Good on you Andy. Keep the ham videos coming, nice radio that and good power output test. You're 100% correct too - there has never been a better time to get into ham radio!
I use a Baofeng UV-5R to talk on PMR446. Power is 5w, counterpoise is copper wire. Range is about 13 miles (depending on weather, cloud coverage). My PMR446 callsign is WRX25 or Wrexham25. It's illegal (power above 0.5w), but the power limits are not enforced in any way so you should be good to use a 5w or 10w HT there. Thinking of upgrading to a 25w mobile bass station soon, as I've got my foundation licence and I want to access more repeaters and talk further.
I’m doing my foundation corse with Essexham it’s a good way of learning now There’s videos and corse work and small tests at the end of each module I think there’s 9 modules all in Thanks for your RUclips channel Andy keep up the good work
I passed foundation about 2 weeks ago after going through the Essex’s ham course, good stuff. As a final bit of research, after you finish the course and are getting good scores on the mock exams... just before test, have a look for some intermediate course videos, be surprised what comes up in it THAT WILL HELP with the foundation exam! But not till just before test last look ! Good luck
Is Chris still teaching the course? I did my full with CARS, there was Chris, Murray, Carl ( an absolute legend ) and Clive (Rip ) and another guy that wants can't recall his name but I think he passed away as well.
Yep. Foundation. Intermediate and Full - all taken on line with no practical required. Done Foundation and Intermediate this year, taking the Full soon. Anyway, another very nice video. Mark
They stupidly put N connectors on the meter because N connectors are quality connectors, low loss industry standard. PL259 SO239 are lossy screened banana plugs nothing more. BNC and N type is the only way to go.
In the US you can use one. Just have to purchase a PMR 446/ GMRS license for around 75 to 80 pounds. It is good for around ten years, then it has to be renewed. Their is no exams required.
There's more than a few of us Yanks waiting for the GMRS license fee to revert down like it's supposed to. I waited for the new fee to take effect and my license expired. So I'll just wait to renew it...
That extra low power comes in handy when you're using DMR and going through the hotspot in your pocket, which is tethered to your phone. I do this with my Alinco radio while using a tiny stub antenna and my Openspot-3 while I'm hiking. It saves on battery and keeps the radio cool on those hot summer days.
100% this - I miss the 0.05W mode that I had on my old Kenwood F6 - nobody seems to put in anything like that. My Anytone 868 does 1W minimum. Which is fine if you're across the room really, but is a waste of power and you'd be surprised how far 1W goes if you worry about using only the power needed and clogging the freq over a wide area
Love the fact that these cheap Chinese dual banders bring a usable radio into the realms of most Hams... I remember paying just shy of £500 for a dual bander around 20 years ago for something that had about the same amount of features but was about twice the size! I am hooked on these and also love the DMR radios where you can easily talk to the world using internet trunking... The chinese DMR's can be had for around £40! The hobby now has so many new branches and many of them very affordable... Keep them coming Andy! Cheers Melvyn G7GZH.
I have one of those power/swr meters. i am sure it says in the instructions to use a dummy load to measure power output and an antenna to measure SWR. otherwise the reading will be incorrect.
I'm liking these radio videos Andy, I've historically been watching for the electric bike and Twizy stuff (I have a BBSHD) , but I am an ex CBer from the 80s, and I still own radios, including a FT-817ND, Anyone 868, Alinco dr135 in the Jimny with K40. It's mad really, because I was a music maker as well, and still have a Microkorg reverse key, and Roland SP-808 Groove sampler. We were almost made from the same mould, haha. Hope you got to talk to the guys at Lexmoto, about the Cypher I mentioned on the 35 group 👍
GB3VH repeater, in welwyn thats my local repeater, can easily get into it from stevenage towb on a uv-5r... just getting back into radio, so might bump into you on there Andy...
I am from the Netherlands and there are less and less ham stations to hear on the UHF and VHF. The ones who are on air seem to work with from the box equipment. The HAM examens still seem to be based on techniques from the 60s and 70s. Looking inside the modern radio it's hard to discover any part that is mentioned in the examens . My opinion is that the exam's system is out of date. To revive the UHF/Vhf band maybe it's better to open it up for licences without examens. Offcourse the licenses should be connected with many conditions to keep things under control. It can also attract people to do exam's for the HF bands. Please can someone comment on my opinion.
