Radioddity VHF/UHF QB25 Dual Band ,Radioddity , Mini Mobil transceiver Ham Bands

[kd3u]

VHF/UHF QB25 Dual Band ,
Radioddity ,
Mini Mobil transceiver Ham Bandsnd her

Overall its a good little radio for under $100 to reach reapeaters, 2m,70cm,NOAA weather.

I did find some difficulty getting set up so I am going to give some bullets points.

1) Manual is Lousy

2) Use Manufacutere software or CHRIP. Both Work, Chirp is better however there is the possibity of some programming function only available in one or the other software

3) Radiocitty software download includes its USB/Radio Driver. This driver will not work . There is an updated driver that can be downloaded from the web. The only reason I am not including a link is im sure it will rapidly change. The take away here is the original Raddioddity USB driver will not work in WIndows 10 or newer. Find the latest USB driver if your having a hard time connecting to radio

4) when i first got radio the channel names or Freqs would not show up when the squelch was quieting. When you set to MON monitor and hear rush the channel name shows up on the display, the goes away when audio is squelched.ON
SOLUTION: The foreground color and the background color are default set same color. as a starter try setting background blue. Foreground White. This should solve the problem with white letters on blue field.

5) Mechanicaly its well made and a nice looking radio

5) still trying to get SCAN to work

6) some how the programing of the Front pushbutton has changed and some functions have moved to a different PB.

Conclusion: cheap Good little radio don't expect much

 

[Doc_Mack]

I picked up my QB25 just last week for $88 when Radioddity had their 12th Anniversary Sale. The instructions suck, as usual, with these radios!
Does anyone have an issue with the radio making a "clicking" sound when scanning frequencies? I checked it in the house and in the car, and in both places, I get "clicking"... It's annoying. I would appreciate any assistance on this.

'73

KG5CYP

 

[nd5y]

Does anyone have an issue with the radio making a "clicking" sound when scanning frequencies?

I read somewhere else that these cheap mini quad band radios have a mechanical relay that switches certain bands in and out. The similar size/appearance dual band radios don't have the relay.

When you change frequencies to a band that requires the relay it clicks.
You can try scanning only 2 m and 70 cm frequencies or diffferent combinations of other bands and see if it still clicks.