Have a look through this forum, I found it here: forum.auto-cb18.ru/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5206&sid=d3492d9dab417e4b84db088a96a31905

@@TechMindsOfficial it will be interesting if they adapt Chirp to program that radio Also, was that disclaimer you said about the constabulary being polite and professional part of your bail conditions ??

@@TechMindsOfficial Здравствуйте Я все делал как вы, залил в рацию .Но частоты не изменились. Только у меня zastone CB -58 может в этом дело?

​@@TechMindsOfficialyeah not gonna happen. Total fail and hard pass on this radio. President Randy II it is.

@@kishascape the Randy does 26 to 30 Mhz??

Me too ! That would be the ducks guts and I would buy quite a few ! I can’t believe they haven’t already done it .

@@Wheelabarraback if I was you no hesitate to buy USDR instead of that one

@@johnyum9021 Thanks John I will look into that .

Right that's what I'm saying

@carlo rossi That’s what I am waiting for Carlo

The radio actually does have ctcss, or at least the software has provisions for it

And CTCSS does work 👍

Still got mine in a box in the loft. Took about 12 batteries if I recall. The built in antenna was a crazy length and quite vulnerable so I also have the "rubber duck" that fitted over .

Cheers Steve!

Ayyy! 😎

Without ssb - 10 meters doesnt make sense - yeah I know there might be SOME Repeaters in the higher frequency-range of the 10 meter band - but not in our area - so even that wouldnt make sense. FM or AM in 10 meter band.. not useful to be honest.

Albrecht 2990.

Was a touch sneaky in the video - you can't ad-hoc switch to AM and that was neatly glossed over here. Only the CEPT band allows switching between AM/FM on the fly, otherwise, the button just switches receive but will only transmit in FM. Just a heads up for anybody reading this, and I think it was a bit disingenuous not to point that out. I'm making a review of this over this weekend and I'll cover why this HT is a steaming crock of turd - but I wasn't sent mine. for nix, but it's going back.

Good idea! Maybe I will try this and post the results on my Twitter page! Thanks for watching!

What frequencies are you CWing on ?? My buddy in the US was telling me he has heard 11m CW before

Cheers! :-)

Neither battery voltage nor RF signal strength affect perceived loudness on FM

That would be cool

Why not build also one for 2m or 70?

With radios sometimes those not knowing what they are doing can get them in the puddle wilst meddling in the doodle. HI! And in my humble opinion, a licensed amateur radio operator, in 2022... should have a tad more intimacy with computers. Even OP... could've touched the "ins" key on his keyboard instead of selecting and overwriting every byte. Now, I'm not expecting a deep analysis of the binary data in that file or some sort of reverse engineering of the handhelds microcontroller... Just basic binary editing not made into voodoo.

I personally don't mind playing with hex editors and doing some reverse engineering. Would've been cool if you'd had to calculate a checksum as well, but it seems they made it quite easy. A simple python script, or even an online service where you can upload the binary file in order to edit the frequencies should be easy to make and might help those who are hesitate about it.

Dont think the manufactorer is interested that a bunch of HAMs are modifying there Hardware and getting complains from incompedent people if failes

This is why you ALWAYS save a clean copy of the original source file.

I wish I had thought about switching to AM while I was testing the radio, we all had the capability too!

The Mode on the Band Plan is NOT a Law just a Suggestion so you could run AM or FM in the SSB portion of the band.I hear stations on the Wrong Sideband quite often on the 40 meter band and sometimes on 17 meters as well.It’s not like that radio will actually bother anyone. The only HF band that you are required to use the mentioned modes are the 60 meter band because it’s a secondary use band for Amateur Radio.

@@1OFGODSOWN : FCC Part 97 only allows Wide FM above 29.0 MHz for General -Class amateurs and above, and the Novice and Technician voice privileges on the band are limited to mode A3j (SSB) between 28.300 MHz and 28.500 MHz. They are also limited to 200 watts (PEP) out. A Petition for Rulemaking was submitted back in 2000/2001 to give Technicians all modes on the entire 10 meter band, but the FCC did not act in it. Still, an interesting radio, just not for all Anateur classes in the USA. de WB2VUO

@@Keith_WB2VUO still the Mode is a Suggestion NOT a LAW. Do some research and you will see.I know it confuses some but it’s still a Fact.A General Class and above may use Any Mode they please there.

@@1OFGODSOWN : I never said tha General & up could not run AM between 28.300 MHz and 28.500 MHz, nor did I say that they can't run FM there, but if they run FM, deviation will have to be limited to 2 khz max ( which the HT won't support) and the fact remains that Technicians and Novices can not run AM on 10 meters. I stand by my position, the TYT HT is nice, but a Tech can only run it on CB, now allowable under Part 95. Techs are prohibited from running AM or FM on 10 unless new rules come out. De WB2VUO here near Buffalo, NY

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@@TechMindsOfficial I’m trying to work out the hookers and blow mod. XYL keeps stopping me

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A lot? Could you give an example? Company, model?

Good point! Although, are there any active satellites using that band?

Satellite band plan on HF - what a total waste of spectrum!!!

