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Speaker 1: is the best handheld ham radio for twenty twenty four?
Speaker 1: The best HT radio HT for handy talking or handheld transceiver?
Speaker 1: What is the best one for twenty twenty four? I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you my top fourteen radios that range
Speaker 1: in price, and I'm going to show you features of
Speaker 1: each one and let you pick and you decide what
Speaker 1: you want. Let's go. These videos are popular every year.
Speaker 1: I've been doing them since twenty twenty and I really
Speaker 1: enjoy these videos. I don't want to do them too
Speaker 1: early in the year because we don't know what's gonna
Speaker 1: come out yet. But since the Huntsville Hamfest just ended
Speaker 1: and the Tokyo Hamfare just happened, we get to see
Speaker 1: some new HTS on the market. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: my top fourteen today. As I do with most of
Speaker 1: these videos, these are going to range in price. We're
Speaker 1: going to start with the lowest price and we're going
Speaker 1: to go up to the highest price. So this is
Speaker 1: number fourteen. Number fourteen is the lowest price now you
Speaker 1: can and a lot on a lot of these videos.
Speaker 1: I will start with the Balfang UV five R. And
Speaker 1: you can still get a Balfang UV five R on
Speaker 1: Amazon for some times between twenty three to twenty seven dollars,
Speaker 1: a kind of range in price. Sometimes you can get
Speaker 1: a package which a bunch of assessories all for like
Speaker 1: thirty five thirty eight bucks something like that. A lot
Speaker 1: of different options out there for that. However, I'm going
Speaker 1: to start today number fourteen with the Balfang UV seventeen R.
Speaker 1: And the reason for this I did a video about
Speaker 1: this radio not too long ago. This one has airban receive,
Speaker 1: Noah weather receiving. It has a USB C battery, It
Speaker 1: has about nine hundred and ninety nine memory channels, and
Speaker 1: it this one and the UV twenty one and even
Speaker 1: the twenty ones. I higher number seventeen. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: which one came out first. UV thirteen I think I
Speaker 1: think the thirteen came out first. I did video on
Speaker 1: that one too. All of these kind of form factor radios,
Speaker 1: they all hold more channels than your standard UV five
Speaker 1: R or UV eighty two, which is one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty eight channel radio. So this is going to have
Speaker 1: more channels, more features, color screen, larger screen, USB C,
Speaker 1: battery recharging, airband receive Noah Weather receive seven watts instead
Speaker 1: of the standard five watts, and for only thirty two
Speaker 1: dollars on Amazon for this radio. This is an excellent
Speaker 1: beginner's radio. I would not recommend this radio to someone
Speaker 1: who's had their license for a few years unless you
Speaker 1: just want to knock around radio. If you want an
Speaker 1: extra radio to put in your pack, you're putting your
Speaker 1: truck and have with you all the time. Take out
Speaker 1: to the hunting lease, you drop it, you forget it,
Speaker 1: you leave it somewhere, you break it, you don't care
Speaker 1: because it's only thirty two bucks. You don't want to
Speaker 1: do that with your four hundred dollars. HT. This might
Speaker 1: be for you. That's exactly what I use mine for
Speaker 1: mine in my RV, and it's always there. You easily
Speaker 1: recharge via USBC. If I ever need it, there you
Speaker 1: go Balfang UV seventeen R on Amazon. The link will
Speaker 1: be in the description below today for this and everything
Speaker 1: else we talk about. Number thirteen is from a company
Speaker 1: called b Tech Balfang Tech. They are in North Dakota,
Speaker 1: maybe South Dakota, it's one of them. They're an American
Speaker 1: company that imports radios from China, sometimes upgrades them, sometimes
Speaker 1: comes out with new models. You're gonna see some models
Speaker 1: in b Tech that you don't see on regular Bowfang.
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite, and this has been
Speaker 1: on my list several years in a row. This is
Speaker 1: the b Tech UV five by three. It looks just
Speaker 1: like a Balfang UV five R, except the received sensitivity
Speaker 1: is a little bit better. The front end rejection is
Speaker 1: a little bit better, which means you're not going to
Speaker 1: get as many chirps and birdies in it as you
Speaker 1: would on like a like a twenty three dollars Bowfang
Speaker 1: GUV five R, but this one includes two twenty. It
Speaker 1: includes the two hundred and twenty megahertz band, so it
Speaker 1: is a triband radio where most of your bow Fang
Speaker 1: GUV five rs are just dual band radios. Now. A
Speaker 1: lot of the times you can through software. You can
Speaker 1: open up a UV five R to do tryband. But
Speaker 1: my experience has been that this UV five x three
Speaker 1: from BTech performs better, it sounds better, it lasts longer.
