October 19, 2025 • 17 mins
Discover the Radtel RT-920 handheld radio in our in-depth YouTube review! Explore its potential 10W output, Bluetooth app programming, and full-band coverage (SW, MW, LW, AM, SSB, CB). Learn about advanced features like NOAA weather alerts, DSP noise reduction, and spectrum analysis for crystal-clear communication. Great for ham radio enthusiasts and professionals seeking reliable two-way radio performance. #RadtelRT920 #HamRadio #twowayradios
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Radtel RT nine twenty a new ht that I just received,
and we're going to chat about it. This video is
sponsored by busy dot Com. Use the links in the
description below, which are affiliate links for affiliate commissions and
helped to support the channel to see all of their products.
(00:22):
I got this in the mail yesterday, and quite frankly,
I don't know who sent it to me. I don't
know where it came from. I don't remember buying it,
and I searched my email for either RT nine twenty
or Radtel RT nine twenty or RT DASH nine twenty
or something, and I don't have any emails for it.
So whoever sent this to me, thank you. It's possible
(00:43):
I purchased it at some point in time. I purchased
the Radtela to eighty G because a couple of you
had recommended it to me in the comment section of
one of my previous videos. But this one, I honestly
don't know where it came from. However, I watched some
YouTube videos and did a little bit of research on it,
and this seems to be a really top notch radio.
The first thing I'll say about it is that it's
(01:05):
a bit smaller This is the eight eighty G right here,
the one I reviewed a while back. This is the
nine to twenty, the one on my left, your right.
I guess, okay, it's a bit beefier in this direction
right here, because the battery is bigger, so it's smaller,
it's squattier, it's shorter, it's a little bit heavier, mostly
(01:25):
due to the battery. But it's got a lot of
features that the other one didn't have. Well, I shouldn't
say that it's got about the same features as the
eight eighty G, except that I found it a bit
easier to navigate through the menus and through the features,
easier than the eight ADYG, at least for me. So
let me show you what I'm talking about here. So
(01:45):
obviously the screen is larger on the eight eighty G.
Turned that on there so you can clearly see it
has triband display here this one only has dual band display.
But this one does have noah weather. It has multi
band reception as the other one did. Full band support
covers a wide range of frequencies including short wave, medium wave,
(02:07):
and longwave CB radio. I got it to key up
on channel I don't know some twenty seven ME channel
member wich channel was we'll show you that here in
a second supports AMFM upper and lower sideband CW high
sensitivity CB reception. Okay, maybe ten WATS transmit power is
what it's advertised as. I don't think we're gonna get
(02:29):
that out of it, but we're gonna look at that
try mode power. It does have low, medium, and high
Bluetooth app programming. Now, I will say this. I watched
a video on YouTube and it showed me how you
can connect via Bluetooth to this radio with an app
called Walkie Talkie Tool. So I look up this app,
(02:52):
Walkie Talkie Tool. Here is the app Walkie Talkie Tool. Now,
I would like to know in the comments below if
you guys have ever used this. So clearly you can
see on the screen here that it is got a
bunch of Chinese characters under the name. So I'm a
bit leery about installing this on my main smartphone device.
(03:15):
I don't think that I want to do that quite yet.
But it is intriguing that there seems to be a
universal in other words, not tied to a certain radio
or a certain company. It seems to be intriguing that
there's a universal tool for connecting to radios via Bluetooth
and programming them. So probably grab an old cell phone
(03:37):
that I have and install it. Log into another some
other account besides my ham Radio Tube WEO YouTube account,
and so I can access the playstore, download that tool,
and do another video about it. But let me know
in the comments below if you guys have ever seen this,
because I had never heard of this app before before
watching a couple videos on YouTube about this RT ninet
(03:58):
twenty radium. The radio is equipped to the DSP. It's
got onenty twenty four memory channels. Frequency sweep copy function
allows quick copying of nearby frequencies or CTCSSDCS tones, DTMF
and coding for PTT and PTT ID Noah weather alerts.
The last model we talked about had that integrated spectrum analyzer.
