kayn1n32008
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Ok, just got my radio. First impression? WOW. It feels good in the hand. Compact, but not too small.
Programming? Easy. Plugged in the cable and radio to the laptop, and had my first code plug loaded with in 5minutes. I did slightly cheat, I had already downloaded the software. All I had to do was load the drivers, and read the radio.
Audio quality is great, although there is the 'popping sound with button pushes, and TPT. What ever, this is not a big deal at this time. Looks like the speaker mic plug is Motorola RADIUS spacing. Still waiting on my speaker mic, as it is back ordered.
While there is not a DMR repeater locally yet, myself and a friend of mine have played on simplex. Audio quality is decent. No complaints from me. I understand it is a half rate vocoder, and am not expecting analogue sound, but this radio comes close.
I was at a public service event yesterday, and my friend and I played on simplex. Low power approximately 1.25KM apart with terrain and buildings between us. Signals were from zero to three bars, and had no issues with audio recovery. Very impressed, analog would not have been stable enough at this distance on low power.
My only dislike is the belt clip. It feels cheap and flimsy. I was hoping that my IC-92ad belt clip would have fit, at first glance it appeared the screw spacing was similar, but it is not. Oh well.
My radio firmware is ver. 1.25 and code plug ver. 1.13.
I am going to update later today to latest of both.
All in all, very nice radio, at this price point. Makes a great mono band UHf radio, and it will be most likely be my go to portable. As I very rarely use VHF where I live, simply because the UHF repeaters are there.
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Programming? Easy. Plugged in the cable and radio to the laptop, and had my first code plug loaded with in 5minutes. I did slightly cheat, I had already downloaded the software. All I had to do was load the drivers, and read the radio.
Audio quality is great, although there is the 'popping sound with button pushes, and TPT. What ever, this is not a big deal at this time. Looks like the speaker mic plug is Motorola RADIUS spacing. Still waiting on my speaker mic, as it is back ordered.
While there is not a DMR repeater locally yet, myself and a friend of mine have played on simplex. Audio quality is decent. No complaints from me. I understand it is a half rate vocoder, and am not expecting analogue sound, but this radio comes close.
I was at a public service event yesterday, and my friend and I played on simplex. Low power approximately 1.25KM apart with terrain and buildings between us. Signals were from zero to three bars, and had no issues with audio recovery. Very impressed, analog would not have been stable enough at this distance on low power.
My only dislike is the belt clip. It feels cheap and flimsy. I was hoping that my IC-92ad belt clip would have fit, at first glance it appeared the screw spacing was similar, but it is not. Oh well.
My radio firmware is ver. 1.25 and code plug ver. 1.13.
I am going to update later today to latest of both.
All in all, very nice radio, at this price point. Makes a great mono band UHf radio, and it will be most likely be my go to portable. As I very rarely use VHF where I live, simply because the UHF repeaters are there.
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