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They are all the same K5, K5-8, and K6 and there are no socalled "new models", if your unsure you can look it up on FCC there is even a letter from Quansheng Claiming there are no inner differences between these radios, they are identical, only differences are cosmetic, like design or feaures that have been removed, like fx USB port.. Here is the letter. Difference of models (letter from 9-3 2023) "Subject: Explanation of differences between product types FCC UV-K5Model Number:UV-K5, UV-K5(2), UV-K5(6), UV-K5(8), UV-K5(9), UV-K5(11), UV-K5(22), UV-K5(66), UV-K5(88), UV-K5(99), UV-5R, UV-5R PLUS, UV-82 To Whom It May Concern: We, The QUANSHENG electronics hereby declare that the models are identical except the model names & cover designs. Except for the differentabove, no other modification is performed.Sincerely: Feili Chen" Its from 9-3-2023 there are 3 models, one with White screen, one with Yellow and one with Blue and it seems all the models above is variants of these. It also looks to be the exact same speaker acroos all models from the inner component pictures, so if you hear differences, maybe software tuning but take a look for yourself as Im only relating to Quansheng's own FCC report and the indiviual component pictures, between models,. There is also extensive testing, mainly with R&S RF labgear equipment. Sadly not alloved to l*nnk on YT, but just use your FCC that stands on the back of your radio, and also take notice its the same FCC acroos models and why only one FCC RF testing was valid for all models, as its the same product, as Quansheng emphasize to FCC in their "model-difference" letter.. Likely take it with a pinch of salt, when influencers, claim all sorts of new goodies or RF sensitivity or output variables... they often have a secondary financiel incentive. Label : XBPUV-K5 - just look that up online. the big PDF testanalyzing-report with all the testing merits is quite interresting, not least for people that like to test on their own and compare it to FCC own values. But overall its a shockingly decent radio at that ridiculous low price they are being sold at, with a highly diversed Beken BK4819 half-duplex TDD FM Transceiver baseband chip. specs. • Worldwide band: 18 MHz ~ 620 MHz and again 840 MHz ~ 1200 MHz • 12.5/25/6.25/20 kHz channel spacing • On-chip 7 dBm RF PA • 3.0 V to 3.6 V power supply • CTCSS tone receiver with tail CTCSS frequency detector • 23/24 bit programmable DCS code • Standard DTMF and programmable in-band dual tone • SELCALL and programmable in-band single tone • FSK data modem • Frequency inversion scrambler • Voice activated switch (VOX) • RF signal strength measurement • TX audio signal strength indication and RX audio signal strength indication • Frequency scan function • 3-wire interface with MCU with maximum 8 Mbps clock rate • QFN32 package, 4 x 4 mm "BK4819 is a half-duplex TDD FM transceiver operating within 18 MHz ~ 620 MHz and 840 MHz ~ 1200 MHz band range for worldwide personal radio. Besides speech communication, the BK4819 on-chip FSK data modem supports F2D and F1W emission to be used in both FRS and DPMR band for text message and GPS information exchange. The BK4819 is a complete, small form factor solution optimized for low-power, low-cost, and highly integrated mobile and portable consumer electronic devices, requiring only a few external decoupling capacitors and an external inductor for input matching."
I'd been away from the hobby for a bit and didn't even know these things existed, but then I stumbled on this video on Tuesday. Long story short, Amazon dropped one off on Thursday and now it's got the egzumer firmware on it. Great little piece of kit!
Hello Hayden. I'm "Matt" (hi hi) that shared the news with you about the mod page via browser. Thanks for making a great video showing the actual process (and thanks to the real "Matt" who assembled the Web page). Hope you did well in the contest, Hayden. 73 de W8RD
Thanks Ray! Yes, my sincere apologies I wanted to thank you too and it was only after uploading I remembered your email! I received a few in relation to this, including from "the real Matt" haha!
First, excellent presentation. I never would have expected such features from such a bargain basement radio. I can't put mine down and will buy a second. simply the most modable, hackable radio that can be found. TNX and 73s
One firmware mod I think is a good idea is the FM radio, in the USA FM radio is spaced 200 Khz apart. So I would change the FM broadcast band to 88.1 to 107.9 with a 200 khz step to make that easier to use.
