TIDRADIO TD-H3 Ham Radio Handheld Transceiver, Amateur Two
TIDRADIO TD-H3 Ham Radio Handheld Transceiver, Amateur Two Way Radio, 2 Way Radio Long Range, 5W Wireless & USB-C Programming Dual Band Walkie Talkie With 2500mAh Battery (Black), 1 Pack
Great little radio
Wow, for the money, it’s good little radio.
Remember, you need to be licensed for UK Ham Tx and GRMS not generally used in UK AFAIK.
Airband and FM worked, first attempt, but as always, your antenna of choice could make a difference, over the supplied antenna.
I’m going to charge the battery separately down to some spurious reports of faulty chargers, mine does work.
I’m still playing, learning, understanding , but it seems intuitive enough.
I’m happy so far, with only few days of use!
Fantastic little radio
I’ve been really impressed with the TD-H3. The radio itself feels well built, has good battery life, and offers a lot of features for the price.
My favourite feature is the app and Bluetooth programming. It’s so much easier than manually entering frequencies on the radio, and being able to manage everything from my phone makes setup quick and painless.
The airband reception is also excellent. I often take it with me when I’m relaxing at the airport and enjoy listening to aircraft communications. Reception has been surprisingly good, and the frequency copy feature is a nice bonus.
The battery lasts really well, audio quality is clear, and the radio has proven reliable during use. For anyone interested in aviation, amateur radio, or just having a capable handheld radio, this is a fantastic option. Its super portable and easy to charge with USB-C.
Overall, a feature-packed radio that offers excellent value for money. I’d happily buy another one.
well, where do i start, This a great little solid radio that will easily fit in your pocket with programming via a two pin lead (Kenwood style), USB C lead and also they have add via bluetooth, so if you are are out and about you can program on the go by using your phone. not many radios around that support bluetooth programming.
It has two PTT so you save from changing freq/channels when on dual watch.
The menu is easy to navigate and a great colourful screen. (Chirp is supported if you want to program via PC)
Reception and audio is great, i can hit my local repeater with no worries.
A great little feature i like is the breathing LEDs, they come on when the screen goes off to save power. reminds you that the radio is still on. The battery also has its own USB charging socket, so if you get another batt you can charge it separately.
In the box you get the whip antenna, charging dock,battery, wrist strap,belt clip, USB C lead and the easy to follow manual.
A bargain radio.
Had an issue with connectivity with my new H3 and contacted TIDradio for support. They decided to simply replace by radio which I think arrived within 3 or 4 days. Excellent customer service.
The radio itself I find easy to set up and use (the supplied manual is decent). It is very configurable and can operate in Ham, GMRS or Unlocked modes, receives airband well and also receives FM broadcast band. There is a useful inbuilt torch / strobe function built in. The radio will start up in dual-watch mode, but can be easily switched to single channel operation for simplicity. This is a very good low cost handheld, and in testing, I can see it transmits very cleanly on the bands tested: I used a testing rig to identify spurious harmonic frequency radiation, which is the bane of many of these economical transceivers from the far east. Th3 Tidradio H3 gave the best result I’ve seen so far in one of these products
A really useful feature that makes it better than most alternatives is bluetooth comms, enabling it to connect to an app for easy frequency management. This works really well and it works with CHIRP software too, for those who are used to it.
Update just tested air band operation and it works perfectly well (remember to go into the menu and switch the unit to AM operation).
Highly recommended in fact, I’m so satisfied, I just bought another one.
Great little radio, picks up AM & FM frequencies and easily programable through the Bluetooth app, or USB-C with a PC/Laptop. I’m getting airband & ham radio etc really well on this and the price is amazing for what it can do.
This radio is impressive.
It is tiny in the hand and is working very well for me. I am very happy with it.
A few niggles to report.
-The manufacturing quality seems a little lax. My screen is misaligned cutting it off on the left side slightly (Which I understand is a commonly reported problem, having seen others with this issue).
-The rubber flap that covers the Kenwood speaker and programming port, does not close properly. It seems like this might be a simple design error or perhaps a manufacturing error and something quite simple to fix from the manufacturer’s side, but it does let the side down a little bit.
– when using the second PTT button, I would expect the main display to show the correct frequency that I am transmitting on when I press the second PTT however, it seems to remain showing the primary A frequency in the main display even when I am transmitting on the B frequency. This seems like an oversight to me and not how I would expect this to function. It also means that if I am using a repeater I can see both the TX and RX frequencies if using the primary A frequencies but not what I’m using. B. I wonder if this was an intentional choice which could potentially be in order to save memory space in the firmware.
Also, another peculiarity is the choice of the belt clip being screwed on. I find the handset to fit very nicely in the hand and be very ergonomic to use without the belt Clip fitted (but significantly less so with it fitted). but this means you have to hold it or have somewhere to put it when you are using it when I out and about. With some other radios I am easily able to unclip and reclip the belt clip into place without having to use screws and the few that I have that do use screws I leave in place permanently .. so this issue seems peculiarly specific to this handset with its nice small size. This might also be specific to me.
I am also seeing some strange behaviour when programming with chirp. but simply reprogramming using the mobile app which I did via Bluetooth. Seemed to rewrite everything correctly Back to the handset and fix some of the issues. This does seem a little peculiar and potentially an issue with chirp rather than the handset or handsets firmware.
To be fair, however, these are all fairly small and insignificant issues and I am still very much enjoying this handset.
I would have very much preferred if it was ip69 rated but I suppose you can’t have everything.
I imagine that some firmware updates down the line will fix some of the weird quirks that I’m finding, and I’m also hopeful that some of the work done on the quansheng firmware would be able to be transposed or help work on this handset.
I particularly like the USBC and wireless programming ability and the fact I can do most of what I want by default unlike needing to modify it as I do with the quansheng.
Super small, great battery, usb c charging, cradle as well.
Now I got this just for air traffic and have had no problem picking up my local airport, although air traffic control doesn’t seem that busy???
That said it works great, a neat feature is you can listen to FM radio and it will switch to air traffic automatic once a broadcast is detected, then reverts back to FM.
Not picked up any marine traffic but maybe being in the middle of the country, it just isn’t strong enough???
Flashlights/SOS flashing light is a cool feature as well.
An earpiece would have been nice but no big deal.
Overallgreat piece of kit that is useful and fun. Worth every penny.
Review read by Tidradio who subsequently contacted me and have replaced free of charge – I had already sent the one in the image back. Impressive customer services.
I had contacted Tidradio as I understood that their customer service was reliable. I wanted to ensure that unlike previous purchases, specifically the H8, this one would have the problem with the screen being too far to the left fixed (can’t be hard!). Unfortunately yet another that is simply not good enough. This will be the second I am going to return…..such a pity!
Tidradio, get it together and listen to the people who are buying your products!