Baofeng UV-6R Review (Ham radio / walky talkie)

[MILSPEC]

@sb56637

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thank you for the test, I have a variety of UV5R, including the TP (8W). so far they are all worth more than what I paid for.

Do you think the 8W models are worth the (slightly) higher price? Any measurable difference in performance compared to the normal 4-5W models? Can you tell if the TP actually puts out the advertised 8W?

A ham buddy has a SWR meter and one day we got tired of lights, cars and other stuff and decided to measure all HTs we had flying around! The 8W on the latest Baofengs is an actual improvement, the meter showed approx. 7.5W (analog meter, so not very exact).

I personally don’t think I’ll need more than 5W power as most of my repeaters are not far away and my other use cases are driving with friends, shopping malls or something like that.

The UVR5 TP I bought was from Sainstore nextbigthink and was on sale/the same price as other 5W were advertised.

I am pretty sure Baofeng is like the ThorFire or Convoy of ham radio.