Is it fixed? - TIDRadio TD H8 Gen2 Ham Radio 

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When the radio vendors work with the radio reviewers the consumer wins. Thanks to both of you.

TID is trying harder than a lot of the radio companies, that is for sure. Good work, son!

Thank you for working with the vendor and providing them feedback! It's videos like these that keep manufacturers honest.

TID is sending me a Generation 3 . I too had the same issue , they responded quickly , politely and were happy to resolve the issues with all Generation 2 radios . They stand behind the product and are truly committed to seeing satisfied customers.

Well done to both Ape and TidRadio. I'm impressed at how quickly they resolved the spurious emmisions.

The 2nd one they sent me was clean too. Glad they fixed the issue quick smart

Nice review on it. I have watched your others and put off buying one until things were fixed. Now I am going to wait awhile to let the new firmware come into stock. Also glad to hear TID listened to you and hopefully others that might have contacted them. 73

Nice shakedown and persistence on getting to the truth on this radio. Glad that the vendor was so cooperative. Thanks for the enjoyable set of videos.

Great job and thanks for helping to fix what should have been tested for before you got the radios. Makes me wonder about the rest of that company's QC. I'm a new ham looking for my first radio and these videos are invaluable.

Well done Ape...very few have follow ups to their vids. Hopefully the new software can correct the radios that are still unpurchased or owned with these troubles. Much respect to you keeping true to your honest ways whether viewers accept it or not. Nice job ! N8OHV

That is a nice surprise that they cleaned it up, I will wend people over to your video for that!

You put a lot of effort into this Ape, and I'm glad TID responded. Like you, I wish they would have gotten this right the first time...its not like there aren't any Tiny SA's being made in a factory 1 block over from them. Hope a software updates fixes the prior hardware. You now have enough stock to be considered a TID distributor.

Looking forward to the update if the new firmware on the older radio fixes any or all of it’s issues! Great job as always!

I just hope all the radios that come off the line work the same. Designing it is one thing, being able to build it consistently with the same quality is another. Great video series Ape! 73

I sent mine back. I really liked it but the issues out weighed the pros. Mine didn’t make the noise when keyed but had very low transmit audio. Great work on Tidradio ‘s part for listening and addressing the issues. I will give them another shot. As always Ape great video. Thanks for what you do. De KK4LBJ

Thanks for revisiting the radio and possible changes. I was hoping to send my demo back to Tid and Harry for the burn issue but haven’t heard back from him in awhile. I would like to compare myself to see if I still get the ouchy burn feeling but it looks like they fixed some stuff with your review. Good job ape. Ham-Solo K0FYR

I am also pleasantly surprised at the clean signal in the new radio. I sure hope they all come that way now.

Yes. It would be nice to have a satisfactory radio from the get-go, but it's very nice that they are working with users to improve things. That is a plus.

I would be VERY interested in seeing the results after the firmware upgrade. But my heart tells me that the new radio has a "New and Improved" "Special Edition" motherboard in it. Keep us posted Please, and Thanks Man!! 73

Thanks @ SmokinApe I’ll hold off a bit longer before I purchase one until the new firmware comes out

I need a new HT like I need another hole in my head but I'm tempted to buy one just out of respect for their decision to work with you and solve the issue.

I suspect they gave you the only clean one they made. You might want to check another one or two sometime down the road.

Thank you for the review. I am very interested in this ht. Does it have one button frequency match?

Great !!

Need your advice. Which I should choose? This one, or Retevis AR89/TYT UV99 (ip 68 is not a big deal for me)?

I was just watching another review of Gen 2 and it's outputs were like 1.3 / 3.2 / and 5.4... in otherwards more inline with the legal GMRS power ratings.

After watching this video, seeing that Tidradio fixed the problems I went and ordered one. It arrived today, and after charging the batteries, I went through the menus, and what do I see, firmware 230317. I am not a happy customer right now, but with what you and others have said about their customer service I sent them a message. So waiting to see what they have to say. At least I can still send it back to Amazon if necessary. I was looking forward to using it, but not with all the spurs etc you showed on the older videos. Just wanted to let you and others know they 230317 are still in the pipeline.

Look at you Ape, Fighting for the little ham against a big company and actually getting results! You could be in the running for president of Nebraska soon. seriously though Nice Job!

As a 2 unit owner, I'd be very interested in a video on the firmware upgrade process once that becomes GA...

Having harmonics of the fundamental can give erroneous power readings since most detectors are diode based, and sensitive to harmonic influence. The improved harmonic readings on the new radio may be even better as you may be looking at the dynamic range of the spectrum analyser. Try an LC notch on 146 MHz or a 300 MHz HPF on the output of the attenuator.

Please do update us on firmware updates. Supposedly you can update the firmware online but I'm not sure where the download is.

Thank you! I just got my call sign (technician) this week and am seriously looking at this radio for my first purchase. In fact, I have it in my Amazon shoping cart. I wounder if anyone might council me to pull the trigger or look elsewhere?

With respect to the Amazon stock, a H8 Ham delivered yesterday came with HAM_230317! But the audio issue is not present. Which makes me lean towards there was a hardware change. Notable is that with the TD-771 antenna, when using the external microphone there is an obvious range improvement likely due to a better ground (plane) for the antenna formed by the external microphone cable. I want to test this with a car mounted antenna, likely later today.

