I purchased one last month, along with an extra battery, and I love it. It's easy to program via the keypad, it has great audio and most of all I love the size. The build quality is actually pretty good. I can't complain for $109 USD.
That is what I thought. I cannot see why people seem to hate this radio - one review said a pile of garbage? I'm rather the other way - it is a bit strange looking but that is fine for me.
I had a phone call from a fella who just bought one and he thinks like me, it's actually a really great radio and we are both amazed at the crazy negative points. He also pointed out they are very sensitive and that makes them even more useful.
I also like this radio for the price. I purchased the RT Systems software which allows for moving memories around. I like the fact you can view the memory channels by alpha name and also the frequencies are displayed on the bottom of the screen. My radio would only put out approx. 6-7 watts measured on my Aeroflex 3920B, the RX sensitivity is on par with other chinese radios. There are some false advertising stating the radio is capable of more than 128 memories. I could not get more than that programmed. There was another article stating the radio could be "jailbroken" to accept 700/800/900 mhz and 220. I tried this and found that the radio is deaf on RX except for 220 which is slightly better, but the radio will only put out 5. watts on these bands, plus you would need at different antenna to cover the range. As a note, I do have a Motorola APX-8000 which admittedly looks very similar.
Yes - totally agree. I tried opening the range up and was quite disappointed by the performance - but here there is very little in the 'extra' bands anyway.
I was really hoping it would receive on the 800mhz band as there are a few conv 800 freqs I listen to regularly that the Wouxun UV9D hears loud and clear. So thank you, I appreciate your comment and I'll give this radio a skip.
Biggest firmware bug on these radios is scan operation. The PL detect takes a quarter to half second to decode the programmed PL and unmute. Problem is the radio scan stop delay doesn’t hold the radio on channel that’s receiving long enough to correctly decode the PL and unmute the audio thus stopping the scan until the carrier drops for a few seconds. You must use csq receive for any channels you want to scan. Also doesn’t seem to allow simultaneous upper/lower band receive as most other radios of this type do. Otherwise not a bad radio, if these issues are fixed it’ll be a decent radio for the price.
Ended up purchasing one through ali express that said the frequency was 400 -520 MHz only discovered, it only went to 470mhz , here in Australia our uhf c.b is 477 MHz so 470 not suitable, be careful Aussie buys as it was listed up to 520 MHz 👎
The other thing that irritates me about this radio is it has a USB C charge port on the battery, Except it doesn’t charge with a standard USB C charger! Only charges with the supplied charger! Stupid stupid stupid!! Come on people! Get it together
They ARE junk. On the one I had before I threw it in the garbage receive would cut out if I got my hand near the noisy display. Horrible, long double squelch tail. PL would not decode on scan. I actually put a screwdriver through the circuit board so I wouldn't be tempted to phuck with it again. This radio adds whole new dimensions to the word garbage.
Sorry, I just did not experience this at all. In the office next to the studio is a whole collection of 24/7 radios. Marine VHF and business UHF - the marine gear chucks out data bursts every few minutes and the repeater has an ID every ten minutes, plus of course the normal ones we regularly transmit on and the APX 8000 radio had no issues with any of them. I cannot subscribe to the idea they are junk. Sure, they are cheap and do loots of things, but they are no worse than dozens of other cheaper radios.
I purchased one last month, along with an extra battery, and I love it. It's easy to program via the keypad, it has great audio and most of all I love the size. The build quality is actually pretty good. I can't complain for $109 USD.
That is what I thought. I cannot see why people seem to hate this radio - one review said a pile of garbage? I'm rather the other way - it is a bit strange looking but that is fine for me.
I had a phone call from a fella who just bought one and he thinks like me, it's actually a really great radio and we are both amazed at the crazy negative points. He also pointed out they are very sensitive and that makes them even more useful.
😂😂😂😂 lixo
I also like this radio for the price. I purchased the RT Systems software which allows for moving memories around. I like the fact you can view the memory channels by alpha name and also the frequencies are displayed on the bottom of the screen. My radio would only put out approx. 6-7 watts measured on my Aeroflex 3920B, the RX sensitivity is on par with other chinese radios. There are some false advertising stating the radio is capable of more than 128 memories. I could not get more than that programmed. There was another article stating the radio could be "jailbroken" to accept 700/800/900 mhz and 220. I tried this and found that the radio is deaf on RX except for 220 which is slightly better, but the radio will only put out 5. watts on these bands, plus you would need at different antenna to cover the range. As a note, I do have a Motorola APX-8000 which admittedly looks very similar.
Yes - totally agree. I tried opening the range up and was quite disappointed by the performance - but here there is very little in the 'extra' bands anyway.
I was really hoping it would receive on the 800mhz band as there are a few conv 800 freqs I listen to regularly that the Wouxun UV9D hears loud and clear. So thank you, I appreciate your comment and I'll give this radio a skip.
The reason people hate on em is because they expect them to be a 100 dollar full apx and they want it to be as good as the motorola
Biggest firmware bug on these radios is scan operation.
The PL detect takes a quarter to half second to decode the programmed PL and unmute.
Problem is the radio scan stop delay doesn’t hold the radio on channel that’s receiving long enough to correctly decode the PL and unmute the audio thus stopping the scan until the carrier drops for a few seconds.
You must use csq receive for any channels you want to scan.
Also doesn’t seem to allow simultaneous upper/lower band receive as most other radios of this type do.
Otherwise not a bad radio, if these issues are fixed it’ll be a decent radio for the price.
Thanks for this. I will check and report back. P
Hold down home button and turn the radio on, that will put the radio in FULL mode now you have 800 & 900 bands "F" top left corner.
Neat - although we don't have access to those bands here - full of celllular!
@@pauljohnson4590lixo 😂😂😂😂😂
I have hamgeek APX-8000 and it is very to program and it is the FT-60 on steroids
Its certainly a interesting radio
Ended up purchasing one through ali express that said the frequency was 400 -520 MHz only discovered, it only went to 470mhz , here in Australia our uhf c.b is 477 MHz so 470 not suitable, be careful Aussie buys as it was listed up to 520 MHz 👎
That's a real pain!
The other thing that irritates me about this radio is it has a USB C charge port on the battery,
Except it doesn’t charge with a standard USB C charger! Only charges with the supplied charger!
Stupid stupid stupid!!
Come on people!
Get it together
Bonjour monsieur
Pour le programe avez-vous utiliser le programe chirp ? Sur quel reference ? Merci beaucoup
Hello - no I used the dedicated CPS the supplier let me have. I did not even think to look on Chirp?
@@eastanglianradio Since I can't program it, what do you recommend I do? do you have a link for the software you used? THANKS
@@slim7475 send me an email - and I will send it to you.
How hard is it to program? Im used to chrip
They're pretty straightforward for a fairly simple dual bander
Do you have a link to the software? Can’t seem to find it anywhere.
When you google you find the one being sold at a modest price which has better facilities - worth the price.
They ARE junk. On the one I had before I threw it in the garbage receive would cut out if I got my hand near the noisy display. Horrible, long double squelch tail. PL would not decode on scan. I actually put a screwdriver through the circuit board so I wouldn't be tempted to phuck with it again. This radio adds whole new dimensions to the word garbage.
Sorry, I just did not experience this at all. In the office next to the studio is a whole collection of 24/7 radios. Marine VHF and business UHF - the marine gear chucks out data bursts every few minutes and the repeater has an ID every ten minutes, plus of course the normal ones we regularly transmit on and the APX 8000 radio had no issues with any of them. I cannot subscribe to the idea they are junk. Sure, they are cheap and do loots of things, but they are no worse than dozens of other cheaper radios.