2023 Baofeng UV-17R Unboxed and TESTED with the TinySA
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I got a Baofeng UV-17R radio, a new model in 2023, and today I got through the menus and show the features of the radio. THEN we take the TinySA from Seesii and test the radio for spurious emissions.
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I have one I keep on my nightstand for weather related situations and the light on the bottom is why I went with this instead of a UV5R. I like it, it puts out closer to 7 watts on the meter and although it's not advertised as a Tri-Band, it's a Tri Band.
I've never thought about putting a radio on my night stand, what a great idea! thanks for the idea!
I just received a pair of UV-17’s that I ordered from Amazon. Listed as “Ham Radio Upgrade of baofeng UV-5R Two Way Radio Long Range UV-17R Walkie Talkies”.
They both came with two different length antennas (one about 10” and one about 16” long. The longer antenna says ABBREE on them).
They came with drop in chargers, USB charging cables, headphones, belt clips, lanyards, and an English only instruction manual.
I used CHIRP and UV-17Pro setting to program radios with VHF and UHF receivers. I also programmed GMRS channels and I could transmit and receive on GMRS Channel.
Can confirm, got mine from Amazon yesterday and it had a USB-C battery and cord.
I also just happened to buy a UV-17R and it arrived today so the timing of your video was perfect for me. My -17R is exactly like yours, no USB-C. For anyone wondering, Chirp works on this radio using the UV-17Pro menu option. Mine connected right away on it.
Easy to program by the keypad just takes once you start rolling in it goes pretty fast I put about 30 frequencies in mine and I got a lot of good signal they said the audio is really good ❤
I bought the 18H. Since it’s part 90 (supposedly) it works on GMRS. I really like it.
The high capacity batteries have the USB C on the back , not the standard battery.
Like you said. Baofeng, lose it and dont care. But that being said. I have 3 uv-5r radios if either my wife or I drop, lose, drive over while out overlanding. I have a spare. Just the way it is. Good investment for that reason.
I bought one and love it. I bought an Abree Tri Band antenna for 220mhz. Nice display. This radio feels like a more expensive radio. The rejection to intermod is not great.
Appreciate the review. Just got a pair of UV-17R PRO GPS. The GPS feature is pretty cool. Came with drop in chargers wired for 110 US Sockets (no wall wart).
They're pretty goood HAM radios. Ordering another pair of FCC legal GMRS radios mext UV-15s
Great video. I would love to see you do a video showing the comparisons of Baofeng and other high end radios like the ft5d on the analyzer just to show how bad they are with harmonics.
We did that
ruclips.net/user/livemmFR7W_sFCw?feature=share
I missed that one. Lol! Thanks 73's Wa4cdc
I ordered an Ed Fong J-Pole from your store and have yet to hear anything about my order.
You'll get an email when it ships
Got mine on Amazon about two months ago and got 2 antennas (long and short) but no USB charging and in Black. Originally CHIRP didn't support, but it looks like someone else in the comments says it is now. Mine is program all in frequency only and I wrote down all the channels who they belong to. May have to head over to CHIRP and reprogram. Right now I'm having too much fun learning APRS on my FT5. Just dont tell Mike, lol...😁 73's and CHEERS!
I have a UV-82X I use on our local 1.25m repeater.
Hello fellow Baofeng Beta tester! I received a UV-17R from Amazon late November/early December. My BL-17UV battery does not have a USB-C connector, and I somehow managed to get my unit into some kind of a flashlight mode on power-up, so I have been unable to reset the unit. I am leaving the unit unplugged from the battery to see if I can somehow get it into a factory default state. I may order a second unit in a few weeks, but I still have a couple of UV-82 units. 73 de n0km
pull the battery and the radio will come back to life
It looks nice, but I wonder if it can do the things that are done with the Quansheng UVK6. install bin files
Looks like the UV-17R does not have the USB C charging port on the battery but the UV-17R Pro model does. Only thing I can see that is different. About a $5 difference on Amazon.
Kinda... depends on which posting they put up, that day
I have 2 uv17s the earlier one with the blue screen and one like yours . Both have usb c charging capability.
They also have the ability to scan for CTCSS and dcs codes in received signals.
Randy (Notarubicon) reviewed the re vamped uv5r with has identical ops.
Hey
Your video just appeared on youtube now.
Not sure why videos dont appear earlier.
