show it this here.
Speaker 2: Here's here's the triple Maduro my finger. Yes, there's there's.
Speaker 1: The thumb right yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a six sixty ring. But
Speaker 2: I mean this is this is if Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: the big Boy cigar.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a poker game cigar.
Speaker 3: This LFD has like a big cigar, like it's it's
Speaker 3: like almost like ten inches and it's a thick ring gaze.
Speaker 3: I saw that, I was like, I think I bought
Speaker 3: it once for like two hours. I'm sorry about four hours.
Speaker 3: Through four hours, I was.
Speaker 1: Like, the best, the best poker game cigar I ever
Speaker 1: had was a ur a Puente Canonis and it's about
Speaker 1: it's like eight or nine inches and it's like a
Speaker 1: fifty two or fifty four, so it's not real thick.
Speaker 1: It's a fifty I think it's a fifty four ring gauge,
Speaker 1: and but it's like eight or nine inches. But you
Speaker 1: are smoking that damn thing through the whole soul poker game.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like it's like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: times I'd go and smoke a robusto and like an
Speaker 1: hour into the poker game, I'd be like, because we'd
Speaker 1: play poker for three or four hours sometimes and I'm like, well, heck,
Speaker 1: I gotta get another cigar. But that sucker would last
Speaker 1: you through the whole game, it was, and that was good.
Speaker 1: It was good flavor on those things too. But that's
Speaker 1: a good stroke.
Speaker 3: I like smoking through one and I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 3: ready for another one. The majority of mine are all
Speaker 3: full body, but you're just getting different flavors, different things.
Speaker 3: Do you want to drink the same drink for five hours?
Speaker 2: This one? I joke around with my friends. Some of
Speaker 2: us we have a lounge. Well it's it's our it's
Speaker 2: our porch, right, it's our patio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: I have you know, fellow emesters and stuff come buy
Speaker 2: and some of them smoke cigarettes. They joke around. They'll
Speaker 2: say like, you know, are you are you doing your
Speaker 2: fifteen cigarette cigar tonight? Because I'll smoke one of these
Speaker 2: and they'll go to or something like that on there
Speaker 2: nothing like yeah.
Speaker 3: So my dad a couple of times I was like,
Speaker 3: are you're going out to smoke? He goes, yeah, I am,
Speaker 3: and he smokes a pipe and I went out there
Speaker 3: with him and lit my cigar in like after five minutes,
Speaker 3: I'm going inside. I'm like, I literally like five minutes
Speaker 3: into cigar means I just lit this. Yeah, I'll be
Speaker 3: here for two hours. He goes have fun and he
Speaker 3: goes and side like you son of a.
Speaker 1: I like, Sam's coming here. I work at my local
Speaker 1: cigar shop to fund my radio needs. Well, you're you're
Speaker 1: a stronger man than me, because if I worked at
Speaker 1: my local cigar shop, I'd be like, Okay, my paycheck
Speaker 1: today is one hundred and fifty bucks. How many cigars
Speaker 1: can I get?
Speaker 3: Sam? Just there? Please tell me you are in one
Speaker 3: of these, you know, Hamfest areas. We can come and
Speaker 3: see you, like we will make a pilgrimage. Yeah, in
Speaker 3: one of these areas. Our cigar guy, one of them,
Speaker 3: absolutely hates it.
Speaker 1: What me?
Speaker 3: Jason sits there and talks about radios.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, we talk every time.
Speaker 3: Every time he's there. I was like, coming out tonight,
Speaker 3: I need to talk to radio.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. So and Digital Rancher says, we
Speaker 1: need to set up a poker game, which is a
Speaker 1: fantastic idea.
Speaker 2: See, I have a pipe two and I do smoke
Speaker 2: a pipe sometimes, but I always go ahead and people
Speaker 2: always think I act to up at the in there
Speaker 2: because I do. Right.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, I have a long stamp pipe.
Speaker 3: I have one of those long stamp gandolf pipes. I
Speaker 3: like this. Oh yeah, read this and it's it's so
Speaker 3: much fun being.
