Radioddity GD-88 Dual Band Analog & Digital Handheld Transceiver
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Here we take a look at the new Radioddity GD-88 Dual Band Analog & Digital handheld transceiver.
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00:00 Box Contents
01:15 Close up view
02:20 Moistness Moment
02:31 Specifications
05:01 Power On
05:50 TX & RX Simultaneously Example
06:46 Menu Run Through
07:28 Same Band Repeat
08:19 Digital To Analog Repeat
09:17 RF Output Power Test
10:13 CPS Brief Look
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Hi Matt, How did you manage to get one delivered I tried to buy one from Radioddity last week but they don't deliver to the UK?
I got mine directly from China, you may be able to purchase through Amazon as they have global postage. Try this link when they are in stock. Alternatively Radioddity have suggested to email their support team and they will help you place an order. amzn.to/3pYERbS
@@TechMindsOfficial thanks for that, I emailed Radioddity they were no help.
I just ordered one directly from their web site. Free shipping
@@TK-123 Where are you?
Real time update…. I just receive an email from Radiodditty that their inventory management system over estimate what they had in inventory, and are out of stock. They expect a week or two delay…
Would be interesting to do a comparison video between Radioddity GD-88 and Anytone D878UV II Plus. 🙂
Yes.
Very interested in this comparison...about to buy a DMR and narrowed down currently to the GD-88 & AnyTone 878 plus
you don't need a comparison, you can hear that straight away the anytone is better. The memory is also larger and I think the battery has more capacity.
The GD88 is a rebranded Kydera DR-880UV. There's noting new or special as it's on the market since 2020 (I got mine exactly two years ago in August 2020 for US$ 159.- incl. shipping out of China. Most firmware bugs have been fixed two years ago due to the good Kydera support. I hope that the support will now continue (no updates since 2 years cause of a small community) as it's now available as a Radioddity radio. FYI, I made the recommendation for the power H/L icons (they implemented it within two days) as before they only had the useless green/red bargraph for power. 73 DK5BM
NICE!! Would be interested in another video testing repeat, etc. Thanks for posting!
Excellent review. Your's is the best I've seen on this radio. I'm seriously considering this or the UHF only model.
Thank you Barone! Much appreciated!
@@TechMindsOfficial You're welcome. Both have functions I'll likely never use. But that won't be the first time. I'm waiting for Raddioditty to get back to me on a technical support question, and then I'll decide. I enjoy and appreciate the way you deliver the content. It's about the gear, and very well understandable. Most of my "fellow Americans" with channels like yours are more about themselves than the gear. If I want to see a clown I'll look at the circus. Regards
A lot of these channels receive donor radios from the companies selling the radios for featuring them on their channel.
It is hard to find an honest review of a radio these days as there are so many out there willing to gee up a radio on the strength of a free item. No malice intended here, especially towards you Matt just stating the way it is on UA-cam these days.
I follow a lot of channels on here and have a van load of radios.
Radiosifcation done a review of the same radio only difference being he also described a simlar radio too with a rebranded chassis the "Kydera DR-880UV"
ua-cam.com/video/-a5QWYgwWjg/v-deo.html
I would say this time that Radiosifcations review was a lot more realistic as I have the same radio. I'm sure someone further up mentioned the kydera as well.
BUT in saying that, the usual rules of thumb apply where radio is concerned. what might be good for one may not be for another. And that could well be why your views to the HT is so different Matt 🤔
Thanks for sharing Mate, well laid out and clear narration as always.
Rab Scotland
Nice video, looks very similar to Any Tone AT-D878UVII Plus, keep up the good work 👍
Looks very cool. I'd like to see more tests of the features over greater real world conditions, as you suggest. Try putting the GD-88 on top of a hill with a good antenna and check out its repeater chops. Thanks for another great review.
Thank Steve! Yep, I’m wondering that myself, how well the repeater function works. By all accounts it works very well in close proximity but a real world test would be good. A great radio for emergency networking too, or creating a mesh network.
This is a radio that I am interested in. Good video.
Great educational video. Thanks for sharing this video.
I'd love to see more vids on the cross and same band repeat. Very cool capability.
200 plus page manual ... holy cow, truly multifunctional and well documented! Usually I hate the high compression sound of DMR, but it sounds relatively OK.
Shame it doesn't seem to have RX capability of AirBand in AM, would be a nice feature on top. Some radios have it and it is not even documented.
