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Very cool. Great for semi private point to point QRP when you don't want all the sad hams breaking in!

My quansheng with aprs cable doesn’t open the ptt but in my baofeng it works perfectly, why ? I put the box on 1, 2, 3… until 10 but doesn’t work

How did you unlock it? What is PPW?

Purchased this radio about 2 months ago and overall it is an impressive radio for the price. However one glitch it has is when receiving a transmission from local repeaters and simplex, the first syllable is cut out before the rest of the transmission is heard. I have the battery save mode (menu option 3) set to <OFF> Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

Nice idea, cool simple mod! Thanks for sharing 73

Looks pretty simple, yet has lots of possible applications. Thank you!

multi-tone is not better than uni-tone. i do not plea for Morse code, it may not be the best, we should try to establish the best, but still, must be uni-tone, or mono-tone.

Excellent, another way to communicate !

Like them so much I have 2.

Sadly the last quarter of video is the only good info here for a person new to radio comms. In practise i would recommend to listen to comms more than transmit. All this "im allowed and you are not" talk make hams seem arrogant and too entitled. Educate please, show where can unlicenced people practice, how to use stock baofeng legaly, how far will signal go at what weather/ time of day, proper communication since its not a mobile phone, what you can and cannot talk about on radio how its a public thing, programming handhelds, making a charger from a car battery etc etc etc

Looked like 2m test was on USB, why not fm?

Thank you.

I don’t know what else went wrong in your life, but I want you to know we’re proud of how serious you take your walkie talkies. You have a very specific idea of an SHTF situation, and I’m sure it will be very important and relevant. You can check people’s licenses over the radio.

Absolutely no one gives af if you spent the money for a piece of paper. Anyone can press the button. It doesn’t take testing to operate a radio anymore. A bunch of arrogant goons. What going to happen to person that keys up to a repeater without a piece of paper? Nothing. A $25 radio proves ham license is a joke. In a SHTF or heck daily use on large properties no one gives af if you have a piece of paper with some random letters and numbers.

Damn, i thought there was alot of unfounded arrogance in the gun community. A new king has arrived, lol

There's no way you listened to this before uploading. Don't know anything about radios but this is the worst sermon I've ever heard.

Techs have CW only privileges on 80, 40, and 15 meters, with some SSB privileges on 10 meters and full privileges on 6 meters. I have a General but only operate CW on HF bands ever since I learned CW. If you learn CW you can do a lot with just a Tech license.

I have a question is the pocket generator an EMP generator or an EMI generator? I would assume an EMI a generator is less powerful than an EMP. I might be wrong here.

I've been a ham for 37 years, and cw (of the international morse variety) is my first ham radio love. While I might argue that morse isn't necessarily hard to learn and that much of its difficulty is self-induced, that isn't helpful for people that are having trouble with it. I don't say any of that as anything more than background. I think this is really an intriguing idea, and I'd be game to try it sometime. Translating from English to telephone keypads is, of course, older than T9, think of the old telephone exchanges, and it's just about second nature to me. Mapping that to sound shouldn't take too long. It seems to me that this could have all the advantages of traditional international morse, with the added benefit of quick to learn. I'd be curious to see how fast it could be copied reliably, and if one could easily get over the hurdle of translating and into hearing rhythms just as in morse when done well. I expect this wouldn't be a problem, especially if the code is taught by sound as morse is, rather than by pattern recognition, if that makes sense. Anyway, this old cw guy definitely won't be throwing shade at this.

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I’m licensed too and would hope most hams would try to help someone if they were not licensed and called out on one of the frequencies for help or information. This is ONLY if they do not interrupt important net transmissions and act appropriately. As hams we should not view our license as being a sheriff or gatekeeper of specific bands. It’s a license to continue learning.

Good info. For SHTF is a general license for more HF bands really needed? Seems tech license would be sufficient.

Yup, been saying it for years. Getting a radio and not a license so you can practice is like buying a gun and a box of ammo and think you can effectively work it when needed. Sure, you might get a round off, but what happens when it jams? Practice, Practice, Practice. When SHTF, you won't have the internet to look things up. Do you know how to build a basic antenna that will work? Do you know how to program in a Tone for a repeater (Do you even know what a Tone is?) ?

I my self being licensed ( extra class) , can tell you that if you had an emergency and tried to interrupt an emergency net, I , we would tell you to go fly your kite some where else off the ham bands and dont come back. 99% of licensed ham operators Will tell an unlicensed person on the bands to go away Very Very quickly. So if your not licensed , good luck! Good video too.

Good idea use radios with the widest band pass filters

We used to use tap code [like from Vietnam] with our kids on pagers- yes it was that long ago... and it worked great -- I like the idea of T9 cw....

Must get the radios apart. You are just overloading the sdr.

Which SDR receiver are you using?

You can buy a yaesu Radio that don't cost lot of money the Ft60 low price YAESU has a $100.00 dual band radio

I Like The Effort, Seriously, BUT This Is Not A Test ! No Antennas Equalance, No Distance Equalants And No Test Enviroment. No SA's And No Vnas, No Nothing. When You Went To 10 Meter You Did Not Sitch The Branch So Thats The Reason Why It Even Showed There On The HF ! But The Other Reason is Because The ANtennas Are Such Close To Each Other

This is not a proper test. The results mean nothing. Where are the antennas in relation to each other? You are just overloading your SDR. Try it with a spectrum analyzer and you'll see much different and accurate results.

Try put the camera on something!!!!

Quenagang is junk.

