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Reviews For: VGC-VN-N7500 50W Dual Band Mobile Radio

Category: Transceivers: VHF/UHF+ Amateur Base/Mobile (non hand-held)

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Review Summary For : VGC-VN-N7500 50W Dual Band Mobile Radio
Reviews: 1MSRP: $179.95
Description:
The Vero Telecom VGC VR-N7500 is a 50watt VHF/40 watt UHF Headless ham transceiver with a solid build quality. It is very different in design compared to any other ham radio you have used in your mobile or base. The VR-N7500 can implement a smartphone as a control panel. The fuselage is installed in the trunk, the mobile phone is connected to the body through Bluetooth, and the automatic horizontal screen state is fully intelligently connected.
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WO7T Rating: 2020-12-13
A Hands-Free Mobile Option Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
A very unique and capable dual-bander by VGC, that is Android controlled, and able to tuck into the smallest new cars. On the positive side, the bluetooth capability allowed it to easily connect to the BMH-75 wireless mic, and obviously to my Android phone, but also to a Angteela BH-M97 bluetooth headset for a nice handsfree mobile solution. In the mobile I also wired up a physical PTT momentary switch with a length of 8-Pin CAT network connector and wire that allows me to key the radio (pin 3 & Pin 5) while using the bluetooth headset, (sits at my side in easy reach) While my APRS use is limited, earlier reported faults with APRS signaling have been resolved in latest firmware shipped with radio. YouTube videos helped me here. The mics come ready for magentic mounting, which is slick. Also see Amazon "WizGear mounts" to aid in that endeavor.

Neither negative or positive is the fact that the radio itself loads and stores 16 channels (a profile) at a time from the smartphone. You can have the phone app (HT) programmed with endless profiles/regions of 16 channels each, and any one can be synced to the radio with a couple button pushs on the phone. The supplied mics and their up/down buttons move you up/down in channel number, or up/down in volume. No movement up or down on the zones in the radio itself, that I can discern.

Only negative I have noted so far, is when plugging in an external speaker (stereo 1/8") at the back, even at the lower volume settings of the HT applications' slidebar for volume, the output is screechingly loud to the point of believing it would blow out my speaker. I suspect the audio amp gain is just set too high, and would hope a future firmware update knocks that down, so an acceptable volume level through the speaker/mic is also an acceptable level through external speaker. For now the speaker mic does play very well, and plenty loud and clear in mobile settings whether using the wired one or the bluetooth one.