RETEVIS M62 CB RADIO. Retro and very easy to use.
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- RETEVIS M62 Retro AM/FM CB Radio Review with up to 18.5 watts TX on Euro band. Full in depth review and modding guide for extra power conversion.
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About this item
AM supports long-distance communication; FM features clear sound quality; no matter which mode you choose; suits your specific needs
80 legal channels adjustable; drivers can use CB radio worry-free in various countries
Switch channel 9 to ask for help in emergencies; switch channel 19 to share road information; ensure your driving safety
CB radio has ASQ and SQ two squelch modes; which reduce background noise and offer clear transmission and reception
CB radio kit is equipped with a panel and various LED indicators; operate and check the function operations easily and clearly
Handheld radio is easy to turn on the VOX function; talk without holding the mic; release your hands to focus on operations in the vehicle
Brand Retevis
Colour black
Special feature Key Lock, Roger Beep
Product dimensions 38L x 185W x 124H millimetres
Tuner technology FM, AM
Style CB Radio
Radio bands supported FM, AM
Included components Microphone hanging piece x1;main bracket x1;Bracket knob x2, Screw x4;Non-slip mat x4;Stop pad x2;Spare fuse x1, Cigarette lighter x1;Talking microphone x1, MB62 CB Radio x1, Handbook x1Microphone hanging piece x1;main bracket x1;Bracket knob x2, Screw x4;Non-slip mat x4;Stop pad x2;Spare fuse x1, Cigarette lighter x1;Talking microphone x1, MB62 CB Radio x1, Handbook x1
Display technology LED
Voltage 12 Volts
In Export mode you get the following with white wire cut and jumper removed-
AE 25.615 - 26.055 MHz
BE 26.065 - 26.505 MHz
CE 26.515 - 26.995 MHz
DE 26.965 - 27.405 MHz
EE 27.415 - 27.855 MHz
FE 27.865 - 28.305 MHz
GE 28.315 - 28.775 MHz
HE 28.765 - 29.205 MHz
IE 29.215 - 29.655 MHz
JE 29.665 - 30.105 MHz
KE 25.165 - 25.605 MHz
LE 24.715 - 25.155 MHz
Thank you
Do you lose the UK FM in Export?
@@26DR302 Yes you do lose the UK 40, UK 40 has unusual offsets The UK 40 is 27.60125 Channel 1 to 27.99125 Channel 40.
Thank you for your Viseo. Is it possible to get the "de" 80 Channels for Germany with low/hi Mod in any way ? Thank you for any help
What alpha numeric is USA ?!
Hi Fred! Thank you very much for the tip about the modification! 👍My video about the MB62 in German went online today. I'll take a look at the modification now.
Best wishes and stay healthy, Sascha👋
FRED WE spoke about the heat sink the other day, and you said you have to watch the video, and wow I'm amazed how much power that little radio puts out, what ashamed that we can't have it over here pushing 18 watts , but what a great little radio for the price , thank FRED keep up the great work mate, ALAN FROM LUTON 💯😱👍
Hi Alan. Yes its a pity but i would not like to push it that hard on FM for too long.
Frid in the shed I learn lot from you about bying cb radios and antennas for cb radios and power supplys for cb radios my friend
Frid in the shed your new Retevis M-62 cb radio is awesome my friend
Hey Fred, keep up the good work. Interesting to see Retevis breaking into CB. Going to need sunglasses with that display, wonder if a resistor could be fitted to dull it down. All the best. MJ7NLK
Frid in the shed my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my Grms license my friend
Another great video Fred 👍🍻
Good radio, many old cb radios for sale in Finland have the same mic connection,
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Glenn
I getting this Retevis I like the old school led display just a simple number. I have also brought a few weeks back the Thunderpole T-X after watching one of your vids. I think that will be enough CB radio buying for a bit. lol
Yes its very old school in is operation. Kinda nice to get back to it. Enjoy.
Hi Fred. I have one of these little marvels and am very pleased with it so far for the price (£53 with discount voucher). However, one feature it claims to have but doesn't is CTCSS/DCS codes. I've confirmed this with Retevis customer support and asked them to remove the information from the online and paper user manuals to avoid misleading potential buyers.
Skip has been fantastic lately and I was listening to both sides of a conversation with one breaker in SW Scotland a couple of evenings ago on the MB62 on the UK band. I'm in south Cambridgeshire UK, so that's around 400 miles away. This was on a Thunderpole Orbitor antenna sitting atop a 1.5m aluminium pole hammered 10cm in to my back lawn.
I've connected the braid of the coax to the aluminium pole but have no ground plane radials yet. SWR is between 1:1.2 and 1:1.5 across all UK and EU channels, so that's a good start. 😃👍
Hi. Glad you like the radio. Good call on the privacy codes. I cannon stand them on CB / 10m radios and they cause no end of problems with folk not hearing audio from other stations. Good job on the pole in the garden as thats how i started. You will find as you get the antenna higher your noise level will drop off. Good DX.
