Speaker 1: Bowfang UV thirty two. This is a newer Bowfang radio
Speaker 1: that I just picked up. I don't know is actually
Speaker 1: earlier this year. I picked it up, I've tinkered with
Speaker 1: it a little bit, and I've got some thoughts about it.
Speaker 1: So this is a Balfang UV thirty two, and it's taller,
Speaker 1: got a taller antenna. It's still just a dual band.
Speaker 1: I don't really remember if I've ever done two twenty
Speaker 1: with this or not. So we're gonna try some two
Speaker 1: twenty and go from there. I'm gonna put this on
Speaker 1: the tiny Essa. We're gonna do a spectral purity test,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna compare it to another radio that I
Speaker 1: did a video about earlier this year, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: put it on the power meter because according to Amazon
Speaker 1: on this web page right here, this should be a
Speaker 1: ten watt radio ten watt rechargeable walkie talkie u V
Speaker 1: thirty two five RM K five. I don't know if
Speaker 1: i'd associate a five RM with this radio. It's five
Speaker 1: RM was crap on the tinysa handheld two way radio.
Speaker 1: Noah Weather receive with GPS. It doesn't do true APRS,
Speaker 1: so I don't really These radios with GPS are kind
Speaker 1: of there's not much point to them because unless it
Speaker 1: does true APR. Yeah, sure, I don't tell you where
Speaker 1: you are. Your phone will do that even if you
Speaker 1: don't have a cell signal because it's got a GPS
Speaker 1: chip in it. So radios with GPS are just kind
Speaker 1: of waste in my book app programming. I am going
Speaker 1: to download this Bowfang app and try it. I've got
Speaker 1: four or five different radios now that this Balfang Bluetooth
Speaker 1: app will supposedly work on. I've read mixed reviews about
Speaker 1: this bluetooth app. One guy gave the seven bravo. I
Speaker 1: did a video about the UV seven Bravo a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and one guy gave it a one star
Speaker 1: review because he said the app was garbage. I think
Speaker 1: I might do another video soon about the app itself.
Speaker 1: Because I've never installed this app. I don't really want
Speaker 1: to put a Bowfang app on my phone. I've got
Speaker 1: a couple of extra Android phones floating around here, so
Speaker 1: I'll put it on an extra phone and see what
Speaker 1: it looks like. But let's take a look at this
Speaker 1: real quick and do a kind of a close up
Speaker 1: overhead here, this is obviously the bowfang. Right here, this
Speaker 1: is the hand Geek that I reviewed. I think it
Speaker 1: was this year. It might have been last year, I
Speaker 1: don't remember. Now you can see the Bowfang's actually a
Speaker 1: little bit taller this way. Okay, so they're both about
Speaker 1: right here at the top, taller this way. Balfang has
Speaker 1: a bigger screen, okay. The hand Geek screen is smaller
Speaker 1: and the text is smaller as well. So I got
Speaker 1: a lot of really good comments and good views on
Speaker 1: this video. When I made this video, I really wanted
Speaker 1: to do another video about this radio and put it
Speaker 1: on the computer and program it. And the software for
Speaker 1: this radio is crap. It is garbage. I installed the
Speaker 1: driver that they sent me, didn't have a problem. There
Speaker 1: will not read the radio. Tried on two different computers.
Speaker 1: Email the guy I bought this from on eBay. He goes, oh, no,
Speaker 1: you installed the driver wrong. I'm like, installed the driver wrong.
Speaker 1: You go into the driver Device Manager Windows. It's in there.
Speaker 1: It says good working, there's no update. It's okay, fine,
Speaker 1: there's no errors and it will not read the radio.
Speaker 1: So I don't recommend this radio. This Handgeek radio anymore
Speaker 1: simply because you can't get it to read on a
Speaker 1: computer on a Windows box, which means you're really not
Speaker 1: going to get it to read on a Macro Linux box.
Speaker 1: But maybe you know, I was a year year and
Speaker 1: a half ago, so maybe they've updated it, maybe they've
Speaker 1: changed it, maybe they've fixed something on it, and maybe
Speaker 1: I just got a bad one. That's possible. If anyone's
Speaker 1: ever programmed this hand geek from a Windows box, put
Speaker 1: a comment in the video, blow, I would love to
Speaker 1: know about it. But so far, what I've found is
Speaker 1: that this bowfang just kind of generally works better on
Speaker 1: receive and it sounds a little bit better on transmit
Speaker 1: than the hand geek does. I just wanted to show
Speaker 1: the handgeek because it was a video that I made
Speaker 1: a while back, and I got a lot of watch
Speaker 1: time on that video, a lot of interest in that video.
Speaker 1: So this right here, see we got the top band
Speaker 1: and the bottom band, so we got one forty six
Speaker 1: five to two on the top band case five h
Speaker 1: tobb testing okay, and we can go down here to
Speaker 1: the bottom band kerchunk my local Uless repeater right there, okay,
Speaker 1: And We've got two buttons on the side of it here.
