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Hi Simon, good review. I have one of these and I am amazed by it. I replaced the stock antenna with a Nagoya N771 antenna and I can speak to a friend of mine 10.3 miles as the crow flies, on VHF & UHF ham bands no problem! Hope to catch you on PMR again. Cheers. Steve de 26TM372.
Thanks! I was using the Retevis RHD-771 in part of the testing - seems to work great although Steve I was working with in the video seemed to think the stock antenna was better on 2m but it could have been down to conditions - we were pushing the limits of distance in the tests from his location. I love the TD-H3 for its compact size and it still manages to produce at least 4w on high power. Great value for the $30 or less!
Thank you. It all depends if you need the AM airband on this model or the extra power on the TD-H8. It's a difficult one to call since they both have similar features. The USB-C programming with the built in chip is nice to have in this model but they both can use Bluetooth and the cloud based ODmaster software so that might not be the main consideration. All depends how you are going to use it! TD-H3 is more pocket sized.
Okay, great thanks for clearing that up. I have watched loads of videos on these radios. This is the only video that has gone into detail and convinced me that they are actually decent. The Chinese radios have come a long way since the early days.
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Nice radios, great demonstration. Wish they would upgrade the exact same features into the H8.
Hi Simon, good review. I have one of these and I am amazed by it. I replaced the stock antenna with a Nagoya N771 antenna and I can speak to a friend of mine 10.3 miles as the crow flies, on VHF & UHF ham bands no problem!
Hope to catch you on PMR again. Cheers. Steve de 26TM372.
Thanks! I was using the Retevis RHD-771 in part of the testing - seems to work great although Steve I was working with in the video seemed to think the stock antenna was better on 2m but it could have been down to conditions - we were pushing the limits of distance in the tests from his location. I love the TD-H3 for its compact size and it still manages to produce at least 4w on high power. Great value for the $30 or less!
Good video. I've been waiting for these radios to improve on the airband reception, seems like they are doing that. Bluetooth option also interesting.
I've done the firmware upgrade and airband is excellent
Got one a week ago Simon, what a cracking radio it is !
Just watching it now very informative. You may mention it later, but which is better this one or h8 thx
Thank you. It all depends if you need the AM airband on this model or the extra power on the TD-H8. It's a difficult one to call since they both have similar features. The USB-C programming with the built in chip is nice to have in this model but they both can use Bluetooth and the cloud based ODmaster software so that might not be the main consideration. All depends how you are going to use it! TD-H3 is more pocket sized.
Okay, great thanks for clearing that up. I have watched loads of videos on these radios. This is the only video that has gone into detail and convinced me that they are actually decent. The Chinese radios have come a long way since the early days.
Nice review. 73s
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
The TD-3 good
Hope Nathan in Withernsea doesn't buy one,it will be to complicated for him
I don't think he will be buying one, he's more of a Quansheng man! 😉