(04:20):
This is kind of cool. I don't remember seeing that
on the ADA eighty G type C charging on the battery,
not on the radio itself. LCD display repeater support, tail
squolch elimination, wireless charging, wireless frequency cloning. Yeah. With bluetooth.
You can download the software from Radtail's website and connects
(04:41):
to your laptop via Bluetooth and program the radio frequencies
in there or whatever it does. And it's a good
good way to program the radio. You don't need a
charging programming cable. So this is the radio. We're going
to take a look at it, put it on the
power meter, and put it on the spectrum analyzer. So
let's take a look over here when it First of all,
(05:02):
I want to show you guys what it looks like here. Okay,
so I've got this on on the top here there
is an extra port similar to this radio here. So
this radio just has a pull off cap and an
extra SMA that's for your HF rec right there. This radio,
the cap actually unscrews, so it's got to screw on
cap for with an SMA threading on it. So that
(05:25):
makes makes it a little bit less likely for you
to use lose the cap from the radio. So we
can go like this right here, we can see that
it is on one thirty eight. I was I was
scanning through some airband frequencies. It will do airband receive, okay,
so it will go to of course, it'll go to
one four and turn that volume down five two zero,
(05:49):
So it's on low power, right now it'll transmit their
KC five h TOWB testing. It will transmit KC five
h TOBB testing transmits on two two three five. The
two twenty one point twenty five meter band for forty
transmits there case five HWB, and it will transmit on
GMRS WRFK three eleven. I don't think that's a real
(06:12):
channel though, so it'll transmit on all of those places. Plus.
Now the instructions tell you to hold down this zero
button to enter HF receive mode. So when I first
did that, it actually put me into FN transmitter mode.
In order to get out of that, we had to
go into the menu and change from FM broadcast receive.
(06:34):
We had to go into the menu, change from FM
broadcast receive, and then it would let me go in
and change and put in twenty meters and six meters
and whatnot. So we've got without an antenna connected. We've
got the twenty meter band right there, so it'll go
to you know, twenty meters twenty one two fifty. There's
(06:56):
receive right there. Okay, we can go into the menu
by pressing the OK button and we can change the
modulation from lower to upper sideband. So now we're on
lower sideband you can see in the screen right there,
and I can go into zero seven one or wherever,
(07:19):
so to receive on forty meters, ten meters, twenty meters,
fifteen meters, whatnot. Once we come back out of this,
go back to the regular bands, it will actually go
to oops, not that. Let's go to zero five okay,
Now we're in six meters FM mode casey five HWB testing.
(07:39):
We did a six meter FM activation at Montasano State
Park on froda in on our PO today the Friday
before Huntsville Hamfest, and one guy there had the eight
to eighty G and we got on five two five
two five to make contacts with each other. That was
fun to do. But two or three people had a
six meter radio. We did that and several of us
(08:00):
got some six meter FM contacts in our logbook. So
this this RT nine twenty will transmit on six meters. Also.
We can also go right here and we can say
zero two seven one eight five okay, and we're currently
in I think we're still in FM right now. So
(08:20):
if you're in the HF mode, there's an extra menu
in there to go to. I'm not sure if it'll
go to A. I'm gonna have to look that up.
So we're on FM right now. But it will transmit
on CB frequencies too, So that's two seven one eighty
five is channel nineteen, I believe. I believe that's channel
nineteen two seven eight five, So it'll transmit there. Probably
(08:41):
probably not a very clean sentem, but it will transmit.
I don't know if there's a way to change it
to AM, and you might be able to go to
do it like this, go back into because it'll go
to fourteen megaherds, So I wonder for to go to
twenty eight megaherds in this mode. Let's find out takes
it a minute to come through this menu. Okay, let's
(09:01):
go to two two seven one eight five. Okay, now
we're there, and now we're on lower's sideband. There you see,
we're gonna go back up in here. We're gonna choose AM.
Now we're on Oh okay, but change change frequencies on it,
so we'll go to two seven one eight five. There
(09:22):
we go, all right, and we can we can transmit there.
