WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.960 Rad Tel RT nine fifty the RT nine to fifty 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:08.439 try band well actually multi band try display multi band radio. 3 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:10.359 A lot of people have asked me about this since 4 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:12.599 I did the video. But the Radtael eight eighty G 5 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:15.000 and the nine to twenty long story short, the eight 6 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:15.800 eighty G is good. 7 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:18.199 That nine twenty is okay, but not as good. 8 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:20.320 So I'm interested to see how this nine to fifty 9 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.079 stacks up against the other two models I've made videos 10 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:29.879 for so far, let's go. I've actually made videos for 11 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:32.679 a couple other I never released a video. I did 12 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:34.640 a Radtel model. I want to say it was like 13 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:36.920 an eight forty or eight hundred, so I don't know. 14 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:38.600 It's like a year, year and a half ago. And 15 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:41.039 it was so bad, it was so dirty, it was 16 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.000 so RFI dirty that I sent the video back to 17 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:45.719 Radtail and I'm like, I can't make a video about 18 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:47.640 this radio. I can't recommend it. It's terrible. Unless you 19 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:49.240 want me to make a video that says don't buy 20 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.079 this radio, I'm not making a video. Since then, pretty 21 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.520 much everything I've done for twenty twenty five has been 22 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:58.000 pretty good. I bought this radio on Amazon. I will 23 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:00.280 share a link to it in the description blow probably 24 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:04.079 can't hear it right now, but it's actually receiving APRS beacons. Okay, 25 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.159 I turn their APRS off, but it's still receiving the 26 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:09.680 APRS squad. So it's got a good but not great 27 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:13.959 APRS menu. It's try display. It does transmit on two twenty, 28 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.719 and it does receive HF shortwave, medium wave and whatnot. 29 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.760 So let's take a look at the screen real quick. 30 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.439 It's got these two look like PTT buttons here, and 31 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.920 if I keyed up on that right there, I transmit 32 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:28.640 KC five HTVV transmitting only forty four three nine HAA. 33 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:30.799 The side button right here is is it looks like 34 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:33.239 it's a bottom PTT right there, okay, but this one's 35 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:35.280 actually a PTT. Also, what's I'll show you in a second. 36 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:35.519 Okay. 37 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.719 So if I've got the top band selected right there, 38 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.519 but I key the middle PTT button, it'll key up 39 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.079 on four forty four dot one KC five HWB testing. 40 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:45.719 And then if I push this button right here on 41 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:48.480 the side, which does not look like a PTT, it 42 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.280 keys the bottom band two two three five hundred KC 43 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:55.439 five HWB testing. So it's got try PTTs along the side. 44 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:57.560 I assume these two and this this one right, here's 45 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.400 how you go into HF and shortwave. So i'll show 46 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:02.879 that in a second. These are probably programmable. 47 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:03.519 I don't know. 48 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:05.920 I haven't tried to program This is just how it 49 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.240 came out of the box. And that's screen protectors. It's 50 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.639 not a screen protector. That's the overlay that comes on 51 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.159 the screen when you pull it out of the box. 52 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:16.439 There we go, all right, So tryban, try display, try 53 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:18.919 PTT buttons on the side there. It does have your 54 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:21.840 standard Kinwood K connector on the side over here, and 55 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:24.680 it is buttoned down by this. Looks like you can 56 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:26.520 flip it down, but you can't. This is a waterproof 57 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:29.080 rating IP sixty seven or sixty eight, whichever one it is, 58 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.159 and it is you have to take this screw out 59 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:33.199 to get to it. So this the top of the 60 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.599 radio here. This is of course your volume knob. This 61 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:37.960 is your channel selector knob. And it's the antenna obviously. 62 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.400 This is the antenna that came with it. It has 63 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:44.039 a SMA female connection on the antenna and an SMA 64 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:48.639 mail connection on the radio itself that back in. Yeah, 65 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.159 it's receiving APRS packets right now, but I don't have 66 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:53.120 APRS turned on. I'm want to show you that in 67 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.719 a second, belt clip goes on. The battery itself has 68 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:58.159 a USBC charging port on the back of the battery 69 00:02:58.240 --> 00:02:59.000 right there. 