Speaker 1: Like, uh, this is great. We could talk about this
Speaker 1: for the next two hours, but we're not gonna know, so.
Speaker 2: You know, and I'll tell you this. It's it's been
Speaker 2: a good time. And I don't know how long you
Speaker 2: want to go, Jason, but I know people got speculations,
Speaker 2: people got questions. Do we want to do a couple
Speaker 2: of the hard hitting questions?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was gonna and I know you can't answer
Speaker 1: this because I already asked you this before, and someone
Speaker 1: else asked this earlier in the chat. Okay, in n Yo,
Speaker 1: you can fly down here. Don't go to O'Hare, but
Speaker 1: you know, pick another airport, fly down here. You're welcome
Speaker 1: to join us for poker. F T one X. What's
Speaker 1: the new q R P F T one x F
Speaker 1: or whatever it is ft X one F Yep, yes,
Speaker 1: f T yeah, okay, so latest latest. I want to know.
Speaker 1: My question to you, uh, maybe a month ago, I
Speaker 1: don't remember when it was was Are we going to
Speaker 1: see that at HIM vention?
Speaker 2: And in all intents and purposes, yes, we're waiting for
Speaker 2: the FCC and obviously typical Yeah, regardless of what side
Speaker 2: of defense you are on politically, I'm not turning this
Speaker 2: political thing or anything. It takes a little while. We
Speaker 2: we introduced it, you know at Tokyo Hamfair, it was
Speaker 2: under the dome because it wasn't type accepted eve over
Speaker 2: in Japan. We are waiting to do a global release
Speaker 2: on it. The reason we are waiting because people have said, well,
Speaker 2: you haven't done that in passed with other radios. Correct,
Speaker 2: But we have never we have not seen such a
Speaker 2: surge of people buying radios in other countries and then
Speaker 2: like buying them online on eBay and Ali Baba and
Speaker 2: and in places that you really question you know where
Speaker 2: they got the radio from and are bringing it here
Speaker 2: and so many people are saying, well, it's not working now,
Speaker 2: it's not this and unfortunately buy FCC law. As of manufacturer,
Speaker 2: we are we can't work on the radio because it
Speaker 2: has bands which are not legal in the US. You
Speaker 2: don't want to see that happen. We're wait for it
Speaker 2: right now. We have not had to get full FEC
Speaker 2: type accepted yet. Once again, new new political things, new
Speaker 2: everything like that, all the kind of things.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: We avoided a government shutdown because I will tell you
Speaker 2: if the government shutdown is gonna happen, that means things
Speaker 2: are gonna be pushed back even more, that in essence
Speaker 2: been inverted. So we're hoping to have at least a
Speaker 2: demo of it at ham Ven. If we don't have
Speaker 2: it out sooner, I will tell you this. And here's
Speaker 2: what I can tell you this. There is a modularity
Speaker 2: to it which a lot of people already saw a
Speaker 2: Tokyo ham Ven.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yes, people are saying, well, there's no tuner. Well, no,
Speaker 2: there's the add on tuner. Why didn't it built in? Well,
Speaker 2: not everybody wants a tuner. Well that's stupid. Well no
Speaker 2: it's not. Not everybody wants a tuner. So want a tuner?
Speaker 2: You can add one on there. You can't.
Speaker 3: If you say it there was, then they'd be like, well,
Speaker 3: why'd you have it tuner on it? It's just gonna make.
Speaker 2: It heavier, exactly. So there is a lot of modularity
Speaker 2: to it. Now, what I can tell you is this,
Speaker 2: It is going to change the way and the concept
Speaker 2: of operating. That's what I'm gonna go ahead and tell you,
Speaker 2: And that's really all I can tell you right now. Well,
Speaker 2: what what this is going to do is it's gonna
Speaker 2: foster in a It's gonna foster in a great way
Speaker 2: of operation, and I feel that this radio is going
Speaker 2: to kind of be the bridge to things on how
Speaker 2: it operates. Yes, it is HF plus two meters plus
Speaker 2: seventy centimeters on there. It is gonna be ten watts.
