Teth-Air
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And? The radio you like has a 10 watt spec. You say 12.5? I know many of these radios are frequency dependent where they make the output power. Does your support cross band repeating?
A better VHF radio
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And? The radio you like has a 10 watt spec. You say 12.5? I know many of these radios are frequency dependent where they make the output power. Does your support cross band repeating?
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skegpro
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If you like your Kenwood's check these out. On my radar right now.
https://www.radioworld.ca/kw-thk20at
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skegpro
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I just feel the chips sets leave slot to be desired. I find the PTT on the uv-82hp's isn't great with the external mics.
Also getting harder to import the Chinese stuff. Had customs confiscate an order on me.
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skegpro
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Very hard to get into the country.
Have you tried these?
https://www.radioddity.com/products/radioddity-ga-510
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skegpro
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Yeah I was aware of that. Really only concerned with VHF now adays, I haven't used a UHF channel on the hills in years.
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skegpro
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Wtf is up with radio oddity?
Not shipping to Canada anymore?
Check out the shipping rate.....
Not shipping to Canada anymore?
Check out the shipping rate.....
X-it
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Well seeing how you asked, the tyt-8000 i tested was before i bought my tester. So i took 6 different radios if i remember right and off i went with my wife home with a uv-5r with a stubby antenna. The tyt-8000 which i had very high hopes for dropped off before the baofeng gt-5tp. I marked rx tx 1-5 1 being the best. The zastone i drove almost twice as far before i could not send or recieve any more. I made sure and used the exact same antenna on all the radios which was a bit of a pain screwing in and out. Yes it does support cross band repeating. And remember what i said some come with absolutely no send wattage what so ever. I learned this after buying the tester.
X-it
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Haha i seen that about 4 weeks back, they do not sell the zastones either. And even when you order off other sites 60% of the time...you never get the radios. No i have not tried that model wish i did but looks like i will not be trying that anyways.
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Yeah I sent them an email, seeing wtf .
They have an Amazon store too.
My TYT-8000E that I got from them a year ago I finally got programed, chirp supported now.
X-it
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From what i remember the TYT software was exceptionally good IMO. And i remember telling you do not buy that radio.
https://www.radioddity.com/pages/tyt-download
https://www.radioddity.com/pages/tyt-download
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X-it
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I have tested the Boafeng UV-10R and the BF-H6 Both claiming to be 10 watt...they are not. Both are about the same for range. I might want to add the radioddity ga-510 looks a bit like the BF-H6
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I’m with you on this. I have 3 Baofeng’s and I honestly have no idea how they actually work! I just have them all set on the same channel and that’s what we use to communicate when on the mountain.
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skegpro
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Lol they gave it to me, cause they screwed up an order.
Is it no good? I won't wast my time on it if it's a heap.
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The price definitely looks better. I would like to run of those for a weekend to see if they are as reliable, and have the same reach. We have run with a few groups with Boafang with mixed results. Some seem to work great, and some not so great.
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X-it
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A lot of these radios will not transmit on any of the RR channels. It might be ok for the off road channel and that is about it.
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skegpro
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Oh good catch, never saw that.
Shame on kenwood, wonder why they did that?
The Icom v86 has the full VHF spectrum.
X-it
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I noticed that the hard way a couple years back, i get a lot of radios to program. When i dug into it there are lot of expensive radios that only transmit from 144-148. One radio that has a very large band it the Zastone M7. Maybe you cant see it but you can set it from 120-599mhz. Tough little radio but not the greatest range. Maybe i should have tested it a bit more.
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Teth-Air
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I heard the early software was bad and the radio was not compatible with CHIRP. The latest software is good and CHIRP supports it. The only thing I have not yet to be able to do with the OEM software is "cut and paste" to build the file. It is a little slower one line at a time.
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