Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Quansheng TG-Q5: 409Shop

Anonymous pointed out that the 409Shop has the Quansheng TG-Q5 for $38. I wish they would release a video, so we could see more of the radio in action.


5 comments:

  1. All of these super-compact designs are always UHF. I really would love one of these in VHF, so I could monitor agencies very discreetly in my neck of the woods.

    I am guessing its the limitations of the antenna designs or that UHF is more popular worldwide vs. VHF.

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  2. If you look closely at the "what's in the box" picture one of the booklets calls the radio "Lucky Stone". Hmmm...a lucky stone. For some reason I have the Lucky Charms Leprechaun pop into my head.

    They call it a "Commercial Radio" with a channel plus and minus button. But no display. I can see someone wanting to program it with a PC to give to employees as a small commerical radio. But with no channel display how will they know what channel they are on? Or if there's only one channel, what if they've hit the button and changed channels.

    But one important button not shown.....There is no PTT button shown! Is this a two way radio, or a one way?

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    1. " But one important button not shown.....There is no PTT button shown! Is this a two way radio, or a one way? "

      409Shop Says Each Set PACKAGE CONTAIN : 1x Earpiece with PTT

      so there is PTT .

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  3. Didn't catch the earphone with PTT.

    So this is an old school iPod sytle two way radio...but with no display.

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  4. I couldn't resist and purchased one of these along with the programming cable. I did purchase an adaptor separately to go from the serial programming cable to USB. It does come with an earpiece with PTT that you use to monitor and transmit. Also, when you change channels, the voice indicates which channel that you are on. It is a pretty cool little radio, but not my primary portable :). BTW, 409 has a new 25 channel UHF Nanofone NF 769 Super mini radio, but the range is only 448.7500 - 449.2625.

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