[chirp_users] Recommendations on "under $400.00" hand-held
Hello Friends,
I am using an 8 year old radio, Wouxun KG-UV3D. It’s worked well for my limited use. I’m looking to get a new hand-held radio under $400. Any suggestions on radios not made in China? Suggestions on Chinese radios?
Thanks for your expertise!
Deuce
HF. VHF, UHF? FM, SSB, CW? Power output? Suitable for the blind? You're a bit vague.
On 21 April 2020 at 09:34 Bret Goodfellow deuce2ii@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Friends,
I am using an 8 year old radio, Wouxun KG-UV3D. It’s worked well for my limited use. I’m looking to get a new hand-held radio under $400. Any suggestions on radios not made in China? Suggestions on Chinese radios?
Thanks for your expertise!
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Nigel A. Gunn, ///shoulders.outwards.resolutions tel +1 937 825 5032 Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF and GMRS WRBV701, e-mail nigel@ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net
Get a Baofeng UV-XR. It's handheld, has a 10-watt - 5watt - 1watt power range, a 4800 maH battery, and can be had for around $50. I've had mine ever since I got my Amateur Extra license (October 2018) and it has never given me a lick of trouble. In addition to the antenna that comes with it, I use a mobile antenna mounted on the housing of my air conditioner in the window of my 2nd floor master bedroom and a Ringo Ranger just inside the same window. I can switch between the two with a switch mounted on my drafting table where I sit when I'm on the radio.
On 4/21/2020 10:28 AM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
HF. VHF, UHF? FM, SSB, CW? Power output? Suitable for the blind? You're a bit vague.
On 21 April 2020 at 09:34 Bret Goodfellow deuce2ii@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Friends,
I am using an 8 year old radio, Wouxun KG-UV3D. It’s worked well for my limited use. I’m looking to get a new hand-held radio under $400. Any suggestions on radios not made in China? Suggestions on Chinese radios?
Thanks for your expertise!
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The Baofeng UV-82HP is a great 8 watt handheld. The extra power gives it additional range, especially with a better antenna.
Pat Anderson KD7OAC
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 6:35 AM Bret Goodfellow deuce2ii@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Friends,
I am using an 8 year old radio, Wouxun KG-UV3D. It’s worked well for my limited use. I’m looking to get a new hand-held radio under $400. Any suggestions on radios not made in China? Suggestions on Chinese radios?
Thanks for your expertise!
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Deuce,
If it works well, keep using it, invest in something else, even DRM or some HF radio.
The unit you have is just as good as others, unless you work in Emergency Comms where it will overload with nearby signals and possibly you will miss a critical broadcast, but that doesn't apply to 99% of us.
Buy a yagi and all mode radio, SSB/CW/AM is much different than FM, and I bet you'd love it.
I have radios that are 30 years old and do everything I need so I keep them.
The radios that don't do what I need, I replace with ones that do what I need.
Just an observation.
73 David N1EA
Bret Goodfellow wrote: Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:34:19AM -0600
Hello Friends,
I am using an 8 year old radio, Wouxun KG-UV3D. It’s worked well for my limited use. I’m looking to get a new hand-held radio under $400. Any suggestions on radios not made in China? Suggestions on Chinese radios?
Thanks for your expertise!
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I am still using my motorola maxtrac that was manufactured in the 70's!!
בתאריך יום ג׳, 21 באפר' 2020, 16:36, מאת Bret Goodfellow < deuce2ii@gmail.com>:
Hello Friends,
I am using an 8 year old radio, Wouxun KG-UV3D. It’s worked well for my limited use. I’m looking to get a new hand-held radio under $400. Any suggestions on radios not made in China? Suggestions on Chinese radios?
Thanks for your expertise!
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$400 for an HT these days will buy you a lot of radio. As such, you need to give us more criteria to help guide you:
- Are you only looking for an analog FM radio or something that supports digital modes?
- If also digital modes, would you want DMR, Yaesu System Fusion, D-star, P25, etc?
- If just analog FM, would you want just one VFO or two real VFOs (dual watch)
- Would you want full duplex support?
- Would you want wide band receive of say HF, SHF, etc? Maybe RX of other modes like USB, LSB, CW, etc?
- Would you want APRS on this HT?
- What about say Bluetooth audio?
- Is programming via Chirp a requirement? If not, is computer based programming a requirement? If so, what OS? WIndows, Mac, Linux?
I can keep going here but I think you get the point.
--David KI6ZHD
On 04/21/2020 06:34 AM, Bret Goodfellow wrote:
Hello Friends,
I am using an 8 year old radio, Wouxun KG-UV3D. It’s worked well for my limited use. I’m looking to get a new hand-held radio under $400. Any suggestions on radios not made in China? Suggestions on Chinese radios?
Thanks for your expertise!
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