The antenna has a set screw Einstein.

HEY 🫵 ! Check out the other Tidradio Videos I have done in the past at this playlist here! 👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉kzfaq.info/sun/PLQQNWPUnngvfK_WIZFoETZ9bgKVWs-L9z Also, before someone asks, yes I tried the power levels in Power saver mode and not.. Still the same.

Great review! Love how thorough you are and the live comparison. Keep up the great work.

Thanks for the video. I appreciate your honest evaluation of the radios you test. Even if "some people" like to criticize😂 I look forward to the next one.

You should revisit the TD-H8. A lot of KZfaqrs who reviewed early models had complaints and they stopped shipping them until all the issues were solved. They fixed the app so you don't require an account at all to use it, fixed the emissions, fixed the battery life, fixed the wattage so it actually runs at 10watts. It is one of the BEST HTs I own even compared to my motorola, yaesu, and Anytone stuff.

Great video as always! Thanks for the review.

Great and detailed review Sean!

Thanks for the video .. awesome view. I purchased two H3's and they came in a single pack of two. After attempting to charge the batteries up, I found one charged up fine through the night and the other kept flashing red and green..as the book pointed out DOA. When the battery is connected to the radio it will look green when attempting to charge but will not. Contacted Tidradio through email and they immediately responded with sending another TWO radios! How can I complain? heheh. Anyway, playing with just one of the radios has been a blast.. this little thing sounds great..once you get past the deciphering what does what. They do offer an airband antenna for like less than $3 at time of purchase or your radio..which I found out after the fact. Your video points out I'm not alone in the battery department..hope they do you some justice as they have done me $67 for 4 of these! w00t. Have to talk good about these folks :) /73

Excellent review, I really enjoyed it, I just ordered one. 73's WA2TWF

Excellent review, thank you Sean!

I bought 2 two packs of these radios. I put all 4 of them in their own charge base and they began to charge. 5 hours later two of the 4 radios were still charging so I allowed them to continue charging overnight. By morning (8 hours later) all 4 were fully charged. I tested their power out with the same meter you have and one other and the power out was 4.55 watts on UHF. Now the fun part. After testing, I put all 4 of them back onto their charge bases. Three of the charge indicators turned green right away and one turned red. About 15 minutes later, I noticed the one that had turned red was now flashing red to green very rapidly. I decided that either the charge base or the battery itself was bad in that one radio. Amazon promptly sent out a 2 pack replacement. When that arrived, I swapped out only the charge base and battery for the one radio and allowed it to charge which took basically overnight. I have not seen a charge problem since doing that so I have to assume it was either that particular charge base and/or the battery. Regarding the antenna, I replaced all 4 with Nagoya 701 and they work great.

Bought one on Amazon. What a great bargain. The radio and all the extras were cheaper than a new name brand rubber duck. Then 2 weeks later it died. Company wanted my order number from THEM to help me. I did not have such a number as I bought it on Amazon. After several attempts I quit. You can only spend so much time chasing $30. Love my Yaesu products. Great customer service and support.

I myself found my radio to be similar. I did however get a full 5watts plus. On low just over a watt. I do actually like this radio. Now i use this for gmrs and on my private repeater. Works perfectly

Looks nice.

I have the black version and have had no problems as of yet and also attached a longer antenna. Easy to program thru CHIRP. I live about 20 miles from the Buffalo airport and I can only get the aircraft on departure and tower frequency but not the controllers and my guess would be thats because their in the air and I live under the flight path on the downwind side of traffic.

Ciuld you do a quick comparison between the H3 and H8?

As to your battery testing with the charger, I've seen the same thing happen with the TidRadio H8 Gen 2 using the cradle charger and just plugged in with the USB-C but as you found out when you unplug then re-attach the charger the light goes green. I am surprised that the H3 only has a 5 watt output when the H8 gen 2 puts out 10 watts.

I have watched you videos before, but i subscribed after see this one. I dont know if you do other deep dives but i like them. I would like to see one on the Quansheng UV-K5(8). If you have already done it, ty. I will do a search now. 🖖

I have 5 of these for the family with the latest firmware and they are ALL wonderful. Use the short Nagoya antenna.

I enjoyed your video on the TD-H3. I purchased this radio and have been using it for a week or so. My battery appears to be charging and acting normally. The manual indicated to turn the radio off while charging. It can be operated in 3 modes, Ham, GMRS, and Normal. Normal should open up the transmit frequencies. But mine will not transmit on the 1.25 meter band. Which I was hoping it would. I am looking forward to your additional videos and your findings on transmitting, programming with Odmaster. Thanks, Mark H.

