Wouxun KG-1000G PLUS - Review Of New KG1000+ GMRS Radio From Wouxun And BuyTwoWayRadios

In this exciting video I will show you the new wooksen kg-

1000g

Plus 50 watt mobile

gmrs

radio

and of course the big question is that everyone wants to know what is the difference between the new wuxin ocean kg-

1000g

plus and the old wooksin ocean kg-1000g also of course the name the new one has a plus the previous version of the kg-1000g does not have the Plus in the name now most YouTubers would make you watch until the end of the video to answer that great question but I won't because I'm special I'll go over the differences between the kg-1000g and the new kg-1000g Plus in just a minute but because unlike all those other YouTubers because I'm special I'll tell you here and now From the beginning, the differences between the kg-1000g and the kg-1000g plus are not that big.

The changes are more evolutionary than revolutionary. These changes are just one more step forward in wooks and oceans' continued march toward dominating the basically wooksin

gmrs

market. Ocean listened to the customer feedback they got from the kg-1000g and made the new kg-1000g plus more consistent with all the other

radio

s they sell and made several other improvements to make the kg-1000g plus less confusing. Use it to make it a more enjoyable herbal gmrs radio experience, the cost of the new wukson ocean kg-1000g plus is $389. Affiliate link below and let me point out that buy2a radios.com sent me this new wooksun ocean kg-1000g Plus. at no cost so I can share it with my large YouTube audience.

When you buy the new wuxin ocean kg-1000g Plus in the box you will find a warranty card and you will find a very well written 124 page updated user manual. in perfect English and as I mentioned, slightly updated from the previous kg-1000g user manual, to make it easier to understand and more pleasant to read, you will receive some faceplates placed on the front of the wuxon ocean kg-1000g radio plus so you can adjust the angle of the faceplate and some small mounting screws. You will receive a mounting bracket to mount the kg-1000g Plus to your vehicle.

You will receive a little bag with some mounting screws, some extra fuses, and a microphone mounting clip. You will receive a very long faceplate extension cable, it is 18 or 20 feet long, don't quote me because it is very long and this is so you can detach the faceplate from the kg-1000g Plus. In the gmrs world, we call it remote support. faceplate and that is one of the best features of the kg-1000g and now the kg-1000g plus is being able to remotely mount the faceplate in one place and have the radio in another place, you will receive a microphone, the microphone has been updated Slightly, the microphone has volume control because it has a speaker inside the microphone, which makes it very useful if you are in a loud vehicle like a Jeep trying to drive down the highway.

It has a lock switch so you can lock the microphone. so that you don't accidentally press any button, the microphone is illuminated so that in the dark all the buttons light up and there is a switch to turn that light on or off, it has a push to talk button here you use that button to press when you want to talk to through the radio and it has a programmable function button that you can program to do different things, I'll talk more about that in a moment and you will receive the new wuxin ocean kg 1000g plus 50 watt mobile gmrs radio.

I get a very long cable that connects to the other end of the flexible cable coming out of the radio. This one is 15 or 18 feet long and that's what you plug into your power supply. I won't show you this entire cable because it is just one cable, the radio is approximately eight and a half inches long and its longest length is five and a half inches wide at its widest part and just under two inches thick at the bottom. On the back you will find a hole for a standard SO239 antenna connector, a fan that will rotate to keep the radio cool and under this dust cover you will also find connectors for external speakers.

The reason you will find two is because the wuxin ocean kg-1000g plus has two speakers. I'll tell you more about why it has two speakers momentarily, as I mentioned. The radio comes with additional faceplate brackets so you can remove this one which is slightly angled up if you prefer to have the faceplate mounted more straight like this, the microphone plugs in here and on this side you have a connector to plug in your computer programming cable You'll find two volume controls for the two speakers, we'll talk more about those two speakers momentarily, a sparse selection of buttons on the front and programmable buttons on the top, as well as an on and off button, and finally you have a Channel Selector Knob Here, the KG-1000G Plus is a 50-watt mobile GMRS radio, meaning it is designed to be installed in your vehicle;

However, if you wish, you can also use it as a base station by connecting it to a 12-volt DC power source. power supply and a roof antenna like the kg-1000g the kg-1000g plus has all standard gmrs channels repeater channels can split tones has hundreds of channel memory slots that you can use to save and program multiple repeaters or single frequency scanning, it has a wide range of scanning frequencies which I forgot to write down so I will put them on the screen as mentioned, this is a gmrs radio and to transmit on a gmrs radio the FCC overlords say you must have a gmrs license you don't need a license to buy this radio you don't need a license to listen to this radio but if you want to talk or broadcast on this radio the fccs says you must have a gmrs license there is no test to get a gmrs license, purchase such how to buy a fishing license by sending money to the government.

If you don't have a gmrs license, I will put a link in the information section of this video to a page on my website that explains how to purchase a gmrs license from the FCC so you too can send money to the government and be able to use our free airwaves Like the KG-1000G, the KG-1000G Plus is a super heterodyne radio, meaning it is a higher quality receiver. than those cheaper chip or SOC type radios so it's better at filtering out static and bleed than those other cheaper homo death radios and the receiver is more sensitive meaning you can hear more things from further away Furthermore, the kg-1000g, like the kg-1000g, can monitor and listen to two frequencies at the same time as you can see on this side I am monitoring the Delta repeater and on this side I am monitoring channel two of gmrs that is the reason for the two speakers and the two volume control knobs, as you can see each side has a separate volume control, but since listening to two different channels at the same time is too confusing for simple brains like mine, I have programmed one of the programmable buttons to deactivate that function.

