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sign up today and thank you for the support. After I did the video about this new nytne at D one six ' eight radio that was just released, I had a lot of people in the comments of that premiere video and a lot of people in the comments section afterwards saying that it looks like the same radio as the Linko MD five. It's not show the differences
between the MD five. Apparently there's three generations of MD five, which I didn't know that I knew there were two, but there's a third one, and I'm gonna show the comparison between I mean that a Linko and this brand
new D one six eight UV from any tone. Let's go first things first, I will say that I am about ninety five percent sure that any tone makes that a Linko radio Okay, I'm about ninety five percent sure because the menus of programming almost everything is the same, so I'm pretty sure that Enleinco doesn't even make that radio. But regardless of that, the A linko is a really cool model and I'm glad that I have it, and I learned something about it today while researching this video.
The one that I have, Well, let me show you this overhead shot first, because I'm gonna show you what I've got and show you where we're gonna go from there. Okay, this is the any tone on the left, and these are the two and linkos that I have on the right. This is I believe the original one, which is a DGA DJ MD five TGP Tango Golf Papa is a model number there, and this one is a dj D five xtg X ray Tangle Golf. Okay, so if you google either one of those model numbers, I've got MD
five TGP right there, which is I believe the first one. Okay, so it doesn't really come up on this top list here, but if you click on dx Engineering here it says not available. The reason it's not available is because it's it's no longer in production. Okay. And then if we google the next one, which is the X ray tangle Golf, okay, X ray tangle Golf again DX Engineering right here, X ray Tangle Golf not available. And I can't find this one anywhere else either. So those two models I'm pretty
sure have been discontinued. But if you google either one of those this sponsored post at the top of Google right here, you get DX Engineering has it, but gigabarts has it. We're gonna go to the Gigapart's website. They're both the same prize two eighty nine ninety five. This is the XLT model and it says right here Gen three Gen three on Gigabarts's website. So and they're the same. These two models that I have are the exact same size,
exactly the same size. In fact, I didn't even know which I didn't couldn't even tell them apart until I took the battery off the back and read the model number on the back of it. So I don't know what the differences are between the three models Gen one, two, and three. But we're going to do a comparison of Gen three today to this new NYTNE D one six eight UV Radio First. Today's video is sponsored by ham
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for check ins, for subscribers, and for everybody else. Check out the link in the description below for hamdt Live and thank you for sponsoring this video. Okay, so this I wanted to do a side by side because people were saying, oh, it looks just like the the A linko, And I know for a fact it's not the a linko because the A Linko actually looks more to me like the any Tone eight six eight than it does
this one. And I know for a fact that the that this new any Tone is not the a Linko because the fonts are different, the layouts different, everything's just a little bit different. And it uh you know, it's just it's just not the same radio. This screen right here, it looks like those screens are about Yeah, those screens are about the same size, but the you know, the fonts are different. And again I'm pretty sure that this,
this Alenco model is made by any Tone. Anyway. We've got two buttons below, oh the PTT on both of them. This Alenko, this the new generation of a Linko. I don't really know. We're gonna look here in a second and see. But this guy, this new inny Tone is USBC programmable and chargeable with that right there. This older version of the Alenco is micro USB. That's a micro USB port right there. So I suspect that the new XLT version is probably USB C, I would guess, but
I don't really know. We're gonna take a look at that page in a second. But anyway, so it's not exactly the same radio. Maybe the differences are so slight that you don't care. They're both about the same size. The antennas are about The antenna on the A Linko is much taller. It's got a high gain intenna on it. But the fonts are clearly different. The software is clearly different, even though the menus kind of look the same like that.
So you've got those differences there. Again, I don't have the latest version of the ALNKO, so I can't tell you for certain, but the form factor is different enough where I was like, no, it's not really the same radio, but it's awfully close. So if we go over here and look at the gigaparts website, Okay, we go down through the list here of features two slot tenum A for DMR Tier one and Tier two. That's actually not true. That's just what they say to not confuse people. It's
all dm R Tier two. Okay, there is no dm R Tier one uh one point seven seven inch TFT color display. So let's go over here to the Bridge comm website and check out the D one six eight pre order. Now, next shipment is expected in December. They already sold out all of those ones they had for October. And I don't really see there's not a It gives a lot of different things here, but it does not tell me a screen size. Oh okay, there it is right there, exactly the same size one point seven to
seven inch TFT. It may be that these radios are not exactly the same, but the differences are so small that you might not care. So here is the go going back to the a Linko GPS built in APS support for digital and analog, a APRS support for digital analog.
