Alinco DJ-VX50 - What's That Gas? Brief Feature Overview / Torture Test - Really Waterproof? PART 1
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- čas přidán 8. 11. 2020
- In this Episode, we will take a brief look at the Alinco DJ-VX50 and test it's ability to stay in the water for 25 minutes.
Some concerns I've had about this radio:
1. No Programming Software
2. A weird gas emitting from the radio (see the video when the radio is underwater)
3.Where is the radio made
We will be investigating these issue in the next few episodes, please enjoy the video and let me know if you have any information! - Věda a technologie
Hi Dude, thanks for the excellent video on the Alinco VX50 repeater programming. I'm new using this radio. Again Thanks!
just got it over the holidays really love it so far
Excellent! I'm happy to hear you're enjoying it!
Hey dude. I just got my Alinco DJ VX50 yesterday and so far, Im satisfied with it's rx and tx. Personally, I don't mind having no programming software because i was able to did all my seetings thru the front keypad, and unlike other brands like baofeng, u can actually set channel name.
How to turn off dual receive frequency ? I mean can we stop listening to sub-frequency is this function available ?
Hope to see some computer programming of this radio. I really like mine, and would appreciate Alinco or CHIRP making this available.
I'll defintely be going both computer and front panel display videos in the future. In fact, I just put it on my desk this morning. Best wishes
Thanks for this, looking for a radio and thinking about this one (spend time out doors) or the Yeasu FT-4xr.
I was thinking about this for a day or two. What radio do I think would be better. Here's what my mind has been discussing (I may be able to do a comparison video in the future).
1. The FT4X is now 100.00$ dollars, a dramatic increase in price from when I originally purchased it. It is dual band, but only single display and NOT IP67 rated. Although, it feels pretty good in the hands and feels like it is pretty durable. 2. The FT4X has FM radio but lacks Air Band
3. The FT4X is now allegedly made in Japan. I have not confirmed this personally.
The DJVX50T
1. Is IP67 rated and does a good job of doing so
2. Has a nice LCD which can change colors if needed.
3. Has dual display
4. Appears rugged
5. The battery rating on my preliminary tests show the rating to be more like 1720-1750 mAh, and not the 1800 advertised. Not a huge difference and I need to do further testing to confirm this.
6. Walkthroughs and support may be a little more difficult with Alinco. When I was filming these videos, there was a 2 day period where their website domain was expired or something. Hopefully I can rectify this by getting my programming tutorial up
Overall, if it was me, in an outdoor situation, I would be happiest with the alinco djvx50t.
In the future, if i can compare the radios, I will test the battery life of both of them, side by side.
Good Luck! Hopefully you enjoy whichever radio you decide on!
@@HAMRADIODUDE Wow, thanks for the in-depth look at the two and the suggestion. I had sent you an email, go ahead and ignore that now. I really appreciate the time and thought you put into this, I will be ordering the Alinco later today (had been leaning that way).
Revisted....
There is new firmware 1.29 available on Remtronix but I am unable to get the program to run on laptop. Was wondering if you had tried...or would.
I'll have to order a cable, so it may be a week or two, if that's cool
Hey. I’m a new ham. And I bought this radio after watching your video. I went through the manual but I find it difficult to understand for a newbie like me. Can you help me in programming a repeater into this HT?
Sure! I forgot to do a manual programming video on this radio. Watch for it in a couple of days.
Thank you so much. I’m looking forward to the video. Thanks in advance. 🙏🏾
@@HAMRADIODUDE Hi. I have figured to program the radio. But would love to know on how to connect this HT to an EchoLink node? I hope you can make a detailed video on this. Can’t find much help on CZcams either. Would be really helpful. 73s and thanks in advance.
Part 2?
Hello, do you know where is this Made?
As I recall, Japan. When I get home, I'll double check!
This looks to be the same company that built the Yaesu FT-65/FT4 radios. Everything seems real similar.
I never considered this, Tim. Maybe I can get the FT4X next to this radio for comparison, in the future! Thanks!
@@HAMRADIODUDE would love to see comparison with Yaesu FT-65 - considering byuing my first HAM handheld and cant decide between them. Love the channel selector knob on Alinco, and IP67 rating would be nice, but am really worried about that smoke and corrosion - little doubtful if it is even watterproof. Heard some complains about inaccurate CTCSS codes too. Lack of good programming software and CHIRP support is also not ideal, but not deal breaker for me. Do you like/use this radio after few months?
@@freezersk this is still my daily use. The corrosion will happen on all weatherproof radios, still charges. I'm not sure still what the gas was, but this radio has absolutely no problems from the water and is my favorite performer/daily carrier. Nice and loud too!
@@HAMRADIODUDE Thank you for your response, definitely considering this against Yaesu FT-65…
I wonder if that gas might be hydrogen from electrolysis?
ASMR Ooh! Ahhh!
Does it transmit out of band
czcams.com/video/oKF7A62VHJ8/video.html
Just bought one to feed the addiction
Hello in which country this radio assembled/made?
I have the Alinco dj-md5tgp and its made by Anytone for Alinco. Since its a "Chinese radio" it will tx out of band, will the vx50 tx on murs and gmrs? Also will it do an odd split 1.035? If so I might get one and ditch the pos yaesu ft-65r.
The offset is capable of 1.035 as I tested with it this morning. I'll do a shot in my next alinco episode so you can see. As far as extended transmit, it's locked down and online searches suggest a software is needed called DJ-VX50SetBand-V1.01, which I have yet to find. I'll be doing a full series on this radio and will try to go into detail about it all and hopefully find that software
Just an update, I found the band set software and am playing with that now
Remtronix has the software
The DJ-VX50 Is a really well-made radio that sounds good too. The problem is software support. The best thing they could do for this radio is to make it CHIRP compatible.
I have seen complaints also about the lack of an 8.33 khz spacing on the air band too.
The programming software that Alinco made for the radio is not very flexible and it is hard to import data from other data sources. Other than these criticisms it seems to be a very very well-made radio. It is certainly way above the Chinese Baoefing radio line in quality.
I agree about chirp. I'll finish the radio tutorials (hopefully in the next month or so), and offer this radio to the Chirp Developers for consideration of support
@@HAMRADIODUDE Excellent!
@@HAMRADIODUDE Very generous of you. Hope they take you up on that offer! This looks like a great radio, but I just don't want to manually program everything manually on it...also wish it had USB-C charging.
What's that gas ??
To this day, I'm not sure. Everything has functioned correctly and no issues are observed. If I had to take a guess, it would be gasses from the battery, but that's just a guess.
Not usefull review poor
It's an overview
On the contrary, lots of useful info. It should be mandatory though to switch to NOAA weather channels and listen for a few seconds to get an idea of the speaker output.