TIDradio TD-H3 limitations

[LeoG]

I've had contact with them many times for issues and questions.  I guess I go straight to Luxi when I email them and she responds within a day or two.  So far they've been pretty reactive to my inquiries.

[nokones]

It is really amazing that people spend and waste their money and put up with all the problems and limitations of these POS CCRs.

[LeoG]

The only reason I know of this problem is because other people complained about it.  I find the H3 to be a pretty darn good radio.  If you aren't a power user you'd never find that limitation.  And remember you are paying $30 for a radio, battery, charger, cables, 2 antenna, vox setup.  I don't know how they can possible do it. 

If you want a full featured radio go out and get a $400 radio, I'm gunna stick with the CCR for now.

[WRXB215]

3 hours ago, nokones said:

It is really amazing that people spend and waste their money and put up with all the problems and limitations of these POS CCRs.

My CCRs are even cheaper and I don't have these problems. Can't imagine paying $400+ when I don't need to.

[TrikeRadio]

3 hours ago, nokones said:

It is really amazing that people spend and waste their money and put up with all the problems and limitations of these POS CCRs.

Some people can't justify $400 HT radios.

Yes, there are a few quirks for every radio. I have had my TD-H3s for about 5 months and find them to be more than I expected. Are there some things I would like to see done differently? Yes, of course. But they have surpassed my expectations – surprising me at times how well they work.

So, to each his own.

[WRDU469]

To be honest, there is a lot of good reasons to have an affordable back up radio like the H3. This is a back up for me or basically my wife to use in the event we get separated. The radio can be locked down and made easy enough for her to operate. I landed on the H3 based on many reviews and it outperformed most all of the budget radios in the power department when tested. I just cannot believe nobody highlighted the channel limitations in GMRS in any of the reviews I have watched. It still doesn't hit the advertised 5 watts but I will take 4 1/2 watts over a Baofeng 3 watt. That said, I couldn't justify spending money on another KG-935G Plus which is my main handheld.

The bottom line is TID Radio should have better disclosed the limitations of this radio which hopefully they will acknowledge in a firmware update if they listen to my feedback. We will see.

[TrikeRadio]

1 hour ago, WRDU469 said:

... I just cannot believe nobody highlighted the channel limitations in GMRS in any of the reviews I have watched...

...The bottom line is TID Radio should have better disclosed the limitations of this radio which hopefully they will acknowledge in a firmware update if they listen to my feedback.

I agree, TID should have indicated that above channel slot 54 it is RX only on the GMRS setup. It is not documented anywhere in their information that I can find. The only thing I can figure is that in GMRS mode the idea was it was "restricted" for people who are new... but that still doesn't make much sense since they could still have restricted to GMRS only frequencies but allow all "channel slots" to be RX and TX capable.

** Is there anything about getting it FCC GMRS certified about this restriction that they seem to have imposed for no reason and not documented? I don't know why there would be.

But again, there is a way around it for those who know how to properly and accurately set it up in "NORMAL" mode but... yeah, that is not the FCC GMRS "certified" mode.

I hope that TIDRADIO does decide at some point to change the Firmare to allow TX above 54 .. but ... I'm not too terribly bothered about it now that I know of it. I just wish like you said that they had DOCUMENTED it and been upfront about it from the start. (and reviewers who did not discover and mention it just means to me that they did not fully test it before their youtube review. (at least not enough to stumble across the problem. But to be fair, I think it took me a month before I noticed that it was a problem)

 

[amaff]

20 hours ago, TrikeRadio said:

I agree, TID should have indicated that above channel slot 54 it is RX only on the GMRS setup. It is not documented anywhere in their information that I can find. The only thing I can figure is that in GMRS mode the idea was it was "restricted" for people who are new... but that still doesn't make much sense since they could still have restricted to GMRS only frequencies but allow all "channel slots" to be RX and TX capable.

100%. I don't know why it's not advertised (a lot of other radios will say "22 GMRS channels + 8 repeater channels + 8 (or however many) DIY channels". Which is just as annoying, but at least they say it up front.

20 hours ago, TrikeRadio said:

** Is there anything about getting it FCC GMRS certified about this restriction that they seem to have imposed for no reason and not documented? I don't know why there would be.
 

 

Not that I'm aware of. My KG-905Gs let you put whatever GRMS frequency you want in whatever memory slot you want, and the radios enforce the rules from there.