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Speaker 1: is the end of hunting season twenty twenty four. We're
Speaker 1: actually into twenty twenty five. Today's January third. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: in the third day of January. And throughout this hunting
Speaker 1: season and in hunting seasons in the past, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm out here in the field. That's my Buddies camper
Speaker 1: because mine's in the shop. Watch my video about all
Speaker 1: the Forest River problems I've been having on my other channel.
Speaker 1: We've been here opening weekend of hunting seasons usually the
Speaker 1: first week in November in Texas at least for rifle season.
Speaker 1: Been here off and on almost every weekend for the
Speaker 1: last two months. Not quite every weekend, but almost every
Speaker 1: weekend for the last two months. And throughout that time
Speaker 1: I have used a variety of HT radios for different
Speaker 1: bands on GMRS on Ham Radio two meters two twenty
Speaker 1: four forty some six meters, and I wanted to show
Speaker 1: you guys what I used this year, what I consider
Speaker 1: to be the best field radio for the end of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four going into twenty twenty five. The best
Speaker 1: field radio. If you just lose it, if you drop it,
Speaker 1: run over it with the truck, drop it in the lake,
Speaker 1: if it gets rained on, if it gets left outside
Speaker 1: at night, something like that, It's not gonna be a
Speaker 1: huge loss because we're not talking about the ICOMID fifty
Speaker 1: two Anniverse re edition or the Kinwood THHD seventy five.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about a five to seven hundred dollars
Speaker 1: HT here. This is what I consider to be the
Speaker 1: best options for HT in the field. Something that is
Speaker 1: you want to take care of because it's got a
Speaker 1: lot of features and you're gonna to spend your hard
Speaker 1: earned money on it. But if push comes to shove,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more disposable than a five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars HT is. So let's take a look now. Today's
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Speaker 1: is the six hts we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 1: I've got these arranged here in order from least expensive
Speaker 1: to most expensive. Now, these last two right here are
Speaker 1: kind of debatable for whether it's something you actually want
Speaker 1: to take into the field, because these are this is
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars and this is about two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty dollars. So if that's too much for you to
Speaker 1: take into the field, you might want to discount those two.
Speaker 1: But the rest of these, but these two add something
Speaker 1: that the rest of these don't. So we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about all of those right now, one by one, and
Speaker 1: starting with the least expensive. This is the b Tech
Speaker 1: bf F eight hp Pro. It actually says Baofang on it.
Speaker 1: It's on Btech's website. It's also on It's listed on
Speaker 1: Amazon as a Bao Fang radio, but it is upgraded
Speaker 1: by b Tech. It holds more channels than your standard
Speaker 1: a UV five R. It's got a little bit sleeker
Speaker 1: looking design and bfier looking design than the UV five R,
Speaker 1: and it will do two twenty. Now, out here in
Speaker 1: the field where I'm at, there are repeater There are
Speaker 1: four forty repeaters that I can easily hit with an HT.
Speaker 1: There's a two twenty repeater about I don't know, I'd
Speaker 1: say five miles as the crow flies that ways, but
Speaker 1: that repeater antenna is up one thy fifteen hundred feet
Speaker 1: something like that, way up ro high. You can easily
Speaker 1: key that repeater from multiple places. And this local four
Speaker 1: forty two six hundred repeater is the Bridgeport Club. Depending
Speaker 1: on where you stand on this dearlyast property, you can
Speaker 1: key that repeater. There's another there's a two meter repeater
Speaker 1: in Tacona. There's a couple of two meter repeaters in Buoi,
Speaker 1: which is the closest large town to where I am
Speaker 1: right now. But this is a great HT. Now. One
Speaker 1: thing I'll say about every one of these hts today,
Speaker 1: every one of them are USBC chargeable. The reason I
Speaker 1: chose these radios over some others is because all of
Speaker 1: them are gonna be USB C chargeable. And the great
Speaker 1: thing about USBC chargeable when you're in the field is
Speaker 1: I have the charging brick video that came out not
Speaker 1: too long ago. So I have two or three of
Speaker 1: those bricks with me here in the field. One of
Speaker 1: them I carry in my pack all the time, one
Speaker 1: of them I keep in the truck, and a couple
Speaker 1: of them I just carry in my hunting pack. So
Speaker 1: I usually have at least I also have two or
Speaker 1: three battery boxes every time I come out here, so
Speaker 1: I have a plethora of ways to charge anything that's
Speaker 1: USBC my phone, my bluetooth, theter pieces, my radios, my
Speaker 1: camera that you're watching right here. My Osmo action camera
Speaker 1: is USBC chargeable right there. So I always want to
Speaker 1: have something that's USBC. And all of the radios we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about today are USBC chargeable or at
Speaker 1: least the batteries are. Some of them. The radios are chargeable,
Speaker 1: some of them the batteries are chargeable. This one's the
Speaker 1: batteries chargeable comes with it in the factory. This one's
Speaker 1: about sixty five dollars from b Tech. I'll put a
Speaker 1: link in the description below for this and everything else
Speaker 1: we talk about today. The next one is also from
Speaker 1: b Tech. And now this one I have had for
Speaker 1: about shoot, I don't know, seven eight years. This is
Speaker 1: the UV five x three. This looks like a bow
Speaker 1: Fang UV five R radio. Okay, it looks just like
Speaker 1: a UV five R. The difference between this and the
Speaker 1: UV five R, of course, is the five x three
Speaker 1: also carries two twenty. You can see a very familiar
Speaker 1: looking screen there with one forty six five to two
Speaker 1: on the top band and two two four two hundred,
Speaker 1: which is the repeater I told you about a second ago.
