Baofeng UV-5R: High Capacity Battery Video

Just in case you wanted to see the size of the high capacity battery in motion.

Wouxun KG-UV920R: Problems and Delays

From Kight Radio:

"Wouxun has released limited quantities of their new Dual Band mobile to dealers. All dealers are limited to 10 units at this time because the mobile is not if full production yet. They did release some of the dual band mobile to the Chinese market to test and and Chinese wholesalers reported problems with them and they were returned to Wouxun and were told it would be abother 30 days before the problem is fixed ( this was on 6/2 ) The new radios will not have 2.5 steps and they will not be FCC certified. The sample dealers are being shipped by Wouxun on July 9th so it will be July 13 or 14 before they show up at the dealers. I would watch ebay close, I am sure one will be found there within a few days"

As predicted they are showing up on eBay as David and someone on the Yahoo Group noticed, but the listing has already been pulled.

$75,000

DrewEdwardsUT Fantastic premise. RT @richarddeitsch: A pair of researchers ask the Q: How much money do you need to be happy? nyti.ms/PtFC7TSun, Jul 08 00:18:16 from Tweetbot for iOS

Clarke's Third Law

Control a robot with your mind from over 1,000 miles away.

Wouxun KG-UV920R: July Brochure

Wouxun posted an update to the Yahoo Group with a new brochure for the KG-UV920R. I wonder if "marketed" means available for sale/brought to market or just advertised.

"TO ALL:
WOUXUN FIRST MOBILE RADIO KG-UV920R is marketed this July. Please view the
product information on the leaflet which we uploaded on FILES:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wouxun_KG-UVD1/message/10105
Any suggestions or opinions, please feel free to keep us informed.
WOUXUN Electronics CO. Ltd."

Easy Come, Easy Go

I wasn't sure I was going to post about it, but since someone brought it up in the comments, the www.chinaradiousers.com site has been down for several days - maybe even a week. I could make arguments both ways about the usefulness of a site specific to Chinese radios, but was going to give it a chance. For a new site, it seemed to have a little momentum going.

The site currently says:

"Site

will be back up within 24 hours

We are moving to a different faster server "

I had noticed there was an earlier error message about some trial software expiring. I was kinda assuming that http://www.kightradio.com was responsible for setting it up, since it was promoted there. I went to verify the owner with a whois lookup, but they have used a third party to protect their identity. (I do that, too, so I'm not implying there is anything fishy going on here.)

Domain Name: CHINARADIOUSERS.COM
Registrant: PrivacyProtect.org
Domain Admin (contact@privacyprotect.org)
ID#10760, PO Box 16

So, like many things internet or ham, it is probably someone's hobby. I'm sure they will get around to it eventually. And if not, the Yahoo groups and other ham forums are always there.

Baofeng UV-5R: High Capacity Battery

Want a higher capacity battery? Want your UV-5R to look like a Zack Morris phone? Why not do both!

Try the 7.4V 3600mAH Ultra High Double Capacity Battery from RadioShop888.

Baofeng UV-5R: Reverse Scan

I was doing some catching up on the UV-5R Yahoo Group and found this thread that says you can reverse the direction of the scan by pressing the down arrow.

Does it work on the other Baofengs? I've not got one handy to try.

Euron a.k.a. Drunk Cows

The SCOTUS decision on Obamacare has everyone's attention, so we've forgotten for the moment what is going on in Europe.

It reminds me of Enron Cows.

Europe link via Uncle

SDR

Hans discusses some of the short-comings of software defined radio like disappointing receivers, weird sounds, and a... DUDE you can totally build a radio on a $20 USB stick! Wait. Sorry about that. What was I saying? Oh yeah, SDR has some problems.

And that is why SDR will continue to improve... we are like three years old that can't help but change our focus when something shiny and new appears. As he concludes in the article and the comments, there are some problems with SDR. It isn't a silver bullet, but we've only scratched the surface in both the ham and other communities.