I wonder what that means. Repeater roaming SQL function a S two and fifty six bit encryption, which is included with every DMR radio, but we don't use in ham radio VFO memory switch output between five yt two point five to one and zero point two watts, four thousand memory channels, five hundred thousand digital contacts, SMS and digital mode every pretty much every DMR radio will do that.
Recording in analog and digital CTCSS, DCS, dtmfone two and five tone a seventeen million amp hour lithium on battery, and this is part ninety certified. Again. This is the Alenko dj MD five XLT duel band with GPS. It does not say anything about APRS. It says GPS in
the title. Gen three two hundred and eighty nine dollars as compared to the a Linko D one sixty eight, which is only one ninety nine, so it's already another seventy dollars cheaper and we go down here and we look at this one as you if if you watch my last video, this one comes with two batteries, a small and a large battery. I'm not sure why you'd ever need the small battery unless you just want to carry a backup with you, and that's cool. That's cool.
But it comes with two batteries. It comes with two intennas. Okay, So the battery over here on the Alinko is seventeen hundred million amp hours and the two batteries on the any Tone is eighteen hundred and twenty six hundred. So the smallest battery on the any Tone one six eight
is already better than the Alinko. Okay. It's got four power levels, the same five two point five one and zero point two auto scanning, VFO tuning, same size display, twelve point five and twenty five killer hurts band with on analog. In other words, to do FM narrowban, twelve point five narrow band digital DMR that's normal, four hours of recording digital and analog, supports tones, CTCSS, DCS and all that kind of good stuff. Comes with two antennas
and APR. And you know it's advertised with eight PRS. The other one's not advertised with APRS in the title. It just says with GPS. So I think maybe there are some videos that need to be made about APRS on this new any Tone and maybe a Linko too, if I can get my hands on one of those new models of a Linko and see what it is. Because it says APRS. What does it say? It says APRS Support for Digital and Analog APRS. Okay, well, it's
seventy dollars cheaper. The new Anytone is seventy dollars cheaper. The fonts are different, the screen size is the same. It comes with two antennas, two batteries. The smallest of the two batteries is even larger than the a Linko batteries. So in my opinion, the any ton is a better radio because I, like I said earlier, I'm pretty sure that the Linko is actually made by any Tone. So some of you who are in the chat that said it's the same radio, it's not. It's not, but it's
so close that I don't think it matters. I mean, so I will concede to you. Okay, you know what, You're right, it's the same radio. It's it's not because because it has USB. It didn't say anything about on the gigabarts page about the newest Linko having USBC, no idea what that is. The older version I have has micro USB. Now micro USB is better than proprietary charging platform or desktop cradle only charging platform in my opinion. The micro USB is going to be slower, but it's
still more universal than a proprietary charger. But the any Tone, which is seventy dollars cheaper, comes with more options, has USB programming in USB charging, so why not? But you're right. Somebody also said in the chat that you know, they really need to do something new. They're just kind of regurgitating the same thing over and over again. Any Tone being the they in that statement, and I think you're right.
I think you're right. I would love to see a brand new Anytone, either mobile or HT, dual band maybe even try band DMR radio with some new features we haven't seen yet at all, removable face on a mobile radio, two twenty tryband on the on the H which it does not come with. The mobile radio comes with two twenty, the tryband HT does not, So I'd like to see some new stuff. Like that, even in nine hundred megahertz,
because there's actually some nine hundred megahertz. There's ninety to ninety five percent of all DMR repeaters in the United States are UHF for forty there's some VHF two meters, and there's some UHF nine hundred megahertz DMR repeaters. Also, I've got two or three of them here around me,
nine hundred megahertz DMR repeaters that motor Rola makes. Why not do a tryband VHF UHF and nine hundred megahertz HT and or mobile radio for DMR, because then you could hit all three of them, all three of the most popular bands. Two twenty on DMR is cool because you can use simplex. There's not any two twenty DMR repeaters unless you build kind of like hack one together with a bridge coom repeater, which is totally possible, but I'm not aware of any of those that are online.
You're gonna have to build your own one of those to put it online so that just you and a couple of your buddies who actually have the try band DMR radio for any tone can use it. Because there are not very widely used but nine hundred megahertz is widely used and you can do analog and DMR with that. So here you go. Any tone, here's a new idea for you. Do a tryband that's two meters VHF four forty uhf and nine hundred megahertz UHF triband radio with
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