Can the Wouxun KG-S72C Change My Mind About CB Radio? \ 4K
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- čas přidán 25. 10. 2022
- Our friends at Wouxun and Buy Two Way Radios recently rolled out a new radio, the KG-S72C that is one of the first to take advantage of the FCC's recent rules change to allow FM use on Citizens Band radio. While this radio features the quality and value that Wouxun has been known for, is it enough to change my mind about CB?
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I own the president Randy handheld cb as well as other cb radios. Legally cb has always been 4 watts on am. But legally you're not supposed to speed but most people do.
Getting a good antenna makes the biggest difference though. I upgraded my cb antenna to a Stryker sr-a10 and have went from getting out 10 miles to over 30 in hilly Missouri no line of sight.
Handhelds with little rubber ducky antennas I only her like half a mile to 2 miles. HT to HT. Antenna is everything though.
CB always been 4 watts even on AM
Truckers ignore their CB’s or have them off. However, if the SHTF, it will transform to the #1 communications means within hours with literally millions deployed in trucks.
Your neighbor might have a GMRS, but countless strangers near you will have CB radios when it counts.
Also…old school guys do keep them on so as a car emergency radio you will be heard before too long….GMRS, no.
They turn off there cbs while in the truck stop so it doesn’t overload the receiver
The next thing Wouxun should market it an Improved (Much Longer) Antenna for the KG-S72C Hand held, and then increase the AM output to 4 watts too...
I think it's more of a FM CB that also does AM
Yeah, we stopped talking like that after Smokey and the Bandit. 😂
I bought one for a backup radio when i was running asphalt and it worked great at the plant if for whatever reason my truck was down. If i wasn't using it in that kind of situation it would probably be kinda useless.
I'd carry it while walking and use CB's scanning function to monitor local CB traffic.
I have talked two and a half to three and a half miles on a 20 year old 40 channel Cobra CB walkie-talkie, but my 20-year-old Cobra CD walkie-talkie also transmits at four Watts.
In a vehicle taking the rubber duck antenna off and connecting to an external antenna on a truck I've got it to talk like a normal CB Mobile radio
@@shawnwade302 a good antenna is everything. Also sideband is much more useful than fm as well from my experience
@@minarchisttrucker2775 I only ever saw one 40 channel sideband walkie talkie probably 15 years. I believe someone reviewed one on CZcams a few years ago. Search ssb walkie talkie
It needs a noise blanker and an automatic noise limiter
This radio would make a nice target at the gun range
An extended Whip antenna and 2 more watts on AM will make a big difference.
Its a great start the cb handheld radio, needs to up the power to 4watts for the am mode and possibly a better antenna.
President Randy 2 is so much better handheld cb from my personal experience with the radio honestly
This is definitely a FM CB radio that happens to do AM.
Don't expect miracles on the stock antenna,hook up a magmount and you'll hear a lot more, I'm sure you'll know that any how
Sadly we don't have license-free GMRS here in europe, we are stuck to CB (4 Watt 27 MHz and custom antennas) or PMR (0,5 Watt 446 MHz no custom antennas) or in germany maybe freenet (1 Watt 149 MHz and custom antennas).
we dont have license-free GMRS here either. You have to have a license.
My son in law has a CB in his truck, so I recently bought one of those old “emergency CB car kits” that were popular back in the 80s so that we could communicate more easily on trips. After watching your video I started wondering how far it would reach out. So I pulled my wife’s old CB out of our storage shed (it is so old that it still has her FCC license call sign labeled on it), hooked it up to an old mag mount antenna, and had my daughter monitor it while I drove around with my “emergency” unit. I was surprised to discover that it was good up to 2-3 miles, depending on which direction I traveled.
My two CBs (which could be found at a yard sale for next to nothing), mounted to cheap lousy antennas, are far more practical in “The Real World” than the expensive new Wouxon! Not really surprising, but it just goes to show how useless a hand held CB FM radio without a long whip really is.
That's the thing. A good antenna is the #1 most important part of the setup. Granted as limited as the Wouxon is it would be difficult to do, but putting on a decent antenna and operating with a full 4 watts on AM or FM would probably at least pull out a decent signal - even a Wal-Mart mag-mount one on top of a car roof or trunk lid.
But mobile to mobile, solid power, solid antenna setup, proper mic for good modulation clarity, it's going to be much better for SO much less money!
Am cb has always been 4 watts of transmit power
Of the two fm capable CB handhelds I own, only the Randy 2 does 4 watts on both AM and FM.
I think if you upgraded your studio background you could be as good as Notarubicon.
So... you thinking a stack of radios I've reviewed on a shelf behind me, or something else? We do have a blank slate to work with and I'm open to suggestion!
@@MattKester Personally I wouldn't try to emulate anyone else.
Be yourself and let your own personality dictate your style.
So that antenna is about a -200dB at 11 meters ??
