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thanks!👍

Disappointed, as a channel subscriber I tried to buy a pouch for my FT60, clicked buy with PayPal & found you only offer shipping within the USA at the checkout.

It seems you don't use powerpoles near as much as you could to make life easier. Powerpole on the charger eliminates some possible errors. Powerpole on your truck and your power box mean the charger just plugs in. When you need the clamps, you of course have a powerpole on them. Then you can use the clamps both to charge a battery or to take power from a battery. How many cig lighter adapters do you use at one time? I rarely use one, so I have a cig lighter to powerpole. I also have a cig outlet to powerpole. I don't have a powerpole to binding posts, but that would be easy enough. Instead I do have a few sets of powerpoles to just bare solid wire, and a selection of Wago connectors that I can connect bare wire to the powerpoles. Basically everything I get is tested then soon converted to powerpole. For example, I recently acquired a Milwaukee M18 battery charger that plugs into a cig lighter outlet. It's open on my bench. I'm going to replace the cig plug with a powerpole, and add a second powerpole in parallel to the battery terminals. No more dangly cord, and I can use it for its original purpose with any powerpole equipped source, plus I can use it to take power from the attached battery, plus I can use it to charge the M18 battery in a small power box without taking it out of the box and putting the battery onto the charger. I do use SB50 for things that might need more than 30amps continuous and for my normal 20amp and larger batteries and chargers. I use SB120 as my normal high-amperage connection. And I have made various adapters to go between those two and also to powerpoles. (I cannot believe Rigrunner and etc don't sell a powerpole distribution block that accepts an SB50...)

Yaesu ft60+Yaesu ft6r = Icom id10 Yes!!!

My vx6R cannot go to the murs freqs even though it was mars modded from HRO. What should I do?

I tried to order on for my Tidradio h8 but I couldn’t get P-Pal to work.

Love this simple setup, quick and effective. Could use the free space in the lid for a mic holder to keep it tidy, also, to keep it self reliant could you not mount a 12v battery (like for a fish finder) in with it?

Can you listen to local police an fire ems ect

Thank you for doing this. I got so tired of cheap mics that I took my older speaker-mics from the 1980s and put a modern K or M plugs on them. It’s nice to find some a few that would be plug and play.

Nice simple design. It also has the most important thing. It work for you! Thanks for the video! 73

I will express my unprofessional opinion. Maybe they gave me an extra station to keep in touch. It's not an event to set up the station in the necessary way.

If the TYT is like my Alinco, a standard RJ 12 (phone) cable works as a remote head cable, and Amazon has every length you may want for cheap!

Is this a radio set-up right out of the box? My radio only displays VFO and on the same Freq displayed on the video nowhere does it show TRS1 or TRSG1 and I set my radio to NORMAL mode which is 3.

Genasun seems to be the only charge controller that is RF quite on HF FYI

Always put a BNC adapter on HTs and use the BNC version of antennas. The Diamond RH77CA, the BNC version of the one in the video, is great. You’ll reduce wear and tear on the antenna connection, allows quick change, opportunities, and you’ll fill in the gaps, if any, at the antenna connection.

I got the abbree model work's great and great packaging.

Is the speaker mic of Motorola Gp 338 the same with the baofeng Uv9r+ ?

Looks like well made gear. Ordered a pouch for my kg-935g plus. I'm guessing it will fit my gmrs-pro as well since those radios are almost identical in size. 👍

I've tested a lot of handheld antennas from Tid, Abbree, Nagoya, Bing Fu, and others. I used both a VNA & a directional watt meter, the same way that you did. The two instruments generally gave results that were similar. The antennas were a real roll of the dice. Different ones worked in different frequency ranges. "identical" antennas proved to be very different sometimes. When I found stubbys that had a SWR below 3, I was able to get about a mile out of them at GMRS frequencies using a handheld with 4 watts of measured output. More than a few antennas from a variety of brands had SWR above 10 when testing within their specified frequency range. Even the mighty Nagoya was a little hit & miss sometimes. Bing Fu gave both the absolute worst & some of the best results. Their stubbies were not usable, but their 6" air band was actually good, while still being cheap. Build quality generally seems better on the higher priced antennas, but price does not guarantee proper tuning. The internal guts can be very different. A poorly built cheap antenna that is tuned correctly will work better than an expensive one that is not, but the cheap ones seem to not last as well. A meter is worth having if you are going to be buying antennas. What they are marked is not always what they actually are. The antennas that come with the radios age generally OK but not great. The best ones came in just over 1.1 which is spectacular.

Thanks 💙

I own this radio and want to really like it. I just wish Baofeng could make a radio that puts out a clean signal?

Lmfao, I should have waited an extra week to order my pouch hahaha. Seriously though, it got delivered very quickly and PERFECTLY fits my TIDRADIO TD-H3. Now to go find a pouch for the H8 I just bought lol.

