Bowfang UV thirty two. This is a newer Bowfang radio that I just picked up. I don't know is actually earlier this year. I picked it up, I've tinkered with it a little bit, and I've got some thoughts about it. So this is a Balfang UV thirty two, and it's taller, got a taller antenna. It's still just a dual band. I don't really remember if I've ever done two twenty with this or not. So we're gonna try some two twenty and go from there. I'm gonna put this on
the tiny Essa. We're gonna do a spectral purity test, and I'm gonna compare it to another radio that I did a video about earlier this year, and we're gonna put it on the power meter because according to Amazon on this web page right here, this should be a ten watt radio ten watt rechargeable walkie talkie u V thirty two five RM K five. I don't know if i'd associate a five RM with this radio. It's five RM was crap on the tinysa handheld two way radio.
Noah Weather receive with GPS. It doesn't do true APRS, so I don't really These radios with GPS are kind of there's not much point to them because unless it does true APR. Yeah, sure, I don't tell you where you are. Your phone will do that even if you don't have a cell signal because it's got a GPS chip in it. So radios with GPS are just kind of waste in my book app programming. I am going
to download this Bowfang app and try it. I've got four or five different radios now that this Balfang Bluetooth app will supposedly work on. I've read mixed reviews about this bluetooth app. One guy gave the seven bravo. I did a video about the UV seven Bravo a few weeks ago, and one guy gave it a one star review because he said the app was garbage. I think I might do another video soon about the app itself. Because I've never installed this app. I don't really want
to put a Bowfang app on my phone. I've got a couple of extra Android phones floating around here, so I'll put it on an extra phone and see what it looks like. But let's take a look at this real quick and do a kind of a close up overhead here, this is obviously the bowfang. Right here, this is the hand Geek that I reviewed. I think it was this year. It might have been last year, I don't remember. Now you can see the Bowfang's actually a little bit taller this way. Okay, so they're both about
right here at the top, taller this way. Balfang has a bigger screen, okay. The hand Geek screen is smaller and the text is smaller as well. So I got a lot of really good comments and good views on this video. When I made this video, I really wanted to do another video about this radio and put it on the computer and program it. And the software for this radio is crap. It is garbage. I installed the driver that they sent me, didn't have a problem. There
will not read the radio. Tried on two different computers. Email the guy I bought this from on eBay. He goes, oh, no, you installed the driver wrong. I'm like, installed the driver wrong. You go into the driver Device Manager Windows. It's in there. It says good working, there's no update. It's okay, fine, there's no errors and it will not read the radio.
So I don't recommend this radio. This Handgeek radio anymore simply because you can't get it to read on a computer on a Windows box, which means you're really not going to get it to read on a Macro Linux box. But maybe you know, I was a year year and a half ago, so maybe they've updated it, maybe they've changed it, maybe they've fixed something on it, and maybe
I just got a bad one. That's possible. If anyone's ever programmed this hand geek from a Windows box, put a comment in the video, blow, I would love to know about it. But so far, what I've found is that this bowfang just kind of generally works better on receive and it sounds a little bit better on transmit than the hand geek does. I just wanted to show the handgeek because it was a video that I made a while back, and I got a lot of watch time on that video, a lot of interest in that video.
So this right here, see we got the top band and the bottom band, so we got one forty six five to two on the top band case five h tobb testing okay, and we can go down here to the bottom band kerchunk my local Uless repeater right there, okay, And We've got two buttons on the side of it here. This one right here turns on the FM broadcast receiver and this bottom one here looks like it's doing a pl tone scan. So these two buttons here are programmable
in the software, or they it claims they are. Again, I haven't put the software on, but it claims they are. This is your standard Kinwood K connector underneath the waterproof cover right there. Okay, this back here is a USB C on the battery. Obviously. One thing that the hand geek has that the Balfang doesn't have is the Handgeek has an extra screen up here at the top. I thought that having that screen up there at the top. I thought there was a neat feature. I really like
the feature of having that screen at the top. This one does not have that. But you see the knobs of the same The antennas are about the same height that whatnot. It's got an extra speaker on the back here, and just like this does. And that's and that it
comes with a desk charger. I mean, who cares because it's got this USBC in the back of which is on the battery and the battery connects via the screw on the bottom, so it is waterproof to a certain extent, and it so far I've had pretty good luck with it. The thing you'll notice there's no belt clip or anything like that on it. The thing I don't like about it really is that it doesn't it's a little bit more cumbersome to carry. It does come with this holder
you can kind of mully connect. This is just one little strap here, and you can connect it to a molly panel on your backpack or whatnot, and it goes if it's in here really good. Good goes around like this snaps down. So this will hold it on the side of your backpack or your go bag, well your computer bag or like your antenna bag or something like that for Poda, and you can do that with it. And you can see right there. It comes with several
other things on the website. Right here, we've got this photo here, two different antenna's desk, cradle, charger, earpiece, whatnot. Thirty five bucks ten percent off at the time of this recording. So let's put this on the Tinyesa and see what we can find. Actually, I decided to change my mind and go ahead and do the power test first because I had some comments on the previous video about doing a power test first so that I know where to set the power output of the radio on