70 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:01.439 So you want to charge it that way as well. 71 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.280 So pretty good size battery mini radios are these, It's 72 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.080 about the size is a little bit maybe a little 73 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.680 bit taller than the AD eighty G, so I don't 74 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.879 have my adadag here with me. In fact, I took 75 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:13.319 it to the hunting least because I'm gonna do some 76 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.319 more videos with it down there. But taller, large screen, 77 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:19.319 large display, and a good a good heavy feel to it. 78 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:21.680 So far impressed. Let's go through the APRS menu. I'm 79 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:23.280 gonna put it on the tiny SA and see what 80 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:24.439 it looks like, and then we're going to do a 81 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.599 power test with it. So if we go into this 82 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.719 is the menu, and the menu system's pretty good. We 83 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:34.840 got Fox zone VFO and channel CTCSS and DSS radio set, 84 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.000 APRS set. We're going to go that here in a second, 85 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.719 navigate it through this touchpad here and then user key, 86 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:47.120 Bluetooth signaling setting, reset and about and then it goes 87 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:49.680 back to so there's only six icons per menu, two 88 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.360 menus twelve icons, and then are multiple things inside of 89 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.400 each of those icons. We go into APRS set. Here 90 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.599 we can turn APRS off and on. I've got it 91 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.719 off right now, I'm gonna turn on here in a second. 92 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.199 I got GPS turned on. By default, it was off 93 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.199 and everything was set to metric like meters and kilometers 94 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:07.120 per hour. I went through and reset all those to 95 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:11.599 standard for a USA becon, set up call sign SSID, 96 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.360 choose path. This was off by default, So I've got 97 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.600 the path is wide one one wide two to one 98 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:21.120 right now. You can change that obviously user path. I 99 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.120 can do dig digital digital digital here. It's got some 100 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.680 digital settings in here that I don't quite understand. I 101 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.399 assume that's to use through a Brandmeister repeater, but I'm 102 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.920 morgested in using it over regular FM analog APRS as 103 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.240 it works. It's a digital signal, it's not an analog signal, 104 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:43.319 but it is going over analog FM mode. Okay, repeater 105 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.439 setting and there you can go to repeater setting routing. 106 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:49.399 You can tell it how to set for the digital 107 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:53.639 channel repeater. I don't know how that got changed. Now 108 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.519 it's on one forty four three eight. I probably bumped 109 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:01.879 a button. Okay, go back in here. It's not touchscreen, 110 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:03.839 so I can't do that. I keep trying to touch 111 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:07.160 screen it, but it doesn't work. Going here, So settings 112 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.240 in there for using through a Brandmester repeater which has 113 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.560 APRS enabled advanced. You can go in there and do 114 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.160 transmit delay APRS ringer, RX pop up. I've got that 115 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:16.959 turned on. We're going to see that in a minute. 116 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.680 I've got RX beacon clear so you can clear that 117 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:22.439 out tn C type. It does have a kiss T 118 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:25.000 and C and it does have Bluetooth, so I'm going 119 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:27.279 to probably try to use this with APRS droid in 120 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:29.560 another video. Put a comment blow if you'd like to 121 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.160 see that factory settings. We can reset the factory from there. 122 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.879 Go back one beacon type under advanced Beacon type is 123 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:42.800 manual or timing beacon as for for when it becons 124 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:46.240 my call sign over APRS. And then we're back to 125 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:49.439 the top. So we've got four six menus there in 126 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.360 the APRS menu. What I don't see, Okay, let me 127 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.800 go ahead and turn this on. I'm going to turn 128 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:57.240 that on, and we're on one forty four to three nine, 129 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:02.000 and I think that there's a I saw in here somewhere. 130 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:04.399 It's not there. 