New Four Band Ham Mobile - Wouxun KG-UV950P

This is the quad band radio I was mentioning at brunch last Saturday - the Wouxun KG-UV950p. Hopefully it'll  transmit simultaneously on both radios.

  http://www.buytwowayradios.com/products/wouxun/kg-uv950p.aspx

> Still not really getting the "quad band" aspect after 3 reads.

VHF and UHF give us local simplex and repeater access.

HF gives SKip DX which is not as easily predictable but with much greater range.

In the middle we have a couple magic bands, 6 meters and 10 meters, that give us both DX and local.    Normally good for local but when the sun shines its magic rays we have propagation around the country and beyond.

I find it appealing to have a single radio that can be used for day to day communications and can also open up and play on those special times when the skip is in.   Thus the appeal to me of a quad band radio like this.

The cross-band functionality may be a bonus where the radio could scan the cool frequencies on one side and cross band it locally to UHF at very low power with the other side..


> I suspect a bit of over-specsmanship after reading this feature:
> Stun and Kill Function

I believe those are standard functions for part 90 commercial gear that allow remotely disabling a radio that's been stolen.

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I thought the Yeasu FT 8900 was going to be the ultimate 'special purpose' four band rig.  I had planned to use one side on 6  meter packet and the other for local voice operation.   Then I discovered it only does one band-transmitter at a time so it wouldn't work. Hopefully these new radios are better and allow full  independent operation of both modules.  Simultaneous transmitting would be the ultimate..