Wouxun KG-S72C CB Handheld Radio - These Are Fun!
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- I didn't come to radio via CB, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy it! These handhelds provide a well deserved upgrade to the CB service by adding, FM and USB-C charging. They are simple to use and my family enjoys using them.
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I’m curious to see how many FARS it gets with the different antennas…. I enjoyed your POTA adventure with Randy….
19:42 I could not decode any CW, those crickets must have a very poor tone.
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@@hiphophamop4853 They are out of stock because Randy did a review on them a few weeks ago…. LOL
Now Wouxun just needs to make the next model multi-band to cover CB, FRS, GMRS, & MURS. 🤣📻📡
Apologies for double-commenting Josh but my first EVER DX contact was on 4W AM from England to Texas. Complete accident. Regular half-wave on the roof. And my friend Patrick, he had a QSO from England to Australia on a Radio Shack CB HT like the ones you are showing (but lots older) again on 4W with a rubber duck. RF is really quite amazing.
Love the story Cal! We’re coming up on another big solar cycle. I’m hoping for some of that dx too!
@@HamRadioCrashCourse Yeah I am so worried it'll pass us by!!!
I have an older hand held cb, living in Canada I have heard all over the states.
I even hooked up a small magmount placed on a garbage can and talked with a guy in the states.
I dont expect that kind of results all the time but was amazed it even happened.
Just wanted to say, cool video you and Randy (Notarubicon) made the other day. It's was great to see the chemistry of both of you promoting your interests in your respective hobbies and make it fun.
That Gold Mtn/Holcomb Valley area is beautiful country considering it is surrounded by nearly 20 million people. I happen to be just a few miles from y'all on Sunday afternoon in my truck doing the 3N16 run from Van Dusen Canyon to Green Valley Lake. Perfect day for some 4 wheel'in.
Look forward to future collaborations with you awheeling.
73's
Fun to see the Fanon handheld, my first handheld was a pair of these I got for Christmas sometime in the 60's, lots of fun and I still have them.
Hard to think of them as "antique" instead of just old. I guess the difference is in being collectible not just old, where as I am old but not at all collectible.
I enjoyed the audio clip of what you could hear, straight out of the 70's.
Modified for higher power is interesting, alongside a modification for it to run on 10 meters.
Listening with war buds and thank you for blowing out my brain with the feedback. 🤪
My Ham Radio interest got started when my Canadian cousin gave me a set of those Archer Space Patrol walkie talkies and a crystal set kit. I had done some SWL but this made me decide to get a licence. I had to wait till I was 14 as we had an age restriction. 40 years later I am still doing radio. GM4SVM.
Love the old Fannon courier radio. Nice video
Congratulations on being the first CZcamsr (that I am aware of) to mention the CTCSS feature, and certainly to actually demo it! This is a great feature that President dropped the ball on with their Randy II (USA) CB ht. The Randy III (Euro version) has CTCSS, but apparently President thought we Ameros are too stupid to make use of this wonderful feature.
Thanks. Great feature AND the tone search. It works great!
not really true there is a albrecht ae2990 afs that do fm,am,ssb and i think this radio is out for a few years
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Good point, but I was thinking in terms of the newly FCC-approved FM capable radios.
CTCSS FM on the CB is game changing.
I think you could use the Argent Data ADS-SR1 Simple repeater module for these since these KG-S72c have a separate mic & speaker out plug. You'd need to DIY a cable (not that difficult). For those who don't know - simplex repeaters work a bit differently. Sort of like a message playback machine. Put the Simplex repeater up on your roof and easily triple your distance.
I remember as a teen having a Cherokee handheld Cb with ssb that I could get skip on the upper channels - it’s what started my radio hobby.
Gotta love the roger beep! Not a Rubicon would be proud!
I like this not much use for cb band but worth taking another look for sure. Thank you for the review!
First time with radios was as a little kid riding our bikes around and playing on walkie talkie radios on the CB channels so this kind of made me think about that. At the price we would not have been suing these and do not think I could see myself spending that much to get back on CB after so long. Maybe if I had a need to monitor CB it would be okay. They would be fun to play with
The FM on CB is a really nice amendment, we all know how noisy the CB is, so FM should definitely make for a more user friendly experience most of the time
I ALREADY modified mine to xmit up to the edge of the 10 meter band with 600 watts on SSB. I'm having a BLAST!