131 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:17.600 No, it's not there either. Okay, it's going to it's 132 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.439 going to transmit APRS on whatever the chosen frequency is. 133 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:21.959 I didn't see a place in the menu to tell 134 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:23.000 it to always transmit on a. 135 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:24.920 B or C. I didn't see that. Okay. 136 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.399 What I also don't see, and now APRS is quiet. 137 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:31.600 What I also don't see is a way too. Okay, 138 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:33.560 there it is right there, and then it pops up 139 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.279 N five jat dash nine. I've been hearing him this morning, 140 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:37.839 and then. 141 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:38.279 It goes away. 142 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:40.560 I don't see a way to go into the message 143 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.560 or the station list. There's not a way. Like on 144 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:45.399 your Yazu and your Kinwood radios. I can go in 145 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.839 there and I can say what stations have I heard 146 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.639 for the last I don't know, hour or day or 147 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.560 however long it is, and it gives me a list 148 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:55.079 of those stations. It also gives me a message list 149 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:57.519 that I can send and receive messages. I don't see 150 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.240 a message list, and I don't see a station list 151 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:02.160 like the station will pop up here on the screen 152 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.639 for two or three seconds then go away. But I 153 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:07.000 can't go back to it, or at least if I can, 154 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:08.360 I can't figure out a way to do it. And 155 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:09.720 if there is a way to do it, it's not 156 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:12.920 in this APRS set menu. There might be another menu 157 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.319 in here. I haven't dug real deep into all twelve 158 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.600 of these menus, but it should be. If you have 159 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.199 a message list or a station list, it should be 160 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:23.560 under the APRS menu, and it's not. 161 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:24.600 It's not there. 162 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.560 So there we go in five jat dash nine Again, 163 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:32.120 so APRS seems to work, but it seems quite limited 164 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.480 because you're missing a few key elements right there. There's 165 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.879 in eight HRV dash seven. Okay, so you're missing a 166 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.199 few key elements, a few key pieces that you need 167 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:44.240 to do full APRS capability, which of course is seeing 168 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.319 all the stations you've seen. Because if I see, oh, 169 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:48.600 I know that guy, but he's five or six down 170 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:50.040 on the list you want to message him, you should 171 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.000 be able to go into the station list, click on 172 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.240 which one you want a message, and hit message and go. 173 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:55.879 There doesn't seem to be a way to message with 174 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:57.480 this thing at all. And again, if it's got a 175 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.879 Bluetooth kiss t and C, which I have not tested yet. 176 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:01.240 We're not going to do that today. I want to 177 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.800 see how spectral clean and pure this thing is first, okay, 178 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.600 because traditionally, speaking with the exception of the eight to 179 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.600 eighty G, most of the rattails I've tested have been 180 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.600 kind of dirty. The nine to twenty was okay, but 181 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:13.240 the eight to eighty was better. So I'm going to 182 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.160 test this on the tiny essay and we're going to 183 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:16.680 put it on the power meter. We're going to see 184 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.000 what it's doing, and then you guys, once again, you guys, 185 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:20.800 let me know if you would like to see this 186 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:24.439 connected to my smartphone with APRS droid to do some 187 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.240 APRS Bluetooth T and C messaging. Because APRS droid is 188 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.040 full featured, you can do everything with it. So let's 189 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:31.920 put it on the tiny SA. Okay, We've got this 190 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:34.759 set up on the Tinyesa here and I've set it 191 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:38.120 to one five to two with an ext with a 192 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:40.879 level of minus forty dB. I'll show you how to 193 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.159 set that on the second one. This radio is advertised 194 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:44.679 as a tim watt radio, and I'm going to do 195 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:46.039 a power test on it here in a minute. But 196 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:47.559 I haven't done that yet. So we're going to do 197 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.759 all our tests today on medium power and go in 