Ultra Portable Ham Radio - Are They Any Good?

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There are borderline gimmick radios out there that look interesting for their size. But how do they actually perform? Can you get a signal out? Are they worth spending the money. Tonight we will test some very small radios on the air to determine if they are worth the money.
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Great antenna for tiny radios? amzn.to/3QlNbhF
truSDX: dl2man.de/where-to-buy-trusdx/
SW-3B: www.venus-itech.com/product/s...
FX-4C: www.ebay.com/itm/384266219628
Mountain Toppers: www.lnrprecision.com/mountain...
QCX Mini: www.qrp-labs.com/qcxmini.html (not tested)
truSDR mini radio (No good to links, not recommended)
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Комментарии : 19

@norm_sueb122 Год назад

Thanks for this video. Very informative!

@DonzLockz Год назад

Good video Josh, it's nice to see them compared, side by side. :)

@singletona082 Год назад

'Hardy boys look into the mystery of why ebay radios cost more tha nthe brand new ones.' Damn bro that's a spicey one.

@MaryBrownForFreedom Год назад

Have you seen the RF Finder Tablet radio? Tablet ad radio in one!

@ds1txy Год назад

Please review the qcx-mini

@angelscomputers Год назад

Cmon Josh where do you get those winders where you have the K6ARK antenna winder? I’ve been looking even under the rocks and no luck. I don’t have a 3d printer so I can’t believe why nobody makes them.

@HamRadioCrashCourse Год назад

If he has them in stock, K6ARK website. Or print them yourself.

@angelscomputers Год назад

@@HamRadioCrashCourse Thanks bro but the links he has in his website are for "out of stock" ones, it has been like that for months. And I dont have a 3d printer, will be the most expensive winder ever if I buy a 3d printer just for that. Is weird that Ive been looking for months and nobody have decided to make a couple of bucks selling them, not even on ebay.

@HamRadioCrashCourse Год назад

@@angelscomputers There are 3D printing services you can work with. Try them.

@62chevrolet Год назад

I wrote to LNR begging them to produce more lcd 3b units like you have. They basically told me not going to happen 😭

@kurt53641 Год назад

Just get the FX-4CR transceiver. The guy that makes these made a few lnr products.

@mikedavis6033 Год назад

Sorry you had such poor performance from the tiny tiny micro SOTA radio. Maybe I was lucky with the one I received, it puts out 1.9 watts on 20 and 2.6 on 40. Using my home doublet I made contact w Iowa on the friday SSB QRP net. Both you and Walt Coastal Waves and Wires don't think much about it, but I kinda like it. On a portable setup with an end fed in a tree, probably won't be too much fun. I like my true uSDX and power out is more like 5 to 6 watts. Thanks

@angelscomputers Год назад

Haha, my Google must be different than yours Because searching for “Tiny Key” doesn’t bring any results or pictures lol

@BCsJonathanTM Год назад

Found it! Search for "N6ARA Tinypaddle". Also note that there's two versions each available either assembled or as a kit : D

@angelscomputers Год назад

@@BCsJonathanTM thank you very much Jonathan, ordering the whole thing right now :-)

@jeffreywhitney Год назад

10-4 Ham Radio Crash Course

@45auto Год назад

Anyone else rewatch this just to make sure you didn't miss any of the memes at the beginning?

@jugoslavnamljidjiu9021 Год назад

I really don't understand why you guys talk trash about new radios that are affordable and interesting, also maybe not all of us can buy some new but old icom yaesu or others some days really hate sad hams regulation bla bla bla so what if the specs not perfect so what.