If you guys are looking for the red mods like the "TX anywhere". You need the hit the button in the top right of the screen that says ""Show Instructions" then scroll to the bottom of that text that opens and at the bottom there should be blue text that says ""clicking here". This will unlock those red mods! Hope this helps you guys out as it was not covered in the video!
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You should absolutely not need to enable the "TX anywhere" mod. I have all of my radios locked down to prevent any, even accidental TX out of my licensed allocations (even though I'll soon be licensed to transmit on the air band, too). It makes absolutely no sense and can get you in A LOT of trouble.
@ Stop p*rent*ng other people, that you dont need it, doesnt meen that other people dont find it very usefull . I find "TX anywhere" extremely usefull, as I use and test it with other gear, like numerous handheld & PC spectrum analyzers, attenuators, RF-wattmeters, d*mmmm* loads, osclioscopes, handheld SDRs, and these cheap HT's to like 15 bucks ..that on their main bands can deliver +5watt, is an attracvtive priced self-contained RF tool for people that wanna work with RF signals and even have 3 segment of power-intensity.
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@@JAKOB1977 Stop pretending to not understand the context of my comment. Who do you think is more likely to misuse that feature of a $20 radio? An RF engineer or some kid using it for airsoft?
@ nahh tone down with "but, but some very bad kids could maybe do this & this and someody in airsoft" if they went to the extent and modded these radios. People doing airsoft, that dont care about behavior, could do a lot worse woth an airsoft item, than transmitting at minor power at illegal RF bands. Its such a weird perspective to let the imaginable lowest c*mm*n nominator set the norm for everybody else. Maybe you do you, and follow your local laws and stop judging what mods should be allowed for other people. as you can read on G*th*b.. tons of RF people find the wide TX range, extremely usefull for testing other RF gear. Have you actually tested the output of these radios out of main primary bands..again you can get an idea on G-*th*b. IMO, one can also be too h*st3rlc on what other adult people are alloved to do with their own products, - as I emphasized.. "you do you", and I fully understand, (hence your text) that if you dont feel secure controlling a handheld radio like this one, and your afraid that you will do bad things with it, or somebody else will do it... then just dont mod it. Its a choice not a demand.. Cheers
@@JAKOB1977 but he will be able to tx on airband soon maybe you missed that bit? Or maybe like me you read it as Airbnb the first time.... Airsoft on the other hand is illegal in Australia.... Maybe soon airband and airbags and Airbnb will be illegal in Australia too.... Let's just hope that until that happens for all our safety that no plains fall out off the sky because of those pesky Airsoft kids pretending to be pilots....
Understanding that the voice prompts are in another ROM and can't be modified, I'd really like to see two specific mods: * Make the voice tags read as they scroll, very like memory channel numbers are spoken as they're scrolled * A different beep tone to denote default toggle states like power and band selection on the quick function keys.
I've just bought one for 6 pound on Ali express and I'm upgrading to this from my uniden UBC125xlt because I've been told this one is far more superior once modded so we shall see.
Nice video, very helpful. Of course I didn't rtfm or watch in full before starting out and missed the disclaimer bit in the "instructions" readme file and couldn't find the enable tx features. For anyone like me who thinks they know better and dont need to rtfm..you have to go i to instructions and tick a box or two and the hidden stuff appears like magic. Who'd of thought it? 😂. But seriously, this is a great way of getting a few bits changed, thanks.
@@denisthacker9825 hi Dennis , if you follow the links in the video it'll take you to the firmware download and then install the drivers and follow the prompts, it's fairly easy, I have no computer skills whatsoever and I managed it, I'm in Ayrshire where are you ? Kind regards Ed
Have a baofeng already (someone should port the firmware and get some unlocked MCU for it), now I have a Quansheng aswell, way cooler and nicer to use in my opinion while stock firmware, but also bought it for the new firmware hacks. I said to my wife she needed a radio aswell, so she is getting my baofeng. Nice video, definitly gonna flash myself the newer firmware. Wife asked why she needed a radio to talk without mobile phones, she is the one who wanted to prep for bad times, have food stashed, emergency water filtracion, cooking tools. I mean, she is a bit overreacting to whatever Russia is up to (we live in western europe) but if she is gonna prep, im gonna prep with electronics. batteries, generate power, talk to my dad over the radio and i might sign up for the local amateur radio club (I should get a license am i XD to be allowed more TX power and more frequencies). Long comment, im afraid ill start collecting portable radios soon
Fantastic. Great idea to do on my K5 for sure. I will never tick that tx box for airband... the fine will cost me as much as the replacement car I've put a deposit on. Lol Thank Haydes, top info as usual mate! :)
I haven't tried to mod the radio, other than expanding the tx frequencies. Apart from that I can't see a real need for all this stuff. I agree with a previous poster; yes it IS a great SHTF radio, especially with its USB C charging, which means that a power bank can charge it when no mains power is available. I've had four bars just charging it directly from a Solar panel, but it took almost a day to do that.
