QUANSHENG UV-50R - IS THIS THE TACTICAL BUDGET RADIO TO KEEP YOU SAFE?

On this weekends video we take a look at the revamped budget entry tactically styled UV5R mauler from up and coming Chinese Radio Supplier Quansheng, is this the tactical budget radio you need to keep you and yours safe when the world ends?? keep watching to find out.

[@RevGunn-jq3cq]

It looks better than the 5r, but way too many faults. Great review

[@michaelloughlin734]

Enjoyed you're review thanks for the effort put into it it was really appreciated stay safe.

[@knoxieman]

Thanks

[@Ploggy.]

Great video mate thanks for making and posting 👍

[@knoxieman]

Cheers 😎

[@80Loke]

Great video knoxieman, nice touch with the music and sunset in the end 😊

[@knoxieman]

Many thanks 😎

[@MacNorm]

Great review!
In the market for a cost-effective SHTF radio, mostly for simplex. I plan to do my ham license soon...
Can you recommend the most powerful of these Chinese radios (or similar)? Some say don't bother and save for a Yaesu?

[@knoxieman]

If you are after power the last quansheng i reviewed the tguv2 plus is very powerful, however there are better radios, TYT radios are superb, Yaesu radios are great but more money, thanks for watching.

[@80Loke]

Btw in sdruno press the afc Button to allow the program to automatic tune to middel of carrier frequency

[@makawskie]

nice

[@dodegkr]

Be safe mate

[@GmrsKissimmee]

Did you try using CHIRP to see if by any chance it worked using the Baofeng UV-5R protocol?

[@radiosification]

I got that kind of sound on the SDR when the sample rate was set too high. See if it still does it when you turn it down a bit?

[@knoxieman]

Thanks for that, great to hear from you 👍👍 stay safe my friend

[@tatupebadalagoa]

much better than baofeng uv-5r, but it is still deaf on the external antenna inside a large capital .. filters are still missing

[@AdamSWL]

Excellent review Knoxieman!
I also got one of these a while back, except it is Camo colour, which looks OK except for the VFO/MR button.
It looks like the radio has a throat lozenge stuck to the front of it! Your particular variant looks much nicer with the grey front.
And yeah, the performance is very lackluster. The squelch constantly breaking and noise blasting through when no signal present.
Mostly given up buying these cheap rigs, since they never seem to improve performance and firmware and just put the same thing in a different case (looking at you Retevis!).
If you can find a used Icom ID-51A (or the Plus version) you will never look back! They can be found resonably cheaply at Hamfests on occassion.

[@knoxieman]

Thanks for watching and the comment 😎

[@stevelk1329]

Don't see where it was showing 5 Watts. Upper right corner? Great video quality.

[@knoxieman]

Yes

[@mrr4x4]

Very nice review! Does it uses the same battery of Baofeng uv5?

[@knoxieman]

Cheers, sadly not.

[@bobi076]

Please, do you know, if it is possible programming by Chirp? What to set the model? Thanks.

[@knoxieman]

No I'm pretty sure that's not possible at the moment sadly, shame that the software had this issue.

[@GmrsKissimmee]

Is it really : The same, better or worse than Baofeng UV-5R ?

[@mikesey1]

Using SDR? What crap, just do it radio to radio, instead of using stuff that will not work if TSHTF.

[@knoxieman]

SDR works well normally just had a glitch, I do this by myself, i only have 1 radio in for review, if you want to buy me the other one I'll do it radio to radio.

[@mikesey1]

@@knoxieman Don't you have any other handhelds then? 😬

[@knoxieman]

SDR just played up it's normally great, it a good visual tool to use on the video, it helps show visually the difference between the signals, I can remotely change frequency something I can't do with a fixed radio, I have done some radio to radio tests in the past then people complain I've not used the SDR, can't win.

[@wisteela]

I'll avoid this one.