Thanks Rog, I hope to do a follow up video fixing the display noise. Had an email from the company saying this it normal in a colour display! In other words they aren't going to fix it! 73
This radio makes a great GMRS radio. Beyond that stay away on VHF this radio has way to many bugs.I know I made the mistake and now have 3 paper weights ..If you are looking for a great dual band radio I recommend the TidRadio H3..
No bugs in this one. Maybe you have an earlier one? Except of course for the colour display which radiates noise degrading the receiver performance. But I've fixed that as I show in the next video. I suspect the H3 will have the same issue.
Great catch 👍 about the LCD display causing interference! I won't be buying one of these purely for that reason alone! I wonder if it's actually to do with the LCD screen or the backlight for it 🤔 or both 🤷🏻♂️
At least I got it for free! If I'd bought it with that problem I'd be demanding a refund! Its not an Lcd display its LED and herein lies the problem. They obviously need more drive current for the multiplexing. And that is causing the noise. There is absolutely no advantage in this display apart from looking pretty. Their technical department says thats normal with that display but it's certainly not acceptable! I'm working on a fix, some sort of screening to stop it radiating. Its on operating table at the moment. But there's so little space in there it's touch and go whether the patient will survive. Thanks for watching
@@ptronix Yeah still a cool little radio for a freebie 👍 interesting that it's an all out LED display 🤔 good to know. A regular lcd dot matrix display with a little led backlight would have looked just fine and way more functional especially in sunlight. Well, if you can work out some sort of shielding for the display... that's definitely worth another video... 😀
@@ptronix BTW- just thought of this! Maybe you should take the part of this video about the display and post a separate video about that on RU-vid. You'll probably get a million views! This may also affect the td-h3 or any other td models that share this display. Just an idea 💡
@@Alchemist39 no chance of me getting a million views! My most popular video has about 40 K. I'm one step ahead of you there, I've been videoing the progress on this fix. I've finished modifying the radio and it's a massive success but a fairly ugly one! Not sure when the video will be uploaded, maybe latter
That's a lot of radio at $60 US. Ten watts is impressive but as you say that's got to drain the battery pretty quickly. Fair trade though, can't expect it not to eat power in exchange. Agreed, that's a pretty display for the short time it's up. Shame it's such a noise source on VHF! Maybe that's why it shuts itself off so quickly Needs some kind of transparent shielding? Thanks for the review, Nick.
Don't know what they were doing, shouldn't have got through the R & D with this problem. I've told them and sent them a short video showing the problem. They've not responded with anything useful. This display noise makes the radio virtually useless to me. But I'm working on a way to cure the problem. Some sort of screening over the display. But that will probably make it less visible. All this nonsense for having a colour display, which means nothing to me. Thanks for watching. Best wishes nick