It switches this back to the other view. So when
you hit the transmit button, it throws you back to
that view right there, and I guess it's transmitting. But
then you when you hit that same see it'll come
back like that by itself. But it's on AM. Well,
at least it has an AM receive. It's not really
(09:45):
made to transmit on HF. It's made for an HF receiver.
I scanned through the twenty meter band a minute ago,
and I wasn't really able to hear much, just because
you know, the band's really not up right now. I
haven't really been able to hear much lately. But it
does have full HF range receive and air band receive
and NOAH weather alerts, and it will transmit on six
(10:06):
meters two meters two twenty four forty gmrs mers and
probably a couple other places it shouldn't transmit. So let's
put it on the meter. We're gonna see exactly how
well this thing transmits. It's advertised as a ten watt radio,
but like it's like its brother over here at eight
ady G. I'm guessing we're gonna get about six to
seven watts out of both bands two meters and seventy centimeters.
(10:29):
Let's see now, if you don't have a HAM radio license, yet,
or you do have a hand radio license and you've
got your home address or public address or private address,
share it on your FCC website. I recommend heading over
to busy dot com. I will put a link to
this in the description Blow Again. It is an affiliate link.
This is a virtual address for ham radio operators and
(10:52):
this works great for people on the go. This works
great for people who are maybe don't have a permanent
home address. It is a virtual mailbox. It's a legit
it's not a PO box, it's a legit mailing address,
virtual mailbox. What they do is they set you up
with this account. They get you your own personal address,
you put it on the website, and all of the
(11:12):
mail you get at this address will be scanned and
emailed to you in a secure manner and then destroyed. Yes,
you can choose to have the mail held or forwarded
somewhere else. You don't have to have it destroyed. But
they have been in business for a couple of decades
now for businesses, and they finally opened up for ham
radio operators, specifically because they made this web page for me.
(11:33):
So check out the link in the description below busy
dot com. If you want a virtual mailing address, and
you don't want to share your private address in a
public location. All right. We've got the Intellitron meter going
over here, and the screen turns off really quickly. I
gotta adjust that, all right. So we're gonna go on
a one five to two right there. You can clearly
see it's where we're gonna test first, and I'm gonna
(11:55):
hit the PTT right there, and you can see it's
doing just under six watts on two meters and change
it to uh seventy centimeters. We're on high power here
for forty six, well almost seven watts. Okay, that's not bad,
all right, two two three, so it's transmitting about a
(12:16):
half a wat a little bit more on two twenty Already,
it's better than the eight eighty G. All right, good deal.
Now we're gonna try gmrs and we're getting about five
and a half watts on gmrs. Also, see if it'll
transmit on CV frequency about one what on channel nineteen
(12:36):
and that is on FM, so it will transmit out
of band, and it's doing better than it's uh counterpart,
the eight eighty G because if you recall correctly, that
one didn't even move the needle when we keyed up
on two two, three dot five. Its advertised as a
multi band radio. In effectively it only really transmitted on
two bands, which was well three bands I guess two
(12:59):
meters seventy centimeters HAM radio and seventy centimeters GMRS same band,
different radio service because the other bands that transmitted on
was very very low power and kind of splattered. So
now we're gonna see how badly this one splattered and
how it compares it's to the other model, the eight
to eighty G as well. Got the TINYESSA connected to
(13:19):
the radio here. I did mention earlier that the radio
itself has a USBC port on the battery, not on
the radio, so you can't interface the radio itself USBC,
but you can charge the battery via USBC. I forgot
to show that earlier. So there that is. Okay. Now,
if we take this right here and trying to keep
the glare out of the screen, we take this right here,
we're going to tell the tiny SA measure harmonic one
(13:43):
four six dot five to two megahertz megahurts, and then
we're going to go to level ext gain minus forty
times one. Okay, So there we go there. We see
a second harmonic on two meters, which actually the other one.
(14:05):
There's a third harmonic creeping up right there, transmitting on
how high power, which we saw was just about five
and a half wats or so, okay, the third harmonic
disappeared after a while. Power is going down. Though second
harmonic is gone. Power keeps coming down on the first
one on that side. So maybe not quite as clean
as the ADADYG. The adady G was surprising clean on
(14:27):
two meters. I was somewhat surprised about that. So let's
try for forty six, and we're gonna change this over
here here and level on this forty times one. All right,
we'll key up there, give it a minute. All right.
