Xiegu G90 - Using the Upgraded Model for the First Time
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2024
- Using a new Xiegu G90 after a long time of using the original released version #xiegu #hamradio #portablehamradio
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Switching to the power pole connector was a nice added touch.
G90 on the beach, fresh seafood, local beer, hard to imagine a better day. I think I need to plan a trip to Rhode Island! Thanks Walt... keep them coming!
Tempting me to get one.
And as one ham tuber says, "If you're lost in the middle of the desert, set up an antenna. Someone will come walking through it within 10 minutes!"
So pleased you are enjoying G90 II.
And that salmon meal looked delicious!
As another coastal dweller, you cannot go without trying the local catch!
Nice one Walt! 73's.
Guy with the metal detector reminded me of a recent experience I had a park. 😂 First, maintenance almost ran over over coax and counterpoise with the lawnmower then I had a couple gather around it with their dog. I need to start bringing my little collapsible traffic cones again.😂
Well, since I did not get a G90 earlier, fair game to get one now! Thank you, Walt! Needed this video. We (Pinellas County, Fl.) are looking at a Cat 4 (Cat 5 as I type) headed our way. Antennas are down, yet again and the home is boarded up. Here we go again!! -73 KQ4KIO Talmadge...
Your videos make me regret selling my G90. I have a Yaesu 891 and decided I'd keep that for my POTA activations. Your food stops after your radio time on the beaches are really great. I usually find a place that serves food and beer after I do an activation in my area to do my logging.
Love your videos and hope things are getting better for your wife.
Steve, k7ofg.
Walt,
I took mine out last Saturday. 17 ft wire on my Crappie pole with 3 counterpoise. I made contact with a Net in Illinois from Western NY. Then I realized I never turned the power power up! I contacted on just one watt! I love this radio already! Dan KE2CYV
Great stuff as always Walt! I miss being up north and miss that Narragansett beer!
Glad you stuck with the G90. I was wondering from your last video. Hey don’t forget ECARS in the morning on 7.255. That’s a good spot to try for 40m.
Nice work. I got one a week ago and hooked it up to a 'new' diy 17 meter vertical dipole at 28 ft peak built from the parts of two old tv antennas and QSLed Trinidad off Venezuela coast at 18 watts at 5x7 2750 mi from MO. He had a multiband vertical at same height and 300 watts. Then I fried a celabratory 'pigsicle' (candied porkchop) on George Foreman grill.
If I ever make it to Rhodesia Island again, will need to go back through you videos for restaurants.
Glad the G90 is front and center again. It's like an old friend. Keep the G90 videos rolling.
Looked like the perfect day Walt. Thanks for sharing. Jim
Nice radio, Walt! Saving up for a G90!!
Walt, 40M is a great band in the afternoon. I use it a lot when I am having trouble getting activated.
Awesome videos…Ocean view, radio and food 👍 Loving my new G90 as well!
Walt, I have a G90 myself and love it. I've learned a ton from you thanks.
You're a bad influence. Now I want a second G90! I'm envious of the power pole connector.
Looking forward to seeing some 40m antennas and action in the future!
That's why I bring my mag loop as an alternate, especially when I run the risk of having anyone coming around me. Most people are inquisitive but some people are just PIA's
That's really kool Walt!! Now lets get some fish & Chips! 😋
The ATU is indeed fantastic! I can tune a short G5RV indoor attic antenna on every band except 160.
Loved it Walt, you inspire a lazy me!
I have a relatively new G90, complete with the built-in power pole connectors. I'm really impressed with it, especially for the money! I'm taking a quick road trip later in the week, and the G90 will be coming with me. Hopefully the bands will continue to be on "good behavior". I won't be near any salt water, but I will have elevation working in my favor.
Dang, that salmon looked absolutely amazing! It's absolutely brain food -- one of two I can always count on to put my noggin in turbo mode (pizza is the other). Sadly, I'm the only one in my family who likes it, so I'm generally limited to having it when I go out. National seafood month sounds like the perfect excuse!
Hi Walt. That is a great update. Glad the new G90 is working well. You do indeed have a lot of background noise / QRM / buzzing! I would have thought that being on the coast, away from things, might have been a bit quieter ! Great work though. 73, Mike.
Hi Walt, thanks for the update!
G90 Rocks!