Maybe some battery-saving mods, keeping it going for a week. It is time for some hardware modifications, speaker exchange or actual mic upgrade. What about a good dsp noise cancellation. Maybe this Radio can do good AM but the CPU needs help?
Another great vid mate, especially when you show what happens if you encounter small problems. My bearcat 120xlt is getting on a bit now, look forward to getting this radio as my new airband receiver, I take it though that this receiver can be made to have a 'lockout' function so I can not pickup ATIS ?
Is there a firmware available that will turn the UVK5/UVK6 into a portable Drone Detection device (seeing as it is capable of waterfall and spectrum analyzer scanning I figured that there has to be someone that has developed a bata version for this usage out there somewhere…?)
What are the details on the cable? Seemed to breeze over that. I presume it’s not a normal USB cable? What do the ends look like? Does it come with the radio? If not, where should I source it and what is the cable called?
There might be a newer updated motherboard revision. I could be wrong , but I checked listings on Amazon for the radio , and There's 2 that have the same model number , but only one says factory specs can go past 400 mhz . The other model said it was more limited . Do you know if they revised and changed things with the latest made units .
Be aware I used this with the double back-light time setting and I now no longer have a back-light at all .obviously it's no biggie the k5 was just a bit of cheep fun but if anyone out there is worried it could hurt the radio and if its there one and only radio maybe think twice otherwise rock on I'm sure most havnt had any issue and there was just some odd circumstances that mine now no longer has any back-light iv tried flashing the og firmware still no good so I got unlucky radio still works fine still radios just need a flashlight to see the screen lol
@damiengirvan5020 I tried afew times and a few versions of the og firmware unfortunately it's just some bug that's done it I would almost be willing to bet it would be hard to recreate it as I had used some of the previous hacks for the s meter and spectrum display which worked perfectly I bet its something to do with the chain of events from those mods to the new ones I kinda wantbto buy another to see if I can recreate it so I can figure out what it was that sid it and how to get around it but I'm probably not smart enough to figure it out tbh but hopefully things get figured uo
This won’t work for me. Checking the port in the device manager, there’s a message saying “THIS IS NOT PROLIFIC PL2303. CONTACT YOUR VENDOR”. Is this because of wrong cable or wrong driver?
For fun and experimentation the K5 is bloody marvelous! Cracking tutorial video btw :-) Just wondering though ... isn't the 'UV-5R Plus' a triband version of the Boafeng UV-5R
When you enable am receive on all bands, I couldn't get it out of am on 2m and back onto FM, except a one off menu setting. I had to go to the programming software and turn the AM flag off, that fixed it. Also, enable tx everywhere- wouldn't transmit on 6 metres or 17,15 or 10 metres. Receives ok. Also, how do I get it to receive 23cm?
I just ordered one of these and I have a question. Can I use it to transmit safely on 477MHz CB/PRS (I think PRS? I’m fairly new to radio.) It only goes up to 470 stock, but firmware upgrades unlock it. That was half the reason I bought this radio but didn’t realise it couldn’t go up that high.
Thank you. Bought one to program and experiment. Waste of time to also add a wideband LNA to enance the extreme rx edges or just amplifying mostly noise?
You do alotta good stuff on this channel. Thanx. Sooo...don’t you think it’s time to start doing physical mods like changing out the speaker etc etc? Your the guy to do it!!!
After updating unlock 18-1300, from stock firmware 31, and using RSSI bar 78, why does the LCD sometimes give an error when we PTT (freq 142) and also sometimes go blank, finally I restarted it back to normal. I tried again on uvmod with firmware 26, unlock 18-1300 and rssi bar 78, still the same symptoms as above. Does anyone experience something like me?