(14:48):
That's about the same as it was on two meters,
So not as clean as it could be, but you know,
not too bad, certainly, not any third. Yeah, it's got
a second harmonic right there that's creeping up zero number one?
Is it thirty plus thirty? This one's creeping up to zero.
It's got a little eighth one down way down there. Okay,
(15:08):
so that's not bad. Now, let's try two two three,
because that's where the other one was very dirty. So
the A to eighty G was actually quite a bit
cleaner on both two meters and for forty via the
spectrum analyzer here. Yeah, kind of a dirty signal there,
(15:31):
which I expected to see. Actually, it doesn't look too
much worse than the other ones. Really, well, there it
is right there. I wonder what it's going to do.
I'm oddly curious to see what it'll do on six meters.
Oh yeah, yeah, splatter city all over six meters. Kind
of what I expected. Not really made to do six meters.
(15:53):
It's just full open transmit. That's what you get for
having a radio that transmits out of band, So it's
not really made. It says it's multi band, it's supposed
to be two meters two twenty and four forty with.
It does have wide band receive and the receiver on
it seems to be pretty good. It's not the best
receiver I've ever seen. And since the band is dead
right now, I couldn't even hear anything on my Flex
(16:15):
radio back there. But since the band is dead right now,
it's hard to determine. I couldn't hear a two meter
I'm sorry, a twenty meter ft eight signal on this
HT either but not bad, not great, not bad. I
kind of think I like the eight to eighty G better.
It's larger, it has tried display instead of dual display,
and this one's smaller. And this one is smaller and
(16:37):
a bit heavier, but it's more compact and has a
larger battery, larger capacity battery. So pick which one you
want and go from there. But the eight eighty G
wins the test on harmonics a little bit cleaner harmonics.
This rat tail looks more like previous rat taels I
have tested in the past that were dirty on signal
(16:59):
at last least on two meters, if not on two
meters and four forty So do what you will with it.
I'll put a link to this and everything in the
description blow. Thank you for watching today, and once again,
thank you to whoever sent me this radio. Don't know
who it was. It just showed up in the mail
one day, so I thought, why not make a video?
Seventy three
Radtel RT nine twenty a new ht that I just received,
and we're going to chat about it. This video is
sponsored by busy dot Com. Use the links in the
description below, which are affiliate links for affiliate commissions and
helped to support the channel to see all of their products.
(00:22):
I got this in the mail yesterday, and quite frankly,
I don't know who sent it to me. I don't
know where it came from. I don't remember buying it,
and I searched my email for either RT nine twenty
or Radtel RT nine twenty or RT DASH nine twenty
or something, and I don't have any emails for it.
So whoever sent this to me, thank you. It's possible
(00:43):
I purchased it at some point in time. I purchased
the Radtela to eighty G because a couple of you
had recommended it to me in the comment section of
one of my previous videos. But this one, I honestly
don't know where it came from. However, I watched some
YouTube videos and did a little bit of research on it,
and this seems to be a really top notch radio.
The first thing I'll say about it is that it's
(01:05):
a bit smaller This is the eight eighty G right here,
the one I reviewed a while back. This is the
nine to twenty, the one on my left, your right.
I guess, okay, it's a bit beefier in this direction
right here, because the battery is bigger, so it's smaller,
it's squattier, it's shorter, it's a little bit heavier, mostly
(01:25):
due to the battery. But it's got a lot of
features that the other one didn't have. Well, I shouldn't
say that it's got about the same features as the
eight eighty G, except that I found it a bit
easier to navigate through the menus and through the features,
easier than the eight ADYG, at least for me. So
let me show you what I'm talking about here. So
(01:45):
obviously the screen is larger on the eight eighty G.
Turned that on there so you can clearly see it
has triband display here this one only has dual band display.
