Wouxun KG-1000G GMRS 50 Watt Mobile Radio - Review and Range Distance Test - High Power GMRS Radio

Hello friends, first of all I have to admit that today I am a little jealous jealous of my friend and neighbor Sherwood not jealous of Sherwood because he is prettier than me or because he has more friends than me I am jealous of my friend Sherwood because he has been looking for a new

gmrs

mobile

radio

to put in your jeep and you were lucky enough to get your hands on the newly released wukson pronounced ocean kg

1000g

gmrs

mobile

radio

50

watt

so i want to do a quick overview of the kg

1000g

gmrs radio shows you what comes in the box.

I'm not going to make an unboxing video because unboxing videos are stupid, but I will show you what you get. I'm going to go over some really cool features of the radio. We'll show you how and where Sherwood decides to mount hers on his Jeep. It won't be a full installation video, but it will just give you an idea of ​​how easy the installation can be expected to be and we'll do a quick scope

test

. So you can get an idea of ​​how far you can talk on one of these radios and how it sounds KG1000G is a 50

watt

mobile GMRS radio, fully compliant with FCC part 95e for use on GMRS frequencies, you need a license to use this radio The FCC just announced that they have lowered the price of licenses.

It used to be 70 for 10 years. I saw an ad that they are now lowering it to 35. I'm not sure if it's for 10 years or just five years, but I've seen conflicting things online, some people, one guy just posted that he just got his license and it was still 70, so apparently they will lower the price of the gmrs license. I'm not sure when, but it's coming soon. Wukson is pronounced ocean. w is silent and the You can get the radio at buy2wayradios.com on their Amazon site, this radio. It's built to spec for them by Ocean, so there are affiliate links below for this radio, so you can buy it on Amazon or order one.

The price of this radio is about 300, so this is not a cheap radio, it is a

high

quality radio. Then Sherwood let me borrow his radio. I asked him if he could lend it to me so I could take a look, do a

review

and show them. I plugged it in and ran it with my Jackery 12 volt solar

power

source so I could see how it works. It worked, what were some of the options. I couldn't transmit because I don't have an antenna for it, but we will transmit and do some

test

s after I install it on his jeep, so when you hear Wook's song. kg1000g in the box you will find an owner's manual.

Now Sherwood said he got an email saying some of these may not come with a printed owner's manual because it's a new radio, they just started shipping it out so if you don't get the owner's manual you'll get a CD-ROM with the owner's manual. They just launched this radio 30 or 60 days ago. It's new to the market, so the software on the chip probably doesn't work yet because it's new, but Ocean does have it. software that you can use to program it from your computer, but I have gone through all the menus and it is very easy to program it yourself, there is really not much to do, there are settings that are on or off or you choose a setting, things like setting up a repeater because It's a repeater capable radio, it's really simple, all you need is the tone for the repeater, you log in using the microphone.

I'll show you in a second and you just select your shade from the list and you're pretty. very much done, it is very easy to use the radio, what else comes in the box, you get some mounting accessories, here is a microphone stand and some small screws, everything you need. I'm not going to open that because obviously Sherwood hasn't installed it. This is on his jeep still and I don't want to lose any parts I might need. The mounting bracket comes with these small plates. I'll talk more about them in a second because they have to do with one of the best features.

This radio comes with this cable that looks like a normal ethernet cable. It has RJ45 connectors. I'll show you more what it's for. In a minute you will get a microphone that you can use to completely control the radio and of course. the reason you came with the radio itself, so let's first talk about these different little stands that come with it. The radio comes with the faceplate if you can see it at a slight upward angle you can remove this entire piece and the entire front. piece I'm not going to do it because I don't want to ruin the Sherwood radio I don't want to break it if someone is going to break it it should be them to break it but that whole piece is removable and you can use the different mounting plates to change the orientation or angle , so you have the option of removing it and making it so that it is a flat angle up and down or, and this is a great option, you can remove it completely and using this cable remotely mount the faceplate in one location different from the one on the radio so you can put it under your seat or wherever and you have this, I don't know how long it is, but it looks like it's at least 10 or 15 feet long. using the cable you can mount the faceplate on the control panel, the LCD screen somewhere else, it's a great option that makes me jealous, the radio itself feels like it's made of steel, it's very sturdy, I don't know how much it's heavy but it has some weight it's a little bigger than the other 50 watt radio we

review

ed that I have in my jeep all the metal seems to be a great heat sink because I know this type of radio can generate a lot of heat so I guess which is purposely large to function as a heat sink.

It has two speakers internally on the back you will find the fan and using the radio programming you can control how and when that fan turns on. it has a single pl 259 or something like that 239 whatever it's called normal antenna it has connectors for two external speakers it has a plug here to program with your computer again using the ocean software it doesn't support chirp yet and on the side of the radio this is where You mount the microphone it has several quick function buttons of which three are programmable the microphone is plastic but feels well made it has a physical switch to lock and unlock the microphone so you don't accidentally press any buttons it has a small internal light that you can turn on and off it has a main button that you use to switch between the different channels you are monitoring this radio allows you to listen to two channels at once, one channel is on site and the other channel is on site b you use this to switch between the two to transmit if you don't like the option of listening to two channels at once you can easily disable that in the menus all the menu options and everything on the radio are really easy to use programming a The repeater is super simple, everything What you need is the tone, basically you enter that channel, select the tone from the list and that's it, it's very easy.

