Quite a controversial piece of equipment on the market place, often labelled as a "cheap Chinese import" are these handheld radios really worth the money? Lets take a look and find out..
I use mine as a cheap scanner, have got local business licences, local ham club and their net and PMR channels programmed in but also the UHF relay of the tower and ground frequencies of the local airport. They do scan be it slowly but with only around 30 channels it works fine. Especially the airport relay comes through very clear. I got it used of ebay very cheaply, have had no issues with it. I programmed it on the radio not chirp found it easy to do but then I don’t mess around with repeaters because im not licensed
I have the updated UV-10R which has a slightly higher wattage and so far it's ok but in the city centre I find that many others can't hear me and I can't hear them but I have yet to try it somewhere I'm not surrounded by massive buildings.
Actually a lot of people buy these radio for pmr and also a few friends of mine have them as back radio's on their boats which I have programmed with marine band freq ...so they are not specific for amateur use only
@@RadioOddities ....i haven't seen any where that they cant be used ...as they are programmed with marine band freq and you have a passed your src then i cant see a problem i would rather lose one of these over the gunnel than a £150 icom marine vhf
Yes, CHIRP makes a world of difference! I’ve had a UV5R for quite a few years. It’s a handy backup. I also think it’s a good economical entry level radio. I did do a non-scientific test on spurious emissions comparing it to an Icom T7A and it did show harmonics on a spectrum analyzer. They may have improved the filtering…at least I hope they did! Have fun with it! 73 de K2CJB
Far easier radio to use when paired with chirp. I’m led to believe the newer models are a lot cleaner than their predecessors- as a result of the FCC threatening to block their sale
If I want to use it for air soft I shall you only need a licence if you want to use it as a repeater or part of a club not sure what you call it but using it for paintball or air soft is completely legal and no license is needed spoke to ofcom today
@@RadioOddities which I wouldn’t be you can find channels that aren’t used for amateur radio enthusiasts but you basically said in the video anyone who doesn’t have a license who even holds the baofeng radio is breaking the law which isn’t true from what ofcom told me and they are the ones who issue the amateur radio licence that’s just my take on it
