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I quickly found out that the QYT KT-UV980 isn’t easy to measure. When I replaced the QYT microphone by the one supplied with the Kenwood TMV-71 my TX audio got a lot better. I had more or less to yell in order to get my message across, and the tonal quality is typical ‘Chinese Disease’: no highs, no real lows, and lots of mid tones. It looks and sounds like an oscillator having trouble to get stable. The transmitter has some trouble starting up when you press the PTT button there’s a short squeaking sound which will fade away in about half a second. There’s no service menu (or I couldn’t find it), and there isn’t any TX power control on the PCB either.
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In order to make sure the radio wasn’t messed up in some way I did a full reset, checked the Watt meter once more, and checked the working voltage. That’s quite a gap between those promised 30 Watts and measured 14.5 Watts. UHF High: 14.5 Watts, UHF Low: 6.2 Watts. These factory specs weren’t far off on VHF, but on UHF it’s a different story. There are quite a few last minute modifications visible, soldering looks a bit sloppy here and there, and two red-colored wires connecting ‘something’ in the front panel to PCB ground.Īccording to the specs this radio should deliver 40/10 Watts on VHF and 30/10 Watts on UHF. This radio is not as neatly built as the latest Anytones. PTT, TX audio and up/down will work, keying in a frequency too, but the special keys are not easy to replicate. The microphone itself is too, but up to a point. The RJ-45 microphone connector is compatible with Kenwood. During the test it became clear that Anytone is probably not the driving force behind this design, as the radio has faults not seen in Anytone models for a long time. Display choices are frequency, channel number, and channel name.Ĭhanging something is easy: press F(unction), use the channel selector to select a menu option, press Function again, change the setting, press F to save your settings and press the Exit button to quit.Īs said before, the QYT KT-UV980 looks a lot like the Anytone AT-588 mono-band transceiver. There are differences too: contrary to a UV-5R you can program everything manually, up to the alpha tags. That came in handy, because my sample didn’t come with a manual, nor with software. Speaking of Baofeng: the menu isn’t too different from a UV-5R either, up to selecting the three background colors. Switching between VHF and UHF is done with the A/B button, or automatically when you switch on Dual Watch – a bit like a Baofeng UV-5R. The enclosure suggested that I was dealing with a new Anytone variety, but equipped with one VFO instead of two independent VFOs. A while ago I got my hands on the QYT KT-UV980 dual-band mobile.