As a member of the V5A radio development team, I’m honored to have seen your review video. I’d like to address some of the questions raised by you and other commenters, in the hopes of helping those who want to get the most out of the V5A radio: The V5A is a beginner-level product that leverages many open-source community resources. However, it still has several issues that my team and I are continuously working to update and optimize.
Regarding the Yoradio internet radio: Its firmware will also be uploaded to GitHub, and users can follow the same update instructions as for the V5A. Updates will be available shortly. As for the RDS unavailability issue: This might be due to a system bug or could be related to the fact that RDS information is not available on some radio stations in certain countries or regions. We are continuing to investigate this issue, and it may take some time to fully resolve.
Regarding extending the frequency range (e.g., beyond 137MHz): In CN, frequencies above 137MHz are generally unavailable (except for certain specialized bands like walkie-talkies). That’s why we initially set the frequency limit at 137MHz during the hardware design phase. However, we will consider your valuable suggestions and explore the possibility of adding higher frequency bands in future updates. I’m thrilled to see so many people here interested in experimenting with the Gugu radio. Moving forward, we’ll also be focusing more on supporting our international users. If you have any other ideas or requests, please feel free to reach out to me.
@Belleninnovatrix7993 Thank you so much for your comment, this really helps potential buyers know that you are serious about making a great product. Thanks again! Please can you drop me an email when any new firmware drops, so that I can test the internet player. thanks, matt
Geeknest has videos here on RU-vid. But they don't really give a lot of detail about the extra modules for the radio, such as the internet radio. The radio is indeed a quality kit and mine came with no instructions at all. That's where the RU-vid video was useful. Nice radio but if Geeknest doesn't promote it more then without your video not a lot of people will know about it. I got it at a decent price without the amp and antennas. Thanks for always a good video.
Sorry that you got this toy without intructions, we are working on this to improve the experience. We really don't promote much here, and thank you for your comment, we will try to let this toy known by more people and share the experience we wish every one to have fun with it.
@@alec_cy-geeknest For radio collectors and amateur radio operators, it is great entertainment. It is nice to put it together and have it work so well.
Another fantastic video. I always find your content to be among the best for ham radio videos!👍🏻 One minor point, though…. The screen was indeed installed crookedly. Now, my OCD will kick in, and I’ll have nightmares for a good month or so. 🙂
The RDS subcarrier is universal. So it should work in the UK. The only difference between countries is how some advanced data fields are used. Those fields are not even shown by most receivers, so they are irrelevant.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I do wish that we could get a modern radio that has good audio on SSB without such a high low frequency cut off in the audio and free from distortion !
I ordered one of these V5A radios a few months ago from Aliexpress to see what it was all about. Then I used the video "manual" to help me assemble it and use the controls. There's a lot of functionality in this unit once you learn how to navigate the menus. I find it to be reasonably sensitive and selective on MW and FM broadcast, though not as sensitive as the Eton Elite Executive I compared it to, but somewhere around the performance of the Tivdio V-111. On the shortwave bands it has reasonable sensitivity when used with a 20 foot random wire. SSB works okay and it is able to fine tune USB or LSB well enough for the speech to be intelligible. The air band also has reasonable performance. I was able to find an undocumented menu function that switched on the bluetooth. My phone could see the device but was unable to pair with it. I leave the audio switched to analog because I want the ability to listen to SSB, but don't see a difference in performance with either setting. This radio appears to have lots of built in functions that a firmware upgrade could unlock and I look forward to seeing what it could do with that. An avid DX hunter would not likely choose this radio for their hobby but it works well for general listening and if you like to tinker with it.
I just ordered the geeknest v5a receiver. The question I have is what battery do you use. I know it is a 18650 3.3v battery but one that is buttonless and what mah should you buy?
It's listed as going up to 137MHz for the Aviation band. That's quite close to the frequencies used by WESAT (Weather Satellites). If I could tweak the range, just by a bit... very tempting to buy and fiddle.
@@alec_cy-geeknest If the LPF is at 150MHz, then it could both cover the weather satellite band and the 2m amateur band. I don't know how much memory or processing power or memory this thing has, but a built in satellite tracker (updated over Wifi!) and automatic doppler shift would be brilliant!