Speaker 2: It's not a traditional QRP. Some people say QRP is
Speaker 2: five watts less you know that kind of thing. So
Speaker 2: there is some things to it on there for operation.
Speaker 2: But you'll see when this radio comes out and as
Speaker 2: it starts to progress, you're going to be like, wow,
Speaker 2: this is this is a new concept and innovative.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you.
Speaker 3: Can't have any like juices details like we all want
Speaker 3: to know, like like price points or.
Speaker 2: We don't because by law with FCC and they crack
Speaker 2: down on this, I guarantee you they they watch it
Speaker 2: heavily on it. We cannot offer it for sale, rent lease,
Speaker 2: or distribute distribution until it is FEC type accepted. So
Speaker 2: until we have that actual document in our hands with
Speaker 2: the stamp of approval saying this is the FCC I
Speaker 2: D and it is approved, we can't even offer it
Speaker 2: for sale. That's why if you notice the dealers, the
Speaker 2: dealers are offering a pre reservation on there yes, and
Speaker 2: you put a small amount of money down to hold
Speaker 2: your place in line. And some people said, well, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna do that because what if my money? And
Speaker 2: that's that most of the dealers let you convert it
Speaker 2: over to something else. So yes, you know that of thing.
Speaker 2: But that's why they're only taking pre registers. Now, some
Speaker 2: dealers across the world don't do the thirty five dollars.
Speaker 2: They they're not offering it, so they're putting outrageous prices.
Speaker 2: I had one person tell me it's gonna be nine
Speaker 2: thousand pounds and I'm like, wrong, right, the one on
Speaker 2: one MP is not even that much. But uh, there
Speaker 2: no contrary to internet speculation or anything, there has been
Speaker 2: no announced price yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right. I would like to see someone
Speaker 1: had mentioned this, I think shortly after that Tokyo Hamfair.
Speaker 1: I would like to see like this be like kind
Speaker 1: of a baseline model that you can add on to later,
Speaker 1: like even like put into a hundred watt amp case
Speaker 1: that you could like have and drop that into and
Speaker 1: create basically an FT seven to ten or FTDX ten
Speaker 1: out of this new radio and kind of have Oh
Speaker 1: you want to take it out for QRP. Pull it
Speaker 1: out and run away with it. You want to use
Speaker 1: it in the hamshock, drop it in there. One hundred
Speaker 1: watt's great, something like that. I'd like to see something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Modular connections.
Speaker 1: Yeah, basically like a like a QRP radio that well
Speaker 1: and in a small degree the u the Llocraft k
Speaker 1: X two was or I'm sorry, the Lcraft K two
Speaker 1: was like that. The original radio was ten and you
Speaker 1: could and everything Allocraft does as module. The original radio
Speaker 1: the kit you built was ten watts, and you can
Speaker 1: you could add one hundred white amp into it, and
Speaker 1: and then you know, you could once you added all that.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could take it apart very easily,
Speaker 1: but you know, being a small form factor and whatnot,
Speaker 1: you can easily plug and play it into. Like you
Speaker 1: could have a base and your shack and you could
Speaker 1: attach this, uh, this ten wat q RP radio to
Speaker 1: the base and then it would become one hundred watt
Speaker 1: radio or something like that. So, uh, something something like
Speaker 1: really modular like that is kind of There's been some speculator.
Speaker 1: I mean, people speculate about stuff all day long. Who knows,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's it's cool to kind of kind
Speaker 1: of see stuff like that. I am excited. I am
Speaker 1: I am excited, Yeah, like a laptop docking station. Digital
Speaker 1: Rancher says, I am excited that it appears John that
Speaker 1: that radio because I don't think I've really talked about
Speaker 1: that radio much. That radio appears to be dual display?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Okay?
Speaker 2: It is dual display, And if you read the information
Speaker 2: out there, it does say okay, dull simultaneous receive on there.
