Speaker 1: Brand new for twenty twenty five, a new Balfang UV
Speaker 1: seven Bravo. It is a Triband radio and after putting
Speaker 1: the battery on with this little screw in the back
Speaker 1: here and sent in it all down, it looks like
Speaker 1: it's waterproof and IP sixty seven rated.
Speaker 2: I think it is.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a look at it right now, okay,
Speaker 1: UV seven Bravo. This is a brand new radio. It
Speaker 1: came out a few months ago. It's not brand brand new,
Speaker 1: but it is new for twenty twenty five. And of
Speaker 1: course I love doing the Balfang videos because these are
Speaker 1: always real popular. You guys always really like those. We're
Speaker 1: going to test this radio today. I'm gonna put it
Speaker 1: on the tiny Esa. We're gonna do some spectral purity testing,
Speaker 1: and i'm gonna put it behind me here on the
Speaker 1: Antellotron power meter and we're gonna do some power testing.
Speaker 1: The first thing I noticed about it, besides the battery,
Speaker 1: I mentioned the battery right here. There's a USBC port
Speaker 1: right there, and this once the battery kind of sinks
Speaker 1: down in there, you tighten it down with a flathead
Speaker 1: screwdriver and it really seals it along the edges here,
Speaker 1: so that's really good.
Speaker 2: Put your belt clip right here.
Speaker 1: You can attach it right here with these screws right there,
Speaker 1: and that will attach to the radio body itself, not
Speaker 1: to the battery. So you can change out batteries and
Speaker 1: have multiple batteries, but all use the same belt clip
Speaker 1: on the radio.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: And of course the charging port is on the USBC
Speaker 1: charging port, I should say, is on the battery itself,
Speaker 1: not on the radio. Look over here on the other
Speaker 1: side of the radio, there's a standwood kinwood K connector
Speaker 1: right there and a dual flashlight on the bottom there.
Speaker 1: That's always fun volume knob up down channels. This channel
Speaker 1: indicator right there is what changes channels up down right there,
Speaker 1: changes frequencies when in VFO mode. And you've got a
Speaker 1: single PTT on the side over there with an extra
Speaker 1: button on the side that will turn on the FM
Speaker 1: broadcast radio.
Speaker 2: So let's take a.
Speaker 1: Look at the overhead. This is the manual that you get.
Speaker 1: Pretty good manual really, it's a small text and kind
Speaker 1: of hard to read, but it'll tell you everything that
Speaker 1: you want to know right there, pretty well written for
Speaker 1: Chinese radio menu, not bad there at all. So this
Speaker 1: is once again single PTT here. This turns on the
Speaker 1: FM broadcast radio right there. Hit that button again, it
Speaker 1: turns it off. It does transmit this one. Well, that's
Speaker 1: the menu right there. Okay, So this one right here,
Speaker 1: this blue button right here switches between the top and
Speaker 1: the bottom band. Okay, there's probably buzzing in the KC
Speaker 1: five HBB. There's probably buzzing the microphone. Lack y up,
Speaker 1: that's just a standard thing. Because I'm transmitting right next
Speaker 1: to my microphone here. It will transmit on two two
Speaker 1: four dot five KC five HBB testing. Actually the calling
Speaker 1: frequency is two two three dot five right there, KC
Speaker 1: five HWB testing. So we're gonna test that in a minute.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put it on the meter and see how
Speaker 1: much output power does. And I might put that on
Speaker 1: the tiny Esa as well. Again, standard Kinwood K connector
Speaker 1: USBC port on the battery back here, dual flashlight on
Speaker 1: the bottom, so it's always fun. And then this radio
Speaker 1: has Bluetooth that will allow you to program the radio
Speaker 1: with BLUETOOTHS. And when we go over here to Balfang's website, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is where I bought this radio on Amazon. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna share a link in the description blow
Speaker 1: on Amazon, but Balfang radio dot Com. A lot of
Speaker 1: the times I will talk about a Balfang radio, a
Speaker 1: new model that maybe is not as well known or
Speaker 1: nobody's heard of yet, and they'll be like, no, this
Speaker 1: is a copy. It's not a real thing. If you
Speaker 1: go to balfang radio dot com, that's their official website,
Speaker 1: and if you find the model there, then you know
Speaker 1: it's a real thing. There's a difference between the five
Speaker 1: RM and the RM five I think it is. And
Speaker 1: I asked them about that one time and they're like,
Speaker 1: the five rms rs one of them. I don't remember
Speaker 1: which one it was right now, I have the email
Speaker 1: from them. They said, one of them are they're both ours,
Speaker 1: but one of them was made for specific customer. So
Speaker 1: one of them we sell on our website and one
Speaker 1: of them the specific customer selles. I'm like, okay, so
Speaker 1: they're both basically the same radio. But if we go
Speaker 1: over here and look at balfangradio dot com, you can
Speaker 1: see the app is right there pictured on the smartphone,
Speaker 1: and then it's got one review with a one star rating,
Speaker 1: and if you click down here onto this review. It's
Speaker 1: set fifteen minutes ago. This review was left today. Great,
Speaker 1: this app is a real mess. It throws all my
Speaker 1: previous settings out and messes up the radio. Really Balfang,
Speaker 1: what a mess. So the only review on this radio
Speaker 1: is about the app. Okay, this is actually and I
Speaker 1: could see that. Okay, if the app is terrible, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I am not going to download and install
Speaker 1: the app today. This is the same app I believe
Speaker 1: that works with the UV five R Mini that we
Speaker 1: just reviewed and a lot of the newer Balfang radios.