Speaker 1: I've got the extended battery on mine, which you can
Speaker 1: find those for UV five RS two, and it's just
Speaker 1: an all around good radio. I've had my BTECHUV five
Speaker 1: x three for about five years at the time of
Speaker 1: this recording. It still works great. I use it at
Speaker 1: my hunting lease all the time and it works very well.
Speaker 1: So sixty five dollars on Amazon today. Check the prices.
Speaker 1: One thing about prices real quick, because every year this
Speaker 1: comes up and people say, oh, well, you said the
Speaker 1: price was this, but the price is actually this today
Speaker 1: and he's watching my video three or six or nine
Speaker 1: months later. Prices fluctuate. Shouldn't surprise anyone. Prices fluctuate. All
Speaker 1: the prices I'm telling you right now are the prices
Speaker 1: in September of twenty twenty four, but they're going to
Speaker 1: fluctuate over time. So check all the links in the
Speaker 1: description blow and check all of your favorite ham radio
Speaker 1: retailers for the most current pricing. Number twelve is another
Speaker 1: one that's been on my list or three three times.
Speaker 1: This is the tyit thh three point fifty. Also a
Speaker 1: tryband radio comes from by two Way Radios dot com,
Speaker 1: who is one of our sponsors sixty nine ninety nine
Speaker 1: for this radio. The great thing about this radio, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't really have a picture right here that shows
Speaker 1: this very well, but the great thing about this radio
Speaker 1: is it's not only tryband, but it's tried display. So
Speaker 1: you can see and I did a video about this
Speaker 1: radio when it was new several years ago. You can
Speaker 1: see all three bands on the screen at the same time,
Speaker 1: so you can see your one hundred and forty four
Speaker 1: megahertz ban at the top, your two twenty megahertz ban
Speaker 1: in the middle, and your for forty megahertz band at
Speaker 1: the bottom, and you can switch those around a little
Speaker 1: bit kind of off and on two meters two twenty
Speaker 1: four forty U Nagoya makes an NA seven seven to one.
Speaker 1: I think it is antenna that's a tryband antenna. This
Speaker 1: one and the UV five x three both come with
Speaker 1: two intennas. One is dual band, one is two twenty
Speaker 1: only kind of lame in my opinion that they come
Speaker 1: that way. But Nagoya makes a try band antenna. A
Speaker 1: couple other companies do as well, So you can get
Speaker 1: a Nagoya or a Mellowave or a Smiley antenna that's
Speaker 1: trybanded that you can use on a tryband radio, and
Speaker 1: it make its where you can use all three of
Speaker 1: the bands. But this one's great because it's been out
Speaker 1: for several years, it's still is sold, it's still popular.
Speaker 1: It's I have mine that's five or six years old
Speaker 1: and it still works well. I've never had to change
Speaker 1: the battery on it or anything. And it's a tryband radio.
Speaker 1: And I really love the two hundred twenty mega Hurtz band.
Speaker 1: So if you're into two hundred and twenty mega hurts,
Speaker 1: check the repeaters in your area, check the people and
Speaker 1: the ham clubs in your area. Find out if there's
Speaker 1: any two hundred and twenty megahertz activity in your area,
Speaker 1: and if there is, one of these tryband radios might
Speaker 1: be for you. Number thirteen the UV five y three
Speaker 1: or number twelve the thh three fifty, those might be
Speaker 1: for you. But if not, then just go with the
Speaker 1: dual band radio. Nothing wrong with that. Either. Number eleven
Speaker 1: is the walks on or Oshang UV nine D. Mate. Now,
Speaker 1: I personally carry this radio fairly often into the field.