Speaker 2: So yes, there are there are some details that are
Speaker 2: out there about it right now. So what you see,
Speaker 2: what you see out there that dealers have had or
Speaker 2: that we've released, that is information that we can release
Speaker 2: that is not going to be impacted by FCC type acceptance.
Speaker 2: You have to remember, you know, when it comes there,
Speaker 2: the receiver specification, power out, those kind of things, that's
Speaker 2: what gets that hold up in there. But we were
Speaker 2: able to release, we have released information on that so
Speaker 2: far once we and I will say, it's it's kind
Speaker 2: of there's a lot of holes in it, right, you know,
Speaker 2: because we there are some things that we have to
Speaker 2: wait to get approval to fill in those gaps, and
Speaker 2: that kind of joke around it's called like Dino DNA
Speaker 2: remember in Jurassic parts like, well, whatever we couldn't fill,
Speaker 2: we kind of just filled in, right, waiting to fill
Speaker 2: the gaps in once we get that information. But definitely
Speaker 2: from what I can legally say, and.
Speaker 1: I'll just say right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Because there's yes, there's not a person standing next to
Speaker 2: me watching me right now. No, you'll like it, and
Speaker 2: and definitely I'll be more happy to come on once
Speaker 2: we get it and kind of go through rundown out there.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's going to be a pre big game
Speaker 2: changing radio good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I I have one reserved and definitely want
Speaker 1: to bring you back on to talk about it once
Speaker 1: I get one in my hand. Did I know this
Speaker 1: is you know, this is kind of one of those
Speaker 1: things where it's like, hey, we would like to have
Speaker 1: it by then. But I thought I remember hearing from
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Hanfair that it was speculated to be released
Speaker 1: in Q one of this year. Is that was that
Speaker 1: the the.
Speaker 2: Correct verbage was actually the first half the first half, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: first half. A lot of a lot of people, a
Speaker 2: lot of people thought they said, oh the first of
Speaker 2: the first of the year was like no, the first
Speaker 2: half of the year, so that you know, okay, all
Speaker 2: the way up through Ka and once again we knew
Speaker 2: because once again it's not only US, it's Japan approval,
Speaker 2: it's the UK. Well, there's a lot to it.
Speaker 1: The Tokyo Hanfair was very unique, at least I think
Speaker 1: it was unique this year because you guys, kin would
Speaker 1: and ICM all announced new radio and none of them
Speaker 1: were the same type of radio, Like ICOM has the
Speaker 1: two hundred what competition grade HF radio that sits on
Speaker 1: your desk. You guys have a really nice looking new
Speaker 1: QRP Take with You radio, and ken Wood's got the
Speaker 1: new triband VHF UHF radio. So it's like, okay, you
Speaker 1: guys coordinated this. Obviously we get one of everything that's new.
Speaker 1: And someone had said Q one during that It might
Speaker 1: have been Icon because they released theirs last month, but
Speaker 1: I was making a joke. I was like, yeah, Q
Speaker 1: one basically means March thirty first, So but I was
Speaker 1: so I was I was really really hoping to see
Speaker 1: that radio by by by Ham mention, because you know
Speaker 1: that's you're getting into like you're almost halfway through the year.
Speaker 1: In hand mentions or you're about a month away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, be crossing our fingers to see if we
Speaker 1: can see that. Then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, like I said, we we said the first
Speaker 2: part of the year because the first half of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, because of once again we knew the we
Speaker 2: know the logistics of timing and trying to plan everything
Speaker 2: doesn't go as well as what we would think or
Speaker 2: we would hold. Yeah, yeah, and I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 2: Japan is you know a lot of people have asked
Speaker 2: questions about like the S version of the H version.
Speaker 2: So we were talking about letters earlier in the ar
Speaker 2: to ease the ages. You got to remember, in Japan,
Speaker 2: they go buy license class dictates the radio they can buy,
Speaker 2: not like in the US. I mean the technician can
Speaker 2: buy an h F rig, they just know not to
Speaker 2: operate it. Not in not in Japan area. Like you
Speaker 2: buy a radio, you have to buy for your license
Speaker 2: class and that means ban privileges and power privileges. Really yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's why that's why a lot of people have
Speaker 2: done that. They've bought in those radios over in the
Speaker 2: other countries and like, well it only chrances one six
Speaker 2: and on the HF bands it only puts out ten watts.
