New Product Announcement - 2 way radios

CanAm said:
We are looking into it, but the min order is very high and there seem to be doubts as to whether it actually puts out 8W
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If you are interested in the 8watt Baofeng offerings: I've purchased many UV82-HX/UV82-HP's and compared those 8watt units to the original 5watt UV82's that I had. I didn't have them instrument tested but out in the field the 8watt units were able to punch through fringe areas that had the 5 watt units breaking up and unreadable(side by side testing with stock antennas). The only bad thing about the higher output units were the regular RF burns we got if our palms were at all moist and making contact with the charging terminal metal pads on the bottom backs of the batteries (while tx'ing). The 5watt units never gave any of us RF burns, just the 8watt ones. Anyway, I have a few friends interested in the UV82 series and if you start carrying them I'll send them your way.
 
I just received my 2 UV-5Rs. I'm really impressed with all the features packed in this tiny radio. The led flashlight is great. The FM music option actually sounds pretry good for a tiny speaker. It took me a little fiddling to figure out how to program the TX frequency into the memory. YouTube to the rescue.
The radio seems to radiate power less effectively when transmitting above 150 mhz. Ladd channels etc... As soon as I get an adapter I'll hook it it up to my SWR/power meter and get some power and match readings at different frequencies. The supplied antenna is susposed to cover 137 to 174 mhz but I suspect it's centered in the 140s in vhf band. Nagoya does make a commercial version that is made for 150 mhz and higher.
 
Just got back from a trip to Nova Scotia to visit the inlaws and their 100 acre treed spread.

We set a 2 watt mini 3R radio and a 4 watt radio in the 1xx mhz range and could not believe the range. We tried them on the road the vehicles lost sight of each but we still were able to talk, incredible.

Next we tried the acreage and were VERY impressed! I swapped out the stock ducky antenna on the 4 watt radio and noticed an improvement, but even with the stock antenna these radios make FRS radios a joke. Wish I had 2 of the 4 watt radios to test. :(

These 4 watt radios Canada Ammo are selling are great! If you want a cheap comm setup for this price you just cannot go wrong.

My father inlaw is an Engineer and big into radios, he could not believe these, so I left them for him.

Just ordered an 8 watt handheld radio as well, external magnetic mount antenna, battery eliminator, and 3800mah high cap battery for my SHTF vehicle.

Good thing about ordering from Canada Ammo is you get them faster and have local backing.

Anyways just wanted to chime in here.
 
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badshotbob said:
People aren't getting 5-10km out of them... Besides... why would anybody buy these radios to only get 5-10kms out of them when they can go and buy FRS radios that get 60+ kms... ;-)
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You are greatly misinformed, I have a a pair of uv-5r and my brother in law were able to communicate from two hill tops 18 kilometers apart. Crystal clear. We haven't tried to go further yet, but that 60km range you're quoting is impossible...manufacturers of frs radios even state in the fine print that the advertised range is basically theoretical, so that kind of range basically could only occur is impossibly perfect conditions. Just because it's in big font on the package, doesn't make it so...
 
cranswick said:
You are greatly misinformed, I have a a pair of uv-5r and my brother in law were able to communicate from two hill tops 18 kilometers apart. Crystal clear. We haven't tried to go further yet, but that 60km range you're quoting is impossible...manufacturers of frs radios even state in the fine print that the advertised range is basically theoretical, so that kind of range basically could only occur is impossibly perfect conditions. Just because it's in big font on the package, doesn't make it so...
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I am pretty sure he knows that... the wink at the end means it wasn't a serious comment
 
I just tested my uv5r. The conditions were not optimal but it's a good idea.

I was in a heavily wooded area, no high ground just a flat ground with a lot of threes. The meteorological condition were light snow. My wife was inside the house and I was walking in the woods in front of my house.

I got around 1.2 to 1.4Km of range (bird view) Not bad considering then it ideal conditions. If my wife was upstairs I think I could get a little more reach. Until 1.2km the reception was perfect. After that there was more interference until 1.4km were I was unable to receive anything.

In the wood from one hill to another top hill I think I could get way more range.
 
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