Yeah those Retevis RT-85 radios are great and have a clean signal as well as a 5w output on the ham, murs, and gmrs bands and the antennas are pretty good too which is unusual for CCRs.

UV21 can not TX/Rx at frequency 153.0000 MHz - 157.0000MHz.

Ok this tells me how to set up scan groups. How to scan just one group?

Great video, Im wondering how I can charge the baofeng from a 12 vdc battery, on my POTA battery box I have a usb jack, but it is 12vdc... will that be too much for the baofeng? Thanx NS9T 73.

Thanks.

Can you suggest a good external antenna for pl 330?

8w version does this also.

I’m brand new to this hobby and bought my first radio and it’s the Wouxun KG-UV9D Mate. I like it but it’s more complicated than I thought. I would be interested in more videos on how to set up and use this unit. Subscribed.

how does it compare to the talkpod airband?

Sorry to say I was not able to hear you when you talked you might want to get a better microphone

Thank you!!!

Ordered a programming cable so I can try this. Better than buying a whole new radio for my truck!

Any ideas for a water proof pouch or close?

I have a question for a broader audience: Does this radio get overloaded/desensed in urban areas? That's a chronic problem with where I live. Particularly with direct conversion radios, which I believe this one is. I have neighbors with computers, phones, chargers, microwaves, etc. A single bad USB charger can block RX on the entire floor. There are also a few nearby TV and FM radio towers. Baofeng-like radios are just deaf around here. I know that with proper front-end filtering such radios can be good. Any experience with this one?

Thank you for the review! I really like this radio. I use rechargeable batteries, either Energizer or Ladda from Ikea - always have some on hand. Same antenna. I programmed mine by hand. It is stunning how fast this thing can go through your custom or preset banks. Flies through all GMRS and MURS channels in under s second. A little longer for ham frequencies. Airband reception is excellent. I can hear all tower/dept/arr traffic at my local airport. Did I mention airshows. Definitely a must-have. If I could mention two more must-haves (analog), here they are: Quansheng UV-K5/6 (can't beat it for PL tone scanning, saving, waterfall), and a Wouxun UV9 series radio (can't beat it for RX sensitivity and selectivity). I wish someone had told me this earlier without me having to shell out big $$$ on trial and error.

I bought my uv 17 pro gps a few weeks ago. Nice full-featured radio but the AM air receive is terrible. Is anyone else having the same issue?

I have several HT's as a many operators do. That having been said the UV17 pro is my new favorite handheld, the uv9r plus was my goto solid as a brick . Still carry it in commo bag, but the uv17r pro is a lot of radio for the price and one of the best baofeng HT's for the money. My new daily carry for sure.

I'm part of a neighborhood CERT group so I buy up old polcoe scanners to give out to members of the group to use in emergencies and I have a handful of the old 10 channel pro-38 type scanners that I've been repairing and maintaining over the years. I use them quite often actually as state police where I live still used analog. That and the analog state and federal interop freqencies are what I program into the older scanners. Tandy, the leather company, actually made police scanners back in the day (on one of the scanners in your video you can see "Tandy corporation" on the bottom) and in fact they made the Tandy 1000, one of the very first PCs.

What other ham fengs also do gmrs transmit outta curosity

I miss my old Pro 2026. Had that resistor you could clip. Received everything! Hope to find another one one day. Came in handy for MilAir, even somehow consumer FM radio and clear channel TV. Also, Railroads. (CSX in Cumberland MD for me). And oddly enough my Comcast cable. After 40 years, fun times! Older ones are highly recommended for non Emergency services. Then you don't have to clog up your expensive Trunk-Tracker with static frequencies either. I also use my WS1040 (what is that in Radio Shack nonmenclature?) as a dedicated Weather Alert radio. Edit: The long-pin RCA to rg-259 should be pretty easy to find on Amazon. They have a pretty cheap selection of adapters and antennas at just below pro quality. I can recommend some brands if anyone needs them. Radio Reference is a must. You can join for free and find almost any frequency and state in the Union. Paid membership is only really needed if you program digitals like I do. (But I'm sure they appreciate the support if you want to help). Also gets you access to Broadcastify. So there's that. Nice rig Northman! 💯

Volume on video is very low. Interesting though and I lived going into radio shack as a kid in the early 1990s. 45 now, but can still remember the smell of a radio shack.. 2nd up is micro world then best buy.. the smells!!!! It was all celephane and mother boards I couldn't afford...