198 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.320 here and go to transmit power and go to middle 199 00:08:55.320 --> 00:09:00.600 just like that, cook back, and we're going to up six. 200 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:05.240 Top five to two. Okay, Okay, so far, so good. 201 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.519 I like that. I like the heck out of that. 202 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:10.639 That looks really good. 203 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:13.480 Yeah, I do like that. 204 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:17.919 Okay, no barbs in the right side over there at all? 205 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:20.720 Excellent? Okay, good. 206 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:25.639 Now let's go back in here and I'm gonna say 207 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:28.480 we're gonna go to measure harmonic and I'm gonna say 208 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:34.039 two two three dot five mega hurts, mega hurts, and 209 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:37.879 then I'm gonna go back into level and ext gain 210 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.679 and go to minus forty times one, and then I'm 211 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.919 going to go to the middle or no, I'm gonna 212 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.399 go to the bottom band here, because that's where two 213 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.480 two three five is. You could do it from any band, 214 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.120 but I'm gonna do it from here. I'm gonna change 215 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:56.840 my transmit power to middle. It's probably not a full 216 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.559 ten watts on two twenty, but we'll find that out 217 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:02.399 here in a minute. Okay, Now we're on two twenty 218 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:08.039 and I'm gonna say key that there, all right, it's 219 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.679 got a little barb as a second harmonic, which looks 220 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:18.120 like it's around for forty six. Maybe it's down at 221 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:23.279 like negative thirty though, it's way down there. So the 222 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:26.080 number one right there looks good. And then now it's 223 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:29.440 gone away. I've held it down long enough. It's gone away. Okay, 224 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:31.120 that's it. I would I would still call that a 225 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.279 clean signal. I would still call that a clean signal. 226 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:35.960 On the two two three dot five band two for three. 227 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:38.759 So far, so far, so good. I'm liking what I 228 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.360 see so far. Okay, And again we're on middle power 229 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.440 because because this is a ten wat etenuator here, and 230 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:44.960 I don't want it to do a little bit overpower. 231 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:47.360 And realistically, the two two three dot five band is 232 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:50.600 probably not a full ten wats anyway, Sadly, sadly, it's 233 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:52.360 probably not a full ten wats anyway. So we're gonna 234 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.240 go back in here and go to I've got this 235 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.360 set on full forty one. Let's just go there, Mega hurtz, 236 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.799 Mega hurtz. And then we're going to go to level 237 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:06.960 extea minus forty times one, and we're going to go 238 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:19.919 to the middle band and set it to midpower and 239 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:28.360 now we're going to transmit right there. All right, it's 240 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:30.759 taken in a minute to read anything. It's got an 241 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.519 eighth harmonic up there at like two point nine gigahertz, 242 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:35.840 but it's pretty low, about a minus thirty right now. 243 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.519 And then the single harmonic there on the left, number one, 244 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:39.720 and that is great. 245 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.279 I like that. I like the heck out of that. 246 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:45.600 So very good, clean looking radio from Radtel, maybe one 247 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.720 of the cleanest ones so far. I don't recall exactly 248 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:51.320 what the signal looked like on the ADADG. I do 249 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.080 remember it was clean. I don't remember if we tested 250 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:54.000 two twenty three or not. 251 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:55.120 I don't know. I have to go back and watch 252 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:55.720 my own video. 253 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:59.039 But that's a clean signal on three bands for transmitting 254 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:01.639 from this RT nine fifty g. Good deal so far, 255 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:05.120 excellent looking quality, a little bit lacking on the APRS menu, 256 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:06.879 that's okay. Now we're going to put it on the 257 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:09.279 power meter and see how close it gets to ten wants. 258 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.360 All right, Before we get started here, I want to 259 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.159 remind everybody that today's video is sponsored by Messi and 260 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:16.559 Plony Coacs Mezzi and Plonies. 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Thank you Mezzimplony for supporting the channel. 