I got my TD-H3 last week. BAD: Programming was a pain in the butt. You have to set up the offset from the front of the radio then you can program it in the ODmaster app. Haven’t tried chirp yet. And I hated the antenna when I tested it. Had to swap it out. GOOD: after getting it programmed and a Nagoya 701g antenna, it worked flawlessly. Even hit a GMRS repeater 68 miles away sitting inside my truck. Which is crazy because my 50w mobile wouldn’t, it hit it 65 miles away. Great little radio for someone who wants a small radio that works well. I doubt it would compete with either my Q10 or my 935 plus but what $30 radio could?

On the firmware,, you can hold the PTT and * while turning on and choose between Ham,GMRS, and normal which is open I believe.

Almost passed up this video. Scrolling through the screen if I see a red line on the bottom I usually pass it up because that means I've SEEN IT. The red outline you use on your thumbnail should be a different color, blue, or yellow maybe, but red is going to get your videos skipped.

Let the fun begin - live tidradio commentary !!!

Thank You for Your review of this radio, wish theyd increase the power and clean it up. Would love to see a hidden menu like the Quansheng k5 and k6.

The manual does say it can take 2 - 5 hours to fully charge the battery. When I charged did a charge it took a little longer. I did also use the USB-C, not the docking station/cradle. Not sure if that makes a difference.

re asking about FRMS. Can it be programed to transmit/recieve channels 1-22?

Dude, love your show. Overall my H3 performs as expected. My only issue is with 1.25M. I can't enter repeaters, simplex is fine.

I have an observation on the DTMF pad you can send tones only if you preloaded in the menu, you can’t mash down a tone like a pound or star by just pushing the PTT and holding the desired digit, it needs to be in a string in the DTMF buffer very strange the H8 does not work that way. It works like a normal

When I received the radio I pluged my phone charger into the battery USB-C charging port and just left it alone. WhenI got back the green LED was on.

Thats all been fixed on the h8. One of the best radios I own

The H3 is a very nice radio. I have both the TD-H8 and the TD-H3. If you go looking for firmware on their website, you have to pay attenion because both the GMRS and unlocked H8 versions are for the H3. The folders inside the zip are labeled H3 even. So if you have the H8 and want to update its firmware, as of right now you have to download the H8(HAM) version. And the H8 does not like the H3 firmware. Luckily if you do this you can get the correct firmware and redo the process.

I swore I wasn’t going to get anymore $30-$70 radios. Then I saw the H3 came out. I had to get it regardless, I mean, I love my H8. It’s ok tho, I ordered a 935g plus and a Q10g to make up for it. 935 because I’ve wanted one for 6 months, and the Q10 because it’s superheterodyne.

Like your videos. Im a little confused. Is this radio actually type accepted for ham or gmrs? Or both? Neither? Probably still get one regardless though. KE8VQF

Nice video! But I have to say that tidradio H3 has better sound and reception compared to quangsheng UVK5.

is that a set screw on the antenna like they have on GMRS antennas. If it was tight it might bind.

EDIT: Disgard this reply. I was thinking of the Retevis. Still curious about the H3 version in the video. My H3 has screws for the belt clip and not on the battery. This is a better design. At 3.1 in the manual, it states screws are for the belt clip.

The squelch tail on my TD-H3 is obnoxiously loud. I downloaded the latest firmware and updated the radio, but the squelch tail is still incredibly loud, loud enough that I'd be hesitant to use it in a public setting. This is the first TIDRADIO which has disappointed me. I'm going to send it back.

I know this is an old video but been doing a lot of looking recently to see if I want one of these. But: The antenna... This is the antenna that they include with the V2 H8's. So it's possible they didn't design the H3 with this antenna in mind, but last minute decided to use them instead of the old duck. Battery: I've found by charging other radios via USB (TD-H8, UV13 Pro) that it does take considerably longer than on a cradle. That said 9 hours is definitely excessive. With conditioning it CAN take that kind of time, I have seen it with many a Moto with Impress batteries. However I highly doubt Tidradio has any sort of conditioning circuitry. Another thing is the green light. Some batteries (like the aforementioned Moto's) go green at 90% (though generally they will FLASH green) Not saying that's what's happening here and I would think the manual would mention it if it were so. Just trying to offer some possibilities. As with the H8, QC does seem to be an issue with these radios... When they are in the zone they are great, but when they are bad they are VERY bad. I'll probably pick one up. The good part about Amazon is if I get a dud I send it back for a new one no fuss no muss. And keep doing so until I get one that's on point. Now that I have a drop off near me I don't even have to send it back before I get a refund so...

My GMRS TD-H3, two pack, came with two AirBand TD 771 antenna. Nope, I have not used them for listening to aviation traffic. TD-H3 can boot to GMRS, HAM, and Normal mode. The question is why do they sell both a GMRS and HAM version? Maybe, is it an FCC thing. Their GMRS and HAM manuals have very slight minor differences. Be aware booting to another mode does a factory rest on the radio wiping out previous radio settings. Having Odmaster on your phone provides a backup of both the GMRS and HAM setting. Then after switching modes, you can readily write those setting back to the radio, just takes a minute. Doing that means we carry one radio not two. Another extremely useful feature is cloning one TD-H3 to another. Setup one TD H3 radio, then clone to another TD-H3.