Speaker 2: You got a japan radio like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, well my job no, right, uh huh,
Speaker 1: that's right, yeah, absolutely so, all right. The other popular
Speaker 1: question I heard and well, we're gonna make this the
Speaker 1: last one. We could keep John for the next two hours,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to do that. The other popular
Speaker 1: question I heard two or three people say was basically
Speaker 1: I think one person put it as a smaller version
Speaker 1: of the nine ninety one A, and someone said a
Speaker 1: replacement for the eight fifty seven basically an listen to
Speaker 1: put it in most modern terms, basically an eight ninety
Speaker 1: one sized radio with vhf uhf in it. Anything looking
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: You know, we got a lot of things in research
Speaker 2: and development right now. Because I'll even go ahead and
Speaker 2: ill address the other thing too. I thought someone's gonna
Speaker 2: ask a question about that. It's like what happened to
Speaker 2: two one hundred and three hundred. Right now, we're really
Speaker 2: reviewing a lot of our component availability, which drives a
Speaker 2: lot of our obviously researcher development on there, and we're
Speaker 2: we're waiting to see on there. Obviously, the ft X
Speaker 2: one F is going to be the next focus the
Speaker 2: big focus of the radio coming out from there. As
Speaker 2: you're seeing we're still committed to VHF U of HF.
Speaker 2: We still are committed to fusion, you know. Obviously that's
Speaker 2: why I released the five to ten. We still have
Speaker 2: a repeater program. So we have a lot of research
Speaker 2: and development, but we kind of like to do it
Speaker 2: step by step on there, because if you release too
Speaker 2: much all at one time, that's where we've noticed a
Speaker 2: lot of confusion happened. Like a good example is COVID.
Speaker 2: We released a lot of radios during COVID. You did
Speaker 2: actually cause a lot of cause a lot of confusion
Speaker 2: with people because they're like, well, wait a minute, you know,
Speaker 2: what is this radio for now? Why didn't replace this?
Speaker 2: What did it do? That kind of thing. We are
Speaker 2: committed to HF. We have the top three HF radios.
Speaker 2: Alter say the top three. There was that one that
Speaker 2: was by Flex but never came to actual market, so
Speaker 2: we kind of say we had the top three on there.
Speaker 2: But as you see our SDR technology is there, you
Speaker 2: know you're going to see this SDR technology the ft
Speaker 2: X one F. You're seeing how we're doing things with
Speaker 2: audio that no one else is doing. On there. So
Speaker 2: as I've always said, I know people hate this, but
Speaker 2: it's the truth. Good things are coming. We got a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff coming down the pipe. It's going to
Speaker 2: be a next wild ride for the next three years.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 3: Is there a two twenty? Is that on? Is that
Speaker 3: on the roadmap somewhere?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, I'll be honest with you. We've we've talked about
Speaker 2: it internally and stuff. There's no plans for any two twenty.
Speaker 2: There's no plans for any nine hundred. And it's not
Speaker 2: just us here, it's even in the other countries. There's
Speaker 2: other bands that they are asking about that they won't
Speaker 2: do just because, let's face it's not a lot of
Speaker 2: global bands. And when you get really to a small market,
Speaker 2: it's it's very difficult. I love our customers, everybody that
Speaker 2: knows me and stuff like that that it's work with me.
Speaker 2: I love to work with you guys and everything. But
Speaker 2: you know, I've had so many people saying, yeah, I
Speaker 2: would buy it. I promise I would buy it, but
Speaker 2: I guarantee you if we came out, someone's not gonna
Speaker 2: like it. Even though they said they would buy it,
Speaker 2: they're not going to buy it. And to be honest
Speaker 2: with you. In this day and age with the market,
Speaker 2: we can't. We can't obviously, and it's not just us,
Speaker 2: right if you take a look at all the other manufacturers,
Speaker 2: we're we're not going to release mono banned radios or
Speaker 2: radios and bands that are going to be questionable on there,
Speaker 2: because then that takes time and development away from other
Speaker 2: projects on other projects that are not that could could
Speaker 2: do better, may serve a different purpose. If that makes
Speaker 2: sense for everybody.