@@CB-RADIO-UK Unfortunately, I own my property but not the land it stands on and my landlord is allergic to tall antenna masts. I'm currently designing and 3D-printing a kit of support parts to install the antenna and supporting pole inside a dummy 2.9m tall plastic gutter downpipe. The coax will enter the wall via a custom-printed downpipe support bracket, so the whole install will be completely invisible from the outside. 🤫🤭
Just to add to this, I received a nice offer of a discount on a future Retevis purchase as an apology. I won't tell you how much as that's between me and them, but I've just ordered an RA79 and programming cable for a bargain price. It never hurts to be courteous. 🙂
Hello there Fred! If I could make one wish, it would be to see you operating more often again. In the 305 or DX, it doesn't matter. As much as I hope your reviews are successful, a little "back to the roots" wouldn't go amiss!
73!
Hi. I ve been recording some of my DX contacts so there will be a video in the future. Cheers.
Looking forward to that then! Cheers 🙂
Should be this weds.
One to see if people figure it out, and if they do I might get one
Thanks for the review.
You need a frequency counter or a scanner with close call like some Unidens and you would know where you are on the frequency.
Nice to know about white wire & power shame no signal meter cheers
on the AT-500M with the wire cut, I still have the UK band, it's possible you could run another band and that radio probably had a option for +5k, but that thing has to have a hidden alignment menu, same board as the 500 and all that's in there, check out the Apollo II alignment procedure and that shpild get you in there or at least,gice,you some direction. I hope you see,these, also hope you post a update video with your findings, I'm interested in buying one, hey
.. even the Anytone Smart radio has an alignment menu hidden, I assume all radios will go that way in the near/present future.
and btw... the Apollo II jas the same board as the ver.2 stryker 955 incase no one knew that, I've been playing with as many of these Chinese radios as Ive been able too, fun stuff, good audio reports and decent tweakability, even receive,rf gain,squelch, I mean everything is modifiable within these menus, pretty cool.. Im stateside btw.. good luck
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They have been making 12M-10M radios for a while, often under their other brands.
Do not recommend increasing the wattage beyond the designed spec unless you want to cause the output transistors to wear out prematurely. The heat generated in the rig will build up beyond it's tolerances quite quickly and kill it. Having said this it does have an external heatsink with some substance behind it ao this is probably one of their ham radios thats locked to a legal 4W spec.
Yes i would sooner run this about 3w into an amp if i wanted power.
You might need to change your name to Frid in the shed - 73's
LOL dont :-)
Yeah FRID great stuff 😂
Great reviews
So will this not do higher power on uk bands or did you not find the correct band. Great vid as always Fred.
Yeah i think that was the deal you lost the UK FM on expanded mode.
That second half of the show where you opened up the radio was great. Good stuff Fred.
Thank you.
Sounds like this could be a nice little car (mobile ) option
this radio most likely had a hidden menu, Im sure it,does, the anytone Apollo II only jas a,2 segment ch14.display and you can still go in there and adjist modulation power settings all the good stuff you'd expect to see, it wpuld be worth trying for a hidden menu on it, look up AT-appollo II instructions for getting into the menu, should be the same or similar..
cheers
Good RX M8, 73's 51 from the 16MY365 or ON6MAY
I am not sure if I would use any other 2 meter radio other than the tested and tried very reliable Yaesu FT-60R handheld radio for Survival use⚡
For talking to countries that are over 3 thousand miles away I use my Cobra 148GTL AM LSB/USB CB radio Philippines manufactured in the year 1994 .
The 148 was a total classic. Very expensive nowadays.
it is quite an interesting unit but no ssb for a new cb in 2024 gives me pause other wise would have jumped at it, well apart from ni meter, btw din plugs for mics were not uncommon on maxon and some midland sets for example
Its hard to get SSB for less than £150 these days :-(
looks like the same board thats in,the anytone 500M, speaking of which, anyone have a swing mod for the AT-500M?
Hi Fred,
I'm in the US and a little new to this.
If I cut that white wire and put it in H will i keep my CB channels but just up my power essentially boosting my range?
Yes you gain more channels and power if you cut the wire. If you want both you can always fit a small switch on the wire.
Frid in the shed why do you need hi power on the retevis m-62 cb radio?
have you reviewed the "RADIODDITY CB-500 " apparently you can changed the jumper over same as the CS=47 that you reviewed a while back and but get 20 wattts on uk fm band. They are indentical to the Anytone 500M not sure if the Anytone version does the same.
