Heh heh heh - his results are plain enough. The Wouxuns I tested here (144/440 and 144/220) are both plenty good enough. The "OTHER" cheaper radios I tested were clearly in violation. My son-in-law bought one of the "CHEAP BRANDS". On his birthday I pulled the radio off his belt, tossed it in the trash, and handed him his present... a new Wouxun. Already programmed. Watching his face go from smile to shock to smile - PRICELESS! But as I said, it isn't the owner of the cheaper radio that pays for the problems. But there will always be people who value price over everything else. Once long ago I was there too, I was a soldier living right on the poverty line, and I would have jumped at the chance of a fully functional H/T for peanuts, spectrum be damned. I spent 15 years as a pollution electronics tech on the Mexican Border. It was the same there. When you are living in poverty, you burn what you can to keep your family warm, pollutants be damned.
What a really Really REALLY wish for is an upgraded Yaesu FT-817, including 220, 900 and 1200 MHz. Man, what I could do with that during the ARRL V/UHF contests from my local 3,000 ft +++ mountaintop. I've managed to win West Gulf Div. in the QRP division a couple of times with just 6m-2m-70cm. I would even settle for an FT-918 (or some name) that was all mode on 6m, 4m, 2m, 1.25m, 70cm, 33cm and 23cm. If you are going to dream - ...
Vy73 - Mike - KD5KC
El Paso, Texas - DM61rt
From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com On Behalf Of David Ranch Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2018 10:26 AM To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Tri Band Radio
Yup and here is a good page from K6BEZ showing pictures of the trash some of these radios have been putting out since Dec 2015. I'm curious if any of the current radios have improved here but I doubt it.
https://sites.google.com/site/k6bezprojects/ht-harmonic-output-testing
For a triband radio, the Kenwood TH-F6A is still an amazing little radio. I haven't experienced the physical fragility issues as reported in this thread but I do know if you plug in a power cable into it's charger port "hot", they are reknown to blow their Li-Ion charger circuit. Not good. It's replacement is the D74 which is way more expensive, way more complicated, way more bigger/heavier, etc. Nice radio though.
--David KI6ZHD
On 08/04/2018 09:10 AM, mike-2007@elp.rr.com mailto:mike-2007@elp.rr.com wrote:
And Wouxun has a pretty clean transmitter too. I have the 144/440 and the 144/220. You get what you pay for. Unfortunately, the folks with the noisy transmitters don't know it... only their neighbors get the negative benefit of the cheap radios. A spectrum Analyzer shows the real story. I wish more folks would look at that.
Vy73 - Mike - KD5KC
El Paso, Texas - DM61rt