Speaker 1: That's one thousand and fifteen hundred feet up. I've got
Speaker 1: the extended battery on it. Now. This is the extended
Speaker 1: battery for the UV five R, but it fits the
Speaker 1: five x three because these is the same form factor,
Speaker 1: and I've got the try band Nagoya and Tenna on it.
Speaker 1: So while the radio itself is only about sixty five dollars,
Speaker 1: the upgraded triband antenna because it comes with two intennas,
Speaker 1: one dual band one two twenty. I don't like having
Speaker 1: two antennas for three bands. I like having one antenna.
Speaker 1: The upgraded extended battery that you see here. So this
Speaker 1: one right here is a newly released USB C battery.
Speaker 1: You can see the USBC charging port right there on
Speaker 1: the bottom of the battery. The previous battery had a
Speaker 1: round modular port over here on the side, and it
Speaker 1: would plug into a USBA connection. But this one here
Speaker 1: is USBC chargeable extended battery, and I've had that. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I've had the radio itself for more than
Speaker 1: seven or eight years. Still goes strong. I pretty much
Speaker 1: only use it in this environment. I take it with
Speaker 1: me hunting every year, and I use it a lot
Speaker 1: because the two twenty repeater nearby is a good repeater
Speaker 1: to use. CAC five HWB testing very quiet into the repeater,
Speaker 1: great signal. Not much activity on this two twenty repeater,
Speaker 1: but when the internet is up on this tower, it's
Speaker 1: down on the whole tower at the time of this recording, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: But when it's up, this repeater has all Stars, so
Speaker 1: I connect it to my all Star system. I just
Speaker 1: really like using two twenty. There's a couple other two
Speaker 1: twenty repeaters in the area, but this one right here
Speaker 1: is great. So this is one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I bring this radio to the Hunting Lease every year
Speaker 1: is because of the two twenty aspect of it. This
Speaker 1: next one here is the UV ninety met This one
Speaker 1: I've had for several years. Also. This one is one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine dollars at the time of this
Speaker 1: recording at by two Way Radios dot com and these
Speaker 1: over at Better Safradio dot com. They were the first
Speaker 1: ones to introduce them, but I think everybody has them
Speaker 1: now as well. These are UV nine batteries for all
Speaker 1: the UV nine series walks on radios that are now
Speaker 1: USPC chargeable on the bottom here too, So I've upgraded
Speaker 1: all of my radios TOV to this new battery with
Speaker 1: the USBC charger. Like I said, everything's USBC we're talking
Speaker 1: about today. I've got this one sitting on Simplex right
Speaker 1: now one forty six five to two case five HWB
Speaker 1: on one four sixty five two. You might have heard
Speaker 1: that behind you because I have another radio on that
Speaker 1: right there. This one will do about ten watts for
Speaker 1: I did a review on this radio when it was new.
Speaker 1: I've also had this one for six seven, eight years
Speaker 1: something like that. I use this at the Hunting Lease
Speaker 1: a lot because it's orange. More than one time I've
Speaker 1: dropped this when walking to a deer stand or walking
Speaker 1: back from a deer stand, and a friend of mine
Speaker 1: has found it driving or walking down the same road
Speaker 1: later that day. Because this is orange and it shows
Speaker 1: up so well. So if you are the type of
Speaker 1: person to drop something or leave it laying somewhere and
Speaker 1: you're losing stuff all the time, this orange color really
Speaker 1: does help when you're out in the field. This is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite radios, this one here. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is true today, so don't go
Speaker 1: quote to me on this. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: anyone in trouble. I don't want to make anyone mad.
