Hand Held Transceivers Output Power Test

Hello everybody and welcome back to my uh vlog to my channel. And uh it's nice to nice to say today that we got glorious sunshine coming in through the back windows behind me first thing in the morning which is absolutely lovely. Okay, so as I promised um some power tests. Now I got a newbie coming who's only had chance to put it on charge. And uh this is one of these bow fang minis compared to my Wooang. I think that's how you say it. You can see there's quite a considerable amount of size difference. That's you know considering it size. It's probably about the same sort of weight if it was the same size as this. But if you look at it next to a clang shang or what would have been a bow fang um different name. Yeah, it's um it's it's h smaller than that. It's got a bigger screen though if we put the screen tops to about the same sort of height. You can see that the screen's better. And uh this one actually is a is a color screen uh which is quite pleasant. Okay, but that's not what this is about. This is about just looking at the power outputs on these. So, we're going to start off with this quenching because I've already got it set up. I'm going to turn the power on. Now, the reason why uh let's get it to power forward wattage. We did the VWR thing, didn't we? And um uh yeah, for my UK viewers, um I made a mistake. Um, and I'm going to say within the last sort of four videos, what was that mistake? And if you can guess what the mistake is, I'll send one of these out to you. I'm sorry I can't send it out to the uh the overseas um because the postal uh expenses are just way too high. But if you're in the UK and you've got a call sign, um I'll send one of these out to you if you can tell me what that mistake was. So, let's have a little look at uh full wattage. Uh we're on dummy load, so it doesn't matter. And just in case anybody wonders, let's just um let's just do the VWR quick on here. So, you can see what this this is a 25 watt dummy load DC.3 gigs, 25 watts, 50 amps impedance. And you can see what the uh see that's just keeping that held on. There's no variation. It's um pretty happy to be a one one let's say the lowest uh VWR. So um we can see automatically this is on high power um and the forward voltage u wattage sorry is 5.07 watt. Now, let's just change this to um Oh, that's weird. I turn that down. I didn't think I had the beeping on this thing anymore. So, let's um Sorry. Turn that down to there. We'll go to mid power and we'll look at that. All right. 3.75. 3.75. Make sure I do this facing the camera. And then we'll look at the low power. Um, take a peek at that. Uh, 3.33 doesn't really make a great deal of difference, does it? All right. So, that's that one that's got the orange on top. So, we're going to just go directly to the other Quang Shang. Now, the only difference between these two rails is one's got an an orange top and the other one has a an orange knob even uh and the other one has a uh a black one. So, and they both got the same firmware on both should be pretty much the same battery. I mean, even to the way this screws on, look, they're pretty much both exactly the same. So, anyway, let's have a look. 100% look on the battery and uh just quick look at the power. We're on high. So, let's have a little look. This is on high power. 3.09. Interesting. Right. Interesting. We'll click that to medium power. And uh we're going to go 4.33. up 3.75. Let's do that again. Just one, two, three, four, five, 4.32. Right. And then uh on low power. All right. So, we're on low power. Come back around and 3.69 3.68. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. So, two identical radios, two identical firmwares, two identical everything apart from the slight change in color here and the uh knob color they are different on the outputs. That's just, you know, I'm not here to anything. I'm just showing. See? So, if you bought one of these radios, you may or may not be getting well, you might get either of these on the output powers. Okay, so let's have a little look at this valve fang. Cool if that was any smaller. Look, we're starting to lose a bit of space from screw one of these in. Okay, so that's nice and snug. Okay, let's turn it on. I believe this is already in high power. We'll have a little look. Uh, radio set. Go to that. and we're going to go to um step power. I'm not familiar with getting around this, but uh if you wanted to have a little look at the menu, this is a good chance to have a little bit of a look. All right, reset. So, I'm obviously in the wrong place. Exit scan program channel. Um radio info. All right. So, uh, that's, um, all right, let me just, uh, back out this. We'll just go for a, uh, oh, we can see H. I can see there's high on both of these. And if I, uh, if I was to switch to there, 435. I'm just going to put it in. What was the frequency on these ones? I think they were about the same, weren't they? What was the frequency? 145. So, let's just go 145. Um, and take it out of um, take it out of there. Go 145 0 0. Doesn't matter. I'm not transmitting. It's still on the demi load. Still on high power. So, let's have a little look at this. Now, this has got two uh, transmit keys to PDT press to talk. So, we'll be doing it using the lower one. And, uh, we can see there we got 4.75. Okay. 4.75 watts on high power. Now, uh, this you'd think might be a straight into a menu, but then now that puts the puts the torch on, you have a blinky blinky or off. Bit annoying that that's actually there. If I go in here now, you have a slight different radio uh, set, I believe. If I just I'm going to go back the other way around just to double check that. And um so stepch power power save uh but we don't seem to have any any way of um changing the power output power on image that is in case anybody wonder what the PWR stood for there. Um alarm tone. Yeah. So there doesn't seem to be any um power on. Um so we can look at it on the program channel and uh we can look at the transmit power there. So I'm just going to say we're going to go there. We're going to go to low. So hopefully that changes it throughout the entire menu. Don't know. But we'll have a little look. Go back there. And now we can see an L on there. So, okay, that's uh the way you change that. Then again, pressing the bottom PTT. Uh we just let that settle. And we got uh 2.09 W. So, you know. Yep. So, at least low power on this does work. I do like the screen. Look at