Cool lil’ radio!
Dear Sir, thank you for all of the content on your channel. If, some time in the future, you have little (else) to do - it would be nice to see a comparison between the Wouxun CB and the President Randy II - both have AM/FM capabilities. Currently I have a GMRS license, and am studying for first HAM license. Interest in HF. Anyway, thank you. Happily subscribed.
Hi Josh
I have a Midway 75-822 and when the sun is setting here in brazil i hear a lot of US citizens talking on CB. I think they use some kind of linears but well its cool to hear the US here in brazil. I am Ham radio user (PU2RYG) but i lost my tools on divorce ;-). Used to use 10m on my beloved IC-7000
Your channel is great, keep on!!!
73, Chris
I have both the S88G and the S72C. I would love to see a ham variant using the same batteries and IP67 of the GMRS variant. That way I’d have a whole set with interchangeable batteries and familiar interface-an advantage of all the UV-5R variants.
Great idea
I have had for a very long time an old Realistic TRC-218 2 watt CB handheld that has 3 channels (crystals) and a telescopic 3 ft antenna. 10-15 miles base to handheld was easy, and I've talked DX with it. A better antenna will transform those things.
This is the first video I have seen that you had feed back on your mics. That's crazy
Waiting for the .V2 version of this-AM/FM/SSB full power as authorized by FCC on all modes.
I fully expect a "We're giving it the Double Roger!" t-shirt to be available sometime soon.
For use at places that frequent trucks would be my best use idea. Would be nice to have an option other than the uniden wireless mic for out of truck comms or a a loader / spotter truck even.
I could also see it being something to keep in the glove box when pulling a camper out other large contraption when parking or say boat launching.
Many ways something can put this to valid use but I don't see DX as an option with this thing.
Superbowl6 has users in excess of 15kw output power so yea. No telling of he was western us badlands or foreign lands.
Josh, did I just hear you throw out your ham callsign over CB? You have just confused a whole bunch of truckers, LOL. Good demo on the new radio and service.
I have a older handheld cb radio and it takes 9 AA batteries still works
I like it now after your video. modern day CB radio
Josh, I never comment on videos. And let me preface this with the fact you are my favorite and most entertaining out of all the Ham "YouToubers" I follow, with KJ4YZI coming in a close second, even though you'd think I'd be biased living 1000ft from KC5HWB. Anyways I digress and wanted to say I LOVE the video and think it is supercool Wouxun came out with this. So to my comment, when you do the range test video(I can't wait), do it anywhere but channel 9. 9 is reserved for emergencies and traveler's assistance, that being said I wouldn't loose any sleep over it, because you'd have a better chance winnning the Mega and Powerball consecutively then you causing interference with that HT that delayed someone's well being, lol. Anyways keep putting out the content. Enjoy that beautiful So.Cal weather, haven't been since 2/2020.....
73's N8WWR Romie
...& please do a video abt using the different antennas & the respective ranges of each!🇺🇸👍
You bet I will!
I definitely like the black plastic on the plastic radio on the left better than the black plastic of the plastic radio on the right 👍
Haha, love the intro 😄
I really like the Wouxun brand of radio's. It needs Chirp programming.👍🍻😉
Edit: I think you should try a custom Yagi, that should be legal.🤔
I could likely tape measure it for sure.
Modifying: I'd theoretically run it into a theoretical 11m amp I may or may not have. 😂
I may have known a freebander in the late 80s that used a 150 watt kraco or was it craco audio Amp
Nice Walkie-Talkie, yet pricy. Once they drop to half the price, I might get one, or 2. Kinda funny though, when I started out as a CB'er at age 12 (many years ago), I had a 12 channel AM/FM base station with 0.5W. I grew up in Germany, so FM was introduced to CB in the early 80s with the plan to abandon AM entirely. So my next CB radio was a 4W 22 channel FM only device - very fancy. And then later I had a 40channel FM/12 channel AM radio with 4W on FM and 1W on AM. Now Germany allows 80 channels on FM, but still 12 channels (4-15) on AM with 1W. So this seems like a revolution
👍 Noticed the Signal Corps coin, 31C/V9 from back in the 80s
Right on. Thanks.
With a Kenwood jack and VOX, could you run APRS on these with a pair of Mobilinkds?
12:37 - Like the Double Roger!
