73blazer

Wouxun in the title...seems to be a trigger for him, was guaranteed a negative response from him.

I've had this radio for about 2 years and it's a rock solid performer. Lots of compliments on how I sound from it. Functions very well, puts out full advertised wattage. Easily unlocked for full TX range to match the RX range (murs,marine vhf, gmrs,CB and more) on it using chirp. I've had zero issues with this radio and it gets used quite a bit. Yeah the 10m band is kinda useless without sideband unless your doing CB on it. Very nice radio and for what it does, it's pretty cheap compared to the mainstream HAM mobiles. My only complaint with it is the fan tends to make noise in cold weather. So you get in your truck and it's 10 degrees, the fan makes a bunch of racquet until the vehicle or radio warms up. The KG-1000G's do the same thing. The fan needs a redesign or different bearings or something. But it's never prevented it from working. The noise is short lived. That and I wish there was a setting like the 935H added over the UV8H to mute the secondary area while TX'ing on the main area.

The 935G non-plus and the UV8H do not make any noises for area change or scan or any other button press if keypad beep is off. But the plus models do, well the 935H which as I said I call the UV8H+. Seems like it's just that way and gonna have to live with it. I guess it's only an annoyance most of the time, can't have it during hunting but I really only need one area during hunting so it wouldn't come into play.

Yeah I don't like the power on noise either, but that one is easy to get around as your hand is already on the volume knob and I've gotten in the habit of just cracking it on, waiting 1s, then turning it up to normal volume so I never hear that. The UV8H has the power on music as well. The area change is different as you kinda need two hands to move the volume down, hit area, move volume back up. I doubt there will be a KG-935H+ as it's already the "plus" to the UV8H. They do change firmware over time though, you can see it in Chirp->settings->OEM Info pane mine is 935HV2.01 . I've seen this number change on the two UV8H's i've ordered about a year apart, one came with 1.03 and the other one a year later with 1.04 although I don't notice any difference, but there may be some bug that was corrected. Yes it's a great radio. The UV8H is a great radio and has been my main HT for several years. I wasn't gonna get a 935H but I was ordering an antenna and some connectors to fix my beam antenna coax a squirrel chewed up and somehow that 935H just slipped into my cart.

And it's Socal with the Wouxun bash. BIG surprise. Nobody saw that coming. I'd have bet my next paycheck in Vegas but they don't take bets on your responding with a Wouxun bash because odds are 100%. At least your consistent with your unhelpful comments! Go ahead add it to your list of Phantom Wouxun/midland/baofang/yeasu/icom/motorola/tid/retevis/btech/anytone/brand X/brand Y/brandZ "problems" because we all know that the only radio you approve of is the one you have because nobody else could possibly make a radio that meets your demanding specifications...oh wait..I forgot, you don't actually own any radios because mommy took them away due to incessant SOS calling didn't she?

Actually I call it the UV8H+. Does anyone know of a way to turn off the very loud beep during area change? I have keypad beeps off, voice guide off. But the area change beep remains. As much as this is a good upgrade over the UV8H, that area change beep is nearly a showstopper for me. The only noise I want my radio making is from an incoming RX signal. Over the UV8H this is a welcome update, much better menu options, 1.25m capable (there's a 220 repeater near me too!), can assign both side option keys with many more options instead of just being able to assign just one of the two on the UV8H with only three options, more screen themes, weather alerts, weather mode instead of having to program the weather freq in memory channels, USB-C charging (albiet with slightly diminished battery capacity) . An excellent update. But that area change beep I can't get over. It's very loud too even at the lowest volume setting. I tend to use area change quite a bit. Anyone know of a way to shut that off as I'm not seeing one. Does the 935G+ do this too even if keypad beeps are off? The UV8H and 935G don't make this noise during area change if keypad beeps are off.

The specified audio power on the 1000G+ is 3W, external or internal which is what the vast majority of radios out there have. Some do have 5W. So it should be as loud as the internal speakers at least. If it's not, try another speaker. I've no issues with my Wouxun "driving" external speakers, same loudness as the internal (seems louder to me actually). It's a 90's Cobra external speaker. But if your hearing is marginal it's always gonna sound not the best. There's options but all require another power source: Power(amplified) speaker: Needs external 12v source. Ex: https://www.wearecb.com/bc23as.html Audio jack to bluetooth: a small bluetooth device that plugs into the external speaker jack and pairs with your cars bluetooth. Requires power (most are just battery powered and have a USB port to charge but if you permanently plugged the USB port into a power source it's always powered). Pair this device with your bluetooth enabled car stereo, and your audio will come thru your vehicles speakers. Ex: Amazon listing Audio jack to FM Transmitter. A small FM transmitter that plugs into your external speaker jack. Requires power (most are just battery powered and have a USB port to charge but if you permanently plugged the USB port into a power source it's always powered). Tune your car stereo to the devices output station and your audio will come thru your vehicles speakers. Ex: amazon listing

My dad just took one of the paks into a Batteries Plus and they disassembled it, matched the three main cells with new equivalents, and re-soldered up the connectors on the new cells and re-shrinked wrapped them together and made 3 more for all their handsets on that system. I think they charged him like $11/pak.

There is one eham.net article where one commenter mentions it functions well without a counterpoise/ground plane. DX is a very reputable place, mabey they got their info from somewhere, mabey it's just a plain 'ole mistake? Who knows, But it's working for your setup and that's great! I found this worked great on my RAM 2500 CC roof (with a tri-mag mount) and SWR's with same radio are 1.1-1.3:1 depending on freq in that setup. So it does seem to me it functions much better with a ground plane.