270 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.320 So I went through and set all of this too 271 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.399 high back to high power, okay, and I'll go into 272 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:48.000 one of these and show you here and transmit power there, 273 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.320 and it's on high power. You can see at the 274 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:53.000 top right there, little out of focus on the radio, 275 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.039 but we're focused on the meter right now. So one 276 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.840 five to two is where we're starting today. That's the 277 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.360 one that's select it at the top. We're gonna hit 278 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.320 transmit and worrit about seven point five watts, about seven 279 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:10.759 and a half watts on the two meter calling frequency. 280 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:12.559 So we want to see how close to ten wats 281 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.480 we were getting. And it looks like it's it's not 282 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:15.360 quite there yet. 283 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:15.720 Okay. 284 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:17.399 Now I've switched to the middle band for forty one 285 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:21.759 dot zero. I'm gonna key up again five point eight watts. Okay, 286 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:24.799 that's pretty good right there. And then I'm gonna switch 287 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:26.519 to the bottom band two two three dot five O 288 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:29.840 five because I bumped it. There we go, two two 289 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:31.919 three dot five hundred. We're gonna key up the bottom 290 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:35.320 band right there. Bottom band is keyed. Oh wow, look 291 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:38.039 at that. It says it's transmitting with zero point zero 292 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:40.919 one watts. Let me make sure I've got the output 293 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:46.480 power set correctly. Transmit power is set to high right there. Okay, 294 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.720 and we're gonna transmit again two two three dot five hundred. 295 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.000 Beare it's really not outputting anything at all? 296 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.120 Okay, Let's switch the top band to two two three 297 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:55.360 doup five hundred just to check. 298 00:13:58.799 --> 00:13:59.000 Okay. 299 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:00.679 Now I'm on two two three five hundred on the 300 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.879 top band. I'm gonna key up the top PTT button 301 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.399 right there now, same thing, okay, same thing all right. 302 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:10.159 So this is actually not a triband radio like I 303 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:13.639 was thinking it was. It's advertised as multiband because it 304 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.720 will receive multi bands on HF and shortwave. The eight 305 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:20.720 eighty G would transmit on two twenty nine, don't I 306 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:22.200 don't remember if I did a power test on that 307 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:24.960 one or not, but we used that one at Montasento 308 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.159 State Park in August of twenty twenty five. One guy 309 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:28.879 had one of those there and we used it to 310 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.360 transmit on two twenty to do some two twenty FM 311 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:32.600 simplex activations for. 312 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.720 PODA, and we also used his radio, one of three 313 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:36.559 or four radios. 314 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:39.399 I vaguely recall checking the eight EIGHTYG on six meters 315 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:41.639 and the signal was incredibly dirty. Okay, so it's a dirty, 316 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.200 dirty signal. It's not probably not really supposed to transmit 317 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:46.320 over there. But the reason we saw such a clean 318 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.039 signal on two two three dot five on this radio 319 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.759 because it's not really it's transmitting like one one hundredth 320 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:52.759 of a watt, one two hundredth of a watt or 321 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:54.519 two one hundreds of a watt I should say one 322 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.720 to two one hundredths of a watt according to this 323 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.879 meter here. Now, some of you might come along and say, well, 324 00:14:59.039 --> 00:14:59.759 I test on my meter. 325 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:01.960 I watts. Okay, so that's one of two things. 326 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:03.919 This is a brand new meter and I've tested it 327 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:05.600 against two or three other meters I have when I 328 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.360 first got it, and it was pretty much right on. 329 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.120 So that's probably a quality control issue coming out of China. 330 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:11.960 You might get one radio that's solid ten watts, you 331 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.120 might get another one's only five or six seven watts. 332 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:15.840 Is there a big difference between seven and a half 333 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:16.440 and ten watts? 