Judging by the size of those "dummy load" short helical antennas, I am willing to bet that a 100 mW antique Radio Shack portable with a six foot metal whip would give you better transmit range. I do love the feature set that going FM will give you, its years overdue in coming....WA2JNF
That is kind of what I was thinking too.
While you may not get too far in it's current form due to the Antenna. I would find the scan feature to be handy for sure.
8:14 every time I transmit on license free band (325 MHz to 325.4875 MHz in PH) I have this audio problem with my cheap unbranded mixer console that has a plastic body.
What do you recommend me do to fix this?
Hi This Is VU3 YWB From India..Let me know How Long This Radio can work? Range limit if any?
I think that transmission at the end of the video is from Texas. I remember hearing him years ago when I had a cb base station in CT. He's probably running a very high power linear Amp, in the range of 1,000 watts.
Total guess here based on my day job as an analog design engineer for ADI: The reason you’re given four watts on FM but only two on AM is probably because the RF is likely coming from some kind of I,Q chip. Low level modulation. Every stage after has to be linear for AM but they can use class C for FM. Just a guess.
And i think that transfers over to amateur radios as well. That and duty cycle? Not sure about that one though.
I think the 2W spec for the AM mode is the measurement for the carrier only, not including modulation. If you include the modulation then the total is more than 2 W. It has nothing to do with I/Q, which is the digital data representation of the wave form. Unrelated completely.
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According to a recent communication that I had with the people at Buy Two Way Radios, this radio puts out 2.8 watts on AM.
What is the PEP on AM with full modulation?
I'm torn between Randy II, Wouxun, and Midland 822.
The lack of AM features and not being able to select 4 watts is disappointing. But the form factor is so nice. I honestly might still buy it. Menus are real close to a Baofeng. I like it so far.
These are nice HT tbh
Saw an article on how to hex edit To add 10 m freqs Also needs a vco retune if i remember 👍🏻✌🏻
My Magnum 10/12 can theoretically do FM and AM on the CB band with the channel mod. I also have a mobile that can theoretically do FM but not AM on the CB band.
In theory 😉
Josh Abbrrreeeee makes a BNC CB 28.3 inch 42.5 inch antennas can be found on Amazon 😅 For your tacticool needs
Or you can use the same materials as Abree and make your own: tape measure, bnc connector (since you have the adapter), a coil of wire with a cap in parallel, and heat shrink tube. A few dollars in material + a $300 antenna analyzer and you're good to go 🤪
@@resistanceisfutile I know that is quite true ☺️👍 I just wanted to let Josh know he can continue his Abbree adventure further into CB 😅
THANK YOU,, DES IN BELFAST ,, IRELAND
That guy you’re hearing on there is out of New Mexico . He’s blowing that channel/freq up.
A loop or longer antenna wire cb or whip antenna mount for receive and transmit 📲 a little more range.
You can put a store Ford repeater on CP. I have my HF radio modified. I tried it on 27.245 which is channel 24 on FM. It worked pretty cool. I love my KGS 72 handheld CB. I wish there was a way you could modify it to make it going into 10 m but I don’t think you can. 17:06
LOL at transmitting your ham call sign! The correct way to test your CB radio is to yell in a Southern accent BREAKER BREAKER [CHANNEL] WHO'S GOT THEIR EARS ON? THIS HERE'S THE BIG BAD DOGGIE, COMIN AT CHA WITH 5000 WATTS HOW DO YOU COPY OVER?! then just hold the key down for a good 5-10 seconds.
I hope we do get them in Europe soon, too. We have had AM/FM CB for decades. But most CB handhelds look and feel vey outdated (big packs of AA batteries and such).
Please release a model with 40AM/80FM for Germany!
Interesting channel, just passed my HAM exam last Monday.
73 / DC6CK
I have a configuration file you can program into the radio that includes the 80 German channels. I have also included multiple AM and FM 10m simplex and repeater pairs. Let me know if you want it. -Wes VE7WDM
I would have liked to see wouxon come out with one with/AM FM SSB. That will be awesome that would be complete as well Mars cap a few uppers and lowers
I feel like that’s a big ask to get Ssb in something like this right now.
hey josh you should try the Hyflex CL 27 with bnc connector,it works on all band fm,am,and ssb its a hand held cb antenne its 54cm long and it works really great i own the albrecht ae 2990 export its a cb handheld it do every mode and you can do also 10 meters with it and 12 and 11 meters if i remember correcly
Did you just use Channel 9, the emergency-only channel, for testing? 5:50 .
