Does the Xiegu X6100 overheat?
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2022
- In this video I take the Xiegu X6100 up a SOTA summit for the 3rd time (Dixie Benchmark W7A/MN-131). On the 2nd outing, the radio got extremely hot while operating. I wasn't sure if this was just from sun exposure or something within the radio. So I decided to eliminate the sun as a factor on this Summits on the Air activation. There were a couple of surprises along the trail too - you never know what you will encounter when you get out and activate portable.
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It's one thing if it heats up a bit, but those birdies need to be addressed by Xiegu. Thanks for the ongoing review.
Yeah those birdies are a concern. I'm still a little perplexed by them. I don't really know the source. They present strange behavior like they aren't always in the same place and are mostly only present when connected to an antenna. But I can literally be in the middle of nowhere and they are still present. It makes portions of the band unusable. Most annoying is there seems to be a birdie always floating around 7.033-34 which is a prime QRP CW waterhole. Anyway, thanks for watching the video, Joe.
Yep. Just within the USA bands between 3.5 & 30 MHz I counted some 75 birdies, most of which were at least S3 and some S6 and above. On 6m the birdies made the band damn near useless. And of course it gets very warm just sitting there letting the battery run down. Far warmer than the IC705 gets doing the same. But those birdies! Another great failed design from Chairman Xi’s copy-cat slave camps.
@@RedSummitRF If they are only there when connected to an antenna they are NOT "birdies", birdies will be there all the time as they are generated internal to the radio, that is the definition of a birdie! What they are in your case I cannot say but I have lots of signals like that where I live, and on different radios, they are simply QRM in my case.
Great video Charlie! This was nice information for a test like this. I always enjoy the whole video, because it’s sharing your journey.
The RATTLESNAKE?!! Oh man. You REALLY “take one for the team” doing SOTA’s!! Wow!
We’ll done buddy!
Thank you Larry. It's the first encounter of the year. I was off trail hiking a couple days ago and was watching for them. Luckily no encounters on that one.
Thanks for taking us along. Man what views! I'ld be too distracted. take care & 73 de ki5gx
Thanks Shawn. I did stop a few times and take it all in. I sure was a beautiful morning. Catch you again sometime!
I'm looking forward to this one! Hopefully I'll make the premiere. If it does overheat, I was the first one to call it back in December when these were released. This thing gets hot in a controlled environment
I hope I didn't disappoint Sean.
@@RedSummitRF you never do! Great job
Thanks for posting this video, good info on this radio. Usually have to put my kx2 in the shade to keep it cool. No issue with the mtr3b in the sun so far. 73 de AI6XG
Yes, me too with the FT-817. Thanks for visiting again, Dan. 73.
Nice job Charlie
Thanks Jay
Good video Charlie and another nice looking summit. Nice views of the hot air balloons. I thought that maybe the voltage on the external battery may have been different to the internal one and may have caused heat issues but looking online that's not the case. The Xeigu seems a lot of radio for the money with some good features too. I'm sure that it will be very popular.
73 Chris M0RSF
Thanks Chris - yes, I am leaning more towards liking the radio more than I expected. There are issues that really need to get worked out but I guess that's part of the price point. Talk to you again!
Nice job with the video Red
Hi Smokey! Thank you my friend. Hope your vacation is relaxing.
The manual says: "Do not place the device in a place where the temperature is higher than 60°C; otherwise, the battery
pack may rupture or catch fire." This radio inside certainly has a higher temperature. If the battery catches fire, whose fault will it be?
Thanks for your comment. Let's hope we never have to find out the answer to that question.
Holy crap you’re using HAMRS?!?! Great idea with the screen recording too!
I made another video before this one for pota and in it there's an explanation as to why this is your fault... seriously though, glad you pushed me into it. Thanks Mike.
I got my Xiegu X6100 a few days ago. Today I was operating on 15m for the first time (portable) and had some nice QSOs. Reports were good. I was using external power supply/LiFePo battery and operating 10 W. Charging was off in the menu. Nevertheless the X6100 got really hot. I guess I could have cooked an egg on it. I was in a shady place. Will have an eye on that and probably attach some additional cooling elements on the back.
This is an interesting report. I was not able to reproduce my overheating issues. It seemed rather random. Let me know if you narrow down the cause.
@@RedSummitRF I discussed this issue in a German Facebook Xiegu x6100 group. Other OMs mentioned that heating up is pretty normal when operating with 10 W. One OM assumed that the amplifying curcuit for the 10 W might be the cause for heating up. Another operator mentioned that the TRX is not really made to hold long OSQs or many QSOs in a short period of time.
Я купил его да отличное радио 73
Рад узнать, что вам это нравится!
Are you able to bike on those trails or hiking only?
Yes - in fact I passed a couple of mountain bikers on this hike
@@RedSummitRF Excellent, I know what I'm doing now
Stay away from those rattlesnakes!!! Nice SOTA activation! 73 de Jeff K3JRZ
Hi Jeff -for sure! Those rattlers or not to be trifled with. The picture was quite grainy due to me keeping a safe distance. Thanks for visiting the channel again.
Darn, I should have recorded my end of our QSO for you! See you on the next one. 73 de WU7H
Thanks Josh 👍 catch you on the next one!
Great set of review videos Charlie! I think I'm the guy in Utah :) I'm looking forward to comparing notes here. It's an appealing radio and since I won't be getting a TX500 in the foreseeable future - very bummed - I'm interested to try this. Do you think it might be a battery quality thing or a power management problem that leads to the over-heating? Thanks for the videos. 73 Eric KI7WJP
Hi Eric - I actually think it's the hot Arizona sun and me being a dumb ass lol. I have one more experiment before I send it off to you, but I don't think overheating is a problem. The next video will have my concluding thoughts about everything after I take it out one last time. It will be interesting to hear what you have to say. I'll be dropping it in the mail on Friday. 73
@@RedSummitRF I want to see about the heating thing, especially when connected to an external battery. I'm looking forward to your next video. I guess I'll need to do some summit activations with it as well. Winter is still going high in the mountains so it will be fun to take it up there. I'll let you know when it gets here. Thanks Charlie! - Eric
@@backcountryamateurradio yup, that's exactly what I'll be doing tomorrow - external battery at 10 watts for the duration of the activation.
@@RedSummitRF I'll be looking for that for your next video!
great video Charlie. The ability to not see the screen in the sun is disappointing.
Yes, you saw that first hand on our activation. It's a bummer. I had fun on our joint activation. Sorry about all the prickles. Comes with the adventure of desert hiking off-trail
Hi! What log do you use in this video?
Hamrs www.hamrs.app/
@@RedSummitRF TU 73's