Speaker 1: In fact, there's a shot of the UV thirty two
Speaker 1: right there, So that's another Balfang that I have that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be making a video about really soon. That
Speaker 1: one of the right over there, the UV thirty two,
Speaker 1: kind of like a Motorola copy or that other radio
Speaker 1: I did a while back, something like that. So I
Speaker 1: probably will do an video about the app itself and see.
Speaker 1: But this app is supposedly works for multiple radios, and
Speaker 1: this one bad review I've read about it is that
Speaker 1: really the only thing I've ever heard about it. I
Speaker 1: haven't really heard much about that app at all. So
Speaker 1: let's put it on the tiny essay and see what
Speaker 1: we can see. All right, we set up the tiny essay,
Speaker 1: I'll show you what settings I used in a second
Speaker 1: one forty six up five to two.
Speaker 2: Right now now, I did.
Speaker 1: A and you can see at the top of the
Speaker 1: tiny SA screen right there, it's coming up at one
Speaker 1: forty six stop five. I did a purity test on
Speaker 1: the UV five R Mini and I was pleasantly surprised
Speaker 1: that it was pretty clean. This one does not look
Speaker 1: like it is the same thing. I'm gonna let go
Speaker 1: of it and reset just for the heck of it.
Speaker 1: But we did a test a while back on the
Speaker 1: five RM, the one I mentioned the model I mentioned
Speaker 1: a minute ago, and it was really dirty. So bwfang
Speaker 1: seems to be kind of hit or miss on radios.
Speaker 1: This one right here. Being a try band, I was
Speaker 1: kind of hoping it'd be cleaner, but so far does
Speaker 1: not look like it's great. You've got a second harmonic
Speaker 1: popping up right there around four hundred and thirty nine megahurts,
Speaker 1: so that's even within the amateur radio band.
Speaker 2: Pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Got a fourth harmonic right there, popping up somewhere around
Speaker 1: five hundred and ninety mega hurts something like that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: not the cleanest signal in the world. Okay, disappointing, but okay,
Speaker 1: let's try the two twenty band. I wonder how clean
Speaker 1: it is there. So we're gonna go here, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna go to measure harmonic and I'm gonna change it
Speaker 1: to two two three dot five mega hurts. Enter it again,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go back in here and choose level
Speaker 1: and say ext gain of minus forty times one, And
Speaker 1: now we're gonna key up on two two three dot five,
Speaker 1: which is the bottom band on the radio right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: freaked out on me a little bit at first, but
Speaker 1: then it cleaned up two two three dot five right there.
Speaker 1: There's a little dip right there on the just to
Speaker 1: the right of it, but it's not actually reading a
Speaker 1: harmonic so okay, we're not on an offset. The radio's
Speaker 1: on the correct frequency, so we're good there. Okay, cleaner
Speaker 1: on two twenty than it is on two meeta. Okay,
Speaker 1: well good, okay, So let's check the four forty six band.
Speaker 1: Ah wait, let's do four four to six. You see
Speaker 1: all this information that popped up here, it's not transmitting
Speaker 1: right now, So Okay, once again, we're gonna go back
Speaker 1: and choose measure harmonic four four six dot mega hurtz,
Speaker 1: go back and choose level minus forty times one, and.
Speaker 2: There we go. Let it reset for forty six right there.
Speaker 1: Okay, there is an eighth harmonic up here. It says
Speaker 1: it's it like two point nine gigahertz, which is kind
Speaker 1: of what we saw with the UV five R Mini
Speaker 1: a while back as well. But that's a pretty clean
Speaker 1: signal on four forty. Okay, So I'm both disappointed and
Speaker 1: impressed at the same time because guess what I was
Speaker 1: looking forward to the fact that this was a tryband
Speaker 1: radio that incorporated the one point two five meter two
Speaker 1: twenty band and one of my favorite bands. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to try to see what it sounds like
Speaker 1: on that band soon. But the kind of dirty on
Speaker 1: two meters two twenty and four to forty look pretty
Speaker 1: darn good. That tells me it's prob'll gonna be doing
Speaker 1: more power on two meters than the other two because
Speaker 1: it's probably pushing too much power. Let's put it over
Speaker 1: here on the inteletron meter and see what we can see.