It would be nice to have these features on MURS radios
Was thinking of buying one for construction. You always have to tell the dump truck drivers where to go and how to get there.
15:50 yes its possible. Baofeng repeater box. But its not legal. And you don't have much bandwidth between bottom of cb band, and top of band. So desensitization would be bad without a duplexer. Out of band would be interesting. Still not legal. But from 29.6 with ctcss to a repeater would be awesome
My President FS-T1 CB radio has both AM and FM with ASC one other menu selections.
CB roll up jpole would be fun.
how do you modify it for more power??? Same way you do with literally EVERY OTHER RADIO........replace it's finals with larger ones.....
"What's this? In Crestline?" What a ham ... (g)
Sideboom approves this getting down
maybe use them with the little repeater you showed once in your bag? that will be pretty cool
Hey Josh I order one of these as soon as I saw this video and it came today. I know there are only 40 citizen band frequencies but the radio can hold up to 400 channels in memory. Are there any other frequencies that can be listened to on this radio?
No, not without moding it. The channels are there for setting different tones, etc.
I'm still very new to all of this. My understanding of CB radios is that they only have 40 or so channels and are pretty straight forward. If that's correct then why does this model have so many channels, and why are there so many other settings?
Please, I'm new, be gentle when you answer.
As Josh said before, it is for setting several memories with CTCSS, etc.
That was a very "fun" vid to watch; in fact, u might may be becoming a professional actor! & re the radio, I'd love to get one of those; & while lotsa hams are critical of a ham who may be on CB, not me...I've been a ham for almost 50 yrs now & like so many other amateurs, I got started on CB & I'm still on 11m, especially SSB; I hear many CB'ers who sound like hams & vice versa; so to me, Radio IS Radio, regardless of band! 73 de WA4ELW in TN 🇺🇸 dit dit 🤓🇺🇸
Thanks for the comment. I agree!
What exactly is the hate towards the roger beep??
Since you brought t up…
In an emergency (because this would break all sorts of FCC regs) it would be possible to use two of these together to increase range. you could set one up in a vehicle connected to an external whip antenna. It has a standard K type connector, so it would be easy to hook up a Surecom simplex parrot repeater. When one transmits on the rubber duck equipped radio the unit in the vehicle would receive the signal and then re-transmit it using the much more efficient whip antenna, greatly increasing the range. Do-able? Sure. Legal? Not so much. And probably not worth the bother IMHO. But in an emergency it would work.
That's called a Simplex Repeater.
@@RKingis yep, but they have a lot of names . The FCC refers to them as “parrot repeaters” because they don’t have to be simplex. I have mine set up to operate duplex, just with a gap between receiving and re-transmitting.
But you are right. They are generally referred to as simplex repeaters.
I have a question I've only had my license a couple of months and I know a little bit about 2 m I know a little bit about 10 m 6 M 70 cm and most of my radios right now are 2 m and 70 cm I know that there's more but my question is is 2 m a good radio to talk couple hundred miles on simplex can I talk a couple hundred miles or is it just close range
It’s just close range. You’d need to consider getting an hf radio for getting up to hundreds of miles.
Seems like that 4 watts is limited by firmware. I wonder if there's an unlock code.
Pretty silly to do more than a few watts in a handheld anyway... wouldn't make much of a noticeable difference until you get, say, +6dB or so, and holding 15-20W in your hand gets crazy.
@@jephthaithe antennas are removable so I don't see why not
Qyt makes a cb -58 but I bought 2 of them and both of them are horrible on transmitting. They both sound like there way out of aligmant. And distorted
. I like the unidens . And all the new radios are hexi decimal compiled and software driven or they have a internal service mode to change things. But there set from the factory. Cause on cb you need clean loud audio. And I was able to turn up the audio and modulation on my uniden. But Wright down the factory numbers incase you mess up. Btw I have heard of a mod for the wouxun 950 p moble to go on 27 mhz so you can use that radio to Crossband. But only one radio will excite the moble on cb and the other one on ham or vhf or uhf depending on how you set it up.
Hi Josh, I'm interested if that HT can do EU standart CB channels. Last what I read about it wasnt possible to program via SW. Can you figure this out? Thanks for your content mate
I can make you a configuration file for that if you'd like so you can program it into the radio. Just give me the frequencies and I can create it. -Wes.
