[chirp_users] Tri Band Radio

[Shon Edwards]

Hello Stuart,

I have a bunch of tribanders.  I have 7 of the Btech radios you mentioned.
For the price, that seems to be the best thing to outfit my family with;
some of the kids are still pretty young and I won't worry about one getting
broken.  Frankly, I and my 18-year old prefer the Kenwood triband.  It
works extremely well.  The one big problem is you can break it if you
breathe on it.  I own 2 of them and have already had 3-$100 repair jobs,
once by dropping it two feet onto a carpet.  I have a couple of AnyTone
triband radios.  They only do 4 watts on most of the bands.  they are also
$200 apiece, so quite a bit for what you get.  I own some Yaesu radios,
too, a vx-7 and 3 vx-8dr radios.  They do 6M, which is unique and nice,
since we have some 6m repeaters here.  Also 22 MHz, but at a very reduced
power.  Yaesu is extremely tough and reliable, but you have the power
problem on 220.

So there are pluses and minuses to all of them, and there may be others,
but these are my radios and how I rate them.  I would probably go with
Btech.

Take care, 73 de K6QT Shon

Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic)
Amateur call:  K6QT
1039 N 2575 W
Layton, UT, 84041-7709
USA
Home phone:  (801) 444-3445
E-mail:  sre.1966 at gmail.com

or

Shon Edwards
715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd.
Bedford, WY 83112
Cell:  (307) 248-2104

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 6:09 PM, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR <
stuart.tener at bh90210.net> wrote:

> Dan, et alia:
>
> I am interested in getting an inexpensive HT that is Tri-Band and
> decent. Now, if anyone is a technical purist about specifications I
> already realize that any of the sub-$100 HTs are not going to come
> close to the ICOM 52A or something like that. I am considering to get
> an HT that is inexpensive and not something I will cry over if I drop
> it or it gets lost/stolen, whatever. However, with the forgoing in
> mind, I want to try to pick the best one that I can, so I am curious
> about everyone's ideas. Moreover, I surely want something that is
> compatible with Chirp and to get or make the right kind of cable for it.
>
> The one radio I looked at so far was the BaoFeng UV-5x3 (I own no 220
> radios, so it'd be fun to have that capability too). I am driving
> cross country soon and don't have any radios to take with me (they are
> all in the east coast). Once I get there I will have some ICOM radios
> (ICOM 5100A and an ID-1 installed).
>
> Again, I am not out to start a "religious war", just get some opinions
> from people about (obviously) programmability (keypad and via
> computer) as well as day to day function and experiences.
>
> I appreciate in advance everyone's comments.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Stuart, N3GWG
>
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