Yep. See here. th-cam.com/video/cZUQJhKI1xw/w-d-xo.html
@@CB-RADIO-UK nice one i forgot about this ....lol oooppps / great content you put out
Hello Fred some unrelated topic to this video what do you do to protect the antena from lightning as i live in the middle of the woods and I'm a bit reluctant on mounting my Thunderpole Silver Rod | 5/8 Wave on the side of my house or shed.
Hi. Nope no protection. Looked into it at length and decided it would not help much.
@CB-RADIO-UK do you think that I should ground the antenna or just unplugg the coax cable in the case of a thunder storm?
You can unplug to save risk of fire. If a strike hits anything close by it will prob still fry your radio. :-(
Where can I buy one of those bench top power supply’s Fred?
Looked on eBay etc without much luck especially with the car lighter output which I’m after.
Please let me know Make and Model and where to buy please.
Another gd vid 👍🏻
Hi. I got mine from ebay a while back. Many makes but they are all the same really. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124169346915?itmmeta=01J096H49S24KVNVG3WWN7N1CK&hash=item1ce911df63:g:u-4AAOSwykpkmbF2&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4N6cBd%2FF%2FIFOGNTzRrOFI4dVrN2xZXRaz65NlSz0f%2FfFWZ9pOXVS9JVJjIX4sjyGnyqo8iAphMwhdJaXuOWv0dlrL3sOaxNiJNnnPsxXrllfrktmhole0HaOJCYXYVITjRNfnv0QkAhpfklrPLXRBtJ%2F9Iy6ucFlJNhj0oSJTu8txZ8sIFgli1rOQ7SXhqQru4v8xsY9C8srfzVMbklOHNQ%2Bddaa2K%2BaBtw1yuc5Eh6nPG2Zs%2FTMxUU5K0ZJq8LGaLf9z%2B%2FveoIWYcOs6%2B0jKxjTv1HUpEKqk7HDUnt6IAJ6%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5jFxKaCZA
Thanks Fred
I think I'll pass on this radio as always thank you for the presentation Fred.
Solamente es de cortar el cable puente blanco y funciona a 18.5 vatios??
Sir can you please help me out I know nothing about setting up radios I just got the retevis ra79 now at my job we have retevis not sure what ones but not this one the one they had gave me is crap and really old so I bought my own now how do I get there channels on to my retevis ra79
Hi. Yes there is a lot to learn but its quite easy if you break it down in pieces. Try these videos. th-cam.com/video/K7DPQmHYwNA/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/nlLaNIq6nBo/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/xmdqjA02NQc/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/DvgmHrCYJkA/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/DvgmHrCYJkA/w-d-xo.html
@CB-RADIO-UK sweet I'll check them out soon thanks one more question just wondering is there a way to change the color of the screen lite ?
Dont think so
@CB-RADIO-UK so I got it working didn't get to check then videos out yet but I do have the channel I can hear but can't talk it says disabled
Yes the radio is disabled from transmit outside its set freq range. You can go into a hidden menu and change that but i would not do so myself due to harmonics from the radio.
Shame about the lack of signal meter
Yes would have been nice but many real budget models do without.
Don't think I could do without one, silly question, but are aftermarket/add on signal meters available these days?
I was wondering what the general consensus was about this. Signal meters are quite variable so a signal report is only a rough guide. Normally you can hear a strong station i.e. fully quietening which will likely be S7 or higher.
Yep, agreed. Meter would seal the deal for me.
Get me a schematic of the radio and I'll diy one at the pcb making place.
The display needs the bit of plastic from a Quality Street wrapper
Hi, got a team mx10 cb radio. Its modern old school. Great radio however no one seems to use cb these days. Have you tested on of these?
I ve never seen one for sale in the UK but it looks like a pretty good radio.
or you connect a frequency counter..;)
FRED do you know anything about the Uniden BearTracker 885 it’s a cb and scanner all in one 😮
No not really.
It looks like a mix of an old DNT and Danita.
Yes your right.
Frid in the shed iam thinking about getting Retevis M-62 cb radio my friend do you no how much does a power supply cost?
Not much. If you dont mod it you only need a 5amp supply so prob around £35 UK
Can it be wide banded
Watch to the end.
,......and don't "like" your own comments.
I liked Andys comment.
@@CB-RADIO-UK well I liked yours,so there 😃 .
@CB-RADIO-UK well,I liked yours, so there 😃 !!
P.S. I'm not bothered at all by your hands in the video. It is a personality trait of your channel and I'm sure many more feel the same.
Where would it be possible to buy the power-socket, you showed?
Try this. th-cam.com/video/-mU0JIR68PM/w-d-xo.html
@@CB-RADIO-UK Thank you very much. Now you are there. I watched your youtube about ATS - 20 (Si4732.) Could you recommend an antenna?
