Your video ultimately helped me program my radio. Thanks. 73

Uv17 pro using chirp will program it that’s what I used on mine great little radios

You can just choose reset in settings

Doesn’t work

Have fun with it! I worked France on one with 20Watts!

What is the range capacity for this radio? 50 100 miles?

Unfortunately thjs didn’t work on my UV-5R5

Is the UV5R8W any good ?

How do you unlock the UV-5RM I couldn't transmit during the Pacific Palisades fire here in Los Angeles CA!!!

Quite popular with ham/swl ops in the armed forces its compact. And light weight. And can be used on a balcony. My rig cuppled up with gator clips. Listen to the man it works..sgt willams retired...

I’ve heard there are some that you can’t unlock. My two were unlocked when I got them (but that was like 12 years ago). My oldest one is programmed with ham, and all the GMRS and FRS channels.

Great review! I really appreciate the honest evaluation that didn’t shy away from pointing out potential weaknesses despite you receiving the hardware for free from the manufacturer. Let us know if MaxTalker follows up with you on any of the points you raised! It seems like their radios have some nice design features, so it’d be a huge win if they’re also receptive to feedback from the radio community!

I would like to know can I buy this radio to connect to my job walkie-talkie

Hello, ran across your video and I have a question? I’m looking for a handheld radio that can reach 75 miles, any suggestions. Thanks

Didn’t work on mine. One showed “Copying” on the screen. The other turned on like normal.

Is there a way to extend the light on the screen time?

Does anybody know how to use digital scanner to get in on state police and local police traffic

C'est la meilleure lampe frontale polyvalente. Le flux lumineux est constant, le flood en 400 lumens est top. La finition est exemplaire.

If you're in a pinch and you know where some lithium ion cells are, you can take apart those and put four in series and you have yourself a makeshift 12 volt battery.

It will cause interference as it vibrates ,it's a bit wobbly

How much do you pay for that walkie-talkie

FCC has neither the resources nor the inclination to hunt people down for transmitting on a radio which isn't type-accepted for a particular frequency. There's no way for anyone to know what kind of radio you're using unless they can actually see it. People do sometimes find themselves in trouble over doing stupid stuff that disrupts the ability of others to use the airwaves, and if they have to come for you, FCC will probably throw that charge into the mix. If you stick to bands that you are authorized to use (MURS, FRS, GMRS if licensed) and don't exceed the allowable wattage, you can probably do it the rest of your life without any problems. Yes, you would be in violation of FCC rules, and I'm not telling you that you should, but assuming you're an adult, take this information and make your own decisions.

I just ordered one on the Tik Tok shop for $10

Do you have a simple solar panel so you could set it outside to recharge?

Things I used for this build: Plano Storage Box: www.homedepot.com/p/Plano-16-qt-Storage-Crate-PLA1071MC/312083542 GOLDENMATE LiPo4 Batteries: a.co/d/aMfGSsO Battery Monitor: a.co/d/fz2MhKL 10AWG Flex Wire: a.co/d/7rUi7P0 9 Port 40A Connector: a.co/d/aHav46G With the batteries in parallel, this theoretically has a capacity of 40Ah.

Can I use 3 of these to communicate with buddies in different vehicles on road trips

@NukaVaultReadiness please can i have help with this issue

This is awesome. I just got two of these with extended battery if that matters. I've been trying to find a video to help me and then I get this on my fyp. How do I program my local police and fire/rescue scanner frequency and have my radio continue to scane through them ? Please can I have some help with this

THANKS

Slinky my best squeeze. In armed forces. Travel and home. Had 3 gator clamps and a tuner. My sw listing set up was as sharp as a tack. From 550am to 100 mhz fm 😊😊

I’m level one… trying to learn from more advanced

I buy Japanese Radios, these cheap Chinese radios they do not transmit properly, many of them have sparse emissions, and the quality is horrible! I have icom id-52 kenwood D75A and a Yaesu FT5D, All radio or Japanese made,

Thank you for teaching me

I made one a couple of years ago. It matched easily with an MFJ-939 tuner. I never made a single contact with it, but it had big ears. I could hear DX from all over.

First today?! And now a slinky will be regulated by the FCC!😂

Use a choke at the radio or at the 9-1 end !

That's awesome

1:46 “…this acts as a box…” 1: it IS a box. I can see it. it’s a box. 2: what does it mean to act as a box? To be a 3d rectangular shape, hollow inside, so it can contain other things? Yah, I’m quite confident it is an actual box, and not merely acting as a box. “Helps take out different impedance levels.” Uh, not quite. It transforms from one impedance to another impedance. It doesn’t take out levels, it transforms them so they’re a closer match to each other. “…because radios like to have balanced systems…” Usually not. Yes, radios from decades ago, from before the invention of coax, radios were designed to work with balanced systems. But now they are designed to work with UNbalanced systems. That’s exactly why you’re using an unun, to transform from one UNbalanced impedance to another UNbalanced impedance. I get what you MEAN, but the problem is you’re using the words incorrectly. Not necessarily a technical understanding problem, but a vocabulary problem. So, the tuner and unun combined were sufficient to receive on 20m. Why not demonstrate that you can effectively transmit? What was the SWR without the tuner? What SWR was the tuner able to get down to? What’s the resonant frequency of the slinky vertical? Does the resonant frequency change when stretching out the slinky more or less? I’ve been interested in slinky antennas for some time, and a couple years ago, ordered a pair of the larger size slinkys from ebay, with the intent to use on the ends of an inverted V dipole to try to extend it down to the 160m band. A month later, they cancelled and refunded. Dang it. But just now, I paused from typing this comment & found some place online to try again. Hopefully in January, they’ll ship a couple out and I can try some experiments. When I do, I will shoot a video including pertinent details like resonant frequency, bandwidth below 2:1 SWR… probably WSPR or FT8 results, proving not only RX, but TX efficacy.

Slinky dipole, two soldered together for each leg. Fed with a tuner.

An old technique that still works.. as long as you get a good quality slinky as I have seen a few cheap one spark or even melt due to low quality metals.

Add more slinkys

Used to hear old hams say that (when the bands was open) there was a guy in downtown New York who loaded up an old mattress spring on the roof of his apartment building. They say....he got out. Coat hanger stories. I have two boxed Slinky's on my shelf right above my radios. I plan someday to make a stretchable dipole. They were on sale at Meijer for 2 bucks. I haven't bought a premade commercial antenna in years. When you build and it works, that's the feeling I go for. All wire antennas here.

I made an antennae out of a metal slinky 35 years ago. It worked great for AM radio. From the upper Adirondacks I routinely picked up 700 WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, WLS Chicago, WABC New York City, WIRL in Peoria, Illinois and a couple of others that I can't remember the call signs of. I also tried it on shortwave with fair results. Picked up stations in Britain, and I picked up HCJB in Quito, Ecuador routinely. The radio I used was a Realistic Astronaut 8 multi band radio. I miss that radio!

Great antenna! I have been using one for POTA for a few years now. It stays in my go-box. String it up in a tree or use it on a fiberglass pole. 73

That´s great. I modified it and build an L-antenna with an electric fence spring gate coil in horizontal direction. I have extended the antenna at the beginning and at the end with 6 feet of wire. With an UNUN 9:1 it covers 80 m - 6 m Band. Next summer I will test your vertical version. 73, DG3IS, Harry