Speaker 1: Better Safe Radio, who we're going to talk about here
Speaker 1: in just one minute. They have USB C chargeable batteries
Speaker 1: for all of these UV nine series walks on. So
Speaker 1: if it's it says walks on UV nine or kg
Speaker 1: dash UV nine whatever the last letter is, there's a
Speaker 1: UV nine D, there's a UV nine P, there's a
Speaker 1: UV nine K, a couple other ones. If it has
Speaker 1: UV nine in it, then it They all use the
Speaker 1: same battery, so you can get a USBC rechargeable battery
Speaker 1: from Better Safe Radio. Again, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: them here in just a minute. But this one right
Speaker 1: here is a dual band radio ten wats of power
Speaker 1: per band two meters and four forty and it's orange.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that it's orange. That is really
Speaker 1: pleasing to me. I take this one. This is probably
Speaker 1: the one that I use most often at my hunting lease.
Speaker 1: I have three or four radios. I keep it in
Speaker 1: my hunting leaks or I don't keep that. I always
Speaker 1: take them with me when I go. This one's great
Speaker 1: because I have actually dropped this in the field before
Speaker 1: and left it somewhere, left it in the deer stand,
Speaker 1: it fell off of my truck, or I left it
Speaker 1: on my truck and I drove off and forgot it.
Speaker 1: And when you come back by that area, you can
Speaker 1: see that orange radio glaring at you from the dirt
Speaker 1: much better than you can see a black radio. So
Speaker 1: it stands out in the crowd. It's easy to see,
Speaker 1: it's easy to spot. It works very well. Again. I've
Speaker 1: had mine for several years and I still use it.
Speaker 1: I upgraded to the USBC battery recently, and it works
Speaker 1: even better now because I can just plug it into
Speaker 1: my brick, my charging brick, or my twelve volt power supply,
Speaker 1: my battery box whatever, charge it in the same place.
Speaker 1: I charged several of my radios and my phone, and
Speaker 1: it works great for what it is. So the UV
Speaker 1: ninety Mate from by two Way Radios that will be
Speaker 1: in the description blow as well. So the UV ninety
Speaker 1: Mate from by two Way Radios comes in at one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty dollars today and it has nine hundred
Speaker 1: ninety nine memory channels. Also, most of these UV nine
Speaker 1: series radios from Oshane walks On has nine hundred ninety
Speaker 1: nine memory channels. So memory channels is something that you
Speaker 1: want to look for when choosing your first radio. For sure.
Speaker 1: Number ten is brand new and I just got one
Speaker 1: of these in. I just got one of these in,
Speaker 1: so I'm kind of tinkering with it right now. I
Speaker 1: want to do some stuff with it before I make
Speaker 1: a video. But this is the b Tech uv pro
Speaker 1: IP sixty seven dual band VHF UHF radio with APRS, Bluetooth, GPS,
Speaker 1: text messaging, aviation band scanner, Noah whether alerts and USBC
Speaker 1: chargeable battery one hundred and sixty five dollars. Today on Amazon,
Speaker 1: there's a uv pro GMRS that I've tinkered with a
Speaker 1: little bit. And with this free app, you download that
Speaker 1: BLUETOOTHS to your radio. You can send text messages from
Speaker 1: the app through the radio to a friend with this
Speaker 1: radio and app, and if you're off grid, you can
Speaker 1: text each other. You can see where each other are
Speaker 1: on the map because both radios have GPS. And it's
Speaker 1: a great off grid tool because it uses your phone
Speaker 1: and it uses or any Android device, phone, tablet, and
Speaker 1: it uses the radio and instead of sending texts and
Speaker 1: GPS over the Internet, it's sending it over the air.
Speaker 1: So you have to be in range of one another.
Speaker 1: You can't be several miles away, ten twenty one hundred
Speaker 1: miles away something like that with a handheld radio, unless
Speaker 1: you like up on top of a mountain or something
Speaker 1: that might work. But this is a really cool tool
Speaker 1: and cool feature for the modern Ham radio, the modern
Speaker 1: day Ham radio, and I'm really looking forward to trying
Speaker 1: this again. I've got one of these. I haven't tinkered
Speaker 1: with it very much at the time of this recording,
Speaker 1: but BTech makes a great product. I've got many of
Speaker 1: their radios and I've I'm very impressed with what they do,
Speaker 1: So I feel pretty confident in telling you guys that
Speaker 1: you should check this one out. We're gonna learn more
Speaker 1: about it in a video I make later on. But
Speaker 1: seamless Bluetooth connectivity for enhanced control effort less lee sink
Speaker 1: your UV pro with the BTech UV Programmer app on
Speaker 1: iOS and Android. Okay, so it is on iOS too.
