Available at www.radioddity.com This radio is great. Full of features and at a better price than the Yaesu 8900. In service 2 years now in my truck. not a single problem with it...
UPDATE:: Yesterday, September 28, with this radio in my car and a Browning broadband CB antenna cut down to 10 meters, i worked Italy through the 10m repeater in Ney York, also a FM DX contact in Spain. 50 watts is all it took. I love it. 73
Well, i just found that you CAN operate 11 meters CB on this radio, transmit AND receive.. Menu option 50, am/sw, turn to "ON", BUT you have to program the channel in the software as AM so it will stay on AM.. i'll make a video soon showing it.
+jmtnvalley Same here. I do a lot of 10-meter AM but I've found that although lot of amateur transceivers do in fact operate in AM mode, many of them sound terrible on AM. The Kenwood TS-2000 and TS-480 are excellent AM performers and work WONDERFUL on 10-meter AM with the absolute best AM performer being the TS-2000. However, the TS-480 sounds DAMN GOOD on AM. Either radio would be wonderful choices if you're an AM guy like me :)
My ICOM 7600 sounds AWESOME on AM.I use a HEIL PR-20 microphone & I am told all of the time that it sounds like Tube Audio.I did adjust the audio setting in the menu & it worked out great.
The FM broadcast being as low as 65mhz is for the OIRT FM used in the old USSR and Warsaw Pact,. Japanese FM is 76 and up. There may still be some analog TV stations with audio on those freqs. Countries with 4 meter band also occupy that part of the spectrum. Then there is military VHF in that part of the spectrum too.
You can save AM using your handheld. In this order: Enter frequency desired, then Menu 50 (am-sw) turn On, then Menu again to save. Then on the handheld button 4 (saving channel) enter channel number, then Menu again to save. Now you can name or re-name the channel if you'd like, Menu 22 (ch-name). Now you can leave an AM channel/frequency and come back to it and it will stay on AM.
This is way better than the Yaesu FT-8900R and is way LESS expensive too. Used to have two Yaesu models (one in the mobile and one for a base). Although they're fantastic rigs, I really wish THIS version was available back then. When the Yaesu model came out they cost around $460 and didn't have quite as broad of receive as this model does. New ham radio operators today have no idea how good you have it nowadays compared to what we had way back when. The transceivers are WAY less expensive from what they used to be. I can remember paying $400 for a simple 2-meter mobile radio (Yaesu FT-2500 with optional PL decode module). Today an equivalent model is but a THIRD of that amount! Transceivers are way more affordable today than they once were :)
Yes you can use both of these to talk many miles, but your answer to your question depends on the terain in between, the conditions on the band, and the antennas at both ends.
The 857D is already a POS why would anyone want a copy of a POS? Worst transceiver I have ever owned or used hands down.I would not take a warehouse full of them for FREE if I were required too just keep & use just one of them.
Good job with the unpacking. The only correction that I have is how you pronounce the name of the company. O Shun is correct (it sounds almost like the word ‘ocean’ in English). Small thing though; nice video!
Bonjour lorsque je branche un haut-parleur externe, j'entends le son sur la bande A & B en UHF mais pas sur la bande B en VHF sauriez-vous me dire pourquoi ?.
can you tell me if the 65-108mhz fm rx overloads when connected to an external ant?my Baofeng UV-5r overloads on the FM BC band and since they use the same chip i'm curious
These Wouxun and Baofeng Chinese radios are really giving the big three, Kenwood, Icom and Yeasu a run for their money! Finally I don't have to pay $400 for a 10 year old Kenwood TM-742A, I can pay $150 for this and have far more functionality and more bands for example. Excellent.
+Ivan Sugartail Yah, i like my Wouxun quad band to this day. Same features, and nobody has EVER commented negatively on my quality of audio or signal.. Love the people who claim "Those china radios will have poor audio and splatter off the band" well guess what, this radio gets me better reports than the Yaesu F-2900 did, that thing was muffled, and the speaker was complete trash above 4% volume... My video will show that.. 73
Hi , Have you used the radio to receive on the aircraft band ? If so what did you think of it ? . I'm looking at getting one soon and it's a choice between this and the TYT TH-9800. Thanks and 73. Peter. G7MMW
I cannot seem to get mine to tx in AM on 11 meters. I programmed all of the CB Channels into memory channels in the KG-UV950P Commander version R2.1.01-2.5k(130??? hidden by ok button) set them all to AM and change option 50 (AM-SW) to "ON". Receive seems to be in AM with no trouble but transmit is still transmitting in FM as confirmed by my Yaesu all mode low band transceiver. My radio was purchased last week from buytwowayradios and was manufactured 2/2015. Where your radio in the video says Sain Sonic mine says USA ONLY on the bottom and is s/n:QB002A001162153 I would love to see the video of how you are making this happen. :) I have a bad feeling only non "USA ONLY" versions may tx on 11M. BTW I like the radio so far. It was a bit clumsy to figure out the programming and what the buttons do for the first hour or so, but after a couple days with the radio so far I am getting the hang of it. Cant seem to figure out how to receive the FM Radio band or air bands direct input of the frequencies in frequency mode gets me nowhere. Thought I had the unlock software but have to look again for it. My radio out of the box was capable of transmitting on 26.000 as also confirmed by my Yaesu low band rig.
