@@photog1529 I believe I do that in the video but can’t remember being that it is an older video. In bright sunlight none of that helped. I actually even hold the thing right up to my eyeball and still can’t see it when it’s full sunlight on any mode they have for the colors. I don’t believe he fixed the screen yet but I’m not sure. I really wanted it to work but unfortunately it was super difficult to see. I switched to a different radio after this test and sold these two radios mainly because of that problem. I hope it is corrected but I don’t think it is and I was going to use them outside quite a bit as I travel for work and wanted to take them along. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@Ham-Solo Once the weather clears here, I'll give it a try and hopefully report back. I'm 4 days into rotator cuff surgery, so even the routine is pretty difficult at this point. 🙁

@@photog1529 I completely understand. I’m going in today for Achilles surgery and will be recovering for a couple of months after. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@Ham-Solo Best of luck to you on the surgery and recovery. Noob to radios, so binge watching when I can. 😁

@@donaldmckinney6304 Sure do buddy it’s right here. bettersaferadio.com/smiley-antenna-slim-duck-gmrs-465mhz-5-8-wave-sma-f/?srsltid=AfmBOorMm7repL3aqZhAUhglrV2TaSXKxNPcV_FebOx39BAp1VAhbS_Q Don’t forget to use my code HamSolo7 for an additional 7% off if you spend over $100. I know he has a sale going on till the end of the year on several of his radios with good discounts like the KG-916. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@dannyrhodes13 No problem. We actually setup a DStar repeater now in the middle of Colorado but only 3 of us officially use it. Hoping to network it so we can get on reflectors outside the local area as well. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@MrCofresipirate Nice. It’s a good radio for the price. Ham-Solo K0FYR

Overall it's a good video, with a few details it could have been very good, for example it would have been nice if the radios had the same settings like squelch and volume and then he had swapped the antennas, he had used the same mike/speaker on both radios to listen to the same broadcast... and the solo behind him that every now and then blinded you as soon as he moved!

If you think that’s cool, then check out this video of us bouncing signals off the moon and talking to people on the other side of the planet. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipLacpV5ltuVhZYsi=STaYuVIKKciXQmLC Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@AmbassadorEarl well loss is the loss. I did it on my 50 watt mobile and I didn’t see anyway additional compared to that of the handheld.

@@Oldmanof6296 Nice. It’s quite a wind load so I’ll probably only deploy it at a POTA parking lot but seemed to work well. Ham-Solo K0FYR

I appreciate it and welcome to the area. I do testing of things all around the area besides my out of state shenanigans. Ham-Solo K0FYR

Just got a x6200 myself, to go with 2 G90’s and a 7300. New neighborhood is deed restricted, so getting creative with the antennas. So far, Chameleon mag loop works well, especially for FT8.

@ yeah all of my antenna for the QTH are in my attic. Got South Africa on SSB 100 watts with 71’ random wire in attic. I actually sold my x6200 now to make room for the new Yaesu QRP rig coming out beginning of 2025. The FTX-1F I got on preorder. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@KD9VUK- It’s pretty tricky. Every adjustment affects every band. I use a tuner anyway with it. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@DaytonaJim78 Thanks. I did get Gigaparts to replace the mast so at least that was one good thing. Ham-Solo K0FYR

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@@lostangeles4476 Thank you. Trying to be impartial so as not to just rubber stamp a product that may have issues. I really like the audio quality of the Wouxun radios and have ordered different ones after these but just with different screens to avoid this issue. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@ManuelPinner never tried that radio but I did just order a new superheterodyne Wouxun radio for 1.25m that does 5 watts from Better Safe Radio called the KG-UV7D. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@DankFarrik1138 that’s actually a good idea. Once we finally got our club 1.25m repeater on the air we use it every single day with a coffee chat for about an 1&1/2 hours each morning and at various times throughout the day. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@lonestarpatriot876 I agree I love the performance aspect of these radios, but even shaded you still can’t really see the screen in daylight. It doesn’t seem that difficult when an any tone 878 can be so bright and these radios can’t seem to be visible. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@Ham-Solo You are comparing a $334 dollar digital HT to an HT I got for $174 from BSR. That seems a bit unrealistic. I am guessing that if BSR put a screen like that in their radios, it would hike the price up quite a bit. I am also guessing there are not a whole lot of people who want to spend $334 for a GMRS radio. This is why so many people buy Baofengs, and they are garbage. People apparently don't care because they are cheap.