Speaker 1: Emergency ready with Noah weather alerts and built in compass.
Speaker 1: Be ready for any challenge with real time no Weather
Speaker 1: alerts and integrated compass from navigation frequency detection. With the
Speaker 1: uv pros Frequency Sinc Rapid Scanning, you can quickly locate
Speaker 1: and lock on a nearby frequencies, whether you're coordinating a
Speaker 1: team or scanning emergency channels. Complete package for easy setup.
Speaker 1: Get started immediately with the uv pro radio A twenty
Speaker 1: six hundred million pire battery, antenna belt clip see USB
Speaker 1: charging cable, screws in a screwdriver, detailed user manual, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. IP sixty seven rated for dust and impact.
Speaker 1: Stay connected worldwide. Bluetoth compatibility allows you to connect to
Speaker 1: a global network of users through the programmer app. I
Speaker 1: wonder if that app. Maybe that app connects to each
Speaker 1: other over the Internet, so you have added features if
Speaker 1: you do have an Internet connection. That's kind of neat.
Speaker 1: B Tech is proud to be in the USA, which
Speaker 1: allows you to have the best available support for any
Speaker 1: issue that might arise. Betech only engineers envelops radio products.
Speaker 1: The brand focuses allows to have you the best available
Speaker 1: radio's accessories for the most features. Again, you can call
Speaker 1: them contact them. They are in the United States, so
Speaker 1: they are in the same They're in one of our
Speaker 1: time zones instead of around the world in a completely
Speaker 1: other time zone that's ten or fifteen hours ahead of us.
Speaker 1: So this is a really cool radio. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to trying mine and it comes in at number ten today.
Speaker 1: Number nine is gonna be Better Safe Radio dot Com
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you a little bit about them.
Speaker 1: You can always save a seven percent discount on any
Speaker 1: of their radios with the coupon code of HR two
Speaker 1: to all seven. They're not a sponsor of this channel
Speaker 1: or this video, but they do give discounts to my
Speaker 1: viewers that I pass on to you guys, and they
Speaker 1: they're a great company to work with, a company in
Speaker 1: the USA. But the radios are made in China. All
Speaker 1: of their radios, unlike most of what we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about today, all of their radios come pre programmed.
Speaker 1: He's got a code plug or programming software. He's got
Speaker 1: a code plug, a programming file that gets loaded in.
Speaker 1: All the radios with over nine hundred memory channels that
Speaker 1: includes ham Radio, GMRS, police and fire were available, no weather,
Speaker 1: emergency alert stations, all kinds of different channels and you
Speaker 1: can just scan through all those and see which ones
Speaker 1: work closest to you. All of the radios from Better
Speaker 1: Safe Radio come program this way. He's got GMRS radios,
Speaker 1: he's got several levels of HAM radios, he's got LMR
Speaker 1: commercial grade radios right here. And he's got this BLO
Speaker 1: zero three three, two hundred and twenty million our USBC
Speaker 1: battery for all UV nine series walks on radios. His
Speaker 1: flagship is a UV nine pop x ray. It's on
Speaker 1: sale right now for one hundred and eighty five dollars,
Speaker 1: coming in at number nine. Again. We're going up in price,
Speaker 1: down in numbers. For whatever reason, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: do that. Eight watt, nine hundred and ninety nine memory channels,
Speaker 1: pre programmed Superheterodyne UHFVHF emergency M two way radio, and
Speaker 1: seven band SHTF scanner. In other words, it has more
Speaker 1: and most of the UV nine series, well not most
Speaker 1: of them. Some of the UV nine series radios have
Speaker 1: seven band receives, so it will receive and transmit on
Speaker 1: the two meters the one hundred and forty four mega
Speaker 1: hurts in the four hundred and forty megahertz band, but
Speaker 1: it will receive on seven other bands, including your eight
Speaker 1: hundred megahertz police and fire. So it's very possible that
Speaker 1: if your police and fire agency in your county or
Speaker 1: your town does not use digital, if they use analog,
Speaker 1: it's very possible that this radio will pick it up.