OKAY....COOL.....but there’s a problem!!!!!!!! I CAN NOT CHANGE THE VALUES IN THE MENU! when I try to change the value in ctcs, it lets me go in to the options and lets me change them but when I try to save/confirm, it just returns to OFF even though it says confirm. How is this fixable? Thank you sooo much for all the great videos!!!!
@@HamRadioDX this was an out of the box in messed with radio. It did work okay before I flashed it. Everything seemed to be really cool until I tried to put in the tone to open up the squelch so I could test noaa. Thanx so much for a quick response! (My twin to this one I did upgrade on the QUANSHENG site and is working very well. )
@@HamRadioDX I’ll explain from beginning. I purchased two QUANSHENGs maybe 2 months ago just when they were becoming popular. One I left in the box. The other I upgraded on the QUANSHENG website and then put our clubs (in Florida) repeaters addressees in. It worked fine and I could change values in the menu. The one I left in the box I checked to make sure it worked and it definitely did! I wanted to use this one for experimental programming. When I watched your awesome video! I thought that this is the time to try stuff on it. So I did! I did exactly what you do plus I added a couple more of the add ons. Tried the noaa channels to test and they would not work because they needed a tone to open them up. I went into the menu and tried making changes. I could make the changes and when I tried to save them, they would not save nor work. I tried making changes elsewhere in the menu and nothing worked. Sooo..that’s it in a watermelon shell!! Thank you for your help!!!!
Got a UV-k5 since yesterday and did already the tx mod, but when i try to send on a cb frequency its almost impossible to hear myself on a real cb radio.
I think if you try and tx in am mode it's not really am mode.... And is advised against because it might burn something out.... But I had to test it anyway....
Tried this, but no go. The Boefeng USB cable drivers are installed and USB-serial adapter shows up on COM3. When flashing, it just says, "No data received, is the radio connected and in flash mode? Please try again." Also tried flashing with the tool included in the Download updater software and as soon as I select the proper COM port and click Connect, the Update button gets greyed out! Any ideas?
Tried incognito mode and made sure cable was plugged in firmly. Maybe this radio I bought a couple months back is locked out from updating or the Baofeng cable is bad (it is brand new though and PC assigns it COM3). Doesn't even tell me what FW is currently on radio.
Got it going again, but had to use the web flashing tool, a mixture of usb ports and a flaky cable, always have spares, i bricked the original uv-5 I have, oem updater tool is flaky at the best of times
Google Chrome is very close to becoming a complete operating system. Accessing a Com port, jesus. The transmit on any fequency mod is the most interesting.
Been working with these available mods and really like them. Even figured out how to get NOAA to work. So here’s a feature that would be nice to use. I have trying to make it work but with out success. In the QUANSHENG programming software all the options are listed on the left to click on. Near the bottom is the “scan” lists. Two of them when you open it up. I can not figure out how to use these. I want one of my lists for GMRS. Think you can get this? Thanx! Your channel is one of the few radio ones I watch! Thanx!
Make sure you have the radio connected and you have memory channels programmed in. Once you click scan lists, it opens up the window with the 2 scan lists. Scan List 1 and Scan List 2. Select whichever scan list you want for your GMRS radios, and at the top of that new window that opened up, click "Edit". Another new window will open, and on the left bar will be all of your programmed frequencies, and the right bar will be blank. Select which frequencies you want to be on the list by clicking on them, they will highlight blue. Then click on ">>" to move that frequency to the right bar. Once you have all of your GMRS frequencies in the right bar, click "OK". Then upload to your radio.
@@kenYTCA thanx for taking the time to write all that out! Thank you. Sooo...now how does one access that new memory once it’s in to be able to use it? Really appreciate your help!
@@johnemmons9087 no problem, once you have a list saved in the radio, go to MENU>31(should show "S-List" on the left, and choose which list you want to scan, either list 1 or list 2 that you added the frequencies to in CHIRP)>EXIT. make sure you're in memory mode then hold down the scan button and it will start scanning through all the channels on that list. For example my list 1 has all of my channels, and list 2 has a few local repeaters, and some PAPA system repeaters I know I can hit. So I use list 1 to scan every frequency saved in the radio, and list 2 to just scan the most active ones in my area. A cool feature, even if it is a little cumbersome to get it started.