That would be a nice option. I recently purchased, and returned two of the same radios (branded differently) that had AM Air, and advertised "frequency/data capture". The Air reception was marginal, and the "capture" just didn't work. And then the Chinese on eBay blocked me from buying radios from Chinese sellers. I told eBay BYE ! If I can't buy one thing, I won't bye ANYTHING! So to anyone else who sees this, if you buy a rig on eBay like I did, and return it, you're blacklisted. And many times, despite a different name, it's THE SAME SELLER !
@@baronedipiemonte3990 Thanks for the info. I can not share the experience, whenever I have returned something I would send a list of measurements and facts where the product didn't meet its specs, so I always got the money back and could still order other equipment. Maybe it has to do how serious you analyze their equipment and then point out in exactly which areas it didn't match its own promises. If you send it back without a proper list of reasons they think you do this as some sort if entertainment and then I can imagine that they stop making business with you. Put yourself in their shoes, would you send products across the planet when someone returns stuff without proper feedback?
I think there are people out here that have a shopping addiction and have more addiction than money, you really want to stay away from these customers. You will sink tons of money into shipping and end up with a pile of used equipment that can't be resold for the full price!
I am not saying that you fit into this category, but there are plenty of these people out there and as a dealer you can only survive if you stay away from them. I get where they are coming from.
Have: I would love to see the same band repeater function very very cool that it can both receive and transmit at the same time on the same band!!!!!! thank you very much for a great video
Love mine its like 2 radios in one -agree its cool tx /rx
Yes...I'd like to see further demos.
That looks great. And the CPS looks less annoying than the Anytone 878 CPS
Since the radio supports crossband repeat and the audio did not cut out on VFO A when you transmitted on VFO B, that would mean this radio supports full duplex which is useful for satellites. It would be interesting to see how this radio performs with satellites.
I do plan on trying this at some point.
It does look like a good DMR radio. What I'd really like to see is a form factor and UI that isn't copied from mid-00's mobile phones. The red/green buttons (hangup/call) and the general structure of the menus are giving me flashbacks of my Sony/Ericsson T68i. I understand that any extra effort they put into those areas would most likely result in a price increase, which means they won't do it, because they already have a good product that will sell well. Hell, I'm thinking about picking one up. I just wish someone would give the UI some love, and maybe drop the red/green cell phone buttons.
We would love the continuation video of the GD88.
Brilliant video again. Looks a good solid performer. Have you tried it yet as a digital scanner, for example, if you set it to scan in the commercial uhf band, 453mhz upwards, would it halt and play the commercial dmr signal? Only my connect systems dmr radios do this flawlessly, my other dmr radios though good on amateur dmr do not always decode commercial systems. Keep up the great content. Regards Steve, M6WVV, aka Enthusiastic Steve.
More on the Xband repeat capabilities, please! Yes, it's cool
I got one of these a few days ago. Solidly built radio. The display is good. The biggest issue I'm having is the setup is very cumbersome in comparison to the 878UVII +. I have finally got it to the point I can transmit but no receive audio on DMR channels can see the S meter showing that it is reciving, analog works flawless. Tried wiping it clean this morning and set it up again with a fresh start but the "factory reset" is far from a reset. Going to set it aside for a bit and take a fresh look at it later.
Set up an RX Group for the same TG that you want to listen to. Then assign that RX group to the channel within the Zone 👍
@@TechMindsOfficial Thank you!
The easiest way to set it up is to use individual channels per talkgroup:
>First create a contact for each talkgroup you want to use.
>Then create an RX Group for each of those talkgroups, you can add multiple contacts to an RX Group but for better understanding I would use individual groups. You can always enable promiscuous mode to hear other talkgroups if needed.
>Next create a zone and add a channel for the talkgroup you want to use (hotspot use info below)
>Then select the contact and RX Group for that channel.
Simplex hotspots:
You must set RX Timeslot and TX Timeslot to "ON" otherwise you will have trouble transmitting or receiving from the hotspot.
Duplex hotspots:
Set them up as you would for any other repeater, with the relevant timeslot for the talkgroup used.
I own the original Kydera CDR-300UV, Radioddity DB25-D and now the GD-88 (actually the Kydera DR-880UV version but it's the same radio, now running the GD-88 firmware)
The way I have my radios set up is each repeater has it's own zone and each talkgroup has it's own channel within the repeater zones.
I have had no issues receiving from repeaters or my simplex and duplex hotspots.
Mr tech your videos are excellent 📻
Thank you Martin! Much appreciated!