The uk exams have been updated with aspects of digital /sdr equipment, so it’s slowly changing. I suspect many passing today want to operate and not build their own which full licenses seem to focus on. Our foundation is pretty good but I’d like to see 25w instead of 10w which can be a challenge for newbies on hf who usually start with compromise antennas. 10w is great once you know what you’re doing. How many get out off before they reach that level of knowledge?
Nice to hear you telling people they need a license. I see so many of these cheap radios for sale on the social's with no mention of any licensing requirements. I have a feeling there would be a lot of people that would not realise. 73 M1BZH
Hi. Thanks for test. In specs radio has very narrow frequency range: 144-146MHZ(RX/TX) 430-440MHZ(RX/TX) have you tried working in full range 136.000-174.000MHz or 400.000-470.000MHz? On video i see 446Mhz. Does it work on tx/rx on this frequency?
tut tut 20w lol, most m6 or m7 run 20w or more around here and i dont know why they do, i run my 10w on 80m and 2m and get contacts that they cant, its down to the antenna and radio. I love the hobby, but i will use 50w when i pass the intermediate and no more, I never have used more than 10w as a m6. love your utube channel andy on ebike's and ham radio's, keep up the good work chap.
Do you think you can have reliable communications on HF with 50W, yes, under the right conditions. If your happy with 50W that's great but some day you might want an amplifier to give you that boost you need to work that exotic DX or just get through the static on a noisy night on 80m. I'm not saying you need it all the time but it's nice to have when its needed. 73.
You non Hams out there if you want one then take and pass all RSGB Exams i.e Foundation, Intermediate and Full but the RSGB should copy the ARRL and use the same examinations or similar which is Foundation,General and Technician.
N type connectors are better and more suitable than PL259 for UHF. Were you transmitting into a dummy load designed for UHF ? Yes 50 Ohms is 50 Ohms at DC but UHF into 50 Ohms loads not designed for UHF can be deceptive and give errors. The Standing wave ratio (SWR) looked very good, so I assume you got everything correct. SMA is also better at UHF so remember if your Power/SWR meter is designed for UHF don't be surprised if it has N connectors because that is correct for those frequencies.
Retevis are knocking out some decent radios. I had the RT3S for DMR, I was very impressed with receiving and transmit audio. Even analogue was excellent.
Would love to see these in operation to see if it's something I could get into. Used 2 way for year a while ago but the range was awful. Shame there's no one I know local to spend a bit of time with. Good vid cheers
Its mad seeing CB coming back! I used to have a Harvard Good Buddy...a 3/4 wave GP Dipole 27mhz FM 40 channel thing back in the early 80s. Im thinking of coming back to it....Im guessing an SSB/ AM/ FM thing is legal now? PS Liking the synths...Im very much into electronic music - use Software stuff now!
Great video and a Interesting little radio, (had to buy one). Do like the dance track at the end (Rise) You must do some more music videos. Keep up the good work......
They both use the same RDA SDR based chip, although the retevis has additional filtering so achieves better selectivity (Rejection of out of band signals).
Hi Andy good video, looks similar to uv5,,r but more compact, I did my foundation online when they first started doing it in the first lockdown in April last year I then did my intermediate in the August of the same year, I don't know what it's like there but unfortunately our repeater is very quiet most of the time. 73's Peter.
Good video Andy.... Interesting to hear myself haha essex boy init. As for the license it has change since I took mine in 1989 :) Very easy to get up and running on a foundation and you can still talk to the locals and the world. Keep em coming mate. 73s
@@KB1UIF Could I imagine a world where a government entity who is in bed with large monopolistic companies don't control 99.99% of the spectrum but instead the people do?
@@georgiadronefootage4136 Yes, you can imagine, but unfortunately like my reply to another comment "Dream on". I'm in agreement with you in principal but you and I know very well, we don't live in that world and probably never will. Do I agree to large chunks of the spectrum being sold to the highest bidder, NO, but that's how it works today. If you think you can prevent that then good luck to you.
I know you have a couple DStar radios, but have you tried DMR yet? I just upgraded to the Anytone D878UVII Plus its a very nice radio, but obvs much more money than these. Though not as bad as a Yaesu or Icom.