It's for a power supply for cigarette plug in - thing. to supply RETEVIS M62 CB with electricity - :)
Antenna wise it depends on what freq your listening for.
@@CB-RADIO-UK I really dont know. Im a rookie in this
President Jackson rules
Highly illegal to use.
Only if modded. Totally 100% legal in standard form.
I totally like your laidback way of presenting videos, the concept of learning together is nice! You have a pleasant, kind voice... well done!
Cheers
I will say band D is eu band E channel 12 is 27.555 and uk going into F band channel 40 F will be 28.305 going into 10 meter
That Display needs a filter, not sure about that Din plug, prefer the old 4 pin type to what some old CB,s used for example the old midland 3001 and many more, even those RJ 45 type ones are not a fave of mine.
Cheers
Looks like a Jaws mk2 but only if your old enough to remember 😮
Yes i rem well and your right.
Very cool
hi fred i just bought a thunderpole t800 and didnt pick up much at all with a k40 in the attic on a biscuit tin on tin foil ,i know its not the perfect setup ,i live close to bristol on a bit of a hill ,i thought there would be more traffic ,am i right in thinking it all comes down to the antenna or would a president washington cb pick up more traffic? a big antenna would be kind of out of the question because i live next door to my landlord ,any feedback would be great
Hi. Well done for setting up but you prob will have to go a but further. Yes it really does come down to the antenna. Local FM traffic is very limited. Much more action on SSB but you prob still going to need a better set up. See more in this video. th-cam.com/video/ex4wfWM1Tvs/w-d-xo.html
@@CB-RADIO-UK great thank you
i have purchased one of these but when you hold lock and turn on it doesnt give you different band options. will this be to do with the jump connection ?
Hi. Yes that will expand the radio.
@@CB-RADIO-UK thanks you
Frid in the shed your TH-cam videos are awesome my friend
Thanks Fred for another equipment review, although I wish that it had SSB option, because FM has not caught on in my area. However, it also means the local “Lids” are masked more…😂!
73! Have a great day!
If i were to get a AM FM radio i would not be happy without ssb available been ssb. Operator since the 1970s.
4:09 Looks like a 5 DIN pin socket, just like the old Realistic CEPT FM radios that Tandy used to sell.😉
Looks similar to the old Kernow beta 1100 with some fancy fairy lights to tell you the functions and a din mic socket which I’m not too keen on unless it’s a locking din.
Got to be honest drawing 3A on a 4W radio (which it won’t be, it’ll be more 3w) is a tad excessive drain and I don’t think I’d be swapping my midland 48 or 78 pro for one of these or in fact a Kernow beta 1100 for one. It’ll have the usual muting when changing channels which is annoying too.
What also irritates me about the new multinorms is that the uk 40 is set almost as an afterthought as they are all optimised for the EU frequencies which I understand but they should optimise the UK40 for the uk market or do a separate batch specifically for the UK. Most on the uk are desensitised and low power or low audio output. So annoying in a lot of ways
Hi. The din socket locks. It draws 3 amps at 18 watts TX.
@@CB-RADIO-UK but only does 18 watts expanded 🤔. No thanks
Get yourself a frequency counter open it up be a great radio
Nice one Fred 👍
Always love the internal view. Cheerz.
Frid in the shed you and your wife i wis you 73s my friend
Hey Fred why can't you review a CB transceiver like your Friend DAVE M0OGY he did a review about the GEORGEII and the WASHINGTON! I like listening to your voice but i love the radios your friend dave has.
Dave has been doing President radios for years. I bought a Grant 2 on the strength of one of his reviews. I ve never contacted President and offered to review their radios. I always wait for an offer.
What CB radio is best to use during fallout from a nuclear ☢ explosion or an EMP shower⚡ ?
The one made out of lead
@@bruceclark5627 what about CB radios made with internal glass tubes ?
EMP is really hard to protect against but your going to need a full HAM HF radio which is modded to inc CB. Most personal emergency com will prob be on Ham radio.
@@CB-RADIO-UK who makes an old style tube HAM radio ?
@unitedstatesirie7431 tubes stand up much better. Fact is ,EMP/CME wave lengths are EXTREMELY long,so unless you are at ground zero, if you disconnect from the AC mains and your antenna is disconnected you most likely will be fine. Everything being dead is great for books,but not reality.
What is the difference between the us version and the UK version and what's the best one to buy
I would think that the US version will not have the UK channels. As far as buying depends what country you live in.
Thanks for your reply what if I cut the white wire?
Funciona en México?
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How much
The clue is in the thumbnail.
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Its shown on the thumbnail. Its £53 delivered on Amazon UK. Buying links for UK and USA in the description.
How much will it be in South Africa money
@@WillemHosking-lz7tx4 springboks and 200m roll of razor wire.