Baofeng UV82 GT3 Wouxun UV8D VHF vs UHF Range Test Part 2 Receive

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   Rylee Gwaltney says:

   March 11, 2015 at 1:08 PM

   How much do they cost?
   

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   tomthemole says:

   March 11, 2015 at 12:59 PM

   I think, the Wouxun or the Baofeng UV-82 are the best. If i had to pick one
   it would be the Wouxun.

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   ptonpc says:

   March 11, 2015 at 12:46 PM

   Baofeng 

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   wayne miller says:

   March 11, 2015 at 12:11 PM

   Can you do a video testing the Baofeng – UV 82 5,10,15 miles

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   HandyRadio says:

   March 11, 2015 at 11:20 AM

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   Eagleoneradiogod says:

   March 11, 2015 at 10:50 AM

   I ment ro say i file down the shield conector on the antenna bring the
   center pin into closer contact with the center femail conector on the
   radio.

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   Mike Kaiser says:

   March 11, 2015 at 9:53 AM

   One main issue I have here is the location on both your send and receive
   tests: indoors. It is well known that VHF has a much harder time
   penetrating the walls of a house, whereas UHF typically loses signal after
   it passes through several walls/houses. This is why antennas outside the
   house in free space is the norm and why no one uses handhelds indoors. I
   would suggest doing both the transmit and receive tests again, but this
   time both the send and receive side outdoors.
   Then as a secondary test, get the (official) Nagoya NA-701 antenna on each
   handheld and do the same tests over again, you will find there is a massive
   difference over the stock antenna.
   If you want to really have a tough test, try this simple easy quick cheap
   mod for each radio (another youtube video): http://x.co/5eOOk I added a
   simple 5 inch wire to the outer ring and it doubled the signals received.

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   tomthemole says:

   March 11, 2015 at 9:49 AM

   Why dont you try using a different antenna such as the NA-701/771 and
   repeating the experimen. Maybe try using a counter-poise as well, that
   might be interesting. Keep up the great work!

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   essexmole says:

   March 11, 2015 at 9:22 AM

   well i recently bought the uvb5 from handy radio thank you very much btw
   its great 😀 i think the uv8d is good for both modes as a friend of mine
   got his the other day and it seemed to work very well it just always will
   epend on the terrain that is tested on with my uv5r and my uvb5 i can
   easily get 30 miles on vhf and uhf from my home location on the stock
   antenna on simplex on 5 watts so it can be done that is not line of sight
   either thats with hills buildings etc in the way but its been done 

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    Eagleoneradiogod says:

    March 11, 2015 at 8:33 AM

    The center pin on the antennas dose not exactley go down all the way rhats
    the reason for the crappy receive . I always file the ends of the antinna’s
    center pin into closer contact with the center conductor. This helps
    greatley. Or you can just cut a peice of a swening needle with a pair of
    dykes and drop it in the conector on the radio and screw down the antenna
    make shure rhat the peice of swewing needle metal dose not touch the sheild
    on the radio or the antenna make shure that the peice of metal you cut to
    fit dose not short out radio when you transmitt . Also if the antenna dose
    not screw down all the way do not force screw it. You will brwak the center
    pin on the antinna just keep cutting the peice of swewing needle and re
    inserting it in the radio conector till the antenna just snugs on all the
    way down . Noy you have just improved your transceaver!!!

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11. 

    bahathir says:

    March 11, 2015 at 8:13 AM

    There is Baofeng GT3 mark II, with a better antenna.

    To be fair, use the SAME antenna on all the tranceivers. So, we have a SAME
    paratameter to start with.

    I got Baofeng A52, a GT3’s variant with hombrew 1/4 wave (coax cable)
    antenna. Even it has about 2.4:1 SWR, but, it still capable to hit 50-60km
    repeater with R5-R4 using only 1W. . I also have 5/8 telespoc antenna with
    SWR 1.2:1, whih gives another several dB gain/boost. So, anenna is the main
    key to get better performance.

    Thanks for sharing…

    73,
    9W2GNU

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12. 

    David Aguillon H. says:

    March 11, 2015 at 7:33 AM

    I think would be good to set up the squelch at 1. Nice Video! 

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    MrOpenskyes says:

    March 11, 2015 at 7:17 AM

    You’re really irrelevant,you set up the radio out of limits of frequency ,
    the right for max sensitivity 1s 144.000 – 146.000 430.000 – 440.000 in
    the ham amateur band

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    26-CT-1450 says:

    March 11, 2015 at 6:17 AM

    The GT-3 is the best IMO.
    Thanks for another quality video and enjoy your testing! 73’s

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    Jon Byrne says:

    March 11, 2015 at 6:13 AM

    Thanks for the test. Interesting I have the UV8D and an original UV5R and
    find the UV8D pulls in more. Does look like the UV82 has a very nice
    receiver, may have to get another handheld 🙂 Do you sell them, I’ll take
    a look at your shop.

    The features, build and ease of use of the Wouxon is not to be taken
    lightly, it would be nice to have a good case option though.

    Do you do these test on suppliers light frequencies? 

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16. 

    Scott Ennis says:

    March 11, 2015 at 5:42 AM

    UV82. I have 4 of them.

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    Adrian Stoica says:

    March 11, 2015 at 5:16 AM

    Thank you for this test!

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    Jon Biddell says:

    March 11, 2015 at 4:19 AM

    Have you looked at the GT-5 yet ? Looks like a UV-82 and a GT-3 mated and
    this is their genius offspring.

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