I have tried them all the most easiest is fusion to get on the air i was not keen on dstar or dmr with the code plugs I personally thought fusion sounded the better digi mode and no I am not a yaesu fan normaly operate kenwood icom equipment but I would say a newbie who wanted to try digital mode yaesu fusion would be a good starter
I'm looking for a pc file that contains all the settings and channels to set up the uv5r correctly as I'm struggling to do it any idea where I can get a file from to set up though chirp
m.ruclips.net/video/a5O5V4CYoVk/видео.html Anyone know what this is? I think it's a bug of some kind found it just yesterday... has a small silver round peice that says RFM its connected to the power source and then has a wire connected to the smoke alarm. Doesn't appear to have a camera or a microphone so far as I can tell.
The chip on there IC MM53200N is a digital encoder/decoder, there's an oscillator on there too RFM P1068, I would guess it might be a device to remotely trigger the smoke alarm buzzer... maybe part of a security alarm?
@@andykirby ya it's got a couple mosfets... it's got that rfm p106 and the decoder... I was wondering if the smoke alarm had a speaker and could maybe be used to play music remotely or maybe speak through
I know amateurs and amateurs know me i've even attended the local club. But im not lisensed. And non of them care because although i've owned amateur radio equiptment. I dont transmit on anywhere outside 27mhz. But i do listen and theres no law against listening. Theres no law to say i cannot own amateur equiptment aslong as i dont transmit on it. And even then it has to be proven. I never would transmit on Amateur bands i fully respect it. But i cant believe some one reported you to ofcom thats just really petty.
There are laws against listening to certain transmissions so your statement is incorrect. Example no listening to cell phone or phone conversations generally. No repeating of information you might hear on emergency services frequencies. Some emergency services encoding you are not allowed to listen to. Also some countries have different laws regarding monitoring radio transmission, so don't make a sweeping statement saying it's not illegal to listen. Check the laws, YES amateur station transmissions are typically open for anyone to listen to legally. But check your local laws first. In the past in the UK you needed a licence to own a radio to listen to any radio stations. That licence became the TV licence. So technically unless you own a TV licence in the UK you cant own a radio either !! I doubt anyone would get a fine today for owning a radio just to listen but dont assume anything read the small print. Oh and in "time of war" radios can be banned also.
@@KB1UIF I have a tv lisence and its not possible to listen to cell phones or police anymore in the UK that changed a long time ago. Im only interested in operating on 27m and i like doing repairs and alignments which is a big part of it for me. Some times an amateur radio is purely used as a monitor it used to be my ts570d. Id setup a radio with all my equiptment but then id like to do an on air test into a well calibrated radio as a final check. right now i have no interest in becoming lisenced because i want to save that for when all my children have flown the nest. I also have a disabled son that takes up alot of time as he needs constant attention. So i dont wan to commit to that side of it just yet. I started out on radio at age 13 and by age 14 i had been accepted into a dx club that had a minimum age requirement of 18! But i had so many people speak well of me the Oscar Bravo Chairman gave me a shot at age 14. I've never been the local idiot i've always been respectful. And still am to this day. I i have a communications reciever i mostly use now i just had to replace a few things to make it accurate again because of age. And i listen on that and dont bother anyone. And i couldnt if i tried as its just a reciever. When i have the proper time to decicate myself to Ham radio i will do it.
If you find one you are likely to find its very costly also. You are talking 27Mhz and 446Mhz two bands very far apart on the radio spectrum. So they require two different lots of filtering in the transmit stages. Unless you get something like an HF VHF UHF radio designed for Ham radio use and costing around a $1000 it's not likely to be available. Right now i can only think of one possible solution under $500 and that's the HackRF SDR but the output power from that is in the region on milliwatts. So add a couple of RF amplifiers into the mix and your back up to $1000. Then remember you need different antennas for those bands too. All in all not a product you are likely to find. If you really wanted to transmit on 27Mhz and UHF I think maybe the FT991 would do that job, new price about $1300 right now. In my opinion, get seperate radios for the job. Save yourself a ton of cash.
So you can now take the Ham Exam for a License on line , I dont believe it !! Whats stops the candidate from Googling the Answers ??.When I think what I had to do around 1982 Going to the local College at nights for several months pass that Exam then a year later taking the CW test to get the then A licence. Unbelievable !
My local club has a 10yo who has passed Foundation and Intermediate licence. So just about anyone who can read should be able to get a licence to use these radios.