Annyway, I have the same radio just in a different casing - UV18 Pro.
I like the UV-18 casing more.
The screen and menu on mine is exactly the same.
Its weird how the same radio gets cased differently but its the same radio.
Mine has the USB C port on the battery which is very convenient.
You havent perhaps done an off-camera tx power test?
Would be interesting to know the tx power for these.
This video was posted on 12/28/23
No I haven't done a power test on this unit yet.
Going to throw this out there too: tried to program it with my typical, tried-and-true programming cable and CHIRP. No dice. Long story short: the CHIRP UV-17 profile doesn't seem to work but UV-17Pro does. Also, the plug didnt want to seat all the way, so I had to carefully shave away some of the plastic on my adapter with an exacto knife to get it to seat properly.
set radio to UV17Pro update to latest CHIRP you're welcome
I've heard a couple other YT folks say that another reason the high harmonics are bad is because the total Watt output is being divided between them, which I interpret to mean if the 1st and 2nd are are pretty close then the you're say 5W are being split and you're not really getting the 5W output on the 1st because a good portion of those Watts are being spent throwing out the higher harmonics. Would you say this is accurate?
with Baofeng it is hit or miss if dirty. The newer UV-5R ones I tested are much better and most pass now, all you have to do with that one with out USB C is get a extra battery with the USB C charge port on it. better flash light . their is a water prof version of that. when dropped in water the lights flash red and radio floats. the outher way to use that radio is on UHF TX. their is a GMRS version of that as well. nice a better antenna comes with it. the old UV-5R stock antenna makes a better coffee stir stick. love the color display . the new UV-5R plus has a color display and bigger . different battery then the old UV-5R .nice Tiny SA . great to test radios . now if I buy one my test may be different. Baofeng is like that. now if you get a outher attenuator and put it inline you can test higher power radios. around $30 . great deal . but a $50 band pass filter to clean it up ? 73's
What you guys think of that SA thing that's like a scanner of nearby Txs, and can actually listen to the audio of transmission that it shows. I'm sorry I don't know the name of this thingamig but I came across it and it looked pretty cool
I just got a UV 21 pro V2 . Chirp is not liking it . That is not the end of the world . Seems to be a good radio . Makes my old UV 5 r triband look bad .
It might be too new for CHIRP - maybe they will add it eventually
Just build a low pass filter for it. Super easy. Not expensive. It would be a cool video if you showed people how to make those.
Before buying a dirty radio and using a low pass filter, I'd just buy a clean radio. There are cheap 'fengs that are clean.
Literally begging for this. I'm new, I'm dumb, and I've only got a general idea of what a low pass filter even is. But if I could type in "Low pass filter that makes my UV-5R not all evil-bad" and get the results, I got a whole box of them thanks to Temu I'd love to actually put to use lol.
Nice analyzer. Thinking about getting one. Where did you get the dummy load for it?
Also on Amazon
Interesting result given what Jason found with his UV-5Rs when testing the TinySA a while ago. Clearly they can keep their spurious emissions under control. Unfortunately, Baofeng appears to be willing to sacrifice clean operation for the marginal cost savings they keep by not staying legal. Do we have vendors we can buy from who are more particular and more able to hold their feet to the fire? Is anyone tracking where we can buy Baofengs which tend to be clean?
I think the quality control is so poor that you have a 50/50 chance of getting a clean one.
@HamRadio2 Maybe, although it's not a QC problem if they're deliberately omitting parts or substituting failed/recycled components from the shady end of Huaqiangbei. Manufacturers in China have followed this cost reduction formula with computer hardware for some time, but it also allows assembly lines to scale up the quality of a basic design for more demanding customers by building them according to spec. Reinforcing this is how UV-5Rs are built with heavy use of pick and place components, reflow soldering, and other modern tech which tends to deliver much more consistent assembly.
Baofengs definitely have a lot of unavoidable technical problems which would need a lot of engineering to fix. The UV-5R intrinsically has problems with frequency drift and adjacent signal de-sense, but the basic design clearly can run clean. It'd be great to clear some of the smoke so people dipping their toes in budget FM HTs can have confidence they're following the regs even if the radio is otherwise quite mediocre.
I returned mine to Amazon because I could not get any cable or any software to program the dang thing. I tried 3 different cables and chirp plus another piece of software.