Speaker 1: But this was one of the original UV ninety mates,
Speaker 1: and this is full open transmit, So this one will
Speaker 1: work on GMRS frequencies. I'm not saying you should do that.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you can do that if you choose to
Speaker 1: accept your mission, which is to get a GMRS license.
Speaker 1: Get a GMRS license, and then this one will work
Speaker 1: for him radio and GMRS frequencies, or at least i'm
Speaker 1: told that it will. I meant to say I'm told
Speaker 1: that it will work on GMRS frequencies. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I haven't actually tested it myself. This next one is
Speaker 1: a b Tech UV Pro. Now this one's fairly new.
Speaker 1: This one just came out earlier this year. They did
Speaker 1: some They did some beta firmware for it for a
Speaker 1: full T and C packet, and then the full T
Speaker 1: and C packet firm where the kiss TNC firmware was
Speaker 1: released about a month ago at the time of this recording.
Speaker 1: So that means you can bluetooth this to a device
Speaker 1: like an Android tablet or phone. You can use APRS
Speaker 1: droid with it, you can use packet with it. You
Speaker 1: can send you can bluetooth it to a laptop and
Speaker 1: send win Link messages over two meters if you have
Speaker 1: a two meter iGATE or a win Link gateway that's
Speaker 1: near you, you can do that with it. You can
Speaker 1: do APRS with it has built in APRS. You can
Speaker 1: program this from the app on your phone. It'll do
Speaker 1: a lot of extra different stuff like that. About one
Speaker 1: point sixty five at the time of this recording, BTech
Speaker 1: sent me this radio, and this is virtually the same
Speaker 1: radio as the VGC versions like the N seventy six
Speaker 1: hundred or something in seventy six maybe something like that.
Speaker 1: But I emailed BTech and I was like, Okay, tell
Speaker 1: me all are these radios exactly the same, And they
Speaker 1: gave me a list of reasons why this one is
Speaker 1: in fact not the same as the VGC. This one
Speaker 1: is a Part ninety certified radio, so it is full
Speaker 1: open transmit legally, so you can use it on GMRS.
Speaker 1: Whether that's legal or not, that's a little bit still
Speaker 1: up in the air. I've been reading some conflicting stories
Speaker 1: about that recently, and maybe I'll do something about that
Speaker 1: again soon, do another video about that soon. But regardless
Speaker 1: of that, a lot of your radios used on GMRS
Speaker 1: these days are Part ninety radios, Kinwood Part ninety radios,
Speaker 1: Motorola part ninety radios. Whether it's good or bad, right wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, I'm just saying that's what happens. This
Speaker 1: one is a Part ninety radio, so it's a full
Speaker 1: open transmit on two meters and four to forty just
Speaker 1: a dual band radio. The UV nine and D Mate
Speaker 1: was also just a dual band radio, USBC charging battery
Speaker 1: in the back, Android and iOS programmable a Kiss T
Speaker 1: and C to connect it to your laptop to do
Speaker 1: stuff like win Link APRS APRS droid and which enhances
Speaker 1: a lot of APRS features. And at one sixty five today,
Speaker 1: that might be a little bit pricey for a field radio,
Speaker 1: but you know, for all the features it packs in there,
Speaker 1: and for all the extra stuff it does, especially being
Speaker 1: able to connect win Link and APRS, I think this
Speaker 1: is a good choice for field radio. This next one
Speaker 1: here is also fairly new. This one's one nine nine.
Speaker 1: This is the new any Tone D one six eight
Speaker 1: dual band DMR radio. Now, if you're not into DMR,
Speaker 1: you probably don't you probably don't care about this. But
Speaker 1: if you are into DMR, this is a fantastically priced,
Speaker 1: full featured, fully packed radio, smaller than the D eight
Speaker 1: seven eight UV two plus. This one is us USBC
Speaker 1: programmable and chargeable on the body of the radio, not
Speaker 1: on the battery, but on the body of the radio.
Speaker 1: I did a video about this. You can go watch
Speaker 1: that and get more information about this radio. That same
Speaker 1: that same tower that has the two twenty antenna over
Speaker 1: there also as a DMR repeater connected into the Texas
Speaker 1: state wide DMR network that I can easily hit from
Speaker 1: this DMR HT anywhere on this hunting lease. So I
Speaker 1: enjoy using DMR at this location, and this is the
Speaker 1: radio that I've been carrying this season because of that,
Speaker 1: because I still enjoy talking on DMR sometimes I can
Speaker 1: get a fantastic signal into that the Rosston repeater. It's
Speaker 1: the Roston Tower I'm talking about. And this is the
Speaker 1: only radio we're talking about today that does DMR. So
Speaker 1: if DMR is interesting to you, even DMR simplex, this
Speaker 1: might be a great choice for a field radio for you.