Gotta have the Roger Beep... NotARubicon would be proud... lol
a person on fm can connect to the citizen's band easily.
which is a huge plus, I don't want to have a radio that doesn't.
because I'm amateur radio, am, fm, lsb, usb, and that fm.
allows me to talk home.... I would like to see a walkie talkie accessible with am, fm, lsb...
It would be great radio if it has ip68 additionally
Would these be better for family things than FRS if someone doesn't want to deal with GMRS licenses?
About a tie. FRS can talk back and forth with GMRS on simplex and hear GMRS repeaters down links if close. The thing I hate is FRS has preset CTSCC/DCS that needs to be canceled or changed if talking to outside the circle radios. CB you might be able to talk to truckers. Truckers with CBs on is getting very scarce.
GW6BXU your opinion on aluminium being conductive lol
cute Josh to bad they don't do sideband!
I want one… and I don’t know why!!!
I heard from a guy once who said that someone told him that he heard from his friend that, it's arlready only doing 2 watt output on AM. It's good to go... The radio doesn't really matter, what happens to your signal after it leaves your radio is what is important. But Hey, that's just hear say....
I know that guy!
But yes, the antenna in this regardless of quality is a massive compromise.
Agreed. In this humble persons opinion a hand held is but a toy. Like you said Fun for the Family!
The antenna would be too much of a drawl back to overcome for any real chance of DX. However If I were to hook it up in place of my Galaxy that little radio would smoke !
The President Randy II FCC is another CB walkie that'll do FM.
Also, the FCC has pretty much abandoned CB radio enforcement, they only do something when someone's transmitter interferes with hams or something like tv or commercial radio or government broadcasts. Otherwise they'll let people mind their own business on CB.
Does Randy do CTCSS tones?
Randy and Randy II don't do CTCSS, however Randy III does. Randy III is only available in Europe unfortunately. If you get the opportunity to pick one up I'd say go for it, it has modes to operate on the standard US CB freqs so it'll work with other CBs just fine.
Would these work better in mountainous areas better than GMRS/FRS?
As they sit stock for stock. Likely no. The antenna is too compromised. It needs a good telescopic and then hypothetically. You could get much further than FRS/GMRS.
17:57 Just right out of the movie "Convoy" - listening to Rubber Duck with a rubber ducky
I oder it and soon be getting it
Would this be a decent replacement for my trucks cb?
I wouldn’t say it’s a replacement.
...& re the strong sig u were hearing, there's no doubt u were hearing "skip," just based on the "way" CB'ers speak while on AM & shooting skip (that is, chasing DX) hi hi...73 🇺🇸🤓
So can it transmit ?
Too bad there's no SSB support but then again, I'm not sure how likely they'd have been able to get it in something that small anyway.
fm for years has been used in the uk
Ok
Them nice for CB. I did get a different one. but has FM and PL tones. with FM legal on CB also allows PL tones. CB has its place. works great for some. back in 70's into 1990's we used CB quite a bit. went GMRS but still have CB HT;s . also MURS is VHF CB but only 5 ch and low power. also there is the 49 Mhz band for free but no new radios in years. still got radio shack 49 Mhz HT . and a fisher price one from yard sale. they all talk together. there may be a way to get 4 wall AM on them but the final ? the heat. just use the BNC and cord to amp. not in the US or caranda. limit 4 watts . I started with SW listing than CB than HAM then GMRS than MURS . A lot of GMRS MURS and china HT coming USB C charge. now smart phones and tablets video games and laptops . Why I put 2 USB C PD 65 watt ports on my ammo can battery. and have A to C cords. USB C is much better. can carry more power with right cable and can put in anyway . not like the micro USB or A/B or USB 3 ports only go in one way. 73's
They are sold out. I will check later, looks like a nice radio to have on hand.
They should be back in stock today.
They are in stock and I ordered one
Josh needs a CB handle. Any suggestions?
TheHamMan
Nozza
Super Chicken and I'm out. BYE BYE BYE
lol its cb you dont need to use your callsign to indentify,i m not even sure if hams can use there callsigns on cb radio,in here in the netherlands its not alout so far as i know :)
Now... will it do 10m fm and -100 khz shift?
Yes. I have a file that I created with the FM repeater pairs in it.