@ Well I had both the GMRS and the Ham versions as well as the 9G pro version ham radio before that and got rid of all 3 eventually and downgraded to the KG916 because it was LCD and I could read the screen and it is still from BSR and superheterodyne. My jumbospot that I got for $50 dollars has a brighter screen. I’ve purchased over $800 worth of radios from BSR so this isn’t as much nit picking as it is stating that had they went with a slightly better screen option it would have been a better radio. Ham-Solo K0FYR

​@@Ham-SoloThis is just illustrating the nitpicking to me. If you were only worried about screens your point might be valid to me. I personally would not be comparing a Jumbospot and a KG-UV916 to a KG-UV9GX. There are clear differences in features between the 916 and the 9GX. The 916 having almost 600 less channels is just 1 of those differences. I personally would take the 9GX all day long over the 916. I personally like to look at all features when comparing products. I see 599 less channels as being a negative when comparing the two. You went so far as to talk about the covert screen without realizing that is meant for nighttime use. That is the epitome of nitpicking. Why not nitpick the 916 as well for it's lack of features compared to the 9GX? Anyway, to each their own.

@@lonestarpatriot876Well the extra 600 receive only SHTF channels don’t matter as much to me as a vast majority of those aren’t used anymore do to digital trunking systems in both emergency response and government sectors and I could easily buy a cheaper scanner and still hear them. My main point of the update video was to point out the difficulty in seeing the screen in full daylight which Mark K6LED from BSR agreed with me and said he is working on a screen solution for that issue. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@planetcrypto8662 It’s the parabolic nature of the dish. A 60 foot dish has a reflected focal point and adds 43 dB of gain. Every 3 dB is doubling power so 350 watts at 43 dB gives us about 7,000,000 watts. Check out omnicalculator.com and use their gain calculator. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@planetcrypto8662 It’s fairly beat up and full of sand and dirt from the winds out there. Really starting to fall apart but I’m sure if you talk to them they may be ok with it. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@davep6977 I get it but it actually was RF burn and not general heat but that’s the sensation. It also was one of their early versions and the problem was corrected by a firmware update and a new battery being included in later radios. Had the company test it and they found the issue and then corrected it. That was well over a year and a half ago. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@AnthonyEarl Thanks Anthony. Just went over to your page and saw the description about blues. I just saw Christone “kingfish” Ingram in San Antonio with Kenny Wayne Sheppard at the beginning of April. Great blues guitar player. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@stevechepey6161 Thanks Steve. Only 3 more to go for Parks & Summits. Woohoo. 🎉 Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@russellquisto1230 It seems they have fixed the issue at this point. The replacement radio and battery they sent me worked fine with the upgrade. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@Bigfootradiosociety yeah I hear you. I haven’t had that radio or tuner in 2 years as I sold it soon after. My preference since then has been an IC-705 with the AH-705 auto tuner if I’m using my 9:1 PackTenna random wire or no tuner with my home brew 20m dipole. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@barntt We actually just set up our own club stand alone DStar repeater in our area that’s not hooked to the internet. We have a system of repeaters that are all either solar or generator operated interconnected and separate from the internet as well as great HF propagation here so communications won’t be bad even with the grid down. I wish every where was like that as I travel but after activating almost every state for Parks and Summits on the air I can definitely say they are not. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@Ham-Solo Nice! I have been off air for a few years and playing catch up!. Trying to wrap my head around it. LOTS to learn and nobody local to learn from. Thanks