It looks awesome but we need a Radioddity University to learn how to use it to its full potential.!😮
I'll stick to my Anytone for now but will look at that radio when they get 500k contacts.🍻👍
To confirm, it is full duplex so FM satellite is doable?
Cross band and same band repeat test please 😊😁👌
Hopefully the SMA is stronger than the ones found on most Chinese handhelds as they have a tendency to snap off if a high load is put on the top of the antenna. Motorola etc use a reverse SMA because if you drop the radio on the antenna, rather than the SMA breaking off the top of the radio, the SMA on the bottom of the antenna breaks off which is much cheaper and easier to fix. Would be nice to have some actual performance information rather than just a run down of the specs, even if it's just a side by side comparison with another similar radio, audio quality, sensitivity, blocking, would all be good to understand.
Nice review KD6TXB checking in, here in Louisville, KY we have something called triple nickel I'm wondering if this radio model would work on it its digital.
Thanks for your videos always informative.
Please, can you make review of AOR DV10 scanner? I am very interested in Tetra decoding feature or other digital deciding features
That is one beautiful all I got to say is wow thanks for sharing this video I got to get one wow 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Hi, firstly thank you for all the great informative videos, and a few weeks ago also seen the man behind the camera. My question, can this radio be programmed to uk marine channels with M1 M2, thanks in advance
Hi Matt, regards from Argentina! Thanks for your videos! They are very good!
Did you test analog voice DUAL receive, VHF/VHF or VHF/UHF? I belong to a first response emergency team, and it would be nice to have an affordable analog dual receive ht.
Thanks!
Nice features, but Digital Monitor Mode is not mentioned. Does it monitor color codes, both timeslots, and any talkgroup like the UV878?
It does have promiscuous mode
One can't grab the recorded files out of either of the DMR radios (Anytone or Radioddity)? It is possible on both the ICOM and Yaesu radios!
Can that simultaneous send/receive work for disconnecting from a busy Brandmeister TG? Can be a pain waiting to key up on 4000 sometimes on BM.
Is this radio full duplex so I can use it for Satellite working? Thanks you Eddie
I'd be interested in seeing the APRS capabilities on this radio, how does it compare with the Anytone D878UVII Plus?
Hey Mat, how did you manage to get the vfo's to work independently? I was on A band tg 91 and B band local repeater. Was trying to answer a call on B band but when I hit Ptt the audio from A band was transmitting into B band. I turned off the A/B Repeat and ListenSw in the settings and ctrl and ptt was in B band. What am I doing wrong? Any help is appreciated.
Nice review and well explained. Does the GD88 have a digital monitor feature like the Anytone models? The Anytone shows all the digital parameters (colour code/slot,TG etc in its monitor mode).
Known as Promiscuous mode I hope it has that too ?
Yes, I can confirm it has that Mike.
Esse equipamento é Kydera 880 UV Plus , tenho desde 2020 , Radiodity colocou apenas o Logo
Yes
I’ve had mine now for about a week and I’m not crazy about it. Programming software is very difficult and the build quality is not quite what I expected.
Try www.cpeditor.co.uk 👍 Thanks me later :)
Can't get the discount code to work. But anyway they don't ship to Canada anymore (I didn't know that, as I have been their customer for years). I might try other avenue. But I wonder why the code didn't work. Said invalid, and I copied it 3 times.
Have you had a chance to test the analogue APRS? For position beaconing and sending/receiving messages?
Yep, position beaconing works well with Analog APRS. I have tested it.
@@TechMindsOfficial What would be really interesting to see if analog APRS works. This is crucial for SOTA activation spotting, when there is no mobile network coverage.
Thanks for the video!
Please make a video on the cross-band repeat feature of the radio.
73 sv2evs
would you test the spurious emissions please?
Will this do full duplex on Satalite
thank you for this video, its look like one of the best radio in the market with modern icons,compaire to anytone this might be eassy to programe too, -G7UNF
Doesn't the anytone 878 store 400,000 contacts though ? 300k is not enough it seems these days
Not sure on current count as it changes daily, but I managed to get them all in.
There's currently around 225k ID's. That is rising daily but still some time before we reach 300k.
However.. it should be possible to increase the number of contacts in future firmwares.
The Kydera CDR-300 originally had 200k and was then increased to 300k.. I have successfully written 500k contacts to the radio with no apparent side effects. Although it may be creeping into memory locations it shouldn't but an official firmware would take account for that.
