Hytera PD985 DMR UHF Radio Review.

Pleasantly surprised by the Hytera PD985 UHF DMR handheld. The radio appears and feels very rugged, with a plethora of features including encryption (prohibited on HAM radio), DMR repeater on single frequency, GPS and Bluetooth among others. You will see it again on this channel! Surprising results and a little tour of the magnificent city of Antibes on the French Riviera, in the vicinity of Port Vauban.
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[viewatyourownrisk]

I enjoy your presentations. Thanks for putting in the effort to record them in English as well!

[conrad]

This review is above and beyond. Great review.

[n]

Great tour! Nice radio and loved the end shot in the Fridge! Made me laugh!

[George-bbyi]

Thank you for a great video. Excellent comments about group vs individual communications, as well as your observations about the utility of digital modes for enhanced security.

[LibertyEver]

Thank you for the great review. That looks like a good quality radio with a lot of SHTF potential. I always appreciate your prepper perspective and focus.

I also enjoyed the mini tour. I don't travel to Europe so I like the virtual travel.

[ronleblanc]

Nice radio very beautful seanry lots of history

[xszl]

Like the tour.
Reminds me of all the holidays I had in S-France (Hyères - St. Tropez)

[TonyLing]

What a beautiful clean town, and no graffiti !

[NexxuSix]

Antibes is beautiful! It reminds me when I was in Ulm, Germany =)

[PowderMill]

I have both Motorola XPR7550 and APX8000 portable radios and Hytera PD782 / 982 and 682 portable radios.
I definitely like the Motorola look and feel, but LOVE the Hytera FPP (field programmability).
I mostly use Hytera RD982 repeaters (approx 7) and have yet to have one fail.

Thanks for this video.

[johnk]

I skipped all the talk about DMR and went straight to looking at your city - very beautiful city !. DMR/DSTAR/SYSTEM FUSION etc etc does not interest me in the least. If I am going to be using the internet to talk to some other guy, then I would rather spend that time talking to my family. Maybe it's because I got hooked on radio in the early 80's with the magic of REAL RF. Anything that uses RF between both points - HF CW, SSB, even FT8, satellites, VHF and UHF simplex DX, 6 meters etc etc is what really interests me. Thanks for the tour of your city Gil.

[srw]

Hi Gil! Tnx for the video. At least you know the light in your fridge switches off when you close the door :) 73 Andrej - s57rw!

[GunnarNoren]

Very interesting videos as always. I had a QSO of about 60km between the cities of Hjo and Jonkoping in Sweden I was surprised standing by the seaside in Hjo at one of the large lakes in Sweden, Vättern. DMR is another dimension of amateurradio. We also use a local DMR frekvense without repeater and it works well during my lunch walks when working from home. That is also a nice way to use ham radio. It have been quite a lot of QSo:s during theese lunch walks. 73 SA5GNO Gunnar

[toddbu-WKL]

Hey Gil, since your English language video is 20% shorter than your French language video on the same topic, should I take that to mean that English is the more efficient language :-)

[ManOfParts]

Great content as usual. I'm a HAM but love my dual band Anytone 878s..

[gferguson]

Hi there great video, I am located in Ireland, and I do a small bit of prep, I was looking for something to keep communication between myself and my family also located in Ireland but 80miles away, I have no experience with radios at all, is this something you would recommend?

[patriotmef]

Hey, where did you happen to buy one? I can't seem to find one for purchase anywhere. Thanks in advance.

[vzivadinovic]

It would be very interesting to see the review of Belfone BF-TD930(MC-N) which has a similar feature set, including Single Frequency Repeater and something they call ah-hoc network. It would be interesting how 2-3 of these could maybe expand range for other radios in the network. These radios also seem to be dual-band.

[Prepologyblog]

Thank you for the good review and such a beautiful city landscape. I think for me though it not being dual band is the biggest reason I would not be interested in it. 73s

[ricardoflymn]

Do u know how reset to factory settings?