Hi Hayden and everyone, Nice video thanks. I have owned the QuanSheng K6 since a week with SW version K5_201.26 in it, and I think it is great. Can say as a HAM I am already pretty well versed in progamming it, and have created a nice config file for HAM, VHF and Aviation band. I'm looking for a TX Prohibit option for those channels I'm not allowed to transmit on and maybe press PTT there anyway. I haven't seen anything about it anywhere. I did find on a forum that you have to enter 0 Mhz for the TX frequency on those channels. That works when the mode is FM, but in AM it expects a frequency equal to the reception frequency. Ps. Even if you enter 0 Mhz for FM you still send RF into the air with a PTT. Do you, or anyone else know how to realize this per channel? Thanks, Jos
I think the developers of the mod site (who have been in the comments here) did develop a lockout for ham only frequencies - but I guess for more general GMRS etc maybe something like that would be cool.
@@HamRadioDX TY, Would be nice to have such an option. Better still would be to create an additional parameter: TX Prohibit On/Off so you can easily turn this on/off from the CPS for each channel instead of the entire band. Also useful when editing a channel, the option for next and back in a channel. You can go to the next channel without having to exit to open the next one. Let's hope these options will be honored in the next relase of the CPS software. 73, Jos
I used this same UVMOD website, works great! Keep in mind that if you go back later and try to add another feature, it will overwrite all the previous upgrades you did. You have to select all the upgrades you want the first time around. I would like to see a mod that keeps the backlight on all the time, and something that improves AM aircraft band reception.
From what I’ve read, the AM problems aren’t based on the firmware, but rather the AM decoding chip (or rather the lack there of). So sadly we won’t see better AM anytime soon :(
I guess you already know this but the egzumer firmware (on github) apparently sorts the backlight and AM airband issues. I'm waiting for my K5 so researching what is out there. Looks fantastic value for money.
Nice video. I was looking to mod my UV-K5(s) //I bought three because I figured $15 a piece, I could afford to brick one// I have been looking for a mod that will allow channel name and frequency to be shown. My mobile rig is the FTM-300D and I really like to see the name I assign to the frequency. And it shows the tone setting so it';s easy to remember what is up. Keep posting!
Yes it will. Just make sure the cable is pressed fully home. To get it into the required update mode, switch the radio on whilst holding the ptt, let gop of the ptt and insert the cable (make sure the cable is plugged into the PC and correctly configured - if youhave a lot of com ports (including virtual ones, it can assign an already used port number to the cable, in which case you would need to go into the properties of the comport and change it to an unused number. I used the USB programming cable that came with my Baofeng GT-3TP mkIII (the cable is marked 'Baofeng'). It worked first time (I used it with the latest version of Chirp, which supports the UV5k (8)). Providing the driver isn't made by Prolific, you should be fine. Prolific devices always seem to cause headaches - well all the ones I've ever used have been complete nightmares. On my PC I have a couple of physical com ports and around 40 (yes, really) virtual comports. When I plugged in the cable it assigned COM3 to it, which was already assigned to a device, so I changed it to com50 which is one of the free ones. The reason I have so many virtual com ports is that I run SDR's, with control programs, multiple instances of data decoding software, log books, omnirig and other software, each of which requires one, or more, com port pairs. I've had to do a cheat sheet so I can remember what com port is used by what program or device. Then there are the virtual audio devices to consider...
ok..thanks for clearing the confusion...iv got a video topic sugestion for you ..i can not seem to figure out what cheep radio paraglider and hangliders could use. a radio that gives us a listening watch in the visinity of uncontrolled air feilds and above 5000 foot goes along way in helping us comply.it would be a bonus if one of these afordable radios would transmit or could be unlocked to transmit on air band. we need it to be afordable,light,it would be grate if we could keep a listening watch and still comunicate between our selves on huf/cb and if we could also use it as a battery bank that would be usefull and we could trade the weight of a battery bank for the weight of the radio.clear sound like the program you show in your other vid is desiable in an enviroment with wind noise and if we are going to program it then its price will include cable.a collored radio would be benifitial as you can see it in the grass and may not leave it behind in the feild when landed and packing up.we dont understand them and we dont want them but rules demand we have them.@@HamRadioDX
Hi i have Three or four UV5RS WITH THE SAME SOFTWARE VERSION BFB298 TWO ARE GREEN CAMO AND ONE IS BRAND NEW UV5R PLUS BUT IS RED. LIKE I said BFB298 IS THE SOFTWARE VERSION NUMBER. HOLD NUMBER 3 DOWN WHILE YOU TURN IT ON.