Great video, question, How can I update the firmware version I have on mine? I HAVE 230317

Does the tidradio use same cable as the uv-5r or other baofeng? Tried to use it for chirp on Td-h8 and would not communicate.

Hopefully the changes they made are being applied to all radios coming off the production line.

Is there a version part certified for GMRS?

I think this was the one that they thought that spurious emissions was a feature. 😆🤙🏽

Now if we could connect the BT to my AV system in the car, so that I can use a PTT button on my steering wheel, THAT would be great Are you listening ICOM, Kenwood, Yaesu?

Another winner from Our Ape. TU!!!!

I tested the power with my Telewave 44AP and got just 4 watts. The Talkpod A36plus cranked out 10 watts...

If I’m buying in the future your my first stop

Mind Blown!!!! \*o*/

I got one in early August from Amazon, it must be from the newest batch because I have none of the previous issues.

I received mine a month ago. Audio reports are VERY LOW. I will try to do a firmware update to see if that helps. Otherwise, I will have to scrap this radio.

How meny watts dose the tid GMRS Gen2 unlock Version put out.

So I guess we have to wait for Generation 3 to hit the market.

I thank you for going out of your way to make sure these companies stop just piecing stuff together and making us their beta testers. This looks a bit better than the last one. Progress is purges. Now people are going to have to watch out for "the bad model" of these radios. Any chance you can post up the serial number endings of both so we'll know what range to not buy?

I'm SHOCKED! - I mean not as shocked as the original owners are!

😮... its actually fixed?!😂👍

"Without further adieu..." I. Am. Impressed. Not expected from a Nebraska boy.

Looking for distortion on RF waveforms is rather pointless unless you are looking for gross distortion. A -10dB signal would be about 3.1% noise on the carrier, which you may be able to see. At. -20d, you’d be looking for 1% distortion, which would be very hard to see. In addition, your scope would need to have a much higher bandwidth to see the distortion. For example, a 500 MHz oscilloscope would be 3dB down (showing 70.7% amplitude) at 500MHz. Any distortion products would be much higher in frequency and would be attenuated. Using a good commercial spectrum analyzer is a much more meaningful test. Thank you for this and similar videos.

wonder if they actually fixed it or if they just went through 200 radios checking them to send you the one that actually worked.

I may pay more and buy Yaesu but I know the FIRST time out of box it will work. Sha e on them for trying that many times to maybe get it right😢

Why as a company test for half a year when your customers can test all of that in 3 days :D If you act like tidradio (replacing units without hassle, fixing the issues, listening to feedback etc) i see no deal breaker in this approach (although it is usually used in software which makes much more sense). How they acted reminds me a bit of the early oneplus company with their community forums which i quite liked. So now I'm considering buying this radio :)

What's the antenna problem?

Anyone buy one of these recently and find problems?

i got a td-h6 pro and its trash i cant get that radio to do very much other then look cool

I bought on Amazon 2 of these radios: GRMS and HAM, the HAM has the noise, the GRMS NO noise. The GRMS comes unlocked for HAM, so is a HAM radio without noise. I guess they fix NOTHING for you, they just tested some radios and sent you a radio without this issue. Other people also related their radios have no noise. Is almost random.

Info from the manufacturer. There will be no modifications or fixes to the SMD board in the V8 model. Another version of the Td-V3 model is in preparation. He's due out soon. If it doesn't outclass Quansheng this time, the brand will be just an episode for me - a curiosity. And no one will take the test as uncompromisingly as you👍.

know how to set up APRS

I'm on 146.52 also but don't hear you.

Ape proclaims "magic" ... so be it! 😁 73 - KF6IF

I'm disappointed with the H8 I received 4/22 direct from TIDRADIO. At 146.5 on high power 37.1dBm which is 5watts, not 10 and the harmonic is -12dBm on the tinySA. Six emails the last two days to return/refund and Khan doesn't think there an issue. Their customer service is disappointing, too. The H8 is 02/24 manufacture with most recent firmware. I thought I'd done my homework. 73 KN6VYP UPDATE: Khan is sending me one that's perfect. Squeaky wheel gets the grease

A 66% failure rate? Yikes.

Did you or anyone else happen to notice the horrible RF interference that the LED display causes? Tidradio's are poorly designed (engineered) in many ways.

So it’s your fault?! Your responsible for the TD-H8 being my favorite? I am a new ham (4months) and have 18 different types of HT radios. I of course started with a simple UV-5R and will always love them but carry my H8 at all times. I actually purchased 22 uv-5rs, programmed them, reboxed them, and put them in my closet. Everyone (except my eye rolling girlfriend) in my family and friends group is getting one. Well, my sister is getting the H8 but she’s into radios just like me. We use a local repeater to talk to each other 35 miles apart. Lately I’ve been using my tinySA to test all my radios and the H8 is one of the best. Just under a couple yeasus I have. I have gone through Amazon and have purchased every radio they carry under $100 and the H8 is the best so far. I must say my least favorite is the UV-17r. I bricked it the first night I had it. Only recently figured out how to un-brick it. I’ll take a UV-5R over a 17 any day of the week. I mean, I’m sure someone loves them, but not me.

What if they send the reviewer a good one and sell to the rest the unmagic? Reviewers should always buy one apart from the vendor.