🇺🇸 AC3EA 🙏
Can't wait to see what firmware and upgrades that were done other than power poles connection! 👍G90 👍❤️
S glad the new g90 works so well. I hope the guy with the metal detector found a treasure. I’m going to get some seafood this month. My birthday was the 4th, wanted some then but wife wanted pizza. She’s disabled so she gets the say-so.😁
I just need a good mod to make my older G90 into powerpole. Love that radio!
I too have the updated G90 with the power pole connection and updated firmware and I LOVE IT!!! I purchased the G90 because of watching your channel. The tuner will tune anything!
73
Chris
VA3COJ
I made the K6LA contact on 40 meters Saturday night. 2389 miles away.
Another great video with two of my favorite topics, radio and food. I had a good Sunday on the low end of 10m to California from Maine. Thank you for your videos. KC1TWE. Have a great day.
Good to see the out of the box settings performed well. Oh the joys of trying to see displays in bright sunlight. Wouldn't it be great to have one that was full color indoors but have a switch to display like a Kindle when you're outside!
Excellent, the upgraded software on my G90 was a great improvement. Just passed my full exam; will be taking my g90 and a power adapter to run it from a hire car next month from San Diego. M0NMT
Great video Walt! I was able to run my G90 the first time right out of the box. I think the biggest difference between your old G90 and the new one is that the filter control is different. You can't control the left and right sides independent of one another on the latest firmware. If you old G90 was firmware 1.73, the new firmware had digital USB and LSB settings. I've been making contacts all over Europe on 10-meters. Have fun with the new G90. I'm going to buy a second on at some point because I love this radio so much. I broke through some big pile-ups on Sunday and my contact were surprised that I was running 20 watts and a wire antenna. You can't beat the built in tuner. Thanks again...73...Hugh...KN6KNB
Video started out, I hope you wouldn’t see any differences, wanted to see if it was a good as the old one. Glad to see it worked well right of the box.
Love my later model G90 down here in Australia. Bought about 7 months ago. Using an end fed 1/2 wave on 40m, a 49:1 unun and home brew common mode choke on a ferrite ring. Loads up really well on 40m - 10m. Be interested to see how you go with the NFM feature on 10m. Mine has FM I don't think the early ones had it. Ya gotta luv the G90!
Getting the Gansett! Great video as always Walt! Picked up a G90 because of your videos and I love it! My go to SOTA & POTA machine.
Came for the radio review. Stayed for the salmon review.
Just got my first g90 about 2 weeks ago and have been using it on a 17ft whip like you did in the video. It has been great for me as a newbie in the POTA world. I will say the ATU in the g90 will match it on 40 and I may a few contacts, and it will match on 80 but with all the losses no one cod hear me. Glad you are enjoying your 2nd g90 as I am enjoying my first. Take care.
I don't think it's "loss" on 40 and 80 as much as it's low efficiency from using 1/16 of a wavelength on 80m. Try taking about 53-55ft of wire and clipping it to the top of your 17ft whip and running it as an inverted L or a sloper. Thats about the 71ft of a common "random wire" and it may work a little better on the lower bands for you if you ever wanted to do nvis.
HI Walt, congratulations on the 2nd G90. I still have my G90, it was one of the first that came into the UK. I am in the process of putting together my next Enthusiastic Steve RUclips video, it includes a shout out to you and your channel as i know many over this side of the pond have yet to discover you and your channel of great content. All the best Steve M6WVV aka Enthusiast Steve south UK
Always makes me pleased that I purchased a G90.
It works extremely well on CW.👍
Thanks Walt!
73 de N1XV
I am also on my second G90, what a radio!!
Great work walt!! Looking forward to seeing you visit a place that smokes the ribs out there 😋 73
Very cool video! I like the new rig! Happy it’s working well
Glad the new G90 is working out for you, I will be interested to know if there are any major differences between the new and old model because I have a 2020 model G90, still in its box unopened, due to health issues but I'm now well enough to unwrap and use it. I love the non-radio pieces which are entertaining, informative and gives a more complete picture of your operating conditions. Do some radio, then do some bites and beer... perfect day!
I gotta get me one of these G90s... now just wishing I had the salt-water advantage! Looks like the new G90 is a winner. 73 Walt.
Great video Walt... Problem here in Canada those Xiegu rigs are not available us hams.
