Review on 📻 Six-Pack of TIDRADIO UV-5R Ham Radio Handhelds by Maurice Jimenez

This is a Baofeng UV-5R radio, but. no Boafeng logo anywhere. There is a TIDRADIO logo on the front, and there are no Baofeng logos on the battery and antenna. The microphone and programming cables are marked TIDRADIO, but they are exactly the same as the Baofeng UV-5R. The price of this package is very reasonable. This radio is probably a good choice if you want the complete package to include most of the basic components needed to run HAM RADIO, while still having a Baofeng quality radio with a different logo (so you don't have your radios without mix up all the other baofeng ) A SPECIAL NOTE: This kit includes two antennas. A standard rubber ducky and another TIDRADIO NA-771. Both are dual band. Although the NA-771 looks great with a long antenna, it has poor SWR, particularly at UHF (440 band) with an average SWR > 8 at 440 band operating frequencies. The so-called cheap (like many other complaints about it) standard rubber antenna - the duck actually performed reasonably well on my SWR and power test (see below). I ran this test with three different NA-771s and three different rubber antennas. Test results included the BEST performance of the NA-771 and three rubber duckies. The other two NA-771s performed worse (stable in the UHF band). If your kit is similar to mine, keep the rubber ducky and ditch the NA-771 antenna (if you don't like the looks and don't mind burning your radio using UHF frequencies). Despite the lack of NA-771 I give this radio a 5 star rating for its value and overall performance Tidradio NA771-3 450,000 39.99% 7.87 146,800 85.10% 2.20TIDRADIO NA771-3 146,800 85.10% 2.20TIDRADIO NA771-3 % 2.08 BAFEFAFEFAFEFAFEAFENTNNA-1 420.10.10.10.1011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. Antenna-1 442,000 99.99% 1.02BOFENG ANTENNA-1 447,000 99.99% 1.00BOFENG ANTENNA-1 450,000 99.92% 1.05 Antenna-1 144,000 88.59% 2.02bafengafeng Antenna-1 146,200 69% 1, 81boafg antenna-12 1.148,000 97.45% 1.37 Boafeng-1 Antenna 462.640 99.57% 1.14 Boafeng-1 Antenna 467.6 40 90.51% 1.89BOAFENG ANTENNA-2 420,000 83.37% 2.3790,000 98.24% 1,30,000 BOAFENG ANTENNANOMINATENAGENNAGE IFBOAFENGEGEG ANTENNANOMINATENANANANAGEANG. % 1.06. % 1.91boafeng antenna-2 146.200 96.51% 1.45boafeng Antenna-2 146,800 92.92% 1.72 Antenne-2 148,000 98.04% 1.32 Antenne-2 462.640 90.95% 1.86Beafeng Antenna-2 467.64.64.64.64.64.64,435,000 90.81% .87-Butterfly Antenna-3 442,000 99.76% 1.10BOAFENG ANDENNA-3 447,000 99.95% 1.04BAFENG ANTENNA-3 450,000 99.94% 1.04BAFENG ANTENNA-3 144.2030 83.2030 -3 146.2400 % Boafeng-3400 98.3850 Antenna 148,000 90.95% 1.86 Boafeng-3 Antenna 462,640 99.41% 1.16 Boafeng-3 Antenna 467,640 93.77% 1.66