Chinese Handheld Transceivers

Chinese Handheld Transceivers

I thought it was about time to take the plunge and get one of these puppies. For the money it's hard to resist.

Manufacturers go by names such as Jingtong, Kensung, Kington, KYD (New Century), Linton, Quansheng, Quanzhou, Weierwei, Wouxun etc.

Most are not type approved for PBR as they are in the first instance field programmable via the keypad. Some are CE marked so can be used within licence terms by M3 callsigns.

My considerations were the inclusion of both wide and narrow deviation (this is not the same as channel step incidentally) PC programming, Alpha tagging and a readily available supply of batteries.

I went for the WEIERWEI VEV-3288s UHF which met most of these criteria, but given the language barrier, it's often hard to eek out the details from the sellers in order to determine exactly what is on offer.

This turns out to be operationally very similar to the PuXing PX-328.

My next one to review is the PuXing PX-777 Plus. This in addition has a scrambler function and the ANI is supposed to work properly. It's also supposed to be possible to navigate the menus a little easier, i.e. you don't have to power up and power down in order to go into direct field programming mode.

The Tiger2Way Group

G7TXU hosts a Yahoogroup which deals with all makes of Chinese 2 way transceivers

The group's membership policy requires prospective members to write a small introduction to themselves in order to keep the group free of spammers.

Click to join tiger2way

Technical Reviews

WEIERWEI VEV-3288s
PuXing PX-888
Nanotransmitters - not transceivers but cheap iTrip type FM stereo transmitters

External Links & Resources

It has to be said that although the Chinese can knock their products out of the factory door at very competative prices, their IT skills still have some way to go in order to catch up with the West.

I've brought together some of the manufacturer's official sites here. Some of them have improved slightly in recent years but expect most of these sites not to work very well, if at all.

The download speeds can at times be so slow that it makes you wonder if some government official behind the bamboo curtain isn't counting every byte by hand just to see that it conforms with the communist agenda.