Speaker 1: So that's an added bonus to that part of the
Speaker 1: programming code plug that comes with it. Again, you can
Speaker 1: save seven percent off of this price and whatever the
Speaker 1: price is today whenever you watch this video, HR two
Speaker 1: all seven at better Safe radio dot com, so check
Speaker 1: that out linked that will be in the description blow
Speaker 1: Also number eight is from Yazu. Now to date, so
Speaker 1: far everything we've talked about has been a Chinese made radio.
Speaker 1: The bowfans, the Chinese made radio, the tyts of Chinese
Speaker 1: made walks, ons of Chinese made b Tech is technically
Speaker 1: made in China, although those radio the company is here,
Speaker 1: but the radios themselves are made in China. Yazu is
Speaker 1: a Japanese company. Yesu radios are typically made in Japan.
Speaker 1: This is a Yazu FT seventy d R five yt
Speaker 1: C four FM dual band one four four hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty megahertz radio. It is a single band display monochrome
Speaker 1: screen which gets the price down a little bit more
Speaker 1: not a very large screen, but it will do JESU
Speaker 1: system Fusion. So if you're interested in some of the
Speaker 1: digital modes offered in ham radio today, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about three of them in this video. YESU System Fusion, DMR,
Speaker 1: and d Star. They don't talk to one another without
Speaker 1: some sort of external source like an open spot or
Speaker 1: something like that, but they are all popular mode to
Speaker 1: connect via repeater or hotspot to Internet connected devices and
Speaker 1: talk to people all over the world. If that's not
Speaker 1: your cup of tea, then you probably don't need anything
Speaker 1: like that, but it is a fun mode to talk
Speaker 1: on when you're just in the hobby of ham radio.
Speaker 1: This one comes in at one seventy five one seventy
Speaker 1: four to ninety five from gigaparts right here. It has
Speaker 1: five watts of output power inside of a compact body.
Speaker 1: It has eleven hundred and five channel memory. Right here.
Speaker 1: It says just that wide band receive coverage from one
Speaker 1: hundred and eight megahertz up to five hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: nine dot nine ninety five megahertz, so it will receive
Speaker 1: regular broadcasts FM radio. It will receive your two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty megahertz commercial on hand bands, the MERS band,
Speaker 1: the GMRS band, FRS band, everything in between, so wide
Speaker 1: band received weather channels for severe alert warning, eighteen hundred
Speaker 1: mili amp hower battery equipped with an external jack for
Speaker 1: DC supper power supply and charge. Lots of great stuff.
Speaker 1: So if you're interested in getting started in system fusion,
Speaker 1: this could be a step in the right doction for you.
Speaker 1: Only one hundred and seventy five dollars for this radio.
Speaker 1: Number seven is another radio from Yazoo. Now, I personally
Speaker 1: like this one better myself because I like Yazoo system fusion.
Speaker 1: It's fun to use, but I would rather have the
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty MEGAHERTZPAN. This is the Yazoo VX
Speaker 1: six R. Now. This ft seven ft seven dr Delta
Speaker 1: Romeo is a dual band radio, but it looks very
Speaker 1: similar to this VX six R. The difference, of course,
Speaker 1: is the VX six R includes the two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty mega HURTSPAN. It is a triband radio two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty eight eighty nine at RNL Electronics at the
Speaker 1: time of this recording. The VX six R is an
Speaker 1: ultra rugged one to four to thirty megahertz FM handheld
Speaker 1: featuring wide receiver coverage, JIS seven submersibility, so it's got
Speaker 1: it's got some toughness to it, JESU exclusive Emergency Automatic
Speaker 1: Identification system and an ultrasimple keyword access to important functions.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of accessories that are made by like
Speaker 1: digirig and a couple other companies so that you can
Speaker 1: put this radio onto an APRS or a win link
Speaker 1: system and do two meter or two twenty win late.
Speaker 1: Kind of cool, very rugged. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that do field radio and field comms and MCom
Speaker 1: type stuff, and they use this radio because it is
Speaker 1: so rugged and versatile. One of my favorite radios. I've
Speaker 1: had one of these for a couple of years. I
Speaker 1: like the fact that it has the two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty megahertz band. That's their original reason I got it.
Speaker 1: But it is a very rugged and very good sounding radio.