But this one does have noah weather. It has multi
band reception as the other one did. Full band support
covers a wide range of frequencies including short wave, medium wave,
(02:07):
and longwave CB radio. I got it to key up
on channel I don't know some twenty seven ME channel
member wich channel was we'll show you that here in
a second supports AMFM upper and lower sideband CW high
sensitivity CB reception. Okay, maybe ten WATS transmit power is
what it's advertised as. I don't think we're gonna get
(02:29):
that out of it, but we're gonna look at that
try mode power. It does have low, medium, and high
Bluetooth app programming. Now, I will say this. I watched
a video on YouTube and it showed me how you
can connect via Bluetooth to this radio with an app
called Walkie Talkie Tool. So I look up this app,
(02:52):
Walkie Talkie Tool. Here is the app Walkie Talkie Tool. Now,
I would like to know in the comments below if
you guys have ever used this. So clearly you can
see on the screen here that it is got a
bunch of Chinese characters under the name. So I'm a
bit leery about installing this on my main smartphone device.
(03:15):
I don't think that I want to do that quite yet.
But it is intriguing that there seems to be a
universal in other words, not tied to a certain radio
or a certain company. It seems to be intriguing that
there's a universal tool for connecting to radios via Bluetooth
and programming them. So probably grab an old cell phone
(03:37):
that I have and install it. Log into another some
other account besides my ham Radio Tube WEO YouTube account,
and so I can access the playstore, download that tool,
and do another video about it. But let me know
in the comments below if you guys have ever seen this,
because I had never heard of this app before before
watching a couple videos on YouTube about this RT ninet
(03:58):
twenty radium. The radio is equipped to the DSP. It's
got onenty twenty four memory channels. Frequency sweep copy function
allows quick copying of nearby frequencies or CTCSSDCS tones, DTMF
and coding for PTT and PTT ID Noah weather alerts.
The last model we talked about had that integrated spectrum analyzer.
(04:20):
This is kind of cool. I don't remember seeing that
on the ADA eighty G type C charging on the battery,
not on the radio itself. LCD display repeater support, tail
squolch elimination, wireless charging, wireless frequency cloning. Yeah. With bluetooth.
You can download the software from Radtail's website and connects
(04:41):
to your laptop via Bluetooth and program the radio frequencies
in there or whatever it does. And it's a good
good way to program the radio. You don't need a
charging programming cable. So this is the radio. We're going
to take a look at it, put it on the
power meter, and put it on the spectrum analyzer. So
let's take a look over here when it First of all,
(05:02):
I want to show you guys what it looks like here. Okay,
so I've got this on on the top here there
is an extra port similar to this radio here. So
this radio just has a pull off cap and an
extra SMA that's for your HF rec right there. This radio,
the cap actually unscrews, so it's got to screw on
cap for with an SMA threading on it. So that
(05:25):
makes makes it a little bit less likely for you
to use lose the cap from the radio. So we
can go like this right here, we can see that
it is on one thirty eight. I was I was
scanning through some airband frequencies. It will do airband receive, okay,
so it will go to of course, it'll go to
one four and turn that volume down five two zero,
(05:49):
So it's on low power, right now it'll transmit their
KC five h TOWB testing. It will transmit KC five
h TOBB testing transmits on two two three five. The
two twenty one point twenty five meter band for forty
transmits there case five HWB, and it will transmit on
GMRS WRFK three eleven. I don't think that's a real
(06:12):
channel though, so it'll transmit on all of those places. Plus.
Now the instructions tell you to hold down this zero
button to enter HF receive mode. So when I first
did that, it actually put me into FN transmitter mode.
In order to get out of that, we had to
go into the menu and change from FM broadcast receive.
(06:34):
We had to go into the menu, change from FM
broadcast receive, and then it would let me go in
and change and put in twenty meters and six meters
and whatnot. So we've got without an antenna connected. We've
got the twenty meter band right there, so it'll go
to you know, twenty meters twenty one two fifty. There's
(06:56):
receive right there. Okay, we can go into the menu
by pressing the OK button and we can change the
modulation from lower to upper sideband. So now we're on
lower sideband you can see in the screen right there,
and I can go into zero seven one or wherever,
(07:19):
so to receive on forty meters, ten meters, twenty meters,
fifteen meters, whatnot. Once we come back out of this,
go back to the regular bands, it will actually go
to oops, not that. Let's go to zero five okay,
Now we're in six meters FM mode casey five HWB testing.
