Icom IC-V80 HT Programming and Testing....PLUS New Year GIVEAWAY!!

Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/WQ9F Twitter:   / wq9f_ham_radio   Discord: kwduffy02 Giveaway Ended 1/14/24 - And the winners are.... KH2SR, KY3G, and AC9DN congrats!! Amazon Affiliate Links to gear used in this video: TinySA Ultra - https://amzn.to/3tSBrNy Becen 10W 10db Attenuator - https://amzn.to/3Hlv74f Becen 10W 40db Attenuator - https://amzn.to/48E63Bt Surecom SW-102 SWR /Wattmeter - https://amzn.to/3HkGgSR Surecom 25 Watt Dummy Load - https://amzn.to/47DeU5c In this video I spent some time with the Icom V-80 which I got in a Mystery Box from Main Trading Company. This is a VHF Analog radio and it is one of the most basic radios you could probably get when it came out. In the video I showed how to program a simplex and repeater as well as save those to the memory. It is important skill to have with any HT you own, is to be able to program it by hand I always thought. I spent some time hooking this to a few tools that i've started to use, the first being the Surecom SW-102 SWR and Wattmeter to check the power output levels. And then my newest tool the TinySA Ultra, which was used to check for harmonics and to see how clean the signal was. Please Subscribe: 02:22 Unboxing: 04:06 First Use: 06:44 Programming Call Channel: 08:32 Programming Simplex Memory Channel: 10:19 Accessing Menu Functions: 11:15 Programming Repeater and PL Tones: 11:40 Memory Scan Feature: 14:28 Testing Power Output with Surecom SW-102: 14:45 Testing Signal With TinySA Ultra: 17:58 Final Thoughts: 25:45 Giveaway Details: 28:45