Speaker 1: So again, if you're interested in triband or you're just
Speaker 1: interested in something that's better built, with a better receiver
Speaker 1: and a little bit heavier duty to go into the field,
Speaker 1: the Yazoo VX six R might be for you. Number
Speaker 1: six is we're back to a Chinese radio. The two
Speaker 1: Yazoo radios we just talked about are both Japanese radios.
Speaker 1: This is the any Tone eight seven eight UV two
Speaker 1: plus and at Bridgecom you can get a free ninety
Speaker 1: seven dollars course with it. Again, this video is not
Speaker 1: sponsored by Bridgecom, but this is what they're advertised right now.
Speaker 1: Bridgecomb has a lot of training videos that they give
Speaker 1: away for free when you buy products from them. You
Speaker 1: can if you don't buy products from them, you can
Speaker 1: buy their training videos ninety seven dollars, But if you
Speaker 1: do buy one of any Tone radios from them, they
Speaker 1: give you the training videos for free. Lots of people
Speaker 1: like their training videos because it goes through a very
Speaker 1: detailed process on how to use DMR and how to
Speaker 1: use the any Tone radios. One of my favorite radios
Speaker 1: is this Anytone. This is one that I carry with
Speaker 1: me on my pack pretty much every where I go.
Speaker 1: And you've heard me say that a couple times today
Speaker 1: about a couple of different radios. It depends on where
Speaker 1: I'm going. If I'm going to Galveston, I'm going on
Speaker 1: a road trip, I'm going to my hunting lease. I
Speaker 1: can change up when i'm carrying where this one currently
Speaker 1: at the time of this recording, I have an everyday
Speaker 1: carry backpack by Everly Stock that I carry which is
Speaker 1: called a Switchblade backpack, and it has one radio pocket
Speaker 1: on the outside of it, and that's where I carry
Speaker 1: this eight to seven eight UV two plus. So generally speaking,
Speaker 1: if I'm going somewhere that I take my backpack. This
Speaker 1: radio is with me USBC chargeable battery, three thousand memory channels,
Speaker 1: a nice beautiful color screen that you can see right there.
Speaker 1: Easily programmable from a computer, but also easily programmable from
Speaker 1: the keypad. Totally program everything from the keypad. I use
Speaker 1: mine on analog almost more than I do on DMR
Speaker 1: these days, although this one does DMR Digital Mobile Radio.
Speaker 1: It's one of the digital modes we have in Ham radio.
Speaker 1: This is the only DMR radio we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about today, and it's my favorite DMR radio. This is
Speaker 1: one of the only DMR radios that was actually made
Speaker 1: for the Ham radio community. So this is just a
Speaker 1: great all around radio. I really like DMR. I don't
Speaker 1: use it for DMR much these days. I use it
Speaker 1: for analog more than anything. But this is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite radios because they do have USBC chargeable batteries now,
Speaker 1: and they're a big, a twenty eight hundred million power battery,
Speaker 1: I believe is what it is. But it's just packed
Speaker 1: with features, packed with a good a great looking screen,
Speaker 1: really good. This is like the fifth or sixth iteration
Speaker 1: of dual band DMR radio to come from any tone.
Speaker 1: They're probably due for an upgrade, honestly, because this one's
Speaker 1: been out a while. But this is still just a
Speaker 1: great radio. Bluetooth aprs on analog, all kinds of features
Speaker 1: in that radio. Three hundred and thirty five dollars from
Speaker 1: Bridge Comm today check the link in the description below.
Speaker 1: Pretty Much all of these radios you can use with
Speaker 1: a technician license, which gives you p on fifty megahertz
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Speaker 1: was the last Chinese radio that we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about today. Everything we're going to talk about from here.
Speaker 1: Fourth is Japanese brand new to the market in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four is the Icond fifty A. Actually it might
Speaker 1: have been twenty twenty three when this one came out.
