TNFrank

I now have 2 of these since they're pretty handy little radios and I've ordered 2 Clear ones to use for my Airband Radios. Anyway, I was swapping the one I had set for Airband scanning over to GMRS and some of the frequencies that I would upload (especially in memory slot 33) wouldn't show up OR channels that I would delete in CHIRP Next would still be there after upload to the radio. Not sure what's going on. I did a reset to try and clear things and I did manage to get the GMRS channels install then manually delete the DPS channels that were in the totally wrong memory slots but I'm not sure why they keep showing up or won't delete without manually doing it on the radio. Has anyone else notice anything like this? I really love this little radio, I'd hate to think it has something wrong with it so soon. Thanks.

Don't count out the TIDRadio H3 and H8. They're both pretty decent for the money and IMHO a step up from the UV-82. I really do like the UV-82 though, it gives me a decent power output(not underpowered like the UV-5R) and it has a nice feel to it. You can also get USB-C batteries and a lot of different SMA Female antennas for it. Unlocked you can do MURS, GMRS, HAM and a lot of other frequencies that you'd be licensed for or need to use in an emergency. I really think the TD-H3 is a real sleeper right now and the price will probably go up once people learn how good it really is. FM Broadcast radio, Airbands(108MHz to 135MHz), VHF-136MHz to 174MHz and UHF-400MHz to 600MHz gives you a lot of range.

So this info begs the question "How did the Tidradio TD-H3 get it's FCC Cert.?" It IS an FCC Certified radio and it has this feature. Did the FCC drop the ball or do they just not really care about that rule or maybe they don't know about it.

So I guess I used the wrong term when I said "scramble". It's actually Simple Voice Inversion which is legal from all accounts that I've read and watched. It's not hard to break if you know how but most folks won't know how so what they hear sounds like they're hearing Single Side Band. This could be useful if you're talking to someone and giving your location or a meeting place so that others won't know where you're going.

Encryption is a no no on GMRS but the scramble feature is fine from all that I've read. I've watched a few YouTubes that explain the feature and even Randy talked about it and how it made the voice sound like SSB if you don't have de-scramble code set on your receiving radio.

Ahh, interesting. I don't think I'll need those functions. I can see them on a commercial grade radio but I'm not sure why they'd be needed on a consumer grade radio. Anyway, thanks for the info.

I didn't know I also got a Phaser function with the radio,LOL. Really though, what do "kill" and "stun" do?

I mostly scan. Don't really have anyone to talk too. On a side note, you CAN get channels to "skip" during scanning if you use CHIRP Next to program the radio.

Oh Happy Days. I managed to get CHIRP Next installed and working on my Linux Box. I had to install WINE to get the factory programing software working(but it didn't work all that well) and I thought "I'll bet I can get the .exe for CHIRP Next working under WINE too and low and behold, IT DOES. I also saw that in CHIRP Next I can "skip" channels from scanning on the H3 so YES, it can be done. I ordered an H8 because I want to play with that 10 watt beast to see what it'll do. Anyway, just wanted to share and let ya'll know that you CAN get CHIRP Next working under Linux by using WINE. Talk to ya'll later. TN.Frank Out.

The H3 is only a 5 watt radio. The H8 is the 10 watt. I may pick one of those up as well to add to my collection. The H3 really feels like a well build radio but only time will tell.

OK, so I set up the radio, unlocked and AM "on" and programed all my local Airbands and added the 5 MURS channels so I'd have something to communicate with since the Airband antenna is rated for 100MHz to 300MHz and would be useless on GMRS frequencies. I guess this will just be my Airband/MURS radio which is fine since I've got a few others for GMRS and local Highway Patrol(scan only) to play with. All in all it seems like a solid little radio and I'd like to pick up an H8 10watt to play with when funds allow.

If that's the case with the H3 I may just end up programing all my airband channels into it without GMRS and use it as an airband scanner. Maybe a future firmware update will fix this.