@@barntt No problem. That’s currently my only DStar video and probably should do another one soon but several projects are before that. Have some DMR videos in the old line up as well if interested. Glad to help. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@jw6180 Not a problem. This radio is preprogrammed with about 850ish analog channels covering most common Fed, State, & Local government generic frequencies as well as all the standard GMRS, FRS, and MURS channels. As far as your own local repeaters you will need to go into Chirp software which is free to enter those frequencies and tones. The Better Safe Radio website has a list of all the preprogrammed SHTF channels that you can look at. k5q5c8s7.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/BetterSafeRadio-Wouxun-KG-UV9D-Plus-HAM-SHTF-Custom-Programming-Chart-v1a-858ch-042023.pdf This link is the list of those frequencies from their website. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@Ham-Solo Wow, you replied! Thank you!! Subscribing!

@@jw6180 yeah no problem. Let me know if you run into problems or have more questions. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@jw6180 Not to your specific area. Check your other question for my full answer. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@sehattonii hopefully this explanation helped. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@kenhouck22 no problem. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@jeffreyjhouser Thankyou, hope it showed capabilities. Still my primary mobile antenna for the past couple of years. Hm-Solo K0FYR

@@N5YAI no problem. Have fun at those two and get some good deals. I unfortunately will be at two different Fire conferences in Houston and then Orlando on those same dates so I can’t make anymore this season. There’s always next year. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@lynneftw Yes, I feel it is. I had to hold it right up to my face to really see the screen in direct sunlight. It is unfortunate since everything else about the radio is good. Ham-Solo K0FYR

I just order the gmrs one I have a hg q10g the screen is no great in direct sun light but can look at in the shade or cupping your hand I feel the tid h8 does a better job in direct sunlight .

@@F16_viper_pilot Yeah they seem to have worked out the bug. It was pretty funny though to use the TIC for $25,000 to test it. At least I didn’t have to buy that just to find out. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@Ham-Solo omg, that video had me rolling, especially when the thermometer read 92 then later 70 something. I was thinking how delicate and sensitive your fingers must be to not be able to handle less than body temperature.😆🤣 Then it’s was 877, which should have fused your fingers to the contacts.😆 Anyway, I was thinking either RF at high frequency or somehow getting a high amperage current flow through your finger, somewhere between maybe 5 and 60mA.

@@F16_viper_pilot Hahaha…yeah it does appear that way with those kinds of thermometers. So being a firefighter I don’t have sensitive hands, in fact I pretty much burned off my fingerprints over the years but this definitely was an RF transmission burn and not just a case of the battery getting warm or the metal screws or whatever other people commented about. I unfortunately didn’t have anything to measure the stray RF that was coming through the contacts so it made it look weird. At least they fixed the initial problem and it all seems to be good to go now. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@stephenwilkins4262 Sorry you feel that way but I can’t control the length of ads. They should allow a possible skip button after like 5 seconds I think. I don’t know but that’s what I do on other peoples channels. Ham-Solo K0FYR

This is at the Phon D. Sutton Recreation Area in the Tonto National Forest. There are three large shade covered tables right off of the main parking lot. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@Ham-Solo thank you!

@@Orbit2020 👍🏻 good luck. Ham-Solo K0FYR

@@bulldogbrower6732 yeah I think so. I am going to test it with a different size coax soon to make sure I didn’t lose too much signal with the smaller one in this video. Stay tuned. Ham-Solo K0FYR WRMV759

Did the other video on different coax types. Don’t remember if we talked about it but here is the link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/api6YpmLbMt3r80si=OKzC1BcS1Arufj0m had a mishap in the video as well. Ham-Solo K0FYR WMRV759

@@redacted2763 I agree. In keeping with the idea of quick setup and portable w/BNC connectors I will do another video to evaluate loss in my 3 different portable coax’s for use with this antenna and then run the field test at the same locations again to compare. Thanks for the idea and stay tuned as I go through that process and do another video. Ham-Solo K0FYR WRMV759