Speaker 1: This one right here turns on the FM broadcast receiver
Speaker 1: and this bottom one here looks like it's doing a
Speaker 1: pl tone scan. So these two buttons here are programmable
Speaker 1: in the software, or they it claims they are. Again,
Speaker 1: I haven't put the software on, but it claims they are.
Speaker 1: This is your standard Kinwood K connector underneath the waterproof
Speaker 1: cover right there. Okay, this back here is a USB
Speaker 1: C on the battery. Obviously. One thing that the hand
Speaker 1: geek has that the Balfang doesn't have is the Handgeek
Speaker 1: has an extra screen up here at the top. I
Speaker 1: thought that having that screen up there at the top.
Speaker 1: I thought there was a neat feature. I really like
Speaker 1: the feature of having that screen at the top. This
Speaker 1: one does not have that. But you see the knobs
Speaker 1: of the same The antennas are about the same height
Speaker 1: that whatnot. It's got an extra speaker on the back here,
Speaker 1: and just like this does. And that's and that it
Speaker 1: comes with a desk charger. I mean, who cares because
Speaker 1: it's got this USBC in the back of which is
Speaker 1: on the battery and the battery connects via the screw
Speaker 1: on the bottom, so it is waterproof to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: and it so far I've had pretty good luck with it.
Speaker 1: The thing you'll notice there's no belt clip or anything
Speaker 1: like that on it. The thing I don't like about
Speaker 1: it really is that it doesn't it's a little bit
Speaker 1: more cumbersome to carry. It does come with this holder
Speaker 1: you can kind of mully connect. This is just one
Speaker 1: little strap here, and you can connect it to a
Speaker 1: molly panel on your backpack or whatnot, and it goes
Speaker 1: if it's in here really good. Good goes around like
Speaker 1: this snaps down. So this will hold it on the
Speaker 1: side of your backpack or your go bag, well your
Speaker 1: computer bag or like your antenna bag or something like
Speaker 1: that for Poda, and you can do that with it.
Speaker 1: And you can see right there. It comes with several
Speaker 1: other things on the website. Right here, we've got this
Speaker 1: photo here, two different antenna's desk, cradle, charger, earpiece, whatnot.
Speaker 1: Thirty five bucks ten percent off at the time of
Speaker 1: this recording. So let's put this on the Tinyesa and
Speaker 1: see what we can find. Actually, I decided to change
Speaker 1: my mind and go ahead and do the power test
Speaker 1: first because I had some comments on the previous video
Speaker 1: about doing a power test first so that I know
Speaker 1: where to set the power output of the radio on
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Speaker 1: this one, and you can see right here, I've got
Speaker 1: this set at one forty six dot five to two,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad I've already pushed the button before I
Speaker 1: started the recording. I'm really glad that I did this
Speaker 1: one first because it's gonna prove that this is definitely
Speaker 1: a ten watt radio. We're getting about ten point two
Speaker 1: watts right here, which means I'm gonna have to turn
Speaker 1: the power down to do the tiny output or tiny
Speaker 1: SA output, because that is a ten wat attenuator on
Speaker 1: the tiny SA and I don't want to burn it up.
Speaker 1: So ten watts on two meters really good. There. I
Speaker 1: don't think this thing transmits on two twenty, but let's
Speaker 1: i'm wrong. It does transmit on two twenty. Three watts
Speaker 1: on two two three dot five awesome, okay, good, So
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go to four forty six dot zero
Speaker 1: right here and six point eight almost seven watts on
Speaker 1: four to forty. So this is a triband radio. I
Speaker 1: wonder if it will transfer. I kind of doubt it
Speaker 1: will transmit on six meters. I have two nope, nope,
Speaker 1: it's not going to let me type a zero there,
Speaker 1: so I can't type five two five dot five is
Speaker 1: going to five hundred megahertz, so it's not going to
Speaker 1: go to six meters. It'll probably go to four sixty
Speaker 1: two five hundred. People always ask, yep, there it is
Speaker 1: seven watts on four six two five hundred. We're going
Speaker 1: into a dummy lod right now, so we don't need
Speaker 1: to id because it's not actually transmitting. There we go.
Speaker 1: So it transmits on two twenty, and it transmits on
Speaker 1: the GMRS FRS bands. So let's put this on a
Speaker 1: tiny essay and switching over here to the overhead cam
Speaker 1: looking at the tiny SSA. Now I have to turn
Speaker 1: the power down because this is a ten wat forty
Speaker 1: dB attenuator right here, and I don't want to smoke
Speaker 1: this thing, and also I don't want an inaccurate test.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go ahead and turn the power down
Speaker 1: like it's a six watt radio. Perhaps there's a larger
Speaker 1: intenuator I can get for future videos, but right now,
Speaker 1: this is what we've got. So if I go in
Speaker 1: here to the menu and I scroll down a program
Speaker 1: channel and I go to trans power, there, it is
Speaker 1: too trans power, and we're gonna go to mid power.
Speaker 1: Now we can do high power on two twenty and
Speaker 1: on four to forty, but on two meters two we're
Speaker 1: gonna do mid power. Make sure that's there, mid power. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. All right, So let's go ahead, and
Speaker 1: the tiny essay is programmed for one five to two. Okay.
