HUGE! Baofeng UV-25 10W Tri Band Hardened HT Radio 

Motorola still makes the best public safety radios and systems.

Motorola for the win! I mean after all they invented Six Sigma to address their quality issues in the 80s. I wouldn't trust my life to anything else.

As the Baofeng flew apart in multiple pieces against the concrete wall, one of the firefighters that was standing there said “I don’t think those would hold up”. Thank you Captain obvious. It was shortly after that I bought a couple of baofengs just to have them for that type of sales pitch. As an amateur radio operator I have a couple of those radios here at home, HOWEVER, I can’t imagine trusting my life to one of them.

Get what you paid for. Used the HT1000s and MT2000s in the 90s. Indestructible! (Still have 1 of each)

​​@@happyjack880this is a great story. It's true, go with motorola if you're fine paying a few thousand dollars for maybe 2 of them. I wish I could find the shit Motorola released 5 or 10 years ago but I hear they destroy old radios they get through trade in programs specifically to prevent this. I just want an indestructible, idiot-proof, ip-68 dual band handheld radio with 5+ watts and digital. No screen or buttons needed, just a knob is good, but if the price and durability are right I wouldn't care. I want it for camping trips and canoe trips. Something completely waterproof and drop proof. I have ham friends and gmrs friends, where I go there are no repeaters or other people so this is specifically for communicating with my group, or hitting local ham repeaters when I'm not in the wilderness. Closest I have found is the retevis p62. No screen, good battery, power, dual band, durable. However, it's missing digital DMR support which is not such a big deal, but it's also missing the NOAA weather band receive capability, and that is a little worse. A lot of times if clouds start to come in, that's the only service we have to get a weather report, besides our own eyes. We currently have baofengs and anytones. I believe the baofengs would break, and I don't want to risk it with the anytones 😂 they don't claim to be waterproof, and nobody else in the group wants to risk it with an expensive radio that doesn't specifically say it's waterproof. We'd love to have something like the Motorola idiot proof radio but everything I can find from them is 5x-10x more expensive than anything comparable. I know Motorola has been good for awhile, but can't find any older radios that fit the bill. I know DMR is new, but little 2m handheld radios without a screen have been around for like 75 years now, you'd think there would be some options for normal people who don't have millions of tax dollars to spend, not just Motorola! If you, or anyone else, knows of any good simple radios like that for $300 each or less, that would be amazing and I would really appreciate it

Thanks for watching!

And with the harmonics it put out you were also probably transmitting in the military air band or maybe in the FRS/GMRS channels, who knows for sure! I'd never use one of those things. Buy a good radio instead.

​@@markr.1984 what 10w tri-band handheld do you recommend, as a "good radio"?

@@markr.1984 what makes you think I don’t have good radios too? I just said i like UV-25 for what it is.

Yes

Are you sure? BaoFengs, BooFwangs, PoFungs, etc. are sooooo cool though. LOL

I think I need to order another Yaesu.

Haha, thanks for watching anyhow you want to

@@HamRadio2 I received the radio. It’s kind of novelty lol. The cool bendable antenna thingy has poor performance. I think it might be something used in the medical field 💩 😂. I got a few good signal reports after changing the antenna

I have the 5RM in another video on this channel, where I put it through basically the same tests. So you can compare the two videos if you like

I think I would take the AR-152 also

Poor you

Does not look like it.

That makes too much sense, so probably not gonna happen.

@@Gruuvin1 Exactly. How many years have they been making this stuff ?? & never ONCE used it themselves.

I have one of those that I'm testing

Getting ready to order an H8.

I've done that with many, many other radios that were much better quality than this one

Good question

But it's rated IP67!

I'll check into it

97.307(e) "must not exceed 25 µW and must be at least 40 dB below the mean power of the fundamental emission..." 25 µW = 16.02 db

Probably Hytera

No, I covered this in my review but firstly there’s no battery thermometer (the observe pin isn’t connected on the pack either) - but the main issue is that the battery controller is stuck at 720mA even using the external pins so it won’t charge any faster with an external charger even if it was charged by a higher current/voltage charger.

I have one of their radios that I'm testing

You don't need to unlock it, it will work on GMRS bands today

@@HamRadio2 Thank you for that. It's a heavy one, and prob the heaviest radio I got next to the Harris Clone by Baofeng. PS - I love the Brand New Midland GMRS radio ...Price was higher, but honestly...the "build quality" is a 10 and the cool tones you can use too (with the roger beep on)

Probably different versions

That it transmits is n frequencies where it isn't supposed to

Exactly. Better to spend some money and have quality radio. My Kenwood TH-D75 doesn't leak harmonics, nor does my Yaesu.

I just wish my TH-D75 had a better battery

Know it ain't much but tossing the Fang HD kinda hard to watch...I coudda used it .....

Good question

Lol

Good to hear a sensible person at times. Good comment and true words.

Hmm

Trust me, this thing has nothing to do with Android. It doesn't work nearly that well...

I love my uv5r but I also hate it, was my first radio which was gifted to me. I been on a kick mobile transceiver lately, I really love my ft-817 being portable. I wouldn't mind having a magnetic loop antenna to try out one day. 73 to yea and have a great day.

Yep

Retevis and Baofeng are made in the same factory in China

Sure

Most radios aren't advertised as being this IP rating

@@HamRadio2 Still a truthful statement by dunerinaz. Be fair and toss your FD-5D and see how it preforms.

@@HamRadio2 IP rating has nothing to do with throwing the radio in the air and letting it slam into concrete, lol.

@@dunerinaz uhh, it actually is. It is an impact rating that should protect the radio when it gets hit or dropped

@@neubert500 if the FT5D had an IP67 or IP69 rating, I would. We've tested other radios in this way.

Yes

If they advertise it as "hardened" then it should live up to that name

@@HamRadio2 so you think throwing that to mid air like 3-4 stories will prove your point? Very realistic isnt it?🤣

@@bowlineastronomenov5507 Yes. Yes it is. I've done it with other HTs that survived.

Sounds like you didn't watch the video

I'm not a Baofeng hater, (I have two of them but would never use them to transmit and talk with). I'm more like a good radio liker. There's a difference. If you tried out a Kenwood TH-D75 for one week, you'd never go back.

@@markr.1984 Baofeng's are a category of radios that introduced many, many people to ham radio when the high end radio category thumbed their noses up at them. They are cost effective and do what they advertise. No, they are not equivalent to high end HT's. When I see reviews of people nit picking them over crap issues for clicks it's easy to see right through any objectivity. Clickbait a-holes suck.

You should learn the definition of click bait and try again. Also... watch the video, as previously requested

A waist or chest high drop test would be more real world than throwing it in the air the way that you did. Throw a 400.00 or 500.00 HT in the air like that and I’m sure that there would be failures.