Ok, so I got my radio today and I've been setting it up using both the supplied software from Tidradio and the bluetooth app. With the factory software I couldn't see the headings of the columns but I managed a work around by taking a screenshot from a video of a guy using the software then using that to let me know what each column was. Factory software wouldn't let me add airband channels but the bluetooth app did. It took me a while to figure out that you have to set the Scan function to "Add" or you can't change channels. Now to the question. How can I skip channels that I don't want to scan and only scan the few that I do want? With the Baofengs using CHIRP it's easy, you just check the "Skip" box and you're good to go. There's no such box in either the factory software or the app. Thanks in advance.

Should be getting the one I ordered today. I hope it'll do Airbands as promised. For the money this seems like it'll be a versatile little radio. Hope to do a video on it if it turns out to be decent.

The Nagoya 701 I just picked up is GMRS tuned and is actually pretty compact.

Also, just remember, there are NO dumb questions. Only dumb people. LOL

I think you guys missed the jist of the question. They didn't ask "what are the GMRS frequencies?" It was "why aren't 463-466MHz included?" And if they're not then what are the 463-466MHz used for?

Initial testing tonight gave the following readings: Low=2.8 watts Medium=5.18 watts Hight=6.30 watts. I'd think that's pretty close enough since 1.7 watts shouldn't make that much of a difference and it's right in the same ballpark as my UV-82's are. I'm happy with it so far. It unlocks the same as the UV-5R and the Radioddity antenna is a nice upgrade. All in all it's a Baofeng Radio, nothing more, nothing less, decent deal for the money.

I just got the radio today. When I get home from work I'll open the box and get it set up then give it a test.

I'll probably do a video on it. I also want to test the 3 power levels to see which is the highest setting. With the UV-82 the "high" setting actually put out less power than the medium and low settings.

You should have seen the Traditional Pocket Knife kick I was on a few months back. You can see a small sample of them on my YouTube channel videos. I must have at least 75 or 80 of them total.

True to my High Functioning Autistic Self I have to totally Do Things to Death so I ordered a Baofeng GT-3TP Mark III to play with. That'll bring my totally radio count to 8(2/UV-5R's, 3/UV-82's, 2/KG-UVD1P's and now the GT-3TP Mark III) so I think I'm good for now. Why I wanted this radio is 2(or 3) fold. 1) It seems like a pretty decent radio that's suppose to be rated at 8watts and comes with a pretty decent antenna and a car charger. 2) It'll be my Truck Radio since the higher power should give me a bit better reach(I know that's questionable but hey, a couple extra watts can't hurt) and the car charger will make it easy to keep the radio charged up. 3) The price isn't much($26 bucks) so if it gets stolen I'm not out much. I can use the BF-F8HP Profile in CHIRP to program it and it should unlock the same as the UV-5R radios so I'll get full GMRS and MURS function out of it. I'll do a power test(and probably make a video about the radio) to see if it'll be like the UV-82 where "high" is actually lower power than medium or low which I found to be kind of crazy. Anyway, just wanted to share and see if anyone else has or thought about getting one of these. Talk to ya'll later.

I'm pretty sure they've fixed this issue too or they'd have stop selling the radio.

The article you posted a link to was 10 years old. I'm sure Wouxun has addressed whatever issue they had with these radios and have fixed it by now. I honestly can't see them continuing to sell something with such a flaw all these years later. They would have discontinued it and moved on to other models. I have two of these, I guess we'll just have to take a "wait and see" posture.

In my post on the KG-UVD1P a guy commented that these radios have a "suicide chip" that fails and renders the radio useless. I've never heard of such a thing and I'm sure it this WAS an issue that Wouxun would have fixed it by now(the radio has been out for 14 years) or they would have dropped production of it because of all the returns that they would have gotten. Has ANYONE heard of this being an issue with this radio?? Thanks.