So with the push of a button, I'm now monitoring just one channel, you can program virtually everything on this radio right from the keypad; However, it is much easier to do all the programming using the software that you can download for free from buy2a radios.com. website, the software is not the same software used with the kg-1000g, you must use the new updated software designed specifically for the kg-1000g plus and if you choose to program the radio from your computer, you will need a pc003 programming cable, this is the type with a small RJ45 type connector that plugs into the side of the radio.

This cable costs about fifteen dollars. The external link under the box for the kg-1000g also says it's a 50 watt radio, so let's check that to test the power. wixon ocean kg-1000g plus output to make sure wooksin ocean is honest with us. I will use the farzometer 2000 SWR and the power meter. I will connect the farzometer 2000 to the wixon ocean kg-1000g Plus through this high quality messy. and polony connection cable I will put the radio on my favorite gmrs channel, channel 16, which is approximately in the middle of the band. I will confirm that the radio is on high power which we can see by the small H indicator.

I will then press the push to talk button on the kg-1000g plus microphone which will send a burst of RF electricity through the messy cable and polonium of high quality to the farzometer 2000, which will tell us some things, it will tell us the frequency that I am transmitting. Right there a big number will be displayed here, which is the SWR, which because we are using a dummy load it is not a valid SWR reading because it is not a real antenna, it is a dummy load, the purpose of using the dummy load is help absorb. all the electricity from the radio through the farzometer 2000 to get a more accurate reading of the RF electricity output than if we were just using an antenna and this also prevents all the RF electricity from going into the air and disturbing anyone who is near.

You might be hearing me press the button, the actual power output, the number we care about will be up here, so ignore everything else, that's the number that will matter, so ladies and gentlemen, I've got everything hooked up. Now I'll press the push-to-talk button. See how much power it is generating on channel 16. We are getting 47.25 watts, which is very close to the promised 50 watts. The farzometer 2000 is not the most accurate meter you can buy so far. All we know is that it could generate exactly 50 watts. Watts, let's go to a higher frequency, that's where I am now on repeater number 22, which will be the highest frequency.

Now we are at four six, seven, seven, two five, which is quite a bit higher and the output is 42 42.1 Watts, also very close. at the promised 50 watts, but don't be alarmed by the 42 watt output because it is normal for a radio to not output the same power across the entire band, so it appears that Wixon Ocean has tuned the radio for Simplex channels instead of the highest ones. repeater channels, but 42 watts is still very close to the promised 50 and at Simplex it was pretty much what we expected, as you may have noticed, the kg-1000g plus has exactly the same hardware as the kg-1000g and all the parts and accessories and everything is interchangeable with the kg-1000g on the outside.

The EKG 1000g plus is exactly the same as the kg-1000, but like mom always told you, it's what's inside that matters, so let me go over some of the things that are different. In the new radio plus compared to the old non plus kg-1000g, the first ocean book has removed some of the menu options that do not apply to gmrs. If you have the previous kg-1000g, you may have noticed that there were menus. options that did nothing or were very confusing and those options were left over from the original design of this radio which was a ham radio so since those menu options don't apply to the gmrs version they finally removed those confusing ones.

Options The kg-1000g plus has four programmable buttons instead of just three like on the previous kg-1000g and by programming those buttons the new plus version allows you to program each of these buttons to do more things than the previous kg-1000g in The EKG 1000g plus squelch adjustments are made in real time, which may not seem like a big deal to you, but if you ever try to adjust the squelch correctly on the old kg-1000g, you had to configure the squelch, save the settings and then go listen C if your settings made any difference on the new kg-1000g plus, as you make the change it happens in real time so you can listen as you dial in the correct mute setting.

This button on the microphone can now be assigned to any programming. They work the same as these top buttons, you couldn't before on the previous model kg-1000g, the new plus version has a weather icon displayed on the area button so you don't forget that pressing that button will take you to the weather. channels and the screen now has this weather icon which indicates that you are listening to the weather frequencies and unlike the old kg-1000g you can now access the weather channels whether you are listening to the A side channel or the A side channel.

B. What do I mean by that? It's just that if I have dual monitoring on and I have the active channel set to this side as indicated by the small arrow on the old kg-1000g, I wouldn't be able to activate the weather frequencies if it were on this side on the new kg-1000g plus. I can activate the weather from anywhere on the old kg-1000g. Not being able to activate the weather from the B side was a source of a lot of confusion for many people. Another small but very nifty plus feature is that when dual monitoring is disabled, you can customize the message displayed on the unused side of the screen.

You can't do that on the standard kg-1000g. The kg-1000g plus also has better streaming audio quality and they have made improvements to the automatic gain control. Thanks to Xenu. the radio has a Roger beep and there are actually more changes in the new kg-1000g plus, but because some people like to leave comments complaining that my videos are too long for time reasons, I won't

review

all the changes , but if you want to see every change, big and small, that wukson has made in this new kg-1000g. Also, I will link to a blog post on the buy2a radios.com website where they describe every change and everythingWhat is different between the kg-1000g and the new kg-1000g plus, as mentioned above, most of these changes are small, but when you add them all up they make the gmrs radio experience better, so you should buy the new wooksen ocean kg-1000g Plus or should you replace your existing kg-1000g with the new plus version if you already have a kg-1000g then no, it's probably not worth upgrading and throwing away your old kg-1000g, most of these changes They are small and while they add to a better GMRS experience, they are probably not worth replacing your existing KG-1000G for most people, but if you are looking for a new high power GMRS mobile radio and aren't sure about If you should get the kg-1000g with the kg-1000g plus the few extra dollars for the kg-1000g plus is definitely worth it