I bought a Baofeng programming cable with CH340 Chip on Amazon Baofeng store. When I tried using It would not work. I had to download a driver for Windows 10 and also change the Comm Port setting in the CHIRP software program. Also selected the UV-17Pro as radio. It worked very well after that.
thank you .ijust ordered uv-17R and retekes TR-110 for the air traffic. is it the lower model?then i just found pro gps model after i purchased .i should have bought that may be same price nearly
I think the ones with USB C are mostly on Aliexpress, I got mine in Aliexpress and mine has the USB C battery.
The link in the description and one I was showing on Amazon has USB-C
There's someone up here that sells 'Fengs (UV-18L & UV22L) that claims they're "clean as a whistle", spurs below FFC specs. I'm quite skeptical about that claim for a $35 radio.
Hello. I have an old anytone handheld radio and it works on the vhf band. I don't know what i press, but the range is now shortened from 150,000 to 174,000, instead of 136,000. Does anyone know what is the problem?
Baofengs the Hi-Point of HTs
LOL true. But Hi-Point is Made in the USA and they aren't actually bad.
Can this radio be programmed as a police and emergency scanner? If so, will you do a how to video?
It depends on what frequencies your police/fire dept uses. Usually the answer is no.
IF your local emergency frequencies are not encrypted, you can listen to them, I do all the time. You need to find what those frequencies are and program into the radio with Chirp. When connecting Chirp to the radio use the UV-17Pro option, mine connected right away using that option.
Police and emergency departments use P25 digital coms quite heavily. Even if they're unencrypted, these are analog radios and won't work in those modes. Apparently USFS/BLM still use analog for fire ground attack, but others will know for sure.
@@TR_TenSevenwhat is chirp?
@@jamomeara1894 It is free ham radio programming software. Just search "chirp ham radio" and it will pop right up.
Hey there Sir ! I watched your review of the fang UV17R. Very enjoyable. I have a question when you have time. I Like my 17 a lot. My only complaint is battery life. Even on stand by I only get around 10 hours out of the battery . This can’t be right can it ? I’ve checked my settings and nothing stands out at all. Got any suggestions please ?
73 de N0ROD
Darrell Hendrix
Denison Texas
Does FRS frequencies work or are they locked out from transmitting?
I didn't try
Rf is rf.... doesn't matter if you are outside intended bands. If you are worried about rf, then use digital burst with ANDFLMSG and tailor your antenna and signal strength. Guerillas Guide To The Baofeng if you are interested in doing that type of comms. I am a retired Marine Comm officer, done comms for a living, still learned from this book. Your milage may vary.
Most people aren't going to be able to, or know how to, listen to that
i got this as a gift but i dnt know for what can i use it ? whats the purpose? can i call someone or what?
It's a radio. You can talk to other people with similar radios, over the air, no cell service plan or cell towers required. It will work on Ham Radio bands, which you need a license for, but it will work on other bands too.
You should check out the "Baofeng UV-5RH", the upgraded UV-5R. Much much better IMO.
I have one of those too, but have you tested it for spurious emissions?
@@HamRadio2 Oh, you do? I have not tested mine, but you have probably tested yours? How is it?
I like the USB-C, the display, the battery, bigger, and more rugged. The audio quality is really good on mine, both TX and RX.
The only downside I've seen so far is that the power output varies a lot throughout the frequencies, from 14w to 6w on different frequencies within the same band. That is not great.
@@MrPoisony I have not tested it yet, I will soon. The UV-13 and UV-17 also sound very good. Power variables are common to 'fengs, and my experience is that they are all dirty.
@@HamRadio2 I agree, I have two UV-17 but the battery really drains quick on both of them.
You should make a video on the Baofeng UV-5RH with some tests =D
Would love to see how dirty this one is!
Is it chirp compatible yet? Love the show
Yes
Yes. Select UV-17 pro as radio.
Can the flashigh strobe SOS in Morse ?
LOL, that would be fun if it could...
@@HamRadio2Actually, I tell people if they are in trouble after a wreck, storm or broken down car or boat is to flash SOS in Morse in the direction of the light. Even that would get the attention of a non ham.
Those tiny things don't put out enough to be an issue for spurious emissions
Probably not
Randy would say use the radio.
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Gracias
I'm a brand new noob to HAM radios. I've been told to get Baofeng Uv-5r and They are great.