That's in the works :) in fact there's already a .py file for it. However, the rest of the squelch parameters that aren't delay-related are in the EEPROM, not the firmware.
I read somewhere, perhaps when I was purchasing my radio. that these radios have a disable, kill feature. I'm too afraid to actually go there. but with all the modifications available I wonder if there is a reset by user ability (instead of sending it to Quansheng)
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They are all the same K5, K5-8, and K6 and there are no socalled "new models", if your unsure you can look it up on FCC there is even a letter from Quansheng
Claiming there are no inner differences between these radios, they are identical, only differences are cosmetic, like design or feaures that have been removed, like fx USB port..
Here is the letter.
Difference of models (letter from 9-3 2023)
"Subject: Explanation of differences between product types
FCC UV-K5Model Number:UV-K5, UV-K5(2), UV-K5(6), UV-K5(8), UV-K5(9), UV-K5(11), UV-K5(22), UV-K5(66), UV-K5(88), UV-K5(99), UV-5R, UV-5R PLUS, UV-82
To Whom It May Concern:
We, The QUANSHENG electronics hereby declare that the models are identical except the model names & cover designs.
Except for the differentabove, no other modification is performed.Sincerely: Feili Chen"
Its from 9-3-2023 there are 3 models, one with White screen, one with Yellow and one with Blue and it seems all the models above is variants of these.
It also looks to be the exact same speaker acroos all models from the inner component pictures, so if you hear differences, maybe software tuning but take a look for yourself as Im only relating to Quansheng's own FCC report and the indiviual component pictures, between models,.
There is also extensive testing, mainly with R&S RF labgear equipment.
Sadly not alloved to l*nnk on YT, but just use your FCC that stands on the back of your radio, and also take notice its the same FCC acroos models and why only one FCC RF testing was valid for all models, as its the same product, as Quansheng emphasize to FCC in their "model-difference" letter..
Likely take it with a pinch of salt, when influencers, claim all sorts of new goodies or RF sensitivity or output variables... they often have a secondary financiel incentive.
Label : XBPUV-K5 - just look that up online. the big PDF testanalyzing-report with all the testing merits is quite interresting, not least for people that like to test on their own and compare it to FCC own values.
But overall its a shockingly decent radio at that ridiculous low price they are being sold at, with a highly diversed Beken BK4819 half-duplex TDD FM Transceiver baseband chip.
specs.
• Worldwide band: 18 MHz ~ 620 MHz and again 840 MHz ~ 1200 MHz
• 12.5/25/6.25/20 kHz channel spacing
• On-chip 7 dBm RF PA
• 3.0 V to 3.6 V power supply
• CTCSS tone receiver with tail CTCSS frequency detector
• 23/24 bit programmable DCS code
• Standard DTMF and programmable in-band dual tone
• SELCALL and programmable in-band single tone
• FSK data modem
• Frequency inversion scrambler
• Voice activated switch (VOX)
• RF signal strength measurement
• TX audio signal strength indication and RX audio signal strength indication
• Frequency scan function
• 3-wire interface with MCU with maximum 8 Mbps clock rate
• QFN32 package, 4 x 4 mm
"BK4819 is a half-duplex TDD FM transceiver operating within 18 MHz ~ 620 MHz and 840 MHz ~ 1200 MHz band range for worldwide personal radio. Besides speech communication, the BK4819 on-chip FSK data modem supports F2D and F1W emission to be used in both FRS and DPMR band for text message and GPS information exchange.
The BK4819 is a complete, small form factor solution optimized for low-power, low-cost, and highly integrated mobile and portable consumer electronic devices, requiring only a few external decoupling capacitors and an external inductor for input matching."
@@JAKOB1977
Does that mean this Handset is not usefull for Airband anymore? (Because the channel spacing is 8,33kHz afaik)
I'd been away from the hobby for a bit and didn't even know these things existed, but then I stumbled on this video on Tuesday. Long story short, Amazon dropped one off on Thursday and now it's got the egzumer firmware on it. Great little piece of kit!