I’m loving my H3. ODMaster programming will not save repeater offset frequency 🥵 on iOS tho. My battery seems fine. Great radio.

What does the "S" (Just left of the beep icon) on the display stand for. I haven't been able to find that in the book nor anyone commented what it's for?

is this compatible with FRS and GMRS radios, including the channel codes they use? Do you need a license? And does it also operate on 2 meters FM (Ham frequency---I have my Ham license)

Bit late in the day with my comment but....Sometimes you find that happening with new equip. Just got a new H/H Battery Fan and it had the same problem, crazy readout on the charge percentage. I just left the Fan on and run it flat, charged again problem solved. Could be some kind of simple BMS that needs setting up first.

That did look nice in the dark. Like it was radio active.😅

The H3 has lots of nice features but doesn't hold up when compared to other cheap radios when it comes to transmit power. I tested it against a Baofeng BF-F8HP and a Baofeng UV-17R. The H3 fails to reach repeaters that both Baofengs have no problems reaching. On other repeaters, feedback was both Baofengs had much better clarity and sound than the H3. As for charging, the protection is built into the battery and it looks like you do have an issue. My H3 charges via USB-C and stops on it's own and turns green. It also charged in about an hour.

HR Dude, you need a solid white background color. This blk / wht grid is playing havock on seeing details of the radio.

Has anyone received a new one and checked to see if they have fixed the battery charge indicator problem?

Return it as defective for charging and zero watts on low power and test the replacement?

How does it do on 220? Is it clean? What’s the power output?

Anyone know if Nagoya 701G short antenna is better than the stock antenna?

Just started the video and my H3 has screws for the clip above the battery. Wonder if the H3 in this video is an older version as on mine there are no screws to remove the battery.

My 1st H3 went out in flames while charging, replacement radio doesn't transmit at all. TID refusing to send the replacement, advising me to put the battery of replacement radio to 1st radio (one that burned out in flames). Tragi-Comedy...

At about 5 volts, it should have a cc/cv boost module in it.

I am waiting for my td-h3 to arrive. I hope that you can put it on normal rather than ham or gmrs and program it to all the channels to normal and not lose all the programming when i use it on one or the other.

Char We have the same experience when it comes to charging😂

Great video. I bought a three-pack on your recommendation. So far, I'm very pleased. However, I've noticed three quirks: 1. The lock button is also the DTMF button. If you don't hold it long enough, the prompt screen for a DTMF code pops up, and the only ways I've found to get rid of it are to cycle the radio on and off, or to push the PTT button and transmit a tone. 2. In "sync" mode, which shows only a single band, the A/B button will not cycle between bands. 3. Also in "sync" mode, the second PTT button is still active and will transmit on the non-active band, but the display indicates that it's transmitting on the main (active) band. My radios have firmware version 231229.

Hi ppwer uhf was 5.18 Vhf 5.83 ???

Have you tried the 701 antenna?

BMS modules are always going bad. That's been the bane of most Ford owners' existence. The damn BMS module on any of them from 2009 and up, I do believe. It's a bummer to see a new radio with a charger that acts like that. I hope it doesn't get weird and toast the radio.

Metterne una diversa 😘

I received the H3 radio last month, and there is no problem with the battery so far. The cradle can be fully charged in 8 hours, but the Type C charger can be fully charged in 5 hours. And I have seen others test the battery with 2580 mah, why did your test only have 2300 mah?😂

Silly question but I can’t figure out what the word “off” on the main screen means?

The power output is much higher on other videos testing this unit.

Did you replace the battery?

Is it superheterodyne or soc?

At 4:03 you talk about the different antenna. I also noticed this and did find there are two antenna. One is for the GMRS and one for HAM. The GMRS antenna is a tri-band antenna. I found this on my TD H-3 radio. I'm not sure if all GMRS radios versions have that it is just something I noticed on my GMRS version. Yeah I know you can unlock it for HAM or GMRS. Might be the reason for the tri-band antenna I'm guessing. Great deep dive video! I just subbed to your channel. I'm into 3D printing also and see you do more than just radio for a hobby.

And yet still no video on doing a firmware update… Think you can fix that?

Its just the BMS in the pack, when it hits 4.2v it takes that 1/2 amp and dumps it into a resistor. They messed up the LED circuit for when that happens.

I'm stuck in Chinese language, how do I get it to English?

To me this radio has been a confusing mess. I had thought I could seamlessly switch from Ham to GMRS but it will erase the programming of one when switching.

Glad I didn't watch this review first, I would have made a mistake by not picking up this radio.

"Promosm"

All these cheap radios on ham frequencies makes me concerned, soon be in the hands of kids, and those who don't care about licensing

Te akumulatory to jakaś porażka mój pożył niecały dzień po próbie naładowania padł