(07:39):
We did a six meter FM activation at Montasano State
Park on froda in on our PO today the Friday
before Huntsville Hamfest, and one guy there had the eight
to eighty G and we got on five two five
two five to make contacts with each other. That was
fun to do. But two or three people had a
six meter radio. We did that and several of us
(08:00):
got some six meter FM contacts in our logbook. So
this this RT nine twenty will transmit on six meters. Also.
We can also go right here and we can say
zero two seven one eight five okay, and we're currently
in I think we're still in FM right now. So
(08:20):
if you're in the HF mode, there's an extra menu
in there to go to. I'm not sure if it'll
go to A. I'm gonna have to look that up.
So we're on FM right now. But it will transmit
on CB frequencies too, So that's two seven one eighty
five is channel nineteen, I believe. I believe that's channel
nineteen two seven eight five, So it'll transmit there. Probably
(08:41):
probably not a very clean sentem, but it will transmit.
I don't know if there's a way to change it
to AM, and you might be able to go to
do it like this, go back into because it'll go
to fourteen megaherds, So I wonder for to go to
twenty eight megaherds in this mode. Let's find out takes
it a minute to come through this menu. Okay, let's
(09:01):
go to two two seven one eight five. Okay, now
we're there, and now we're on lower's sideband. There you see,
we're gonna go back up in here. We're gonna choose AM.
Now we're on Oh okay, but change change frequencies on it,
so we'll go to two seven one eight five. There
(09:22):
we go, all right, and we can we can transmit there.
It switches this back to the other view. So when
you hit the transmit button, it throws you back to
that view right there, and I guess it's transmitting. But
then you when you hit that same see it'll come
back like that by itself. But it's on AM. Well,
at least it has an AM receive. It's not really
(09:45):
made to transmit on HF. It's made for an HF receiver.
I scanned through the twenty meter band a minute ago,
and I wasn't really able to hear much, just because
you know, the band's really not up right now. I
haven't really been able to hear much lately. But it
does have full HF range receive and air band receive
and NOAH weather alerts, and it will transmit on six
(10:06):
meters two meters two twenty four forty gmrs mers and
probably a couple other places it shouldn't transmit. So let's
put it on the meter. We're gonna see exactly how
well this thing transmits. It's advertised as a ten watt radio,
but like it's like its brother over here at eight
ady G. I'm guessing we're gonna get about six to
seven watts out of both bands two meters and seventy centimeters.
(10:29):
Let's see now, if you don't have a HAM radio license, yet,
or you do have a hand radio license and you've
got your home address or public address or private address,
share it on your FCC website. I recommend heading over
to busy dot com. I will put a link to
this in the description Blow Again. It is an affiliate link.
This is a virtual address for ham radio operators and
(10:52):
this works great for people on the go. This works
great for people who are maybe don't have a permanent
home address. It is a virtual mailbox. It's a legit
it's not a PO box, it's a legit mailing address,
virtual mailbox. What they do is they set you up
with this account. They get you your own personal address,
you put it on the website, and all of the
(11:12):
mail you get at this address will be scanned and
emailed to you in a secure manner and then destroyed. Yes,
you can choose to have the mail held or forwarded
somewhere else. You don't have to have it destroyed. But
they have been in business for a couple of decades
now for businesses, and they finally opened up for ham
radio operators, specifically because they made this web page for me.
(11:33):
So check out the link in the description below busy
dot com. If you want a virtual mailing address, and
you don't want to share your private address in a
public location. All right. We've got the Intellitron meter going
over here, and the screen turns off really quickly. I
gotta adjust that, all right. So we're gonna go on
a one five to two right there. You can clearly
see it's where we're gonna test first, and I'm gonna
(11:55):
hit the PTT right there, and you can see it's
doing just under six watts on two meters and change
it to uh seventy centimeters. We're on high power here
for forty six, well almost seven watts. Okay, that's not bad,
all right, two two three, so it's transmitting about a
(12:16):
half a wat a little bit more on two twenty Already,
it's better than the eight eighty G. All right, good deal.