I'll give this a Thumbs down for the intro and departure, music and video editing is not subject content, its a carrot, it makes the producer feel good and pisses off everyone else. Then there is the review, so what, a 5 watt hand held range is the same for any 5 watt handheld. Nothing new or informative and a waste of time to the point that I'm leaving this comment. Ifyou want to do a program on music do it, if you want a video on Wood Pecker radio, do it, but bait, rock music and video edting is misrepresenting the subject and misrepresentation has a lot of less polite and more blunt adjectives that would be appropriate.
It stops you from transmitting legally! If you transmit without the correct licence you are breaking the law. Doing so carries heavy fines, confiscation of equipment and possible jail time. Oh and yes you will be monitored recorded and some day possibly get a knock on the door. Just like owning a TV but not having a TV licence in the UK. They can detect the electronics working inside of a TV and even tell what station you are tuned to. The local oscillator and color oscillator in TV's give off enough of a signal to be detected and they are not even transmitters like hand held or mobile radio transmitters are designed for. So the answer is dont do it unless you are allowed to by your countries laws.
Aha ! So we can’t talk I fought we are living in free democratic country! Didn’t know that for taking gov will fines you or even put you in the scary jail! We not living in Russia where everyone spying 🕵️♀️ on everyone including neighbours! For. Goodnesses sake those radios whatever you calling ham CB they are walkie talkie .kids calling to each other from 3miles away.ocfom didn’t knock ✊ yet it’s been years now ! Let them have fun! Now internet mobile phones every kid have no many people using ham radio . Even if they use without license what possible damage they can do ? On uhf 2watts on a farm 10 miles away from city in the valley where signal is blocked after 2-3 miles do they really going to disturb special intelligence agencies or mi6 or they kgb . And there are lot people who don’t pay tv license and simple they don’t open the doors. I do pay my tv license if you asking! And even I disagree cos is rip off .and I’m telling you for sure people who don’t pay the tv license like my friend he had fine cos his wife politely opened the door he refused went to to court he paid 50£ fine he said still cheaper than 150£ so he still don’t pay cos would cost him extra 100 £ .Another thing not sure if you have heard of pirates radios in London,Birmingham or Manchester .for ocfom to do something like for those guys they block the signal 24/7 every day I mean they transmit on that frequency. Not for gimme and paddy ask how was your day twice a week don’t think ocfom is interested in their bullshit!
Good on you Andy. Keep the ham videos coming, nice radio that and good power output test. You're 100% correct too - there has never been a better time to get into ham radio!
Cheers mate! Like your channel 👍🏻
I use a Baofeng UV-5R to talk on PMR446. Power is 5w, counterpoise is copper wire. Range is about 13 miles (depending on weather, cloud coverage). My PMR446 callsign is WRX25 or Wrexham25.
It's illegal (power above 0.5w), but the power limits are not enforced in any way so you should be good to use a 5w or 10w HT there.
Thinking of upgrading to a 25w mobile bass station soon, as I've got my foundation licence and I want to access more repeaters and talk further.
I’m doing my foundation corse with Essexham it’s a good way of learning now
There’s videos and corse work and small tests at the end of each module
I think there’s 9 modules all in
Thanks for your RUclips channel Andy keep up the good work
I passed foundation about 2 weeks ago after going through the Essex’s ham course, good stuff. As a final bit of research, after you finish the course and are getting good scores on the mock exams... just before test, have a look for some intermediate course videos, be surprised what comes up in it THAT WILL HELP with the foundation exam! But not till just before test last look ! Good luck
Is Chris still teaching the course? I did my full with CARS, there was Chris, Murray, Carl ( an absolute legend ) and Clive (Rip ) and another guy that wants can't recall his name but I think he passed away as well.
This is how I done it in lockdown and done the exam online
Yep. Foundation. Intermediate and Full - all taken on line with no practical required. Done Foundation and Intermediate this year, taking the Full soon. Anyway, another very nice video. Mark
They stupidly put N connectors on the meter because N connectors are quality connectors, low loss industry standard. PL259 SO239 are lossy screened banana plugs nothing more. BNC and N type is the only way to go.
0:18 The signal that shook the world
In the US you can use one. Just have to purchase a PMR 446/ GMRS license for around 75 to 80 pounds. It is good for around ten years, then it has to be renewed. Their is no exams required.
The cost of the GMRS licence here in the US is supposed to get reduced soon, so if you don't already have it, maybe wait a little while. 73
There's more than a few of us Yanks waiting for the GMRS license fee to revert down like it's supposed to. I waited for the new fee to take effect and my license expired. So I'll just wait to renew it...