It does NOT have an AM board in it for transmit so all of the morons who are saying their transmits on AM are full of crap.They will transmit ONLY on FM on ANY BAND!
HEY ERIC , N3NDX HERE. DO YOU STILL HAVE THAT RADIO?? I JUST GOT MINE AND THE RG-UV920R-A. I GOT THEM THREE YEARS AGO, WHERE I WAS IN A BUYING SPREE.. THE 920R-A IS DAUL BAND ONLY.. I PUT THAT ONE BACK IN FULL SERVICE.. IF YOU DO AND WANT TO OFF LOAD IT LET ME KNOW.... MY LAND LINE IS OUT OS SERVICE , BUT YOU COULD DROP ME A SNEAL LETTER, AND I WILL GET BACK TO YOU.... 73...........04-11-2020-12:59HRS-E.S.T.......
I think I could really use this rig in my set up, whats the rx coverage on the UK version?just to confirm, the 65-108 wfm rx uses the same dsp chip as the Baofeng handies? if so then you have a red hot FM dx machine combined with a ham rig and gen coverage scanner!
will this also work for the TYT RECENT and HYS radios? or just this 950 I do not for a ton of 11m but i do still have a few non trashy friends on 11m an would like a quad band for this i do not want my vehicle to look like a mobile communication station with 50 radios Thanks KD8ZCZ
is there a efficient way to program these besides buying the RT software kit? I see that chirp is not supporting this yet. Can I import repeaters in the commander program?
It will transmit on commercial aka business band vhf and uhf, or vhf-uhf public service and public safety bands but not FM or AM Broadcast band frequencies. But I wouldn't advise transmitting on those frequencies unless you are legally authorized by either licensing, or being a member of a public service or public safety agency that is lawfully permitted to access those frequencies.
did u do a part 2 on this radio ? and does this radio have a voice scrambler ? if u could do a video about it and how it works that would be great ! thanks
I'm not a ham but interested in ham radio. Is there any radio that is all encompassing meaning it does everything you can do with ham assuming you have the licence to do so?
With 10 meters or 6 meters, if you have a band opening you can talk across the world if the conditions were right. It is FM, but i have talked many miles across the United States on FM 10 meter AND FM 6 meters. There are repeaters on 10m and 6m that connect you all over the US in good conditions in the summer. the VHF/UHF portion of this radio is similar to a 50 watt transceiver. But overall, its fun to have 10 meter contacts in a good opening.
People care about it in other countries because at distances long after the FM signal cuts out and is completely unreadable, the AM signal continues to be readable many miles further although at weaker levels.
For all of us technician class licensees, AM, in addition to FM transmit capability on 6 meters, is a pretty big deal and certainly worth the extra $100 bucks over the TYT TH-9800, even though the TYT is said by many to be a better radio. Yet the idiots at Wouxun seem to be so clueless that they don't advertise or even mention in the small-print that this radio has AM transmit capability!!! BTW, a message to Ivan Bunny: Wouxun IS NOT a Chinese company. It is a Japanese company that manufactures in China (Just like all the other Japanese companies--Kenwood, Yaesu, Icom, Alinco, for example--do!). Baofeng, and TYT ARE Chinese companies.
True, but i will say the AM quality is not that good. I tried AM 10 meters, and AM 11 meters.. While it does work, with a fellow ham miles away for testing, it sounds horrible, and distorted. I guess that is a feature that allows AM transmit, however they probably didnt put the filtering or bandwidth adjustments in it to maximize efficiency and stability. Just my 2 cents.
so this radio is capable of RX on 11 Meter AM but your saying it can also TX 11 Meter AM as well? Are you sure it is not just saying its on AM But really TX on FM ?
Well I'm not exactly sure, because I tried it and it sounds kind of off frequency, which may mean it will still transmit on FM, or the section for the mixer is not properly tuned for AM???