Speaker 1: Okay, makes sense, Okay, I'm not I'm not happy to
Speaker 1: hear that. I mean, I think that, uh. I know
Speaker 1: that two twenty is not used in other countries, at
Speaker 1: least I think maybe Canada. I think North America has
Speaker 1: two twenty if I'm not mistaken, but I know it's
Speaker 1: not using Europe in Japan. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, it's to make sense to me to go
Speaker 1: ahead and make it two twenty radio anyway, because the
Speaker 1: USA has the biggest we're your large largest customer base.
Speaker 1: There's more hams in the USA than it is in Europe,
Speaker 1: in Japan, especially Europe, well even Japan.
Speaker 2: Correct. Yeah, And while that that is there, it's always
Speaker 2: as interesting on how the sales aspect of it kind
Speaker 2: of goes yeah. But I'll be honest with you. We've
Speaker 2: sat and we've looked at how other companies have done
Speaker 2: two twenty, kind of look at their things, and right now,
Speaker 2: maybe it we'll get better in a couple of years
Speaker 2: and maybe we might revisit it then, But as of
Speaker 2: right now, it's one of those where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well it's an honest answer. Good. Del Fargas says,
Speaker 1: by a two twenty or nine hundred radio, so you
Speaker 1: can talk to nobody maybe in your area. Maybe in
Speaker 1: your area, that's true, but there is a very active
Speaker 1: nine hundred megahertz repeater system here in North Texas, and
Speaker 1: there's eight or ten to twenty repeaters that the noise
Speaker 1: floor is so low on two twenty you can basically
Speaker 1: work any of the repeaters from anywhere around the Dallas
Speaker 1: Fort Worth area. They're not real active. You can find
Speaker 1: people on there. In fact, a lot of times you
Speaker 1: keep up on repeater and people say, wow, somebody on
Speaker 1: two twenty. You come back and have our ten minute
Speaker 1: conversation with somebody. But but yeah, I mean, it's those
Speaker 1: and get I get guess what, I get comments on
Speaker 1: my videos all the time saying VHF is dead. UHF
Speaker 1: is dead, and I'm like, dude, maybe where you are
Speaker 1: that's true, that ain't true everywhere. It's very regionally dependent.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of there's a lot of simplex activity
Speaker 1: on six top five two in Huntsville, Alabama. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of repeater VHF UHF repeater activity around the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles area. There's a lot of simplex activity on six
Speaker 1: six five two and a few other bands around the Phoenix,
Speaker 1: Arizona area. So it really depends and I know I'm
Speaker 1: leaving a lot of people out. It really depends on
Speaker 1: the regional So yeah, if you guys have a dead
Speaker 1: VHF UHF area, yeah, be the solution. Key up your radios.
Speaker 1: That's why did the repeater challenge the beginning of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Start talking on your repeaters and or simplex
Speaker 1: be the solution that you want to see. So all right,
Speaker 1: and soapbox down.
Speaker 2: But Jason to add to that though, too, is yeah,
Speaker 2: I can I can see things different obviously because as
Speaker 2: a manufacturer and a manufacturer of repeaters, you know you
Speaker 2: can see this and I will tell you the world
Speaker 2: has migrated, yes, a lot to like the all Star
Speaker 2: of the person or nodes and that kind of thing
Speaker 2: like that on there. But there is a starving out there.
Speaker 2: And we have heard great success stories where someone has
Speaker 2: put up a repeater and once you get that information
Speaker 2: out there about the repeater, then it goes ahead and
Speaker 2: does it. But it's not going through and I'm the
Speaker 2: president of Wisconsin Association Repeaters too. It's not through repeater listenings.