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Speaker 1: and plenty for supporting this channel. Okay, one thing I
Speaker 1: did not show you yet. There are two power settings
Speaker 1: on this radio, high and low transmit power of high
Speaker 1: and low. We're gonna go into let's see radio said,
Speaker 1: we go into program channel and the second one down
Speaker 1: is transmit power high power and low power. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna leave it on high power. We're gonna go here
Speaker 1: to one forty six five to two, which is the
Speaker 1: national calling frequency that we should all be monitoring on
Speaker 1: a daily basis five watts.
Speaker 2: This is advertised as a five watt radio, so.
Speaker 1: To me that that's exactly where it should be. Okay,
Speaker 1: and now since I've got it on the bottom band,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to switch bands for forty six and
Speaker 1: make sure still on high power. Good on the bottom band,
Speaker 1: We're going to key that up three point two watts
Speaker 1: on four forty and I'm going to change two two
Speaker 1: three five zero zero. We're gonna still on high power
Speaker 1: in that bottom band right there, yep, just like that,
Speaker 1: and we're going to key that up.
Speaker 2: So four and a half four point three watts there.
Speaker 1: So about just over five watts on two meters, just
Speaker 1: over four watts on two twenty and about three and
Speaker 1: a half watts on four forty.
Speaker 2: So overall pretty decent.
Speaker 1: I mean something. I think I mentioned this earlier. I
Speaker 1: can't remember if I did now or not. This came
Speaker 1: with like this Nagoya style antenna. It does not look
Speaker 1: like a regular Balfang antenna. Looks like a Nagoya seven
Speaker 1: seven zero I think is it is seven to seveny
Speaker 1: one is the extended intenda the longer win. This looks
Speaker 1: like a standard Nagoya antenna.
Speaker 2: It's not marked.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say anything on the bottom of it. It
Speaker 1: says dual band one thirty six to one seventy four
Speaker 1: and four hundred and four eighty. It doesn't have a
Speaker 1: brand name on it, so who knows. Possibly all from
Speaker 1: the same factory in China.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 1: But let's see if we can get somebody on the
Speaker 1: let's program a channel. I'm going to show you guys
Speaker 1: how to program a channel real quick, okay, So I.
Speaker 2: Put it in.
Speaker 1: We're in VFO mode for four to two dot nine there,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go to program channel here. Transit power.
Speaker 1: We're gonna leave that on high bandwidth should already be
Speaker 1: yea's wide. Okay, receive CTCSS, I'm gonna leave off. We're
Speaker 1: gonna turn on transmit CTCSS and we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: one ten dot nine, which is what this repeater is
Speaker 1: on right there, okay, And then I'm gonna go, oops,
Speaker 1: it took me back two menus okay, back in here.
Speaker 1: No encryption, signaling channel memory, busy lockout offset okay. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna say okay, and I'm gonna go back into
Speaker 1: it just to make sure, yep, Okay, it's still there.
Speaker 1: Offset is five mega hurts and direction is a plus.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now there we go. That's the channel right there. When
Speaker 1: I key up, it should key up four four seven
Speaker 1: dot nine hundred, and it is.
Speaker 2: And there you go, right there.
Speaker 1: It keeped it laying down on the while laying down
Speaker 1: flat on the desk, it keyed the repeater KC five
Speaker 1: HWB testing actually gets into it better at a horizontal
Speaker 1: configuration than a vertical configuration KC five hw B testing.
Speaker 2: And there you go. That sounds a little bit k.
Speaker 1: K LM and you're coming through good here.
Speaker 2: About eight by eight. What is that? Okay?
Speaker 1: I think it was KATE four JLM if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the comeback.
Speaker 1: I'm testing a new HT here from my home in Grapevine.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to see what it was. Sounded like, kjell
Speaker 2: and you're done real good right there. You old pitstetic
Speaker 2: but still completely readable.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like a.
Speaker 2: Really good HD.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it works better horizontally though, It's
Speaker 1: just something about the electronics in this building.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate that. Thanks for the comeback. In seventy three
Speaker 2: k C five hw and there it is right there.
Speaker 1: So that is the bellfang UV seven Bravo and sounds good,
Speaker 1: good clean audio on transmit and pretty decent audio with
Speaker 1: all the electronics around here in the hamshrack. So I'll
Speaker 1: leave a link to this in the description below. You guys,
Speaker 1: let me know have you seen this radio yet. I've
Speaker 1: not seen any videos on YouTube about it, but it
Speaker 1: came across I subscribed to the balfang radio dot com
Speaker 1: emails and it came across my feed. I don't know
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. I should have made this
Speaker 1: video before now, but I really haven't heard much about it,
Speaker 1: and I was interested in it because it was triband
Speaker 1: so far, so good. A little bit of a dirty
Speaker 1: signal on two meters. But has anyone seen this? What
Speaker 1: do you think about it? If so, let me know
Speaker 1: in the comments below. And if you did like this video,
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Speaker 1: want to watch those next seventy three guys.
Speaker 2: We'll catch you next time.