That extra low power comes in handy when you're using DMR and going through the hotspot in your pocket, which is tethered to your phone. I do this with my Alinco radio while using a tiny stub antenna and my Openspot-3 while I'm hiking. It saves on battery and keeps the radio cool on those hot summer days.
100% this - I miss the 0.05W mode that I had on my old Kenwood F6 - nobody seems to put in anything like that. My Anytone 868 does 1W minimum. Which is fine if you're across the room really, but is a waste of power and you'd be surprised how far 1W goes if you worry about using only the power needed and clogging the freq over a wide area
Hi Andy my last comment seems to have disappeared could you possibly do a video to promote the 446 net? Would really help more people come on to PMR.
Yeah, Andy will need to use low-power mode and a 3dB attenuator with this transceiver.
Love the fact that these cheap Chinese dual banders bring a usable radio into the realms of most Hams... I remember paying just shy of £500 for a dual bander around 20 years ago for something that had about the same amount of features but was about twice the size! I am hooked on these and also love the DMR radios where you can easily talk to the world using internet trunking... The chinese DMR's can be had for around £40! The hobby now has so many new branches and many of them very affordable... Keep them coming Andy! Cheers Melvyn G7GZH.
buying all these cheap radios doesn't help the mainstream manufacturers. there is an old saying "you get what you pay for"
I have one of those power/swr meters. i am sure it says in the instructions to use a dummy load to measure power output and an antenna to measure SWR. otherwise the reading will be incorrect.
I'm liking these radio videos Andy, I've historically been watching for the electric bike and Twizy stuff (I have a BBSHD) , but I am an ex CBer from the 80s, and I still own radios, including a FT-817ND, Anyone 868, Alinco dr135 in the Jimny with K40.
It's mad really, because I was a music maker as well, and still have a Microkorg reverse key, and Roland SP-808 Groove sampler. We were almost made from the same mould, haha.
Hope you got to talk to the guys at Lexmoto, about the Cypher I mentioned on the 35 group 👍
Are you sure you couldn't squeeze an extra adaptor or two onto that SWR meter?
GB3VH repeater, in welwyn thats my local repeater, can easily get into it from stevenage towb on a uv-5r... just getting back into radio, so might bump into you on there Andy...
Cheers for the radio input Andy.
I have the same radio and tested it in different places. It is a really nice radio.
I am from the Netherlands and there are less and less ham stations to hear on the UHF and VHF. The ones who are on air seem to work with from the box equipment.
The HAM examens still seem to be based on techniques from the 60s and 70s.
Looking inside the modern radio it's hard to discover any part that is mentioned in the examens .
My opinion is that the exam's system is out of date.
To revive the UHF/Vhf band maybe it's better to open it up for licences without examens.
Offcourse the licenses should be connected with many conditions to keep things under control.
It can also attract people to do exam's for the HF bands.
Please can someone comment on my opinion.
The uk exams have been updated with aspects of digital /sdr equipment, so it’s slowly changing. I suspect many passing today want to operate and not build their own which full licenses seem to focus on.
Our foundation is pretty good but I’d like to see 25w instead of 10w which can be a challenge for newbies on hf who usually start with compromise antennas. 10w is great once you know what you’re doing. How many get out off before they reach that level of knowledge?
That's superb with the Woodpecker antenna array.
Very impressive little radio.
73 M7TUD
Nice to hear you telling people they need a license. I see so many of these cheap radios for sale on the social's with no mention of any licensing requirements. I have a feeling there would be a lot of people that would not realise.
73 M1BZH
Hi. Thanks for test. In specs radio has very narrow frequency range: 144-146MHZ(RX/TX) 430-440MHZ(RX/TX) have you tried working in full range 136.000-174.000MHz or 400.000-470.000MHz? On video i see 446Mhz. Does it work on tx/rx on this frequency?
tut tut 20w lol, most m6 or m7 run 20w or more around here and i dont know why they do, i run my 10w on 80m and 2m and get contacts that they cant, its down to the antenna and radio. I love the hobby, but i will use 50w when i pass the intermediate and no more, I never have used more than 10w as a m6. love your utube channel andy on ebike's and ham radio's, keep up the good work chap.
Yes antenna is more important than power agreed. Power is nice though.😉
Do you think you can have reliable communications on HF with 50W, yes, under the right conditions. If your happy with 50W that's great but some day you might want an amplifier to give you that boost you need to work that exotic DX or just get through the static on a noisy night on 80m. I'm not saying you need it all the time but it's nice to have when its needed. 73.
