As I couldn’t find any information on the web about the heat generated by the new Wouxun KG-UV8D in cross-band repeater mode, I thought I’ll share the information with my precious readers. :)

So, if you use both bands in the low output power (0.5W) mode, the radio gets very hot in about 10 minutes of continuous repeating, but not so much that you can’t touch it – so it works fine.

If you use one of the bands in 5W output power mode, the radio gets so super hot in a few minutes, that you can’t touch the metal parts on it. I didn’t try to run it longer because I was afraid that it’ll catch on fire :)