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Radioddity QT-60 *Pro*

Onelasttime said:
It is almost like these companies are in an arms race to see who can strap a bigger heat sink to their radio's!

I am tired of radio's with huge heat sinks on them. If they want to slap that much aluminium on the back side of a radio make it shorter! I do not need stupid crazy watts built into my radio that is what amplifiers are for. I need a radio that will fit in a modern car or SUV. Even if you bolt it to the top of the dash you have to clear the windshield. Unless you are a Gorillia no place else will fit a radio where you can hear the built in speaker, see the display, work through the menu and operate the controls.

I am not in a tank or an airplane I do not have a driver, gunner, loader, commander etc....No second in command to operate anything while I drive.

You need a display large enough to be seen by old eye's that can give you all the relavant info at a glance. No real menu to operate 95% of the functions of the radio and very few menu items or second function buttons.

The RCI2950 and HR2510/2600/Lincoln(the origanal) hit the nail on the head for user interface. The HR series was almost the perfect size way better than anything you can purchase today! Even the final was good as the MRF477 and the latter MRF455.
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The Anytone Q6666 Pro has a big heat sink too. It's a tight fit just to put the coax connector on/off much less tighten it.

These are small footprint radio's so the heat sink size maybe appropriate but maybe it can be aligned better and not in the way.

I'm OK with the display but I can see being a problem if mounted further away.
 
I am tired of radio's that do not fit modern vechiles, that have garbage user interfaces, and cost a fortune. Plus I do not need mega watt's of power on my dash I have an entire vechile with which I can place an amplifier in a place that is convient, out of sight, and get's plenty of air flow. What I donot have is a lot of realeastate that I can place a radio the size of ham or 8lbs. chicken.

Prior to the Aires II I had not purchased a new radio since 1998 that was not an actual legit amatuer radio. They have all been used. Between not building what I actual want and wanting way too much for what they are giving me I just say no.

Once you get past the price adjusted for inflation I want a lot more for my money than I am being given. I want premium encoders and switches from Alps, designs that have zero compromise so easy to work on, modify, fantastic audio, durability to stand up to 20+ years of daily use, solid construction, rock steady functionality. There are simply too many customer today that do not have the discernment to know that they are being taken advantage of that will pay top dollar for what is essentialy junk. There is no place for educated consumers because all the people with more money than brains edge them outand will continue to purchase junk at top dollar and smile the entire time.

A smart consumer has the ability to see a bad situation and just say no I wont be part of this and keep his money in his wallet. The idiot doubles down like a fat kid at a cup cake eating contest and throws hard earned money after junk over and over and over again. They likely do not even know just how badly they are taking it! You know Twinkies are a low fat zero cholesterol food! Say's so on the side of the box! LOL

Everytime a good deal comes along in this hobby things go from $179 to $229 to $269 often in less than a year. I can gurantee it is not the Chinese manufacture upping the price!
 
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Well I just got one for $207 so I pulled the trigger. I know I am a sucker too! LOL

To my way of thinking it is a poor mans Stryker 955 with 3X the feature set. If the AM audio is 85% or greater that of the Stryker 955 it is worth every penny!

Now I need to build a 4 or 6 transistor amp and enjoy it!
 
I would love it if someone developed a mod with capacitor changes that would get the 3DB down on the bottom end to 150hz and the 3db down top to 4500 to 4800Hz! It would be an audio beast satisfying 99.9% of people! The stock 300hz to 3000hz makes sense from an engineering stand point if communication is the goal but for those that want to truly sound great 150Hz to 4500hz would make more people stand up and take notice!
 
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I have a Anytone Quad6Pro, that I bought for my mobile. I was forced to put it into service as my base when my Cobra 139XLR's receiver went haywire. The Q6Pro is a great performer, but I HATE the tiny pushbuttons. I wish Anytone would wise up and produce an ARES II hybrid with traditional controls (knobs and switches) and Q6PRO features. Make it even base station size. I'd jump on one in a heartbeat !!

- J.J. 399
 
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Brother DXer said:
a firmware update for the Q5N2 long?
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I sure would love to get my hands on it. I would love to have the ability to dim the overly bright orange display. It might be OK driving in a city at night, but out here in the boondocks where we have no streetlights it's way way way to bright for night driving............
 
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unit_399 said:
I have a Anytone Quad6Pro, that I bought for my mobile. I was forced to put it into service as my base when my Cobra 139XLR's receiver went haywire. The Q6Pro is a great performer, but I HATE the tiny pushbuttons. I wish Anytone would wise up and produce an ARES II hybrid with traditional controls (knobs and switches) and Q6PRO features. Make it even base station size. I'd jump on one in a heartbeat !!

- J.J. 399
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Yes I agree! I often have claimed that RCI 2950 and President Lincoln/HR2510/2600 hit a great compromise between layout, number of controls and features and number of 2nd functions. I understand that as you add features you need to add a menu but Chinese radio's are known for a menu system that is not intuitive and is too deep. Long before the Stryker 955 went into what I call crazy price range I hated how cluttered the face plate was. Likewise I hate radio's being longer than they need to be. I also do not like cheap encoders with none repairable face plates.

The real problem with the Chinese is that they just have zero contact with the end purchaser. They people that are asking for products and have the ability to purchase enough to be of interest are morons out to make as much money as they can not produce a well thought out, very functual, practical, durable radio! The Chinese OEM's I have worked with will bend over backwards to build you what you want and usually at no additional R&D cost passed on to you at all.

It reminds me of Toyota in many ways. Toyota tried adn tried and tried to make a fullsize truck that the average American would purchase. Sure die hard Toyota owners loved the T100 and the 1st gen Tundra but the American public not so much. It was not until they let California Design Teams and Detroit design teams have a clean sheet and full control. The Japanese born and educated engineers just could not wrap their head around what Americans wanted in a full size truck. Once they let Americans design a truck for Americans they exploded. In a lot of ways the engineering and design was a step backwards in many ways.

Making a base that is essentialy the same price as a mobile would be nice as well. The idea that a base should cost a lot more than a mobil is backwards and ignorant paradigm. It would allow you more space to have a control for each feature with largely just the power supply being significant cost but considering it would be a switcher not a huge cost. I am sure that if I had access to their parts bin and entire catalog of exhisting products I could design something that would just destroy.

The Cherokee Base hit price point but was too cheaply built, had quality control issues and lacked features.
 


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