Does anyone know the discriminator tap mod for the pro 2037?

I have one of those.Make sure you keep extra batteries. They are battery soakers.

That is a nice little radio.

I have the pro 2018 and it works very well.

I have old handhelds. They were really built to last.

That’s pretty sweet.

Have you seen the gas generator with a lithium battery bank? It's a hybrid design. Have both a gas and solar generator you can accomplish the same idea.

Now this, this is what made me sub

Thank you for your review. Maybe you should try our latest one

This is the 5W version, 8W version is better

I use 2 of them. Not bad. The harmonics are to much for the European laws. If you charge the battery via USB port the batterie charger controller produce much noise between 300 and 450 MHz. You can't receive weak signals while charging

Listening to the NOAA weather frequencies is also useful for getting a sense of how good VHF propagation is. UHF propagation usually correlates with it, too. Just for fun, I started "collecting" NOAA WX stations I could ever hear from my QTH in Wisconsin. Normally I can hear only 2. But over time I have logged up to 4 stations per channel. The craziest distance was about 520 miles (sorry, km) from a station in Mansfield, Ohio. Somehow it was able to compete with the strong signal from Milwaukee at 162.400. Just take two HTs, tune to the same WX channel, and spin around until you hear two diff signals. One of them might be something new. It's kinda fun.

Thank you for the review! I got one of these after I heard one on the air. I agree with all your points. One thing worth mentioning, though, is that it has a direct conversion receiver. So I didn't expect it to outperform a superhet radio on receive. And it didn't. However, it did outperform the UV-5R for sure, and probably even the Yaesu FT-65, both of which are direct conversion radios. I wouldn't use it for hunting distant stations, but it's a solid (and handsome) radio for routine comms at short and medium distances. My first conversation was on a repeater about 18 miles away.

I have a few HTs with airband RX capability, including this orange Wouxun, Tidradio, Talkpod, and Quansheng. Among these HTs, I would say the Talkpod has the best airband RX audio. However, for RX only, they all pale in comparison to the Uniden BC125AT scanner. I use it with a Diamond RH77CA antenna. It scans at an incredible speed, about 100 channels per second. Being about 20 miles from the airport, I can basically continuously listen to the tower, arrivals, and departures. Also made great audio clips of airshows.

If we want better quality control, we will have to pay for it. I love my UV-K5s

Now,get a third party antenna! Cat calls!

I have this radio. Mine is the black one. I flashed the firmware,and it works great. Plus I like the black LCD display,as it doesn't use a lot of battery power. Just wished it was water resistant.

Thats what my radio is,a water resistant weather radio.I do love the display,and love the Barry White voice.

Ouch! Sounds like a typical bust. Thanks for the results.

It's useless

Wonder how clean is it? No spurious emissions? That would be my first concern.

Thanks for the compare! I don't have any of the newer Baofengs, but I do have the same orange Wouxun Mate like you have. I have had it a few years now and I like it alot, but yes sir it is pricey! Does your airband RX come in much louder than any of the FM channels? Mine sure does lol.

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I am just about to buy one for my car. It makes me thinking that the reception is noisy when USB charging is plugged. Do all Baofeng radios have this problem? Any comment about the air-band reception?

I really like my 935G. Got it as an upgrade to my 905G. Then the very next day I ordered the Q10 as I really wanted a superheterodyne. Finally a week later I ordered the KG-1000+. Excellent radios! 73!

Thanks for the video. I have extended antennas on mine. I probably have the manuals around somewhere. I am trying to figure out how to get it to scan frequencies to match up automatically with other devices of unknown frequency. Some units can do it, but I'm not sure if Wuoxon will do that.

I got one with my KG 905G. Works good so far.