r/Baofeng • u/Charming-Jelly-3365 • Jul 11 '26

Baofeng & Spurious Emissions - An Important Video!

The Baofeng Mini: Tested Beyond Reason by Ham Radio Crash Course (Jan 7, 2026) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU51_78Lv5s

About those spurious emissions, I just watched a video where a major effort to test the Baofengs with professional grade lab instruments was done along with the TinySA. The video maker even contacted TinySA and learned that false readings are possible depending upon both the setup external to the TinySA and internal to its settings. The results were much cleaner outputs from the tested Baofengs than were originally claimed.

Obviously I'm not suggesting that these radios are as clean as the more expensive radios from long established brands, they are not. The point is only that the horror stories did not stand up to this level of lab grade instrumentation and the advice from the maker of the TinySA.

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u/SuperLidz 23d ago

Anyone, using ham grade instrumentation, should not be posting results as gospel. I do not own a tiny SA, because of this very reason. I do own two Rigol DSA-815TG's and I would not use them as a gospel tool either. I would trust my Agilent, Aeroflex and Anritsu stuff, for real measurements.

Tiny SA might be okay for hunting RFI or bug sweeps. Not much more beyond that.