Nice rig, your videos are really good. I set up a little UV5R like this for work. I'm a first responder in SoCal and in our district we have an area people Hang glide and para glide, they have a freq that they use for comms. We get a few crashes every year it seems. I got the freq and programmed it into a spare UV5R I had and keep it on the outside of my backpack keypad locked on that Freq and showed the other shifts how to use it. I put a folding military style antenna in my backpack if needed. The HAM thing is cool, got my tech last spring. The Baofengs with Nagoyas have always treated me well but I recently got a Tidradio H3 and now I am looking at maybe a Yaesu FT-65r. Remember the Smith 642 or 637 in your pocket is better than the 1911 you left in the safe.

Great video, helped me a lot. One question if I may. Should I be able to transmit GMRS frequencies in normal mode.

I've built my go-box solution into a series of boxes, each a module filling a certain need. So far I've put together 3 boxes, a "radio" box(pelican style case ~ the size of a Apache4800), containing a G90 and a Kenwood TK-780(2m only); a 40Ah battery box(HF tactical ammo box), designed to output 20A for 2hrs which has a built in solar charge controller, and battery monitor; third is an antenna box(HF Voyager 18" toolcase), which I've already outgrown; and fourth, which is currently in flux, is a VHF digital box(form undecided, although the equipment is currently acting as an igate on my desk), designed to operate as a field APRS igate and beacon, with a 30w Kenwood TK-7180, a SignalinkUSB, and a laptop. The big goal with my system is to have things pre-set-up, so that I can simply drop the boxes on a bench, flip open the lids, and with a couple cables connecting them together, and a few minutes setting up antenna's I can be on the air. I did locate the power connectors for the radio box inside the box, with the mentality that I shouldn't be leaving power and antenna's connected when the radio's aren't in use.

You have such a great channel and deserve sooooo many more subs!!!

GREAT idea! I don't use my field gear, near enough. I do however use my mobile gear once a week. We do have mobile equipment set up at home [configured to go] to monitor local activity in a TOC.

I'd like to talk to you about setting up mobile comms GMRS with other friends around the county but I'm new to all of this and a prepper out here in San Marcos, CA it's north of San Diego by Camp Pendleton CA. Would I be out of line asking for your email? I need help in setting up a comms net.

Be careful Scott, common sense isn't always common to many folks...

For those looking at inverters, I recommend looking at whether you should get a pure sine wave inverter. They are more expensive and bulkier, but give cleaner power. Some electronics very much do not like the modified sine wave inverters that are a bit cheaper. Most of the time, it does not matter at all, but sometimes it very much does.

How do you scan your saved channels??????

ANY button stops scan. Holding either direction button will “rocket” through the channels. Kinda complicated the basics. That said, I respect your honest opinion on radios. That’s why I watch.

Good evening from the Badger state!

Wonder what power it pushes in the 462-467 range ?

I shortened my antenna by almost 5 cm, and now it has an SWR of 1.1 at 440 MHz. Before, it was over 4. You just need to remove the cap, snip it, and put the cap back on :)

I built a “go box” in a rack mount box that by the time I was finished, I needed wheels to transport it. I have since taken most of the components out for smaller, lightweight packages that are much easier to transport. They always say “KISS- Keep It Simple, Stupid.” Yours is a very simple and practical solution and very lightweight. (You are definitely not stupid!)

Anybody figured how to enable menu 39 (scrambler)?

Scott, I hope you talk about the antenna(s) you use with that unit in a future video. 👍

I like your ideas and approach to the radio go box. If you are in the field for any situation, it is a working radio that can be up and running in no time. No need for the bells and whistles or the perfect look as that would not be the ultimate purpose of field expedition usage. Thank you for keeping it simple as I as well do not try to win awards or beauty contest. I just want to get the job at hand done. 73

What a Salad 🥗! Charging is always inconsistent - so many factors.

I love it - but why do you use it three times a week?!?

Looks great, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Very helpful video. I got the UV-K6 a few days ago. Now I know how to get around the menu. I, for some reason, am unable to get the computer to find the radio. I know that I am choosing the correct port, but it never sees the radio itself. I tried on 2 different computers. I will get it eventually, I have programmed probably 15 HT radios over the years and so far this one has me confused the most.

Love it - and it's a great idea. Not underwhelmed at all.

Don't apologize for simplicity. Every link you add to the chain is another possible point of failure. KISS

Don't bother chopping the faceplate cable. Use an ethernet cable of an appropriate length for the faceplate. You can get a 90deg RJ45 connector and keep things tight and tidy.

The keep is simple principle should be more common. I started off building my VHF/UHF go box based on the ID5100 one from Shack In the Box. After I got it build, I discovered it didn't work for my style of operation. I also took a suggestion from Jason KM4ACK and his modular power distribution box and decided to simplify my setup to be just a battery and the radio itself. I like the T-Nut idea for mounting the radio to bottom of the case. I will take a look at that myself. Right now, I am using heavy duty velcro to hold things in place.

Use the unused space to mount a mich holder. Also consider a small foldable set of ear phones rather than a larger external speaker

Still the best videos on Tube!

This is the stuff so many want to hear!!