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you sponsoring the channel. So right now, I'm gonna take this one, and you can see right here, I've got this set at one forty six dot five to two, and I'm glad I've already pushed the button before I started the recording. I'm really glad that I did this one first because it's gonna prove that this is definitely
a ten watt radio. We're getting about ten point two watts right here, which means I'm gonna have to turn the power down to do the tiny output or tiny SA output, because that is a ten wat attenuator on the tiny SA and I don't want to burn it up. So ten watts on two meters really good. There. I don't think this thing transmits on two twenty, but let's
i'm wrong. It does transmit on two twenty. Three watts on two two three dot five awesome, okay, good, So now we're gonna go to four forty six dot zero right here and six point eight almost seven watts on four to forty. So this is a triband radio. I wonder if it will transfer. I kind of doubt it will transmit on six meters. I have two nope, nope, it's not going to let me type a zero there, so I can't type five two five dot five is going to five hundred megahertz, so it's not going to
go to six meters. It'll probably go to four sixty two five hundred. People always ask, yep, there it is seven watts on four six two five hundred. We're going into a dummy lod right now, so we don't need to id because it's not actually transmitting. There we go. So it transmits on two twenty, and it transmits on the GMRS FRS bands. So let's put this on a tiny essay and switching over here to the overhead cam
looking at the tiny SSA. Now I have to turn the power down because this is a ten wat forty dB attenuator right here, and I don't want to smoke this thing, and also I don't want an inaccurate test. So we're gonna go ahead and turn the power down like it's a six watt radio. Perhaps there's a larger intenuator I can get for future videos, but right now,
this is what we've got. So if I go in here to the menu and I scroll down a program channel and I go to trans power, there, it is too trans power, and we're gonna go to mid power. Now we can do high power on two twenty and on four to forty, but on two meters two we're gonna do mid power. Make sure that's there, mid power. Okay, here we go. All right, So let's go ahead, and the tiny essay is programmed for one five to two. Okay. Not a very clean signal. Not a very clean signal.
You can see right here it's got harmonics, a second and a third harmonic second harmonics around Okay, that third one disappeared good round two hundred and ninety three megahertz that's second harmonic, so not great, not as good as some bow things that I've had in the past, but that's what it is, Okay, So let's go to two twenty. I'm really curious to see what it'll do on two twenty two two five, and we're gonna change it back
to high power, okay. And now I've got to change my tiny essay, and we're gonna go to measure harmonic two two three five Mega hurts. Nope, mega hurts. I'm gonna go back here and go to level minus forty times one. And now we're gonna kee up on high power, which was only like three and a half watts as you saw a minute ago. Okay, still kind of dirty even though it's only running three and a half watts. Still got a second and third harmonic. I'm guessing if
I hold the power down that long. Yeah, third hard monic went away like it did on the two meters side, okay, and the second harmonic's only down at like negative twenty, so it's not very powerful it is there. We want to see everything down below negative forty negative forties with this is negative forty is what we set that minus forty times one okay, and you can see the second harmonic has disappeared now, so not too bad. On two twenty,
not too bad. Now let's go to four forty six, and we've got to resettle this again, still on high power for forty six, and we've got a third harmonic there again and an eighth harmonic at the top somewhere around two point ninety eight gigahertz, and yep, okay, and the third harmonic went away again. Eight harmonics still there, second harmonics right around zero, so it's definitely transmitting on for forty six and around nine hundred megahertz when your
keyed down there. So not the cleanest bowfang that I've tested. I've tested some dirty bowfangs recently, and I've tested some clean bowfangs recently. And guess what I had high hopes for this one I did. Now I'm gonna do some tinkering with it, okay, cause I like the menu. It's actually outputting ten watts as it advertises. Okay, it's out putting ten watts. You can't complain with that. So it's out putting ten watts. It transmits on gmrs. Not that I'm telling you should do that. You do you. I
don't care. It does two twenty, so I might try to program some local two twenty repeaters around here and try to key it up and see what it sounds like. But it does all of the things. It's just a little dirty. I wish it was a little bit cleaner. Now, your results might vary. In that same video I was telling you about that, somebody said you should always test on high power. I agree with that in principle, but again, my attenuator is only ten watts, and I don't want
to smoke it. And also I don't want to get an inaccurate test if we pump eleven or twelve watts into it, so I'm always going to test it below ten watts. Maybe I'll look for a twenty wide at ten watter that might be a little bit better for an HT. We'll see. But some of these radios might vary. You might get one that's totally clean. Okay, this one's a little dirty. I've certainly seen worse radios, But the last Bowfang that I tested was much better than this one.
So it kind of depends on what you want. Again, if you want to clean signal, which you should, you should want a clean signal. I want to clean sigal. I want to clean signal with radios that I carry, because if you have a dirty signal, that means you're transmitting in two or three places at the same time.
So if you're going out in the woods trying to be stealth and all that, and you keep up your radio to talk to your buddies or your your pals or something, and you're transmitting on two or three frequencies at the same time instead of just one, gonna be a lot easier to direction find you. So who has this radio? What do you think about it? Okay, again, this is the UV thirty two. There's another one called a DM thirty two, which in courth brace DMR. I'm
gonna grab that one next. We're gonna do a video with that soon. This is the UV thirty two ten watts tryband open for gmrs true ten watts on two meter band. What do you think about it? Put a comment in the video below. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Seventy three guys, and we will catch you next time. If you liked this video, check out these videos over here because YouTube thinks you want to watch those next