Speaker 1: The fifty two to A plus, which we'll talk about
Speaker 1: here in seconds break twenty twenty four, So the ID
Speaker 1: fifty two came out a couple of years ago, then
Speaker 1: the fifty came out after that. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if they're they're not the only ICOM's not the only
Speaker 1: company kind of go backwards on model numbers. It just
Speaker 1: kind of happens sometimes, no big deal. This one has
Speaker 1: a few less features than the ID fifty two, but
Speaker 1: the price tags a lot smaller also as well. The
Speaker 1: original ID fifty two had micro USB charging, where this
Speaker 1: has USBC charging, so you get better charging capabilities with
Speaker 1: this ID fifty and it is it can do dual
Speaker 1: band d star dual band analog, holds a lot of
Speaker 1: channels USB C chargeable programming, and it has the ICOM
Speaker 1: quality sound receive and transmit audio behind it. It uses
Speaker 1: the same battery as the ID fifty one and ID
Speaker 1: fifty two radios and as the IC seven oh five,
Speaker 1: so the USBC rechargeable batteries well is interchangeable between all
Speaker 1: those radios. So if you've already invested some money in
Speaker 1: the icon world, this could be a good choice for you.
Speaker 1: Three ninety nine today is the price of that radio.
Speaker 1: The next one up is this is one of my favorites, honestly.
Speaker 1: This is the Yaesu FT five D. This is another
Speaker 1: one that I carry with me pretty much everywhere I
Speaker 1: go when I'm on a road trip. I did a
Speaker 1: video a while just not too long ago about my
Speaker 1: Maxipedition EEDC everyday carry pack that I had this radio
Speaker 1: in a lot of accessories to go along with it.
Speaker 1: This is the Yazu FT five DR. This is their
Speaker 1: flagship HT from Jesu. It has a beautiful full screen
Speaker 1: color display on it. It has true APRS and analog,
Speaker 1: very robust, very feature packed APRS, messaging, APRS, beconing news bulletins,
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards. The menu system takes some getting
Speaker 1: used to, but this is a really, really good radio
Speaker 1: if you're into APRS with a big, huge color screen
Speaker 1: on it, and it has a touch screen on it
Speaker 1: as well. It is just a dual band radio one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four and four hundred and forty megahertz,
Speaker 1: so you miss out on some of the features that
Speaker 1: the two twenty radios have. But this is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite rates and again one that I carry with
Speaker 1: me many many times. The ICM ID fifty two A
Speaker 1: plus which was which is number three? This is number three.
Speaker 1: I com ID fifty two A plus. This radio was
Speaker 1: just announced like a month ago. I don't know anyone
Speaker 1: who actually has this in stock yet. I think it's
Speaker 1: on hro's website. It says right here it's out of
Speaker 1: stock on the gigabarts website, but I think it's because
Speaker 1: they haven't got him yet. So the ID fifty two
Speaker 1: plus is a five watt handheld transceiver duel band with
Speaker 1: d Star. It has a little bit bigger display and
Speaker 1: a more color display than the ID fifty as a
Speaker 1: few more features that you can read about down here,
Speaker 1: a little bit more than the ID fifty, but it
Speaker 1: is unlike the ID fifty two. This one is USBC
Speaker 1: chargeable because the original ID fifty two was micro USB
Speaker 1: and then the new ID fifty, the fifty two A
Speaker 1: Plus and the fifty two A plus Anniversary edition because
Speaker 1: it's sixty years of ICM this year, all have USB
Speaker 1: C charging capabilities. So this is one of the newest
Speaker 1: flagship radios from Icon. And again if you're an Icon
Speaker 1: fan and you like their ecosystem and you like how
Speaker 1: you can take a micro SD card download the worldwide
Speaker 1: repeater directory from dstar info dot net. I think it
Speaker 1: is something like that, and you can load all the
Speaker 1: repeaters on your micro SD card, put it in this
Speaker 1: radio and the GPS and this radio tells you where
Speaker 1: you are and it'll give you all the all the
Speaker 1: repeaters near you, both d STARR and analog. Pretty cool
Speaker 1: feature of most of these Icon radios, so this is one.
Speaker 1: This is a good radio. Haven't had my hands on
Speaker 1: this one yet, but being that is from ICOM. It's
Speaker 1: definitely getting added to the list today. Number three, six
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine dollars at the time of this recording.