I've been told they are also cheap and aren't quality radios.
And now you say Ham operators love to hate Baofengs.
I don't get it 🤷♂️
I'm not interested in beginner radios even though I'm a beginner. What is a good HAM radio that is under $100.... maybe $200...
I want a good one.
For a shtf situation. Listening to important broadcasts and I'd like to be able to communicate with others if I need to
UV-5R is a great starter radio, but the quality is bottom of the barrel. I don't hate them, I just think it is good to be honest about how well they work. I made a list that answers your question - ruclips.net/video/wYAukZ-z4qQ/видео.html&ab_channel=HamRadio2.0
Unless I saw that all wrong you tested it wrong. Or more accurately you tested it right and misinterpreted the results.
You appeared to call the fundamental frequency the first harmonic. The first harmonic is the first multiple that is not the fundamental. So what you called second is actually the first. This should make a big difference in the results of the test.
I bought a uv5r and it malfunctioned in 1 week. As you say, a toss around junk. I bought an Icom hand held. Thats nice and solid as well as the Yeasu. Would not trust bf if you really needed it in a real situation. Nice vid!
I've had three Bo'Fangs, one 11 years old. The other two both over 3 years old....You're a Ham Snob...Period.BTW, my Yaesu FT 2980r just crapped out with low output on the front end right at the end of my 3 year warranty...How much will it cost me to get fixed?. Too much.
I've had Alincos, Icoms, and Kenwoods, some sitting in their original boxes..All three with PLL probs.
I trust my Bo'Fangs and QuanSheng for day-to-day knock around use.
@@robertkeller9828 Good luck
If you have to mention which one of the harmonics is your TX frequency there must be something wrong with it 🤣
I wonder if anyone here could help me. I bought two Baofeng Uv17 pro M versions, but when they both arrived, one radio powered up normally but other one is asking me to INPUT PASSWORD? Would anyone know what is default password or solution? Thank you
I would return that radio. Someone must have programmed a password into it.
@eagleviewhd hi, many thanks for Yr reply. I got in touch with seller and he nave now supplied me with default password. Problem I've had was that instruction manual was wrong for the radio and there was no way of me to guessing what default password was.
@@sekibulja-fu3bv so what is the default PW in case we need to know,lol
So many of these devices don’t have usb-c charging…odd
USB-C is fairly new in the ham radio world. But now you can get batteries for most of the popular radios.
ham radio DORK
Your mom said what?
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can u use this one for GMRS?
Yeah this one is opened up
@HamRadio2 can you help me? I have one but I can only receive but no transmit on GMRS. What do I need to do? I can't find an answer anywhere. Please
you got an old one...
No, they have different versions
Baofeng 5RM …same same appears. Though 5RM hands down comparing to rest of line up. That aside, Baofeng/China is just dumping as many radios as possible on US shores. All different names and flavor; all the same.
Were you trying to say Boof-wang? And these "fengs" can have all the FCC stickers the chinese hack manufacturers want to slap on them, and they aren't FCC approved.
No
Bedankt voor de test , ziet er niet goed uit
I would not recommend this radio or any other radio that fails to meet FCC regulations....period! Your review is valid...the radio did not meet standards. If someone wants to use this radio as a backpack emergency radio, I guess fine, but I would not recommend this radio as a good start for an entry level operator. After your review recommend a handful of HT's closest to the Baofeng price range that does in fact meet the standard. Let's not encourage poor operating practice just to save a few dollars to get someone on the air..
I already have a few videos on this channel that are recommendations for HT radios in a wide price range.
I've not tested very many radios in the Baofeng price range but sadly, most of them would probably fail this test.
Oh. Another B.O.-Funk radio.
Uv17 r vs uv17 L
You have the 17. The UBb is uv17 pluse
No, you can put the battery on either one
Baofeng radios are all the same just different shapes. Junk...why do people continue to review them ? Results are identical. It's all redundant.
No they aren't all the same, but the reason people keep reviewing them is because watchers, like you, continue to watch the video.
How does garbage like this get FCC certification?
Probably a fake sticker
Do you do anything besides shill products for your sponsors?
Yeah, he just tested a radio that wasn't from a sponsor.
ruclips.net/video/iQaQmKKUbcE/видео.html
Just missed you on Allstar. We will talk m17 if not I'll email you.