Sounds like a good little radio for 2 m and 70 cm 73 Tom VK3FTOM
You should review the BAOFENG UV-5R, with a 3800 Mah battery replacement
You non Hams out there if you want one then take and pass all RSGB Exams i.e Foundation, Intermediate and Full but the RSGB should copy the ARRL and use the same examinations or similar which is Foundation,General and Technician.
N type connectors are better and more suitable than PL259 for UHF. Were you transmitting into a dummy load designed for UHF ? Yes 50 Ohms is 50 Ohms at DC but UHF into 50 Ohms loads not designed for UHF can be deceptive and give errors. The Standing wave ratio (SWR) looked very good, so I assume you got everything correct. SMA is also better at UHF so remember if your Power/SWR meter is designed for UHF don't be surprised if it has N connectors because that is correct for those frequencies.
Retevis are knocking out some decent radios. I had the RT3S for DMR, I was very impressed with receiving and transmit audio. Even analogue was excellent.
Would love to see these in operation to see if it's something I could get into. Used 2 way for year a while ago but the range was awful. Shame there's no one I know local to spend a bit of time with. Good vid cheers
There's another one branded KSun UV2D for around $50 USD
Its mad seeing CB coming back! I used to have a Harvard Good Buddy...a 3/4 wave GP Dipole 27mhz FM 40 channel thing back in the early 80s. Im thinking of coming back to it....Im guessing an SSB/ AM/ FM thing is legal now? PS Liking the synths...Im very much into electronic music - use Software stuff now!
Great video and a Interesting little radio, (had to buy one). Do like the dance track at the end (Rise) You must do some more music videos. Keep up the good work......
Robert Murray Smith also just posted a review of that A20.
Great Vid Andy. Nice looking rig. Yup that wind nearly blew my Syrup off earlier.
do all uk hams say no problems all the time?
Great review good little radio.
can the intermediate licence test be done online as well?.
Is that not just the same as the baofeng jobbies?
Looks very similar
They both use the same RDA SDR based chip, although the retevis has additional filtering so achieves better selectivity (Rejection of out of band signals).
@@pmr446 Thank you mate.
Love your keyboards dude
Hi Andy good video, looks similar to uv5,,r but more compact, I did my foundation online when they first started doing it in the first lockdown in April last year I then did my intermediate in the August of the same year, I don't know what it's like there but unfortunately our repeater is very quiet most of the time. 73's Peter.
How to switch on narrow band to wideband i have dsame radio but mine is on narrow band
Just use when you want dont need a license at all pmr is legal for all
Good video Andy.... Interesting to hear myself haha essex boy init. As for the license it has change since I took mine in 1989 :) Very easy to get up and running on a foundation and you can still talk to the locals and the world. Keep em coming mate. 73s
Yes sir! Cheers for the help and input mate!
Andy I’ve got three Baofeng GT-3 radios. The kids used them on holiday in Wales. What do you think of them please
Hi Andy
Loving the videos
What is the track playing at end of vid
Sounds Great
Cheers Shaun
Thanks! It's called Rise and its out now on all platforms!
I am doing my foundation study now 😁
Excellent! Good luck!
@@andykirby thanks matey 👍🏻
Not a lot to take in from the foundation book, try the intermediate and then the full/advanced exams....
If it pleases the crown may I use the air ways given to everyone by God?
I tend to agree, BUT, can you imagine what it would be like with no management of the airwaves.
@@KB1UIF Could I imagine a world where a government entity who is in bed with large monopolistic companies don't control 99.99% of the spectrum but instead the people do?
@@georgiadronefootage4136 Yes, you can imagine, but unfortunately like my reply to another comment "Dream on". I'm in agreement with you in principal but you and I know very well, we don't live in that world and probably never will. Do I agree to large chunks of the spectrum being sold to the highest bidder, NO, but that's how it works today. If you think you can prevent that then good luck to you.
The battery looks nice
Needs more adapters
I know you have a couple DStar radios, but have you tried DMR yet? I just upgraded to the Anytone D878UVII Plus its a very nice radio, but obvs much more money than these. Though not as bad as a Yaesu or Icom.