Speaker 1: One of the cheapest, most feature packed DMR radios on
Speaker 1: the market today. Not the cheapest DMR radio on the market,
Speaker 1: but one of the most feature packed radios. The last
Speaker 1: one today we're going to talk about is the Walks
Speaker 1: on Q ten H. I almost didn't add this one
Speaker 1: because it is two hundred and twenty dollars, so it's
Speaker 1: it's not really what I would categorize as a throwaway radio.
Speaker 1: The thing it brings to the table is you can
Speaker 1: get it in different colors. It comes in red obviously, green,
Speaker 1: blue and black I think are the other colors. So
Speaker 1: it's all so much easier to see if you drop
Speaker 1: it in the field or something like that. If you're
Speaker 1: out in the field in the woods right now and
Speaker 1: you drop your radio, you can definitely see it as
Speaker 1: you're walking by. So this one is a quad band radio.
Speaker 1: It will do not only two meters and for forty,
Speaker 1: but two twenty like I said before, and also six meters.
Speaker 1: This is the only six meter HT in the lineup today.
Speaker 1: So if you've got a couple of hunting buddies that
Speaker 1: are hams and you guys really want to get out
Speaker 1: on a channel that no one else is on, you
Speaker 1: can get on five to two dot five two five
Speaker 1: the fmsimplex calling frequency for the six meter amateur radio band,
Speaker 1: and you guys can have the frequency basically to yourselves.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get used a whole lot. I like to
Speaker 1: monitor that frequency when I'm out here in the field
Speaker 1: or when I'm driving down the road. If I have
Speaker 1: my six meter rig on, you'll hear activity on it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's pretty rare, but is it is a cool
Speaker 1: band to talk on if you're in close proximity and
Speaker 1: you want to have just like a channel that nobody
Speaker 1: else is on. Same thing can be said for the
Speaker 1: two two three dot five hundred fmsimplex calling frequency for
Speaker 1: the two twenty megahertz ban but this one if you're
Speaker 1: into six meters, if you've got a nearby six meter repeater.
Speaker 1: When I did my first video about this radio, I
Speaker 1: had several people in the comment come by and say, Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've actually got a six meter repeater near me. Doesn't
Speaker 1: get used very much, but if I get this radio,
Speaker 1: I might start using it. So that's a good thing
Speaker 1: to know about too. So if two twenty and six
Speaker 1: meters don't interest you, then two hundred and nineteen dollars
Speaker 1: there is probably a little bit too much for a
Speaker 1: knocking around radio in the field that has a higher
Speaker 1: possibility of getting lost or stolen. But I am including
Speaker 1: it today once again. It is USBC programmable and chargeable
Speaker 1: on the body of the radio, not on the battery,
Speaker 1: but on the body, so and it adds the fourth
Speaker 1: band to it, unlike everything else we talked about today.
Speaker 1: So what do you guys think about that? What do
Speaker 1: you think about those four radios, the ones that I
Speaker 1: commonly use them. I've been using this UV pro b
Speaker 1: tech quite a bit this season because it's been It
Speaker 1: just came out a little while back, and it's that
Speaker 1: kiss T and C function is really cool. So I've
Speaker 1: been using that, and I've been using this bf FAA
Speaker 1: because it has two twenty on it, and then my
Speaker 1: and then probably those are probably the most commonly used
Speaker 1: radios for myself this year. On top of that, I
Speaker 1: have used the five by three a couple times, and
Speaker 1: the UV ninety made a couple of times, and then
Speaker 1: I did some six meters stuff by myself because there's
Speaker 1: nobody's on six meters out here, but could be cool
Speaker 1: to a thing to have for six meters if you're
Speaker 1: into that sort of thing in your area. What other
Speaker 1: radios do you think might fit into this category of Hey,
Speaker 1: this is a good radio, it works great, it offers
Speaker 1: these features, but if you lose it, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be out five, six, seven hundred dollars like you would
Speaker 1: if you lost your high dollar Yazoo or Kenwood HT
Speaker 1: What else do you think might be worthy of this list?
Speaker 1: Put a comment below. I'd like to know. Thanks for
Speaker 1: watching today.