T hat "antenna" on the hand help is worse than a stubby duckie on GMRS. It's a rubber coated dummy load. That's 90% of the issue. A 1/4 wave on 2 meters is 19 inches, on GMRS it's 6.3 inches. 1/4 wave on CB (27Mhz) is 108 inches
@@davep6977 exactly this. I have s president Randy though and it seems to do wayy better than this radio does and I can hand it off to someone and hand them a magnetic antenna and talk way farther
The primary reason you have so poor range is the antenna . A 1/4 wave antenna on GMRS is only 8 inches , 2M ham is 20 inches . A 1/4 wave antenna for CB is 8 FEET . If you tested an old school metal cased CB from the 1970's with a 4 ft antenna , you will get your 2 miles even on AM . Ive worked with tunable 'Centurian' brand Low band antennas in the commercial radio business and they kinda suck too . These chinese junk antennas are not even tuned and could not cover even 20khz bandwidth . Just remember , 4 watts is 4 watts , if you connected that portable to a base antenna you would get 10 to 20 miles easily .
@Jeff Dwyer - You beat me to it. Exactly correct. I remember as a teenager using a 100 mw handheld CB with a long 3 or 4 ft whip antenna and making contact many miles away. With a 4W mobile base unit and a 1/4 wave vertical antenna on the roof, I talked to people more than 20 to 30 miles away.
Yeah exactly. Antenna is everything in cb. I mean running illegal power can help but the biggest improvement I've ever got was from upgrading from a 30ish inch wilson lil will to see Stryker magnetic antenna (basically a wilson 5000) which is like 62 inch. I went from talking 10 miles in a hilly area (no direct line of sight mind you) to 30+ miles
Yeah. If you really want to wake this portable up, connect a 100 inch wire to the ground connection. That will create a radial. It will make the 2 watts AM perform better than 10 watts on its current antenna system. Granted, it will look funny. But that portable isn't large enough to give the radio a good ground system due to the size of wavelength. 1/4 wave at GMRS is near 6 inches, so that makes GMRS much more efficient using a small antenna on a portable. I bet if you put this portable on a mobile mount antenna or a base antenna, it'll do quite well. It has a super heterodyne receiver which is very good, and the receiver sensitivity specs on paper are better than any CB I've seen before.
The SMA connector is very weak and comes loose very easily. Modulation is terrible on this thing in AM mode - maybe 40% on a good day. FM mode does have better modulation, but isn't all that great either. There doesn't seem to be any service menus either to adjust modulation on this radio. Don't waste your money - just get a President Randy II FCC. Or a President Randy III. Those are much better handheld radios for CB.
Rarely anyone uses a cb these days,
Tons of people use cb but it depends on what area you are in. Also depends on your antenna and radio setup
Hey Minarchist Trucker... how did you score that Flipper in your vids? That thing is awesome, I want one, and can't seem to find a way to order one here at the moment!
That is not true
Commenting again > The fact that this radio will not do the legal 4 watts is 100% unacceptable. By now Wouxun realizes that they dropped the ball. They need to go back to the drawing board and fix their mistakes. 😤
It's a FM CB that just happens to do AM. The President Randy is a AM cb that just happens to do FM.
You can buy 5 UV-5Rs for the price of this radio.
Yes, but unless you dial back the power to use it within the legal limits of FRS and MURS frequencies or you have a GMRS license or HAM Radio license, it's still illegal to use on those frequencies.
And then there is the issue of type acceptance for each service you intend to use it on, AND spurious emissions, and again licensing.
But no one wants to talk about how the legalities work - just "Lookie what I can do!"
@@redfonzie21 Okay, dad.
@@DellFargus
Obviously I'm not, or you would know the reasons inside out and backwards why I'm correct and how disrespectful you are being.
@@redfonzie21 the UV-5R is illegal on MURS and FRS as well😊
And none of them do 27mhz! 😂
If you want a DAT file with 10meter frequencies, contact me. The file will include the following:
CH 1 thru 40: American CB Channels 1 thru 40 (26.965mHz thru 27.405mHz, preset for AM)
CH 41 thru 80: German CB Channels 41 thru 80 (26.565mHz thru 26.955mHz, preset for FM)
Ch 81 thru 100: HAM 10m AM Simplex Channels (29.010mHz thru 29.190mHz, 29.000mHz, preset for AM)
CH 101: HAM 10m FM CALL (29.600mHz, preset for FM)
CH 102 thru 110: HAM 10m FM Repeater Pairs (29.610mHz thru 29.690mHz, TX -.1mHz, preset for FM)
CH 110 thru 120: Testing Frequencies (26.000mHz thru 30.500mHz, 500kHz steps, preset for FM)
Wes, what is the best way to contact you to obtain your DAT file for the KG-S72c?
@@toddpolson6024 Y'know, I am getting so sick of youtube. I can't even get an email across to you without it being deleted. Anyhow insert the at and the net between these three words wes vip net perhaps this will get past youtube. ... ... ...
@@WESDEANEMARTIN Email sent.
@@toddpolson6024 Sorry about the delay in responding. I work night shifts. I have sent you the file. Cheers!