TidRadio TD-H8 - A true 10 watt handheld

[WSGN535]

13 hours ago, SteveShannon said:

What did you have to do?

Well I gave up and figured I’d just not replace the battery and just charge it in place. I tossed it on the bed and the battery came off! What I was doing was trying to slide the battery off when it actually lifts up and then off. 

[WRHS279]

I head up an emergency neighborhood radio watch group in the northern California region. We use Kenwood Tk-380 HT radios operating in the 462 Mhz GMRS bands that we have obtained from various service organizations in the state. We refurbish them and make them available to our users at our cost. Due to the costs of maintaining and obtaining batteries, my research has led me to find a suitable replacement for the aging Kenwood radios. I settled on the Tidradio td-h8 GMRS version for its solid build USB C charging capabilities and ease of programming. I unlock the radios to monitor vhf Cal Fire and other emergency response frequencies for our users. After using the GMRS version of the td-h8 radio for some time now I've run tests in all three modes of operation (HAM / GMRS / Unlock) with the HAM & Unlock power measured at 5-watt maximum output when using HAM VHF frequencies. My question to those of you who have purchased the TD-H8 HAM version from Tidradio is do you get 10-watt output in the unlocked mode on VHF ham bands or do they throttle down to 5 watts as the GMRS versions do? Something is preventing the GMRS flavor of the TD-H8 from using 10 watts when configuring them for the HAM mode and Unlock modes. If the HAM & GMRS td-h8 radios are the same base radio something is causing the difference in the power output between the two units.

Thank you,

Bob Kleinbrahm - W6FYN / WRHS279