Sounds great! Can't wait to try mine. Should be here by the end of the week! 73, Norm
I had placed an order two days ago, but canceled when I saw that the back view picture was of the old G90.
Nice presentation, Walt! One can tell that Xiegu has been listening to it's customer base and the improvements (which are slow) are coming steadily. You might as well enjoy that TDY money when you eat because one doesn't make extra dollars anymore when you go TDY.
73s!
I also have this MFJ 17 feet vertical antenna. The performance is not bad.
Congratulations, Walt, and good contacts! 73 de PU2OIP.
You're slowly selling me on the g90. The internal atu will probably be the thing that does it.
Perhaps the new G90 can also catch fish! Seriously thanks for the video always great updates.
Another good video! Well if ain’t broke don’t fix it, must be Xiegu’s moto.
The one thing I wish my IC-705 had is the G90 antenna tuner.
That was a lot of noise for being on the beach.
@COASTALWAVESWIRES The "wooop" noise is actually from a Chirpsounder. I used to with them in thr military, specifically the AN/TRQ-35, called "Turkey 35".
Lol i bought this G90 because of you! Now you bought the same radio as me! 😅😅😅 Good Job Walt!
Haha I was pretty sure You didn't touch firmware ;D If something isn't broken, don't repair it. Greetings from Poland and thank you for sticking to G90 so far. For me compatct factor and tuner forged in heaven by chineese gods ;D makes G90 perfect radio for about 75% hams. 73 !
I guess the screen was too bad in the sun to see, but I wanted to see the waterfall image to see if you were showing all the radiation from the solar blast that I was seeing on my waterfall this weekend.
Fired mine up yesterday and nothing happening on any bands . Looked out and the antenna has taken a beating from the weather already (and the worst of winter to come !). Could have switched to the EFHW but what the heck - fired up the QRP HDR instead. Might fix the antenna today and give it another go. We will get to speak on a QSO one day my friend. 73 M7BLC
Hi Walt, a updated G90. I wonder what the updates are?. Very popular set in UK. You were probably getting interference from the metal detector. All the best David M0DUU
I have looked at these for a long time...maybe someday...I have too many radios right now.
Greetings from Cape Town.
Hi Walt. Congratulations on your brand new G90. I've been following your channel for a long time and with great interest, both for the ideas for portable antennas and for the description of the places where you satisfy your hunger afterwards!
While watching your latest video, the following question occurred to me:
Which setup has the better performance on the 10m band, 17' telescope with tuner vs. resonant antenna tuned to 10m, more metal in the air with loss due to tuner vs. resonant, much shorter antenna? Could you do an A - B test?
I would be curious to see the result.
73s, HB9MTN, Ed
Hey Walt, if you didn't know already Radioddity sells a parts kit for the G90. It includes a new power connector too. Should be pretty easy to fix your old one.
I'm planning on buying a parts kit just to have on hand.
I should look into that, too.
Very nice video, you have all my sympathy.
Best, healthy food I saw you consuming so far, just an advice the green stuff on the side is very good for your health...eat it, so we can enjoy more of your videos in future 😊
Love my old G90 73 de M7CUN.
Lol you had us there Walter lol. Well done
Walt G90 the best ever, blimy walt you love your food take care, this is the way of the ham
I understand tuning say a 17’ whip but I’m hazy on how the counterpoise or radials affect the SWR. And do both affect it the same way.
Let’s say I need to lengthen my antenna to get the resonant point to where I want to operate. Can I do that by lengthening the counterpoise or the radials. Or do I have to adjust the 17’ whip. In other words do the radials or counterpoise affect SWR or just your ground?
All the landlocked people headed to Long John Silver’s now. 😂
I found the trick. Watch your videos while eating lunch. Now you dont make me as hungry.😂
Great fun Walt ! 73
As they used to say in New England, “Hi, neighbah, have a ‘Gansertt!” 73, Mike K3CXG who dat! Like a good neighbah…
Digging the hat, Walt! Semper Paratus! NY9G
You are making it very difficult to resist buying a G90. I notice, however, that the pictures of the G90 on Radioddity still show the old configuration with no vent holes and the old power connector, rather than Anderson Powerpole connectors. Can I assume that they just haven't updated their photos, and that I will indeed receive the new version if I order one?
As always, thanks much for sharing.
