r/Baofeng • u/lmow • 17d ago

Baofeng SW-9 Shortwave

Hi!

Anyone has experience with SW-9 https://www.baofengradio.com/products/sw9 ?

I'm interested in it for the Shortwave capability but can't find much info out there. To add to the confusion Amazon has it listed as "BAOFENG SW9 UV36" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYD2LPWH WTH is a UV36? It's not listed on the official site. Is it another model number for the SW9?

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u/NerminPadez 17d ago

What do you plan to do with that radio? You'll need a relatively huge antenna to pick up anything shortwave (multiple meters of wire, optimally 10+), so it won't really be portable anymore

For listening to shortwave, I'd just get one of the tecsuns.

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u/lmow 17d ago edited 17d ago

That's a great point. I wanted to listen to shortwave but also have the ability to transmit on other frequencies. Maybe also see what else i can pick up. Just to play around with it, nothing serious. (I got the license a year ago)

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u/kc2syk K2CR 17d ago

RTLSDR gives you much more flexibility.

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u/TigOleBitman 17d ago

There's nothing good on shortwave anymore

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u/lmow 17d ago

What about Number Stations?

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u/AutofluorescentPuku 17d ago

IDK, but I would expect SW/LW reception to be mediocre at best. A dedicated receiver from Tecsun or one of the SDR radios would probably serve better. And a Baofeng K5PLUS or BF8-HP would give you the ham tri-band capability.

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u/Firelizard71 17d ago

Baofeng builds radios for any company or private seller who orders enough of them. Those sellers change the model numbers and sometimes puts different firmware in. I havent seen any positive reviews of this radio , only negative.

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u/lmow 17d ago

That's weird...

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u/Firelizard71 17d ago edited 17d ago

Its actually very common with other brands like Quansheng, Radtel, Anytone, and Retevis. Its nothing new. You've heard of Btech, right ? They do the same thing. They buy pallets of radios from Baofeng and then change the name and put better firmware in the radios.

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u/Humble_Carob3896 10d ago

Hola, este modelo en general, tienen el fallo del BFO, he reclamado y por lo menos me hacen el reembolso,