@@TechMindsOfficial Hi Matt. YEP - most certainly there are. AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) Satellite is the most famous on 29MHz Band, known for its pirated use by the Polish Solidarity Movement, centred on the Gdańsk Shipyard and led by Lech Wałęsa, who subsequently became the first modern democratically-elected President of Poland after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. The Poland Solidarity Movement was instrumental in the resultant fledgling freedoms available in the USSR after 1989. Many UK CBers (myself included) were making almost daily 27MHz simplex contacts into Poland and with Solidarity members on both the then new 27/81 FM frequencies and (naughtily) the FCC 27.965-27.405 allocation - also on FM. They were taking a BIG risk, as you would imagine. This has prompted me to dig out all my old QSL exchange cards with them! Interesting reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa

@@marsradio Hi marsradio. Not necessarily! AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) Satellite is the most famous on 29MHz Band, known for its pirated use by the Polish Solidarity Movement, centred on the Gdańsk Shipyard and led by Lech Wałęsa, who subsequently became the first modern democratically-elected President of Poland after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. The Poland Solidarity Movement was instrumental in the resultant fledgling freedoms available in the USSR after 1989. Many UK CBers (myself included) were making almost daily 27MHz simplex contacts into Poland and with Solidarity members on both the then new 27/81 FM frequencies and (naughtily) the FCC 27.965-27.405 allocation - also on FM. They were taking a BIG risk, as you would imagine. This has prompted me to dig out all my old QSL exchange cards with them! Interesting reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa

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Hey dude! If I remember correctly there was no way to do split, which is a shame really. Unfortunately I dont have the radio any more so I cant check. To be honest, there are better 10M handies on the market now that dont require hacking lol. thanks

@@TechMindsOfficial No worries at all. I guess you could do a "poor mans" split by just programming two channels side by side one the repeater input the other the repeater output. I'll have a look out for some other models, want one to monitor my repeater ;)

Watch the video lol.

You took the words out of my mouth! I'm still using an Azden AZ-11 from 1996.

It will not do split

I can’t get mine to transmit above 29.230

@@USBP29 It sucks. I was really hoping to be able to use it on 10 meter FM and AM now that the conditions are getting good for propagation.

@@USBP29 Also, both of mine would not charge in the drop in chargers.

Hello Is it still possible to do the TX modification to 29.xxx? As it was mentioned in one comment, it would be locked now? U mention the TYT 9800 could u test if this SW would work .... thanks

I got 2 of them from China, took a little while to arrive but worth it.

Youre welcome!

No

I just listed on one eBay.

Depends which model I think.

it is supplied with rechaggeable lithium battery

This is my question as well. Can it be set up for split operation to use on 10m repeaters?

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No it won’t

Very late, but yes it has the 80 DE channels.

I'm sure I saw some PA station's on FT8 a couple of days ago on 10M

To use the 10m Band?

@@merlinonline67 they where lieing to you

See link in description for price :)

No

Nah, there is no SSB modulation.

It really does each the batteries, I wish I got the version with the rechargeable battery pack!

@@TechMindsOfficial I got the one with the AA battery pack and even with new batteries the radio says theyre dead. Never enough voltage to actually tx more than 5 mins.

CB in the US was AM and SSB only until lately..now FM is allowed. CB in the UK was FM only for decades but after years of illegal AM ops,they finally made AM and SSB allowed there. Your country may vary.

SSB only, sounds like Germany and their bandwidth rules.

There is plenty of activity on 10 FM, especially when conditions are good. From here in the UK I have worked 10 FM repeaters into Europe and the States.

@@TechMindsOfficial Thank you for this interesting information - do you know where I can find this prolific-driver? I received this radio and the right USB-cable was already inside, which suprised me a lot. - Now I have to find out about the proper software. Thank you!

I found the software already - is it possible, that it will not work proper in Windows 11? I had to start it in admin-mode and also in compatible-mode for windows xp-service-pack-3 - then it started. But still, I cant connect to the radio by usb - it says the following inside the com-area at the device-manager: PL2303TA do not support windows 11 or later, please contact your supplier (I think that means nothing), or is that really the issue - and yes, I operate windows 11 on my pc. Does anybody know more about?

Yes, I think coverage is from 25 to 30Mhz

@@TechMindsOfficial that's awesome. Just to be clear, that radio comes with a rechargeable battery also? why did you choose the AA battery pack?

Mine won’t tx above 29.230. Worthless for 10fm

They are listed as available in the States from several on-line stores, plus Amazon. Prices ran between $139 and $170 when I looked. de WB2VUO here near Buffalo, NY

Roy: Not really. The Alinco DR-M03 mobile runs $50 - $100 more and commercial land mobile rigs in the Low VHF range are $750 and up per unit. When I was living in Connecticut, the fire radios were 33.9 MHz +/- and cost $400 per handheld on the average. Amazon has the TYT-CB58 for $139, shipped. That's only 1 1/2 cartons of smokes at current prices here in Buffalo. Glad that I don't smoke, this way I can afford radios! 73, Keith, WB2VUO here near Buffalo, NY

That makes no sense. lol

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Simply, don’t use the delete button to remove the numbers from the hex file, just select the digit and press the required digit on your keypad to over write it. Hope that makes sense and thanks for watching.

I think I saw your video on AM mode issue, but did you try changing band as AM only works on the EU band setting. I think my video proves they are not junk and you was just unlucky.

@@TechMindsOfficial i was told by someone in the industry that this company dose not test any of the things they build they just make the products and send them out. Cause they know that once they ship them out of China it will cost more to return ship them then what you paid. And even if they do reimburse you you are still out untill they verify the defective product and you risk losing the money cause there not going to declare a recall on there junk. So yeah now I have 2 clunky radios that are total junk. And only one of them switches between am and fm mode. No matter witch band I put them in. So I just ended up buying 2 cobra wxst hh50 radios. Witch have much better transmitt audio.

Nope, not illegal, well not in the UK for sure. Obviously you need a license to transmit on 10 FM