Made My First Satellite QSO ever with the TIDRADIO TD-H3!!

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TIDRADIO offered to send me their new TD-H3 Dual Band VHF/UHF radio to give a look at and test out, and I figured why not test it out to the max and try to do something i've never done before...make a contact via a Ham Radio satellite, and that is exactly what I did. I made my first every contact through PO-101 satellite with #KC0ECQ in Missouri all with 5 Watts output on UHF from my back deck using the Arrow Portable II hand held yagi antenna.

I also took a look some of the features of this radio and how to get started using it by being able to program both simplex and repeater frequencies by hand, as well as how to use a few common features of this radio.

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00:09 First Look
01:35 Intro to TD-H3
03:25 Operating the Radio
03:37 Changing Menu Options
04:44 Turning off the Voice Prompts and Beeps
05:29 Switching Between VFO and Memory Mode
05:45 Switching Between VFA A and VFO B
06:04 Quick Menu Items
06:35 Programming Simplex Memory Channel from Front Panel
08:30 Programming and Saving a Repeater from the Front Panel
08:58 Setting Repeater Offset
09:30 Setting Transmit PL Tone
10:50 Listening to FM Broadcast Band (91.5 FM WBEZ Chicago NPR Radio)
11:34 Listening to AM Aircraft Band (132.700 AM O'Hare Center Tower)
13:57 Power Output Testing
17:24 Listening to NOAA Weather Radio
17:55 Wide Coverage Receive (134-600 mhz)
19:33 Transmit Audio Test on 147.555 mhz
21:56 Satellite Contact with KC0ECQ on PO-101 Satellite
25:28 Video Wrap-Up!


Until next time, 73 all! -WQ9F