This Awesome '10 Meter Radio' Has a SECRET!

I wanted a new 10 meter radio for the shack - after a heap of researching I finally settled on this - the Anytone AT-5555N II.

It has a bunch of sweet features, missing on a lot of similarly priced budget 10 meter radios, plus a hidden secret or two.

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0:00 Anytone AT-5555N II
1:53 Power output test
3:17 All the modes!
4:04 Radioddity QT60 similarities
4:58 Pretty sweet features!
7:26 10m FM repeaters
10:16 Secret squirrel mod that you shouldn't know

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[HamRadioDX]

Build an EASY 10 Meter (or 11m) Vertical Antenna for DX!

[johnfloy]

I recently installed one of these radios in my truck and I have been very impressed with it. Just using a browning 49 inch whip trimmed down to 45 in for 10m. I have been getting contacts from all over. Got from Oklahoma to Brazil as my first contact. East coast to west coast of the USA no issues. Fun stuff!

[mostlypostie]

FYI - don't forget It's a 12m radio also. :) And try setting the RXNR (DSP Noise Reduction) to 1 or 2 - it works amazingly well! I have a heap of 10m radios and this is by far the most impressive performer of the lot (my test bench agrees too). 73

[crlguitar]

Very nice demonstration of this rig. I chuckled at the 'alter' to make it work 11 & 12 meters too.
A bit pricey but I may buy one of these.

[Dallas-Rife-UDX--Tennessee]

Great video . These radios are making other manufacturers take notice . Very good sounding radio right out of the box . Very professional looking rig
A huge amount of radio for the money .

(P.S., , when properly tuned and aligned, these things sound amazing and really perform on 11 meter AM and SSB as well)

73’s
KK4ISW

[AEZAEZEL-]

The same white wire and jumper is also present in Radioddity QT60. It turns your 10 meter transceiver into an export 10 meter CB radio.

[indridcold]

Wow! 12 meters, 11 meters, citizen's band, 10 meters, and a few extra frequencies all on a compact transceiver! I had had a Cobra 148GTL in all my vehicles. It was about 40 years old. I even had the radio before I could drive and had it on a car battery with a wire for an antenna. Last year, the ancient 148GTL died beyond repair and I wept. I buried it on my property next to fallen animal companions. After a year and 10 months of morning, I find myself ready to find a different radio. The Cobra 148GTL was heavily modified by myself and repaired many times, by myself as well. It seems that the Anytone AT-5555NII may be a good contender for continuing my radio hobby. The Cobra was modified to function from 24.5Mhz to 29.3Mhz. Maybe I can do similar with this radio.

[mikehosken]

My first rig was a 10m rig. A good old radio shack htx 10. Does everything that your one does except ctss and only 25 watts of power. I had it mounted in the car for years using a chopped down cb antenna. Lots of dx contacts during the summer months. It’s totally worth getting a 10m rig, lots of fun mobile and handy in the shack when hooked up to its own antenna.

[norrlins]

Great radios. I would recommend getting the heat transfer paste re Done on the heatsink and the audio chip heatsink. As the factory blob in the middle is worthless. And that why they get hot especially on fm. Also have the meter calibrated as factory standard they stop at 9 and don't read above 9. And finally have the squelch properly set up. As from factory set up it blocks low signals with the noise. Properly set it allows signal to come through but stops the noise level breaking through. Then a great radio becomes an amazing radio.
Cheers 73s

[DrewToner]

And BTW, I built your 10M antenna, and found that it worked very well, on multiple bands. Worked so well, we used it at this years hamfest!! Thanks very much for your instructions.

[dxscotland]

I bought the ss7900 v it has 12m aswel and it works great!

[micwell]

Built a inverted V Dipole antenna prior to purchasing the QT60. How ever in the mean time I have an extra Uniden 510 XL radio I purchased years ago and hooked it up to the Diploe I made. Works great even on that older radio.
The antenna was fun to build and I used part that where laying around the house. Took some trimming but got the reception trimmed of 0.05 on the SWR... Believe it or not on a good skip day, I'm hearing a lot down south ( I'm in Penna on a ridge). It's totally fun.
Am setting up a few more ideas with a man pack with 12 V battery Lithium Sulfur batteries (weigh less then a 16 oz's ) into a pack along with small solar charger for when I do my adventure rides. Am getting to the point that I do not want to take a cell phone to stop being tracked, Yes I've a few hand unlocked held's I take along with a tactical antenna on it to which I can attach to the dipole also..
It is totally fun to set up and use when out and about. I camp mostly as high as I can get in the forests I go to. It's exciting to listen in the evening while sitting around a campfire should you want to do so and take in "all" the world conversations on a good night of skip.
Just wanted to give/share all the ideas of something that is low cost to get into and keep your privacy private ....

[robertclymer]

I want to get into other than CB radio, but this talk is way over my head and understanding at this point in time. I am currently studying the frequencies of all the bands. Kinda looking for a mobile rig 135.700 - 137.800 KHZ Ham for emergency use only, Dooooh! Now gotta research what is 10 Meter or 11 Meter and what catagory that fits into to. Thanks for sharing, will come back with more knowledge. Cheers from Michigan usa

[davidboughman]

Wow! After the white wire adjustment and pin 2 and 3 was changed from 1 and 2, this radio put out nice with no tinkering with power or software or firmware or anything. Nothing needs to he done, but use. I don't like the mic that comes with it, because of the build or the keys to change channels. It's just in the way. Have a 4 pin conversion cable on the way and I'll use my trusty old Astatic. You can use your ranger or those new Cobra mics are pretty nice

[bills]

What about setting up or being able to work SPLIT???
Nice that it's got 12 meters too!
Nice vid, TNX.

[vlfreak]

Thanks for the video Hayden.. Great radios (ive had an earlier version and have a sy73 (quad-6) currently), but i do wonder why they stick with the large form-factor, given the actual PCB size ?.. Plenty of features for the money without being as overloaded as some of our other HF rigs (i also have ft 891 and 710aess)

[HamRadioPrep]

Great review Hayden! 10m has been seeing some great propagation stateside, and for US hams this is a great radio to buy if you're a technician who wants to hop on the 10m phone allocation. 73!

[Indypackrat]

This was my first HF Radio and man did I have some good times on it. I keep it in the car so if I want to do some quick 10 meter I just put up my 10 meter shark stick and I'm on the air in like 5 mins

[geraldscott]

I have this radio under the Radioddity brand. The board looks identical. The controls are identical. They are the same radio. I bought this radio even though my Icom 718 has both 10 and 12 meters, and puts out max 100 watts. It does what I bought it for perfectly.

[RayDabkowski]

I'll need to add VK7HH to my HamAlert triggers. Maybe someday in this cycle. 😊