HF on a Hand Held?

Radioditty sent the new GS-10B Pro to me before it was released as they wanted you to see it first. When sending it, they never told me what to say, only to review it. So below is what I honestly experienced.

This handheld radio is not only dualband UHF, VHF radio, it also receives HF, single sideband, and CW. It has a waterfall display as well, plus a load of other goodies which I hadn’t seen in a handheld before. So, let’s have a look.

Some of the things this radio includes is a realtime spectrum display, which is the same as a waterfall. It’s got full HF, single sideband and CW reception. It’s an all band scanner receiver that covers most of UHF, VHF, HF, airband, and FM radio stations. It also connects to the weather station if you have them in your country.

It has two SMA connectors on the top. One that does for UHF and VHF and the other one is for the donut antennas that’s supplied which I will look at soon. You can program the radio either via computer or even by your mobile phone or direct input or each frequency. The direct option is a lot easier than has been before as the menu seems a lot better.

It has a 250 milliamp rechargeable battery that can be charged using USB-C cord and it has dual PTT and dual watch as well.

The 1.77 inch color screen is fantastic especially for the waterfall and I love the display how it shows not only the frequency the frequency name and the channel number when in memory mode it shows a whole lot more like signal strength and all sorts of things.

This upgraded PRO model has 999 channels, so you can store a lot more in there than you ever have before. It can transmit on the normal VHF and UHF bands, but it will also receive right down to 150 kHz.

Looking at the radio itself, the speaker is behind the keypad, which gives the radio a little bit more real estate.

They got quite a lot of menus in the radio making it a lot more functional. I have done a video below on this, which I receomend you watch it.

As an example, menu item 32 is autolock. So you can change that to how many seconds.

So one of the things you might like to do is to listen to HF. So how do you do that? If you go into the menu and I’m going to go to menu 2 4 (which takes me to menu 24). This menu item is where you program what the PF3 key is. I’m going to make sure that that is set to radio, then press confirm. So then if I press this PF3, it’ll go to radio. The next thing you should do is change the antenna to the donut antenna.

Take off the VHF/UHF antenna and next to it is a knob that screws off to reviel where you attach the donut antenna. You can plug in an external antenna if you like.

When listening to HF, if you press and hold down the home key, you get a waterfall right across the band.

The Radioddity GS-10B Pro is a high-power 8W handheld ham radio designed for long-range communication. At the time of this video, it had not been released yet. This new radio is built as an upgraded version of the popular tri-band radio, however, this portable transceiver features a real-time spectrum analyser (waterfall display) on a 1.77-inch color display, allowing you to instantly scan, view, and locate active frequencies in your area. Its precious model without all the extras is widely used by amateur radio operators for satellite communication, emergency readiness, and Parks on the Air (POTA) activations.

This handheld radio has advanced shortwave listening. The GS-10B Pro handheld transceiver includes wideband HF monitoring with SSB (Single Sideband) and CW modes. Unlike standard analog radios, it has a dual-antenna path system with two SMA ports to keep high-frequency and VHF/UHF signals clear and separate. It also comes with two donut antennas.

To make setup simple, the radio features built-in Bluetooth wireless programming, so you can easily configure channels, update your codeplug, and manage repeater offsets directly from an Android or iOS smartphone app without a computer programming cable.

The hardware is optimized for survival gear and off-grid use, with a 2500mAh USB-C rechargeable battery that supports 2A fast charging. It comes equipped with dual PTT (Push-to-Talk) switches for seamless dual-band monitoring and an extra physical channel knob for quick frequency tuning. If you are buying your first ham radio or looking for a budget-friendly backup radio, custom noise reduction, and standard Kenwood 2-pin accessories.

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After using it for a while, I contacted the author of the app, Sue Southcott, VK5AYL where she was thrilled that I would do a review on this free app, and provided me with a bit more information about her and the app.

The current version is for iphone only at this stage, but I think there are plans to expand this.  It allows users to Spot, Alert and export in ADIF and or spreadsheet format.

The app also allows users to search for sites including parks, peaks and silos by site ID. Or you can search by partial site name or by using the inbuilt map.

Setting up the map and connecting site data by longitude/latitude co-ordinates has been Sue’s favourite part.  Sue said “I already had the experience of connecting data to mapping systems during my career.

The following awards are handled – WWFF, SOTA, HEMA, IOTA, KRMNPA, SANPCPA, SIOTA, SHIRES, ZLOTA & POTA. 

Parks & Peaks is an Australian website that collects data from Amateur Radio operators who get out of their shacks and operate their radios portable in parks or on peaks.  It also collects data from those who Spot them.

AU/NZ sites can be downloaded to the device for use when there is no network available.

It will also produce multiple logs for one activation, so if you are on a Summit in a WWFF Park with a Pota reference, you will get 3 logs, one for SOTA, one for WWFF and one for POTA.

There is also a quick way to log activators as I show in the video below.

About Sue VK5AYL….

Sue has had her Advanced Amateur licence for a very long time and it led to her decision to study IT back in the 80s. 

For over 30 years, she had a successful career as an IT Manager, Analyst/Programmer, TAFE Lecturer and even my own software business, contracting to many organisations.

Most of her work involved working on client/server applications for large businesses. 

In 2014, Sue decided to learn how to write an iOS app and along came Parks & Peaks, which gave me something to work on. After purchasing a Mac Pro Sue had to learn how to use it very quickly, along with the new Apple language. 

In 2015, Sue presented version 1 to the WIA AGM in SA.  Since then, Sue has released versions 2 and 3 and compared to version 1, they had many more features.  Sue told me she loved every minute of developing the app as it has been a massive challenge and allowed her to continue with my love of programming.

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EchoLink CQ

I’ve been using EchoLink well before smartphones where the only way I knew how to connect to a different station was via the radio. The internet wasn’t as extensive as it is now and you had to dial the node you wanted via the radio. You can still do this today but I don’t think anywhere near as many do it.

I always felt EchoLink was well ahead of its time. Started well before any digital radio was thought of. Connecting the world via the internet.

It was great to be able to talk to the UK or States while mobile on the way to work just using a small whip antenna on the car.

Given I’m in Australia, it can be difficult to remember when overseas nets are on, or what part of the world is awake and up for a chat and which ones are not. But EchoLink has a CQ feature.

Calling CQ

EchoLink had a CQ feature where you can call CQ and it will automatically connect to someone who is calling CQ also.

From the Stations screen select call CQ.

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  • Select the node type, again, leave as any to start with
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Then press Call CQ

It will call CQ for a while searching for a connection that matches your settings. I find that sometimes it tries to connect to another node but can fail. This is perhaps because the connection drops out for whatever reason. Just try again.

The good thing about this option is you will get someone who is wanting to talk to someone just like you do!

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I get the “Device is unreachable” Error message when trying to import media from iPhone to Windows 10 PC. This was not extreemly fustrating as we had just completed an outback trip through Australia, but couldn’t get the photo’s saved when returning home.

Error Copying File or Folder – The device is unreachable

Error I got on my PC when copying files from an apple device

While trying to import photos and video from your iPhone onto your PC, I kept getting an error message.

I would go to the My-PC/AppleiPhone (or Ipad)/DCIM folder and locate the media I wanted to import. And get the “Device is unreachable” error.

Then I would attempt to copy and paste the media into a folder on the desktop. I got the error message “Device is unreachable” still.

However I was able to fix this problem by simply changing a setting on my apple device. If you have the same problem, go to Settings/Photos and scroll down to “Transfer to Mac or PC.” Change it to “Keep Originals”, not “Automatic.” This simple change in the setting solved my problem!

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