that. That's That's cute, isn't it? For such a small screen, it's pretty cute. And um and we got the lower power there. So that's good. That's uh that's good. And then let's have a little look at the uh at the Wooang. These are the only four radios I have. Oh, well actual fact I have a another one of these, but it's not been charged up. It's still uh brand new in the box. Not uh that would be the one that I'd be sending out of this one cuz I know it works. It's still got it little seedy thing on the front. You near the glass screen protector. Although it's not got a big blue tab. You can just about make out the tab to pull off the just up here screen protector. Anyway, so we're going to need a different uh setup for this copper. Oops. Put a coupler on there. There we go. You only have to do it finger tight and it together. All right. Get this on here. Nice and snug. All right. Then, uh, so the battery is a little bit lower on here, does it? But it doesn't matter. Let's just put that down to the bottom. We're going to go 1 4 5 0 0 0. Um, if I find any anomalies on the other ones, um, be it UHF or whatever, I'll I'll post a video on it. But just for the moment, that's fine. So, this is on low power. Um, if I just hit the PTT very quickly there, it's on low power. Then you can see that L. Um, the lighting is not very good. Uh, maybe I turn the back light up a bit. There you can see. Hello. Uh, but you can see the uh L there. If I just go back. Oh, exit. I want to do out there actually. Go back. And you can see the L uh bottom left. So, we're going to do a little transmit power there. And as you can see, 1.4. That's on low power. So, let's go into our menu and uh we're going to go and text power. I'm going to go from there to the middle. All right. So, now we're on M. And you see that on there. Now we do the transmit. We got 263 264. Nice and stable. That's good. And uh now we're going to look at the text power again. Click on there. We'll get to high. Set that. And now we go back and look at the power. Oh, I'm not pressing the right button. 5.0 6 5.06. So, they're all in the right place as well. All right. Um, that's it. That was just a little bit of uh the the power ranges over these radios. And the reason why I showed two of these is cuz I did notice there was a slight uh a slight anomaly. And just um if you want to see actually just turn that off for a moment. If you want to see what you get in the bag with one of these little mini valve bank things. I shall show you. So you get a user manual. That's nice. And there's an app as well. Android or iOS because you can actually program one of these from your mobile phone by using an app because it's got a Bluetooth connection. That makes it pretty clever, pretty good, right? And uh so you get a little barrel thing and a plastic bag. You get a little antenna. You don't get a bigger antenna. You just get one of these little antennas. You get the charging because this is USBC charging. Where's it gone? It's on the back here. USBC charging. Uh, which pretty cool, right? So, you don't need one of those docking stations. Any any USB C plugged into your laptop or And uh what else you get? Yeah, you get one of these. Um, okay. So, you can lanyard it to yourself through this back part here. And then you got that. Yep. So, you don't have to have it knock out your hand. And there's also a belt clip um that I've got on the back of here already, but there's a belt clip. So, just for the sake of it, then let's leave that out of there. Yeah, just pop that stuff back in there. Let's have a little look just for Come on. We got two of them. Why not test it? Let me put that box out the way over there. Let's have a look at this one. All right. So, let's put our uh setup on here. Do that from here. And just just for, you know, for the sake of it, let's just take a peek and see what this one's like. As there's two big differences with the old Wang Shains there. I don't know if they're all the same company, but different names. It's that happens quite a lot with different companies. Um, all right. So, one thing to notice, it's uh threaded on different, but that could be because the the the socket there is just slightly different setup. All right. And so, we're going to go, we're on the VFO. We're going to go 145 0 0. And it's in high power mode, as you can see. And let's uh 467. Now, this one is not fully charged. It's only halfway charged, but 467. I think the other one was 5.07 or something like that. Could be wrong. Uh now, let's go into the menu. And we want to uh program, isn't it? That's what it's uh in there. transmit power. See, it's nice and easy once you know where things are. And it's, like I say, I mean, it's a lovely screen. It's It does look really nice. I'm going have to go over setting one of these up with the Bluetooth on the phone and all that sort of thing. And uh but just for now, we'll look at the low power on this one. I'm going to leave it to you guys to go backwards on the video to see what difference there may or may not be if you so desire. But it's such a lovely little handy. It's a tiny little thing. Uh so yeah, on there. Let's have a little look on the bottom one of course at the uh what we got? 2.35. Near enough halfway to what it is at the moment. Interesting. E. So there we go. That's a little look at the um um the output power of these particular radios. And like I say, it's uh we got two of the quang shangs there quite differently set up. I'm not quite sure how that's actually happened with these uh quang shanks. I'm not quite sure why one would um be different to the others like that, but maybe it's something uh you know, I don't know if you've had experience with these. Maybe you've not had a great experience with these. I know when I was doing the antennas, I found that the one that came with this, which I expected to be pretty damn good, was nothing but a dummy load. And uh I would have expected different because this is a slightly you know higher rated uh than some of the real cheap ones. But hey ho. Uh just a little quick look at the little tiny mini bow fan compared to some of the other handheld sizes. Uh this is a proper little dinky but with a bigger size color screen. There we go. All right guys. Well, thanks for watching if you got this far and uh this helped at all. Uh if you like this, uh give us a thumbs up or leave please leave comments and you know if you got any experiences yourself and uh I'll see you in the next one. Bye for now.