See this image: drive.google.com/file/d/1VNvLt3E3ULUe-gr0Ibel_hbS4RWeFyXD
This radio shouldn't be too much different, depending on how much memory it has. I haven't done any testing, mainly due to the fact it takes upwards of 50 minutes to write 200k+ contacts at 128bytes.
OK thanks both for clarification! My 'old' 868 only stores 200k guess nowt can be done to increase that. Can anyone recommend a good worldwide list to use for 200k ?
I would love to see cross band repeat performance
Hi Matt
Great video, I was told by other UA-camr that radioddity do not ship to the UK, were is the best place to get this radio from, thanks Dave , 2E0DMB
I got mine directly from China, took 3 days to get here :) I believe you can order through their website. Make sure to use my discount code in the comments to get money off :)
If you have issues, let me know and I will talk to them.
@@TechMindsOfficial Hi that's great news, thanks again
Dave
Only missing 2 things for it to be my go to.
Bluetooth for aprs connectivity to say aprs droid
USB charge - no more bases or propriety cables faff. Simple usb C charging
It has Analog and DMR transmitted APRS using its internal GPS for location, so absolutely no need for APRS Droid connection. But yes, USB charging would be good. Cheers
Looks suspiciously like a rebadged Kydera DM-990 except that's VHF
It's a rebadged Kydera DR-880UV/Plus with updated firmware. Runs similar internals to the mobile radio Radioddity DB25-D (Retevis RT73 etc) except this has two processors for the dual receive and repeat functions.
Wish they made these in scanners with fast speed scan
Will it Same-Frequency-Repeater aes-256 encryption?
Hans usually are banned from encryption.
What kind of programming cable does it use. Chiped or not chiped?
Chipped. It’s recognised on device manager without the radio even plugged in.
Ok , thanks for the answer. Good video, very informative and nice radio. Looks like the older Kydera radio... I think I will buy one to test it. 73!
Can you link it to a Pi-Star? If not, bring back the GD-77, as you can run Open GD-77 on it. Just as people were fixing the GD-77 firmware, they stopped selling it; now, you can only buy this. Let's hope you can do as much and more than a GD-77 running the Open GD-77 firmware.
Shane, I’ve got mine working on my pistar
Really like the look of this radio Matt and looks like it’s possible to use it on satellites with dual band receive, 73 Chris Gm4zji
That's a very good question, and although I have not personally tested it, it looks like it would work well with satellites. I will test at some point. Cheers!
Hill or Tower - Repeater Video
Hardest thing I've tried to figure out I can't get it to let me contact parrot or Germany or any yet lol
digital, but what modes ? no p25.
DMR???
P25 is a totally different digital mode.
Bluetooth for headset and steering wheel pushbutton ? Otherwise, no talking while driving a car.
Unfortunately that’s the only thing it’s lacking, Bluetooth. But you can purchase BT adapters that plug into the mic/speaker socket if needed.
@@TechMindsOfficial Yet the BT option exists at Kydera. Strange not to offer the GD-88 which is just the same product with another name...
That's interesting. Which model of Kydera is the same as this but with BT?
@@ohmbug10 It says Option. Kydera DR-880UV. There is also an LTE version with wifi etc. LTE-DR880uv.
@@ThinKkBIGG Thank you.
Can't have too many HT's
Alcanse em kilometros
Nice radio, unfortunately twice the price of a GD-77
They also didn't want to supply me, an OM from Switzerland, although I was already a well-paying customer. I can't recommend the company at all I think the newest Anytone has more to offer than this phone from the shitty company.
I know UK have issue to receive goods because of Brexit, but why could they not ship to you from Amazon warehouse in Germany?
Doesn't support APRS text messages, as I understand it. Only sends a position beacon. Disappointing.
I had one for one day and sent it back. Total junk.
Why???
The software is a dumpster fire. Not even the most basic of editing capability. Editing a zone corrupted the adjacent zone, destroying about 2 hours of effort. The serial drivers are trash. It is 2022 and this is a $200+ radio but still uses the same serial chipset as a $30, junk radio.
Manual is fine. Radio operation itself seems to work well, but there are some nuances to using GPS/APRS.
No DTMF from the keypad. So if you use repeaters with DTMF activated features, this is a fail. If you will only ever sit in range of your hotspot then it should be fine. But the software may cause PTSD regardless.
What can this do that a beofang can’t do.? And is this also with some sort of “scanner” build in.?
What is the best prepper/bug out handheld walkie.?
DMR & APRS built in????
I can't figure out how to work it yet😊