Steve
I ordered a G90 from Radioddity mid-August. I was ready to crack it open, void the warranty, and replace power connection with power-poles...so you can imaging my surprise upon pulling it from the box! The firmware version is beyond what most online info shows us and there are some changes to UI/UX. I'll let Walt dive in and tell us what he learns! 🙂
@@Savior-Faire Thanks for your reply. That sounds promising. I've also sent a message to Radioddity asking the same question, so I'll see what they say. But, I would like to hear from Walt on this too.
@@stellarpodplease keep us informed. Thanks HB3XBL 👍🇨🇭
Walt. Got my G90 recently and it is amazing, same as your new one. I do have a question: When scrolling through frequencies, specifically at 21,399 to 21,400 I hear a audio pop and a relay click. There are other locations like 21,299-21,300 . This is also true on the other bands in other locations on the dial. I am assuming it is switching band pass filters or AGC, or Attenuator? I am not sure. Is this normal or should I be returning the radio? Other than that it works amazingly.
HA! so if your tuner is on then you get the pops and clicks. If it is off then no pops and clicks. Its likely the tuner going through the tuned spots. @temporarilyoffline helped me discover this. In case anyone else reads the comments and wants to know the answer.
Nice video. How we tell the old and new versions apart ? Don't want to get sold an old one !
Hello Walt, just got G90 on the pre owned market. Would you mind sharing your settings like mic gain and other settings?
Here you go, it’s all in this video:
ruclips.net/video/4QYkg-HBdXE/видео.htmlsi=gDTsy9qRmy-KiZ1_
Hello Walt. I hope you're well. I just ordered the Xiegu G90. I was wondering if you had any recommendations for the best antenna. I will be traveling in my 36 ft motorhome and would like something easy to deploy. I am looking into the coil (Wolf River) with a 102" whip. Can I simply mount this to the RV and use the chassis for the ground? Thanks!
Looks like it works well! How does one go about getting their hands on one of those CWaWs stickers?
I wonder if the guy metal detecting was causing interference. I know those things emit multiple frequencies.
Walt: I have used a G90 here for about 3 years so far. I got the accessorary cooling base, and the fan keeps the case right around 85°F while running FT8, even cooler while running SSB or CW. Running without the fan, the case sides hit 110°F while running FT8 and 105°F running SSB:CW. I would be curious as to how much the new vents keep the heat down. My Xiegu X6200 gets really warm on digital modes with case temps approaching 130°F. Radioddity suggested a small external fan blowing on the case for cooling, but haven't taken the time to rig that up.
Do you know what S/N the "New" G90's started at? Power poles look great, and would probably fix the voltage sag on TX that I see with the Molex style power connections.
73, Keith, WB2VUO in Amherst, NY
Hi Walt I see there's a 10 watt version of this radio thinking of getting me one there are a few upgrades thank you 9z4apa 73s.
I keep hoping to see one with a burned out final or something online, all I need is a new head unit for mine. The VFO keeps jumpign backwards when tuning upwards, curiously tuning down it's fine, and the headphone out port isn't working, which means I can't do digital.
I kind of want to get another g90 just as backup
Thanks Walt. Much appreciated. Quick Question for when you have time: I just got my new G90. I hear a popping sound when I change bands. Is that normal? 73
Your so lucky living by the sea. I live about 70 miles from the sea, virtually impossible to get really fresh fish. Is the Atlantic Salmon there wild or farmed. You only get farmed here, wild is very rare and expensive.
I wonder if I can unlock it to work on 11 meters. I like the idea of the ATU .
For your old G90, why not take it apart and replace the stock power cord connector with PowerPoles? :)
I think the metal detecting guy acted as a parasitic array. For 40 use the mad dog coil and the full 17ft whip
Walt, thank you for your channel. You really have great content. I was wondering how the audio is in the newer version. I have the original and I think it’s kinda harsh. Do you think they’re using the same internal speaker in the new version? 73
tnx agn walt de wb8e
So i gotta ask: does the new g90 perform better in terms of cooling?
I also wonder if they still are susceptible to broadcast interference or if they fixed that.
Nice! AI5SS
Ur a bad boy walt u didn't eat ur veggies😅😅
Could you please do a test : Transmit with another 20W transciever say 10 yards and 6 Khz away - and check if it causes interferrence ? If not - I am tempted
Yes the G90 is awesome really awesome.
I don't regret i bought this one
I love my wife but also the G90😂
Ron, Pd3ron