My parents still use a 49MHz cordless phone system in their house. I never looked at what type is was before until just a couple months ago when we switched them from AT&T's rape job $110/mo landline to a $6/mo VOIP service. My dad just got some new batteries for the handsets last year!

I have this antenna and found the NGP to be false advertising. Not sure why they're saying that. I have an all fiberglass body '73 K5 Blazer and mounted this behind the tailgate off the steel bumper, and SWR was 2.9:1 on HAM UHF, 3.1:1 on GMRS, 2.2 on VHF. Put a ground plane under it (cookie sheet) and SWR never got over 1.5 on any band. It's a great antenna,with a ground plane. I actually called Diamond on this very point because DX is the only place that says NGP, nobody else says that about this antenna, Diamond says it will work, but not recommended, your results may vary, check your SWR...all the expected responses. Basically, it wasn't designed by them as NGP. If your SWR is good, then that's awesome for you! You may be getting some GP still off your steel bed where you have it mounted though.

I was able to log to both. It's always in and out. You can login on minute and the next page times out , refresh and it comes up. Click something else and it times out.

Ouch, 359.65?!

It's really easy to unlock. Buy the KG-UV980P instead. Same basic radio, HAM version, Chirp unlocks it to transmit GMRS. Contrary to one persons opinion, these are solid radios (the 1000 or the 980P), they perform very well, sounds great on TX/RX. No you can't just put the 980P config on a 1000, that wont "unlock" the 1000 because as it's been said, the 1000 has additional firmware burned into the thing to prevent out of GMRS bands/power levels/offsets etc. As it should as a part 95 certified radio.

It's the same hand!

They look like some pretty meaty paws to me! And now the radio's backwards and it's not an H3 plus!

Apparently the AI likes to put man hands on woman holding radios.

Sideband even, nice!

The Wouxun KG-935G and 905G both have group scan capability. Or the 935H if you want the HAM version.

Radios are rather subjective but you won't go wrong with the Wouxun's. Very rugged, the put out what they say they do and the 905 is especially easy to use. I'll differ from the group a bit on the range thing. From my personal testing of many radios, the 5w radios (or in the 935G's case 5.7w) does help slightly in range and especially clarity on the edge of the range in very heavy woods/foliage , but in most use cases yes it won't add range. In my woods I can get about 1-1.25mi radio to radio with a 2-3w radio and a 771g antenna, but the 5w radios get 1.4-1.7mi with a 771g antenna. But out in the open, or talking to repeater towers, there won't be a difference. The 905 is a good solid radio, but there are many others that work too, all depends on what you want. I do not believe there is any true GMRS radio that is not made in China, they're all Chinese. There are some business radios from the US and Japanese companies that can transmit on GMRS and many people have these, but those radios are generally alot more expensive ($300-1500) and some can be problematic to program as they usually require licensed software to do it.

I spent some time looking through threads there back in the late 2010's, i'm convinced it's a place people go to practice their debating skills. Because they can't possibly believe half of what they say, the disc earth, the perimeter ice ridge protected by the worlds govt's ...and the list goes on. Hilarious reading if you get bored in a meeting.

You'd never reach Hawaii from the west coast because there is no line of sight, the ocean itself gets in the way due to curvature of the earth. Unless your a flat earther, then you'd have no problems! There really isn't a hard limit, it's all on what gets in your way, aka line of sight. With the earth aligned right, you could hit a repeater on Pluto as long as the sun or other planets don't get in your way. Radio to radio I can't get more than 2miles in the heavy woods, but from the same woods I can hit repeaters 30-40mi away. Once the signal gets out of the canopy, it will travel unimpeded to those towers. If you really want an answer, you can read this paper. But generally speaking curvature of the earth is going to wreck any UHF (what GMRS is) signal if nothing else gets in your way first. So mabey 70-ish mi on flat open ground...if one side is higher, like on a mountain, mabey more!

Yeah somethings up likely something is misprogrammed. . How did you program the radios with the native software? Chirp? On the radio itself? I would start with, as @OffRoaderX mentioned, removing all receive tones. It sounds almost like there is competing receive tones like there is a DCS and CTCSS receive tone both programmed and the radio doesn't know which one to use, I've seen this on a Retivus radio before, they came with pre-programmed DCS receive tones (no idea why) I didn't notice, and allowed you to add a CTCSS tone and then you hear nothing. But the radiooddity may be switching back and forth between them. @WRXC445 Please pay no attention to the town drunk @Socalgmrs. Consider it the random mumbling of a drunk while defecating in front of your building. It's just another example of negative Nancy dissing radios he knows nothing about, I think he's dissed every brand on the market. Because he never says which Chinese GMRS radio he does prefer so we can all run out and get it so we no longer have to subject ourselves to these what he says are these worthless Midland,Radioddity, Baofang,Tidradio,Wouxun,Retivus,Btech,Rocky radios he hates so much. Oh wait, that pretty much just leaves illegal to use on GMRS Motorola or Icom or Kenwood .

People still live in cities?

If you mean a counterpoise , I tried this on a few different HT's, no discernible difference in any department, noise/quieting, distances nothing. I could measure on a meter the receiving end was a bit better from the HT transmitting with the counterpoise, but for real world humans, there was no difference. I was glad it didn't work, because who really wants to walk around with a giant piece of wire hanging off their HT?