Speaker 1: This is the first and only in last Kenwood we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about today. This is the brand new
Speaker 1: THHD seventy five. I just got one of these earlier
Speaker 1: this year. Very cool radio. We saw this at Daytonham
Speaker 1: mention of twenty twenty four earlier this year. This is
Speaker 1: a five watt tribeand radio. We're back to the two
Speaker 1: twenty world. We've got two meters one to forty four
Speaker 1: megahertz two twenty one point twenty five meters and for
Speaker 1: forty seventy centime all packed into this brand new HT radio.
Speaker 1: It has a full color display. It's only a dual
Speaker 1: band display, so you can display two bands at one
Speaker 1: time even though it's a triband radio full color display.
Speaker 1: It has a accessible tn C terminal node controller so
Speaker 1: that you can interface it via USB or Bluetooth to
Speaker 1: programs on your phone like APRS droid, or you can
Speaker 1: use it as a digipeter as an APRS digipeter, and
Speaker 1: if you have an external antenna, you can plug in
Speaker 1: this radio and use another radio to beacon your own
Speaker 1: APRS signal out through this radio that acts as a
Speaker 1: digitpeter for APRS packets. Pretty cool stuff. This radio probably
Speaker 1: has the best and easiest menus to program from the
Speaker 1: front panel of most of these hts that we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about today. Just a great all around radio
Speaker 1: with a lot of extra features that are not seen
Speaker 1: in several of these radios, which includes full fledged APRS,
Speaker 1: full TNC that's accessible via Bluetooth or USB, Tribe, and
Speaker 1: d Star. This is Kenwood's flagship radio HT radio coming
Speaker 1: in at six P ninety nine. Kind of pricey for
Speaker 1: a handheld, but with all the extra features it's got,
Speaker 1: it's definitely getting added to the list today as number
Speaker 1: two and the first one, Number one, the number one
Speaker 1: HT we're gonna talk about today, and the reason this
Speaker 1: number one is because of the price. Remember we're going
Speaker 1: in price. This is the Icon ID fifty two A
Speaker 1: plus sixtieth Anniversary Limited Edition. I'm not sure how limited
Speaker 1: it is. They did a fiftieth anniversary of the I
Speaker 1: fifty one A and those things were around for a
Speaker 1: long long time, so I don't know, but you can
Speaker 1: see it's a silver color here. Really cool. If you're
Speaker 1: a big icon fanboy, this might be one for you
Speaker 1: because it's different. It comes in a black box rather
Speaker 1: than the cardboard box. A lot of people. If you
Speaker 1: go to sell a radio and you don't have a box,
Speaker 1: the radio is not worth as much. So the box
Speaker 1: is actually quite important. This is a silver radio with
Speaker 1: a black display and a color screen on top of
Speaker 1: a black background. Very beautiful looking display. I'm planning on
Speaker 1: picking one of these up because I gotta have one
Speaker 1: of everything. As soon as Main Trading Company or Giga
Speaker 1: Parts get some of these in. You're gonna see a
Speaker 1: video about this on my channel. But this is a
Speaker 1: great radio. D Star USBC over one thousand memory channels.
Speaker 1: The icon carrying strap that we saw at the Huntsville
Speaker 1: Hamfest apparently that makes it worth more money. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is the black box that it
Speaker 1: comes in, very nostalgic collector's edition if you're into that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Ten twenty years from now, this will
Speaker 1: probably be worth a few more dollars than just the
Speaker 1: regular version of the ID fifty two. So that one
Speaker 1: comes in at number one today because it is the
Speaker 1: most expensive one. Seven hundred and twenty nine dollars at
Speaker 1: the time of this recording. These are brand new. They
Speaker 1: were just released last month, started shipping from Icom last
Speaker 1: month in August of twenty twenty four, and that one
Speaker 1: is on the list today. So that is the number
Speaker 1: one radio because of price out of my fourteen top
Speaker 1: radios for twenty twenty four. Thanks for baron with me.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you think I missed anything, let
Speaker 1: me know if if you think I should have added anything,
Speaker 1: or let me know what you think about the price
Speaker 1: tags on some of these later radios, because yeah, kind
Speaker 1: of high for a handheld dual band radio, but hey,
Speaker 1: you know what progress comes with more features, more options,
Speaker 1: more things we've been asking about, and just the price
Speaker 1: of everything right now is high. So just you know,
Speaker 1: no one's forcing you to buy it, so don't buy
Speaker 1: it if you don't want to check the links in
Speaker 1: the description. Blow Thanks for watching today.