On the side is a monitor button so you can bypass the mute and hear everything. the air and push to talk button that you use to push to talk on the radio on the top there is a transmit and receive light and another feature that I really like about this radio besides the two fairly large speakers inside the radio, there is a speaker on the microphone and there is a volume control that you can use to turn it up and down. It is very useful if the internal speakers are not loud enough or if you are on the

high

way, your jeep is very loud, just hold it close to your ear and listen, that is a really cool feature.

Now you can also use this radio to monitor uhf frequencies that you cannot transmit on those frequencies because this radio complies with FCC part 95 and will only allow you to transmit on the channels and frequencies that it can transmit. turned on and at the

power

levels it is allowed to transmit at, you can program in different frequencies to monitor, you can listen to all of Noah's channels and you can scan them, so it's actually more than just a GMRS-only radio, as well which is a quick solution. overview of the radio itself now I have to take it to my friend Sherwood, he will install this radio in his jeep, we will tune and configure the antenna and then do a quick

range

test to give you an idea.

An idea of ​​how far you can talk on one of these radios and what it sounds like I probably shouldn't have closed the hood yet until I made sure we're okay, but let's give it a test to make sure the power is working, here we go, lights . All right, we'll fix all that in a moment. I'm going to put the cables away, connect the antenna, and then we'll mount the antenna. Now we are ready for the

range

test. I'm on the corner of Euclid Avenue and Pine Avenue in Southern California, that's California State Route 83 and Pine Sherwood Avenue is way up on the top of that peak or almost on top of that peak 26.6 miles away.

This will be a simple radio to radio test. We don't use repeaters, you may remember a few months ago we did a GMR range test with the GMR radios in my jeep and my wife's jeep and I think we got out to 24 or 25 miles and a few people commented on that YouTube video. that that test that range was impossible simply beyond the rules of physics without using a repeater one person went so far as to call me a liar that the whole test was made up so my response to that particular person is: you know, sometimes they just you're an idiot so what these people couldn't include in their calculations when they were crunching the numbers on their fish price calculators is elevation, so on a plane the curvature of the earth will limit how far you can talk because the signs of radius can only go so far and then the earth is curved and, but if one of those radios is up here, you can talk more.

I want to go into more detail about exactly where we are and what we're doing here so there's no more confusion because honestly, I hate deleting stupid comments, so Sherwood is on Marshall Peak at 4006 feet up. I'm on California State Route 83 and Pine Avenue. I can see the Chinese airport from here. It's right there. He is at 4006 feet. I'm in uh. I think my elevation here was. about 500 feet so it's way above me and 26.6 miles away in a straight line in a straight line, that's not driving

distance

in that straight line from here to there, so this will be a test in almost perfect condition.

I can see that mountain where it is. he could see me if I waved at him and he had binoculars he could see me so these are perfect conditions there is nothing between the two of us radio to radio he is using the new ocean kg1000g he has it set to 50 watts he has the big browning br 450 antenna that I am going to use . I love that Ocean Lady, doesn't that sound good? I'm going to use my handheld uh Ocean. They sent this to me a few weeks ago. I reviewed it, but it's from Sherwood. uh kg 1000g we're going to test we're both set to gmrs channel 16 so let's see what happens this is oh and we're going to use our call signs as required by FCC regulations but let's edit them because no There are YouTube regulations that say you have to know my call sign, I'm sure you would copy loud and clear, Randy, okay, give me an audio check, just answer and give me a one, two, three, four, one check , two three four. one two three four So you're on camera right now.

Can you describe to the audience where you are? I'm in San Bernardino, on a peak called Marshall Peak, where they do a lot of hang gliding on very clear days. Hey, what's that radio? you're using it sounds great, yes it's a new one they just released. On your recommendation, I thought I'd better take one. It's hard to pronounce, but it's spelled w-o-u-x-u-n, so you sound good here, um, I am. I'm surprised it works, wait a minute, so I'm surprised it doesn't surprise me based on the testing we've done before, the mobile radio to mobile radio range test.

I knew we had a good chance of catching him. to each other what I wasn't sure about was this small portable ocean with only five watts. Could you hear me at 26 miles now? The reason we are only 26 miles away is because in the interior empire of Southern California you really can't. go more than 25 or 26 miles in any direction without running into another mountain, so I ran towards the mountains. I'm in Chinese basically in meadow behind me now or beyond where I am, there is the meadow dam and there are mountains that I know. based on that signal level we could talk much further so the ocean kg 1000 g 50 watt radio gmrs mobile 26.6 miles to the ocean kg 805 g5 watt radio 26 miles again in near perfect condition it is rare that you have such perfect offroad conditions when offroading but it gives you an idea of ​​the kind of range you can get in gmrs, let me know if you have any questions, if this test was flawed or if you want to call me a liar like the other guy did. just tell me why, explain why you post your calculations, explain why I'm wrong or if this is impossible below, uh, if you've tested your gmr gmrs radio and got better results, I'd love to know if you like thisvideo like it thanks for watching and we hope to see you on the road