Ham Radio :wouxun kg-uvd1p

[gompus1]

Very informative, it would have been nice, if you got more actual receive traffic, so that we could get an idea of the internal speaker's audio quality. My Yaesu VX-7 has a magnesium chassis, I wonder how that Wouxun's plastic case would survive a drop on cement from a belt loop fall, probably, not very well??

[Radninja88]

@gompus1 The plastic is actually quite well. I work EMS in my county and I've dropped mine once, only to find that it left a dimple on the bottom of the radio. Battery locks in quite well, everything about it works nicely. Two things, Buy a programming cable, and consider a different antenna. My antenna must have barely passed the quality control, the whip is starting to come out of the base, and I haven't even tugged on it. :( AMAZING radio though.

[jwkong]

@gompus1

hahaha no problem..

just drop it from waist level to the tar on the road which are rougher than cement.. and yest a dimple and its still moving...

i mean working

hahahaha

[jetram100]

I have just come into contact with this little handheld and am quite pleased, over the years I have had different brands and this one is just as good as any out there, despite the fact that it is totally manufactured in China and carries a Chinese name, I'll just bet that more parts then we can think of in the "name brand" units are made in China.

I can find fault with every radio that I have used over the years so this one is no different, however, I like this radio.

[Islandmarty]

@hlevi3340 there are many websites with instructions on programming these radios. there is a yahoo group that has all the software you need. cheers islandcomms

[SpuriousEmission]

An excellent review. I'm considering one of these myself. I'm surprised at that because I never thought much of the Chinese handies when they came out.

[uglyengineer]

I'm in the market and look for 70cm coverage as well as 2m and for the price this looks like a decent unit. Sounds like you didn't get any responses to your CQ... :(

[BeigeGenius]

There exists a distributor in the UK now, not too far from the price they are going for on a popular auction site as well!

[alternative3d]

Does this radio have tone scan capabilities or do you have to manually put them in?

[denelson83]

The name 'Wouxun' is pronounced "wu shun". It's Chinese.

[zoutedropdony]

Hello my friend,

i'm a ham PJ2SM i want to know how this radio works, can you tell me about it?

i have a yaesu vx-8gr but i want to buy a second radio but not so expensive, but it must be a good one!!!! thanks 73's

[scottso241]

i have my radio for a year now and still love mine it work better than my icom radio it also come with dcs witch is so nice. very nice video from scott n2itd/du1

[Freddyradioman]

I have the Wouxun KG-699E 4 meter set which is also a nice handie. Non full class licence holders need to be careful of all the Wouxun sets which are PMR units and which are not licensable for use by non full licence holders. Thats the only problem with them. Tempting but could get users into hot water in the UK. Sorry for the gloom and doom. Nice and cheap but surprisingly effective. 

[johnH2452]

sorry i meant 2.5mm

[johnH2452]

earphone socket is 2.mm

[humaxf1]

is the earphone socket 3.5 or 2.5mm? thanks

[johnH2452]

sorry 174.999mhz left out the 4 hkradio360cheap but a great radio

[johnH2452]

tx /rx13600.-17.999mhz and tx/rx 400 mhz -470.999 350 mhz-rx 399.999mhz by from hk on ebay great radio you can open them to tx rx on more bands look on youtube for wouxen mods

[dmc081]

when u buy this radio from japan does it come unlock to transmit?

[johnH2452]

Great radio but the back light doesn't go out when scanning what is it my settings are wrong let me know please

[dmc081]

on this radio u can set it to english

[trylleklovn]

Thought you said you can't change squelch level? You're hovering over the setting in the menu several times in this vid ;)

Got one my self and sure is a nice little radio for the money.

[2E0PDH]

@trylleklovn Yup by step you can, I was referring to the normal variable type adjustment normally found and imo much better.

:D

[ryanperry90]

does it have a scrambler in it ?

thanks

[2E0PDH]

@ryanperry90 NO scrambler in this model.

[prickskytte]

Is it possible to work on some local pmr freqs like 446.00625 with this wouxun. the icoms are to expensive for me .

[2E0PDH]

@prickskytte Very much so, works well too ;-)

[moonstrikerII]

i bought two of these they good radios for beginners

[DIESEL1844]

Good little radio eh !

[G4MOF]

Thanks for post 5*