Speaker 2: It's not through repeater book. It's not through those kind
Speaker 2: of things. It's actually telling people about it and using it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and once people are aware of it, then people will
Speaker 2: start to use it. I just think people are moved
Speaker 2: to the mindset of everything's going to be a hotspot
Speaker 2: or know that they forget that there's actual infrastructure all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Yeah. One of the things I've made
Speaker 1: some videos recently talking about Brandmeister DMR and one of
Speaker 1: the things I don't like about that network is it's
Speaker 1: made up mostly of hot spots. That's why a lot
Speaker 1: of the traffic sounds like crap, because it's I mean
Speaker 1: to build a hot spot, to build a network out
Speaker 1: of hot spots, if you have a have a choice
Speaker 1: between one hundred dollars hot spot and a two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars commercial grade repeater Yazoo, Bridge, Coom, even Motorola. Which
Speaker 1: ones do you think is going to sound better? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not apples to apples. That's an Apple and oranges comparison.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and there's a lot more to it than that.
Speaker 1: I'm very I'm generalizing here a lot. I realized that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, totally. I totally agree about the repeater situation.
Speaker 1: Some people don't like repeaters and that's okay, But those
Speaker 1: of us who do like repeaters and think that there
Speaker 1: should be more activity on them should be the solution
Speaker 1: that we want to see on the repeater networks. So
Speaker 1: good John, I really appreciate your time tonight, buddy. I
Speaker 1: cooked you. I kept you a little bit longer than
Speaker 1: I had intended, but thanks for hanging with us. Always
Speaker 1: good to talk to you, and we will absolutely have
Speaker 1: you back on the show once yaz releases something new,
Speaker 1: maybe next week. We don't know yet, I mean, because
Speaker 1: you don't tell us until it's there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we are pretty aut it. But like I said,
Speaker 2: we got we got some good things coming on, so
Speaker 2: we're gonna We're gonna wait and then yeah, time will,
Speaker 2: time will be around. Like I said this week, I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people have even asked me this
Speaker 2: are you're okay? I haven't been able to get a
Speaker 2: hold of you last week. I've been in meetings, I've
Speaker 2: been in trainings, we've been doing one on one customer
Speaker 2: training sessions. Now is what we've actually kind of started.
Speaker 2: So it really kind of is one of those deals there.
Speaker 2: So by all means have me back on, We'll waltch
Speaker 2: or and go for.
Speaker 1: Consolutely absolutely cool man, Thanks a lot, appreciate it. Uh,
Speaker 1: you guys have a good evening, seventy three to all.
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week. I got some cool stuff
Speaker 1: to talk about next week on the live stream. Frank,
Speaker 1: do you have anything before we go.
Speaker 3: Go Kit Challenge? The Go Kit Challes video for me.
Speaker 3: It's coming out tomorrow. I'll go ahead and drop a
Speaker 3: link for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That and other than that, man, I just been busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy.
Speaker 3: So a lot of things awesome are coming down the
Speaker 3: pipe and awesome more expo and John, I have your
Speaker 3: card now, I'm coming. This is the back of the
Speaker 3: card is John's card. Hopefully I'm not showing anything I'm
Speaker 3: not supposed to. You are gonna come on to a
Speaker 3: live stream. I need to get you on and we're
Speaker 3: just gonna talk to smoke cigars. You are definitely gonna
Speaker 3: be coming on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he should be invited to your next cigar.
Speaker 3: I keep saying I wanted him, but then I'm like,
Speaker 3: send out all the invites, and I keep forgetting to
Speaker 3: come out and dig up his card because I have
Speaker 3: it sitting next to the computer. Now it's literally got
Speaker 3: it underneath the camera.
Speaker 2: So you are doing online and I'm sitting back watching
Speaker 2: mony Python.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's right, all right, yeah man, So we'll do it.
Speaker 1: We'll do it. Yep, yep, alright, guys, seventy three to all.
Speaker 1: We'll talk soon. Everyone, have a good night.
Speaker 2: Bye later