Even before receiving the pair of TD-H3 I purchased from TIDRADIO I exchanged a couple of emails with support staff at TIDRADIO. I found them to reply quickly and be very responsive to my enquiries. Unlike other brands TIDRADIO are putting a lot of time and effort into their products, listening to user feedback.
First thing I noticed unpacking the radios, was the supply of Australian USB power bricks and good quality! Previous overseas purchases typically come with a US or other crappy brick that is unusable here in Australia. I did not specifically ask for these bricks, TIDRADIO obviously saw that they were shipping to Australia and did that of their own accord.
During purchase I wanted a twin pack of black TD-H3 radios but they were out of stock at the time. My research indicated that the GMRS radios were identical so I took the gamble of purchasing in purchasing the GMRS twin pack.
So the first thing to do was reconfigure the radios to allow them to work on the HAM bands. This is done by holding PTT and * button down when turning on the radio. This process wipes any memory channels out of the radio, so save any channels you may have before doing this but was not a requirement for me.
The next step was to update to the current version firmware, again a straight forward procedure using TD-H3_IAP software direct from TIDRADIO (walkietalkiesoftware.com)
Finally programming the radios to my requirement, there are many ways available to do this but I chose to use CHIRP as I was able to use a file from another a Quansheng radio I had programmed previously. There are many other options available for programming the TD-H3 radios but this option quickly got me on the air.
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