I have tried them all the most easiest is fusion to get on the air i was not keen on dstar or dmr with the code plugs I personally thought fusion sounded the better digi mode and no I am not a yaesu fan normaly operate kenwood icom equipment but I would say a newbie who wanted to try digital mode yaesu fusion would be a good starter
I'm looking for a pc file that contains all the settings and channels to set up the uv5r correctly as I'm struggling to do it any idea where I can get a file from to set up though chirp
Hi Andy just brought a eskute electric bike off Amazon seem very popular ... Any ideas how to make hub motor go above 15.5mph
Is it the Eye of Moscow there? What expensive are you hiding? An handheld Icom ?
Looks like the Baofeng or B-Tech brands. How does it compare?
Hey nice Roland JD-Xi 👍
You'll love the next video!
How do you know if you're going through a repeater or not?
It usually lets you know your in the box with a beep or tone of some kind. At least that's the case with GB3LL
give us the top secret bike lol
Keep on poking the Bear its bleedin luvly guv.
m.ruclips.net/video/a5O5V4CYoVk/видео.html
Anyone know what this is? I think it's a bug of some kind found it just yesterday... has a small silver round peice that says RFM its connected to the power source and then has a wire connected to the smoke alarm. Doesn't appear to have a camera or a microphone so far as I can tell.
The chip on there IC MM53200N is a digital encoder/decoder, there's an oscillator on there too RFM P1068, I would guess it might be a device to remotely trigger the smoke alarm buzzer... maybe part of a security alarm?
@@andykirby ya it's got a couple mosfets... it's got that rfm p106 and the decoder... I was wondering if the smoke alarm had a speaker and could maybe be used to play music remotely or maybe speak through
how do you like that Surecom SWR meter?
Very good 👍
I know amateurs and amateurs know me i've even attended the local club. But im not lisensed. And non of them care because although i've owned amateur radio equiptment. I dont transmit on anywhere outside 27mhz. But i do listen and theres no law against listening. Theres no law to say i cannot own amateur equiptment aslong as i dont transmit on it. And even then it has to be proven. I never would transmit on Amateur bands i fully respect it. But i cant believe some one reported you to ofcom thats just really petty.
There are laws against listening to certain transmissions so your statement is incorrect.
Example no listening to cell phone or phone conversations generally.
No repeating of information you might hear on emergency services frequencies. Some emergency services encoding you are not allowed to listen to. Also some countries have different laws regarding monitoring radio transmission, so don't make a sweeping statement saying it's not illegal to listen. Check the laws, YES amateur station transmissions are typically open for anyone to listen to legally. But check your local laws first. In the past in the UK you needed a licence to own a radio to listen to any radio stations. That licence became the TV licence. So technically unless you own a TV licence in the UK you cant own a radio either !! I doubt anyone would get a fine today for owning a radio just to listen but dont assume anything read the small print.
Oh and in "time of war" radios can be banned also.
@@KB1UIF I have a tv lisence and its not possible to listen to cell phones or police anymore in the UK that changed a long time ago. Im only interested in operating on 27m and i like doing repairs and alignments which is a big part of it for me. Some times an amateur radio is purely used as a monitor it used to be my ts570d. Id setup a radio with all my equiptment but then id like to do an on air test into a well calibrated radio as a final check. right now i have no interest in becoming lisenced because i want to save that for when all my children have flown the nest. I also have a disabled son that takes up alot of time as he needs constant attention. So i dont wan to commit to that side of it just yet. I started out on radio at age 13 and by age 14 i had been accepted into a dx club that had a minimum age requirement of 18! But i had so many people speak well of me the Oscar Bravo Chairman gave me a shot at age 14. I've never been the local idiot i've always been respectful. And still am to this day. I i have a communications reciever i mostly use now i just had to replace a few things to make it accurate again because of age. And i listen on that and dont bother anyone. And i couldnt if i tried as its just a reciever. When i have the proper time to decicate myself to Ham radio i will do it.
Andy do you know of a budget radio that does 27 and 446?
Hi, I don't think anything exists other than a Yaesu FT817ND unlocked but that's not exactly cheap. Now there's a good idea for a product!
@@andykirby yeah I thought a radio that did cb and pmr combined would be great idea!
If you find one you are likely to find its very costly also.
You are talking 27Mhz and 446Mhz two bands very far apart on the radio spectrum.