If cars are faraday cages, how is it everyone is talking on their phone while driving ROFL

I worked for Kyocera Wireless over 20 years ago. I worked on the firmware. We often had to test with Faraday cages. This was CDMA 2000 days, aka 3G. They were very fine meshed cages. They were on a platform you and to walk into them. There was a test bench and instruments on a bench inside of the cage. Before that I worked for another company called Wireless Knowledge and we worked on Blackberries. We also had a cage at that place. Well before we got the cage we would use a microwave oven - :P. We were testing how our firmware behaved when no signal was detected. We later got an actual cage, but we pulled some cowboy stuff early on LOL

Everyone needs to see this video. I get an argument whenever I ask the same questions about protection from emi.

Yeah well it's better than the 5rm that one was a real piece of shit compared to this one it does not drift at least like the 5 RM does upon receiving and I also use this for Murs as well so I don't use any ham crap at all I just use it for tactical purposes

I would keep this in my go pack.

this guy is an idiot didn't watch not gonna waste my time, but his title is a lie, and its amazing how people make definitive statements that are completely false. your car is in fact a faraday cage, whether or not it will block the wave length of the signals you want to put through is what matters. faraday cages come in all sizes depending on what you want to block and to mislead people with a title is pathetic.

To include with your topic of faraday cages, I follow a popular CZcams channel for overlanding, and a couple of years ago he put out a video regarding a device he had purchased and installed on his truck to protect him from EMPs... It can be very difficult explaining why they wasted their money if they have ZERO knowledge of electronics...

I 100% agree with your points about the "faraday cage" thing -- it's an explanation that I think people started using to try to explain things they didn't fully understand and then it was picked up and repeated and became misinformation. That said, I have to disagree with the implication (or statement?) that there is no difference using an antenna inside vs outside the vehicle; putting it outside will absolutely help *a lot* vs keeping it inside any time when range is important. That has nothing to do with apertures in the vehicle not passing RF or anything silly like that -- it's a combination of other things. The simplest thing is just that when you put it outside the vehicle you generally end up with a much better antenna. I recently-ish (~18 months ago?) started selling (and testing) BNC magnetic mounts that people use to put an HT antenna outside the car and it's absolutely amazing how much more stable the SWR is; SWR is not the same as antenna performance, of course (doesn't matter how efficiently your non-resonant dummy load transfers energy) but it does help and HT antennas are so unreliable with SWR that most will give you 10 different SWR readings from 10 different measurement tools -- that's because so much of the antenna is coming from things *around* the antenna, including the HT and your arm, and anything you add to measure SWR will *change* the SWR. If you put it on a mag mount on the vehicle it becomes stable and will perform better. I would guess that *most* people who use an antenna outside the vehicle use something better than that, making the point even stronger. Additionally you usually end up with the antenna being higher in the air. It's been my experience that often when on foot or in a vehicle getting an antenna 2 feet higher off the ground can make as much difference to your signal as putting on an antenna with an extra 3dB of gain. (those numbers are arbitrary and not the result of measurement =]) Also you're more likely when holding it to end up holding it slantwise or sideway (particularly on a longer antenna like my signal sticks) which changes the polarization of the signal and can have negative impact on your signal unless the receiving station does the same. Finally, even if it isn't a faraday cage or anything there could still be interactions between the antenna and any nearby metal, either simply from being too close to it (many antennas don't work as well if too close to other metal, I suspect due to capacitive coupling but that's a guess) or else because of reflections from various metal things inside the vehicle. At the end of the day the #1 rule for "what should I use" is -- use what works. For many many things you'll find a rubber duck is really all you need. I build antennas for a living and have literally hundreds of good quality ones that I could grab at any time, but if I'm in a place where I don't need a long antenna I'll use something short like a rubber duck -- it is just easier to use! From inside a car my signal sticks are painful to use -- but putting one on the outside of the vehicle it suddenly becomes much much better. ... and now I'm rambling too much, but hopefully that was helpful to someone =] Thanks for the video, it's good to debunk common myths. (I'd like to see someone do one on how likely you actually are to damage a radio due to poor SWR, for example :-P)

Well done. I could nit pick some details (lightning has significant energy content up to about 1 MHz, not just 30kHz).

The quansheng radio is the best one to get it has a lot of capabilities than any other handheld comes with the programming cable you have to get on your computer and get on chirp and program the radio to get a full functionality when you do that you will not want another handheld every pepper should have one of these radios it is a must they even do the CB frequencies you can listen to aircraft and talk to the astronauts on the ISS spaceship.

Thank you for clearly explaining the correct answer of this VERY Common, often repeated false assertion.

I get wicked picket fencing when I transmit from inside my car. If i open the sunroof and stick the antenna out of it, it sounds better. Cars are not faraday cages, but it is most definitely not ideal to rely on an antenna inside a vehicle. Also NMO mag mounted antennas can be had for fairly cheap.

The problem with transmitting inside a car with 2 meter and 70cm radios is that the transmissions are limited as opposed to standing outside the car. Some of these people test distance of new radios while one is seated in a car. This is a bad practice and is not an accurate assessment of a pair of handi talkies. Additionally the car is emitting all kinds of radio interference with the cars ignition computer, WiFi, am-fm radio, wireless back up camera, back seat video, and even you own cell phone make all kinds of electronic noise.

Measuring SWR on an HT antenna is next to impossible. BUT..... I ordered two just now :) Thanks!

Well I see a lot of backlash in the comments. The reality is we really don’t know exactly. I think the contributors examples are poor examples. But he may be right that lots of stuff may not be damaged. For my house, I’m preparing for EMP/solar burst by using surge protection, multiple range ferries, EMP rated lightning strike shunts (Polyphaser NE series) and I have the typical dual garbage can faraday setup. Will it matter? I’ll let you know. Was it fun to set up? You bet! Nothing too good for my family to keep getting information coming after the lights go out. Peace ✌️

Good tip 👍

We used it with Walkie Talkies nice program czcams.com/video/2x-IztI3ybo/video.htmlsi=o2n4O_fCxIbondjA