Speaker 1: Not a very clean signal. Not a very clean signal.
Speaker 1: You can see right here it's got harmonics, a second
Speaker 1: and a third harmonic second harmonics around Okay, that third
Speaker 1: one disappeared good round two hundred and ninety three megahertz
Speaker 1: that's second harmonic, so not great, not as good as
Speaker 1: some bow things that I've had in the past, but
Speaker 1: that's what it is, Okay, So let's go to two twenty.
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see what it'll do on two
Speaker 1: twenty two two five, and we're gonna change it back
Speaker 1: to high power, okay. And now I've got to change
Speaker 1: my tiny essay, and we're gonna go to measure harmonic
Speaker 1: two two three five Mega hurts. Nope, mega hurts. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go back here and go to level minus forty
Speaker 1: times one. And now we're gonna kee up on high power,
Speaker 1: which was only like three and a half watts as
Speaker 1: you saw a minute ago. Okay, still kind of dirty
Speaker 1: even though it's only running three and a half watts.
Speaker 1: Still got a second and third harmonic. I'm guessing if
Speaker 1: I hold the power down that long. Yeah, third hard
Speaker 1: monic went away like it did on the two meters side, okay,
Speaker 1: and the second harmonic's only down at like negative twenty,
Speaker 1: so it's not very powerful it is there. We want
Speaker 1: to see everything down below negative forty negative forties with
Speaker 1: this is negative forty is what we set that minus
Speaker 1: forty times one okay, and you can see the second
Speaker 1: harmonic has disappeared now, so not too bad. On two twenty,
Speaker 1: not too bad. Now let's go to four forty six,
Speaker 1: and we've got to resettle this again, still on high
Speaker 1: power for forty six, and we've got a third harmonic
Speaker 1: there again and an eighth harmonic at the top somewhere
Speaker 1: around two point ninety eight gigahertz, and yep, okay, and
Speaker 1: the third harmonic went away again. Eight harmonics still there,
Speaker 1: second harmonics right around zero, so it's definitely transmitting on
Speaker 1: for forty six and around nine hundred megahertz when your
Speaker 1: keyed down there. So not the cleanest bowfang that I've tested.
Speaker 1: I've tested some dirty bowfangs recently, and I've tested some
Speaker 1: clean bowfangs recently. And guess what I had high hopes
Speaker 1: for this one I did. Now I'm gonna do some
Speaker 1: tinkering with it, okay, cause I like the menu. It's
Speaker 1: actually outputting ten watts as it advertises. Okay, it's out
Speaker 1: putting ten watts. You can't complain with that. So it's
Speaker 1: out putting ten watts. It transmits on gmrs. Not that
Speaker 1: I'm telling you should do that. You do you. I
Speaker 1: don't care. It does two twenty, so I might try
Speaker 1: to program some local two twenty repeaters around here and
Speaker 1: try to key it up and see what it sounds like.
Speaker 1: But it does all of the things. It's just a
Speaker 1: little dirty. I wish it was a little bit cleaner. Now,
Speaker 1: your results might vary. In that same video I was
Speaker 1: telling you about that, somebody said you should always test
Speaker 1: on high power. I agree with that in principle, but again,
Speaker 1: my attenuator is only ten watts, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to smoke it. And also I don't want to get
Speaker 1: an inaccurate test if we pump eleven or twelve watts
Speaker 1: into it, so I'm always going to test it below
Speaker 1: ten watts. Maybe I'll look for a twenty wide at
Speaker 1: ten watter that might be a little bit better for
Speaker 1: an HT. We'll see. But some of these radios might vary.
Speaker 1: You might get one that's totally clean. Okay, this one's
Speaker 1: a little dirty. I've certainly seen worse radios, But the
Speaker 1: last Bowfang that I tested was much better than this one.
Speaker 1: So it kind of depends on what you want. Again,
Speaker 1: if you want to clean signal, which you should, you
Speaker 1: should want a clean signal. I want to clean sigal.
Speaker 1: I want to clean signal with radios that I carry,
Speaker 1: because if you have a dirty signal, that means you're
Speaker 1: transmitting in two or three places at the same time.
Speaker 1: So if you're going out in the woods trying to
Speaker 1: be stealth and all that, and you keep up your
Speaker 1: radio to talk to your buddies or your your pals
Speaker 1: or something, and you're transmitting on two or three frequencies
Speaker 1: at the same time instead of just one, gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot easier to direction find you. So who has
Speaker 1: this radio? What do you think about it? Okay, again,
Speaker 1: this is the UV thirty two. There's another one called
Speaker 1: a DM thirty two, which in courth brace DMR. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna grab that one next. We're gonna do a video
Speaker 1: with that soon. This is the UV thirty two ten
Speaker 1: watts tryband open for gmrs true ten watts on two
Speaker 1: meter band. What do you think about it? Put a
Speaker 1: comment in the video below. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Seventy three guys, and we will catch you next time.
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