Now we're gonna try gmrs and we're getting about five
and a half watts on gmrs. Also, see if it'll
transmit on CV frequency about one what on channel nineteen
(12:36):
and that is on FM, so it will transmit out
of band, and it's doing better than it's uh counterpart,
the eight eighty G because if you recall correctly, that
one didn't even move the needle when we keyed up
on two two, three dot five. Its advertised as a
multi band radio. In effectively it only really transmitted on
two bands, which was well three bands I guess two
(12:59):
meters seventy centimeters HAM radio and seventy centimeters GMRS same band,
different radio service because the other bands that transmitted on
was very very low power and kind of splattered. So
now we're gonna see how badly this one splattered and
how it compares it's to the other model, the eight
to eighty G as well. Got the TINYESSA connected to
(13:19):
the radio here. I did mention earlier that the radio
itself has a USBC port on the battery, not on
the radio, so you can't interface the radio itself USBC,
but you can charge the battery via USBC. I forgot
to show that earlier. So there that is. Okay. Now,
if we take this right here and trying to keep
the glare out of the screen, we take this right here,
we're going to tell the tiny SA measure harmonic one
(13:43):
four six dot five to two megahertz megahurts, and then
we're going to go to level ext gain minus forty
times one. Okay, So there we go there. We see
a second harmonic on two meters, which actually the other one.
(14:05):
There's a third harmonic creeping up right there, transmitting on
how high power, which we saw was just about five
and a half wats or so, okay, the third harmonic
disappeared after a while. Power is going down. Though second
harmonic is gone. Power keeps coming down on the first
one on that side. So maybe not quite as clean
as the ADADYG. The adady G was surprising clean on
(14:27):
two meters. I was somewhat surprised about that. So let's
try for forty six, and we're gonna change this over
here here and level on this forty times one. All right,
we'll key up there, give it a minute. All right.
(14:48):
That's about the same as it was on two meters,
So not as clean as it could be, but you know,
not too bad, certainly, not any third. Yeah, it's got
a second harmonic right there that's creeping up zero number one?
Is it thirty plus thirty? This one's creeping up to zero.
It's got a little eighth one down way down there. Okay,
(15:08):
so that's not bad. Now, let's try two two three,
because that's where the other one was very dirty. So
the A to eighty G was actually quite a bit
cleaner on both two meters and for forty via the
spectrum analyzer here. Yeah, kind of a dirty signal there,
(15:31):
which I expected to see. Actually, it doesn't look too
much worse than the other ones. Really, well, there it
is right there. I wonder what it's going to do.
I'm oddly curious to see what it'll do on six meters.
Oh yeah, yeah, splatter city all over six meters. Kind
of what I expected. Not really made to do six meters.
(15:53):
It's just full open transmit. That's what you get for
having a radio that transmits out of band, So it's
not really made. It says it's multi band, it's supposed
to be two meters two twenty and four forty with.
It does have wide band receive and the receiver on
it seems to be pretty good. It's not the best
receiver I've ever seen. And since the band is dead
right now, I couldn't even hear anything on my Flex
(16:15):
radio back there. But since the band is dead right now,
it's hard to determine. I couldn't hear a two meter
I'm sorry, a twenty meter ft eight signal on this
HT either but not bad, not great, not bad. I
kind of think I like the eight to eighty G better.
It's larger, it has tried display instead of dual display,
and this one's smaller. And this one is smaller and
(16:37):
a bit heavier, but it's more compact and has a
larger battery, larger capacity battery. So pick which one you
want and go from there. But the eight eighty G
wins the test on harmonics a little bit cleaner harmonics.
This rat tail looks more like previous rat taels I
have tested in the past that were dirty on signal
(16:59):
at last least on two meters, if not on two
meters and four forty So do what you will with it.
I'll put a link to this and everything in the
description blow. Thank you for watching today, and once again,
thank you to whoever sent me this radio. Don't know
who it was. It just showed up in the mail
one day, so I thought, why not make a video?
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