334 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:16.799 No, there's not. 335 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:18.799 You're not going to notice a huge difference with that. 336 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:20.480 Last thing I'm going to show you today is the 337 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:22.919 HF menu in this I should have showed you this earlier, 338 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:24.600 and I kind of forgot. So let's go over here 339 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.799 to the HF menu. Disappointed that this thing will not 340 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:29.679 transmit on two twenty, or at least not Well, you 341 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:32.840 could probably have a conversation with a guy standing across 342 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:34.799 the parking lot from you on two twenty, but you 343 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:36.480 know it's not going to get out very far. So 344 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:38.480 if we hit this last button down here, if we 345 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:42.120 hit this one right here, And at first I thought 346 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.320 this was FM broadcast radio, and I think maybe you 347 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:47.320 can go to that frequency in that band, but no, 348 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:49.120 Now you can go in here and I can say 349 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:54.559 menu modulation, and I can choose from FMAM lower and 350 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.519 upper sideband NCW. Okay, there's no digital modulation. I was 351 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.799 trying to listen over here earlier for or just to 352 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:03.039 see if I could hear this is the twenty meter 353 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:05.720 FT eight frequency, and I can't hear anything at all. 354 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:05.919 Now. 355 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:07.960 We're just on a rubber duck antenna. I mean, there's 356 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.240 nothing special about this antenna. We're not on the outside antent. 357 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.159 I might be able to hear something if I put 358 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.600 it over there on the outside antenna, but I haven't 359 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:20.519 done that. So we can go here and say, okay, 360 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:24.000 that's two megaherts. I could say two seven four hundred megahertz. 361 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:28.200 That's channel forty on CB, and we're on upper sideband 362 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.559 still right now. Right if I say two seven seven 363 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:35.360 five y five, it's one of those rogue above the 364 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:38.600 CB channel frequencies that gets used on sideband sometimes. So 365 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:40.559 it'll go here and it'll listen to these and I 366 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:44.840 don't think it'll transmit. No, if you hit the transmit button, 367 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.039 it goes back to this menu, so it's received only 368 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.320 on these places. And if you try to go to 369 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.679 I did this is something I noticed at first. Also, 370 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.960 we go back here. Let's say I'm in VFO mode 371 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:03.480 right now, seven four hundred. It will not go from 372 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.240 the transmitting menu. It will not go to HF or 373 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:09.799 shortwave from there. So you can receive only with this 374 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:11.839 menu unless there's a hack out there that I don't 375 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:13.519 know about, and if so, it's probably gonna be a 376 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:16.720 pretty poor signal anyway. And it'll transmit from the transmit 377 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:20.079 menu with two meters and for forty and it will 378 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:22.000 wonder if it will transmit. I didn't I didn't think 379 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:23.640 to look this. I'm gonna see if it will transmit 380 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.160 on four six two dot five hundred, which is a 381 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.839 GMRS frequency, or pretty close to a GMRS frequency. Let's 382 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:36.720 go down here, four six' Two, okay it'll go, there let's. Transmit, 383 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:42.400 yep it's transmitting THERE wrfk three eleven, Okay so it will. 384 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:44.039 Transmit because a lot of you will ask me in the, 385 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:46.519 comments does it? Transmit can you hack? This can you 386 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.160 modify it to go TO? Gmrs it DOES gmrs. 387 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:49.039 Out of the. 388 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:52.799 Box so there you, go really, clean impressive signal on 389 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:55.359 two meters and four to forty seventy centimeters on the 390 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:59.160 amateur radio. Bands full spectrum of receive for shortwave IN 391 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.599 hf up for lower side BAND cw the whole nine. 392 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:04.440 Yards that's really. Good disappointed it won't transmit more power 393 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.880 on two. TWENTY i was expecting a low power, output 394 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:10.079 but not one one hundredth of a. Watt so at 395 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:11.960 least it doesn't bepatch you and say out of. Ban 396 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.319 at least it doesn't do. That so how many of 397 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:16.039 you carry this? Radio what do you think about? It 398 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:17.880 how long you been carrying? It and what do you 399 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:21.359 think about? It have you transmitted somewhere besides two meters 400 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.440 and seventy centimeters on? It and what do you think about? 401 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:25.359