So they require two different lots of filtering in the transmit stages. Unless you get something like an HF VHF UHF radio designed for Ham radio use and costing around a $1000 it's not likely to be available. Right now i can only think of one possible solution under $500 and that's the HackRF SDR but the output power from that is in the region on milliwatts. So add a couple of RF amplifiers into the mix and your back up to $1000. Then remember you need different antennas for those bands too. All in all not a product you are likely to find. If you really wanted to transmit on 27Mhz and UHF I think maybe the FT991 would do that job, new price about $1300 right now. In my opinion, get seperate radios for the job. Save yourself a ton of cash.
Ha ha!! I expect Ringway Manchester to come back with something good.
Stay tuned next week 😂
Nice one Andy 👍 73s M3SNU
7:00 N series connectors are superior to the PL259 in just about every way. Not stupid for a bit of test equipment at all.
It's true and they should be used for everything really but pl259 so239 became the standard for some reason!
So you can now take the Ham Exam for a License on line , I dont believe it !! Whats stops the candidate from Googling the Answers ??.When I think what I had to do around 1982 Going to the local College at nights for several months pass that Exam then a year later taking the CW test to get the then A licence. Unbelievable !
They ask for two camera angles so the examiner can watch the candidate and the room I think.
It's done over a video meeting so you and your computer are monitored while taking the test.
great vids pal keep em coming, dutch ham PD1EBS
If I can pass the foundation anyone can lol
My local club has a 10yo who has passed Foundation and Intermediate licence. So just about anyone who can read should be able to get a licence to use these radios.
I passed foundation and intermediate on the same day
I'll give this a Thumbs down for the intro and departure, music and video editing is not subject content, its a carrot, it makes the producer feel good and pisses off everyone else. Then there is the review, so what, a 5 watt hand held range is the same for any 5 watt handheld. Nothing new or informative and a waste of time to the point that I'm leaving this comment.
Ifyou want to do a program on music do it, if you want a video on Wood Pecker radio, do it, but bait, rock music and video edting is misrepresenting the subject and misrepresentation has a lot of less polite and more blunt adjectives that would be appropriate.
Kenwood copy. I own 4.
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If you get your basic foundation licence, are you able to use more power on pmr 446, i thought these frequencies were still limited to 0.5w power.
@badlydrawnsmiffy: They ARE still limited to 0.5w
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Nope, wrong, the airwaves are public bands, no license needed
Oh really. Try telling the FCC or Oftel that. Dream on.
@@KB1UIF You dream on, fcc shill. Air waves are public bands. Fcc is unconstitutional
Does not having a licence just stop you talking on it or owning it and listening
It stops you from transmitting legally! If you transmit without the correct licence you are breaking the law.
Doing so carries heavy fines, confiscation of equipment and possible jail time. Oh and yes you will be monitored recorded and some day possibly get a knock on the door. Just like owning a TV but not having a TV licence in the UK. They can detect the electronics working inside of a TV and even tell what station you are tuned to.
The local oscillator and color oscillator in TV's give off enough of a signal to be detected and they are not even transmitters like hand held or mobile radio transmitters are designed for.
So the answer is dont do it unless you are allowed to by your countries laws.
Aha ! So we can’t talk I fought we are living in free democratic country! Didn’t know that for taking gov will fines you or even put you in the scary jail! We not living in Russia where everyone spying 🕵️♀️ on everyone including neighbours! For. Goodnesses sake those radios whatever you calling ham CB they are walkie talkie .kids calling to each other from 3miles away.ocfom didn’t knock ✊ yet it’s been years now ! Let them have fun! Now internet mobile phones every kid have no many people using ham radio . Even if they use without license what possible damage they can do ? On uhf 2watts on a farm 10 miles away from city in the valley where signal is blocked after 2-3 miles do they really going to disturb special intelligence agencies or mi6 or they kgb . And there are lot people who don’t pay tv license and simple they don’t open the doors. I do pay my tv license if you asking! And even I disagree cos is rip off .and I’m telling you for sure people who don’t pay the tv license like my friend he had fine cos his wife politely opened the door he refused went to to court he paid 50£ fine he said still cheaper than 150£ so he still don’t pay cos would cost him extra 100 £ .Another thing not sure if you have heard of pirates radios in London,Birmingham or Manchester .for ocfom to do something like for those guys they block the signal 24/7 every day I mean they transmit on that frequency. Not for gimme and paddy ask how was your day twice a week don’t think ocfom is interested in their bullshit!
Andy could you do some videos on Sigma-Comm. Antennas from the UK . John KJ7TBR USA! I have the 360 hf antenna!
Great vid! Kd9ira