Not for nothing, you get what you pay for with any used Motorola or any commercial radio for that matter.
I don't know... I bought my HT-1000 for US$100, same price I paid for my Bao-turd radio. My NX-200 I paid nothing for, got it in trade for a $200 repeater controller.
A good shop would make a radio run clean on a analyzer.
Do please tell how one would make a Bao-turd-spark gap-no high pass filtering POS radio 'run clean' on a spectrum analyzer?
A regular radio shop would just fix it enough that it would operate with its battery and dump it on eBay or a hamfest.
Yea, sure...
Stop saying this or that radio is junk.
Why? Bao-turd radios are just that. Crappy, poorly filtered, POS radios that can not even scan properly.
They all have the potential to be great radios or lousey junk. It's up to three things
I can agree with that.
Initial build quality and design.
Crappy design, even worse build quality.
Initial bench tune-up , subsequent tune-up which most radios dont get unless they are in a service fleet.
Are we talking about the same thing here???? I doubt there is much of a 'initial bench tune-up with Bao Fengs, and very doubtful there is ANY follow up bench testing. These are hammy garbage radios.
The amount of abuse they get during their service life, including getting dropped from great heights, high speeds, or immersion in unknown liquids.
It's a hammy toy. It likely gets babied...
Used to get the portable radios for WABC and periodic bench for frequency test and spectral purity. Arrived in big pelagin case of a dozen with batteries.
Point?
Just because you read an old QST article about a batch of radios doesn't mean they are all bad.
No need to read a QST article about how crappy Bao-turd radios are, I hear how crappy they are every time one is keyed, and I hear their crappy audio on a repeater.
Have you ever actually put a Bao-turd radio on a spectrum analyzer? It is VERY easy to see, when listening to the radio directly what is, and what is not a Bao-turd radio, just by how it keys up, and by looking at second, third and fourth harmonics. Heck look at the RL plot of one of the Bao-turd 'dual band' antennas. Some real quality work they are.:sarcasm: :weed:
Maybe if there was another article about what if you bought a used Motorola from a hamfest, how well would it work? That would wake up some religious zealots.
Yea ok. I am by far the furthest thing from a 'Motorola zealot' much more of a Kenwood guy.
But these opinions do make US sound like prejudicial self-knowing idiots that believe everything written on a printed page and treat it as dogma.
Well, funny thing is, not only have I read and researched these Bao-turd radios, I have heard many of them on the air. I have also seen them on spectrum analyzer a as well.
The majority of them are cheap, crappy lousy radios.
Played with quite a few radios. Worked with a few radios. Even QST has a column in the publication for errors.
But have you actually looked at a Bao-turd radio on a spectrum analyzer?
Stop defending these crappy radios. They are by far the WORST thing to happen to portable radios in 50 years.
Heck they make hammy toy radios look like high end LMR radios. The hammy toys at least have a bit of filtering... Well more than the Bao-turd radios anyways.