Hello Hayden. I'm "Matt" (hi hi) that shared the news with you about the mod page via browser. Thanks for making a great video showing the actual process (and thanks to the real "Matt" who assembled the Web page). Hope you did well in the contest, Hayden. 73 de W8RD
Thanks Ray!
Yes, my sincere apologies I wanted to thank you too and it was only after uploading I remembered your email! I received a few in relation to this, including from "the real Matt" haha!
First, excellent presentation. I never would have expected such features from such a bargain basement radio. I can't put mine down and will buy a second. simply the most modable, hackable radio that can be found. TNX and 73s
You finally convinced me to buy one.
Haha, not my fault :) Worth a plan with though
Excellant video! This is a fun lil radio.
Thanks mate!
One firmware mod I think is a good idea is the FM radio, in the USA FM radio is spaced 200 Khz apart. So I would change the FM broadcast band to 88.1 to 107.9 with a 200 khz step to make that easier to use.
An open firmware is on development. Stay tuned with k5
If you guys are looking for the red mods like the "TX anywhere". You need the hit the button in the top right of the screen that says ""Show Instructions" then scroll to the bottom of that text that opens and at the bottom there should be blue text that says ""clicking here". This will unlock those red mods! Hope this helps you guys out as it was not covered in the video!
You should absolutely not need to enable the "TX anywhere" mod. I have all of my radios locked down to prevent any, even accidental TX out of my licensed allocations (even though I'll soon be licensed to transmit on the air band, too). It makes absolutely no sense and can get you in A LOT of trouble.
@ Stop p*rent*ng other people, that you dont need it, doesnt meen that other people dont find it very usefull .
I find "TX anywhere" extremely usefull, as I use and test it with other gear, like numerous handheld & PC spectrum analyzers, attenuators, RF-wattmeters, d*mmmm* loads, osclioscopes, handheld SDRs, and these cheap HT's to like 15 bucks ..that on their main bands can deliver +5watt, is an attracvtive priced self-contained RF tool for people that wanna work with RF signals and even have 3 segment of power-intensity.
@@JAKOB1977 Stop pretending to not understand the context of my comment. Who do you think is more likely to misuse that feature of a $20 radio? An RF engineer or some kid using it for airsoft?
@ nahh tone down with "but, but some very bad kids could maybe do this & this and someody in airsoft" if they went to the extent and modded these radios.
People doing airsoft, that dont care about behavior, could do a lot worse woth an airsoft item, than transmitting at minor power at illegal RF bands.
Its such a weird perspective to let the imaginable lowest c*mm*n nominator set the norm for everybody else.
Maybe you do you, and follow your local laws and stop judging what mods should be allowed for other people.
as you can read on G*th*b.. tons of RF people find the wide TX range, extremely usefull for testing other RF gear.
Have you actually tested the output of these radios out of main primary bands..again you can get an idea on G-*th*b.
IMO, one can also be too h*st3rlc on what other adult people are alloved to do with their own products, - as I emphasized.. "you do you", and I fully understand, (hence your text) that if you dont feel secure controlling a handheld radio like this one, and your afraid that you will do bad things with it, or somebody else will do it... then just dont mod it.
Its a choice not a demand..
Cheers
@@JAKOB1977 but he will be able to tx on airband soon maybe you missed that bit? Or maybe like me you read it as Airbnb the first time.... Airsoft on the other hand is illegal in Australia.... Maybe soon airband and airbags and Airbnb will be illegal in Australia too.... Let's just hope that until that happens for all our safety that no plains fall out off the sky because of those pesky Airsoft kids pretending to be pilots....
Understanding that the voice prompts are in another ROM and can't be modified, I'd really like to see two specific mods:
* Make the voice tags read as they scroll, very like memory channel numbers are spoken as they're scrolled
* A different beep tone to denote default toggle states like power and band selection on the quick function keys.
I found the hidden MODS!! - and i subbed
Welcome!
latest egzumer update is a great improvement on airband and 10/11 meter bands just updated today give it a try mate
Cheers I’ll check it out!
Ive still got the original flash tool but this is awsome, thanks Hayden and Matt love playing with this little radio.
Thanks Hayden. More good info on this little gem. It seems to be more moddable than the X6100. And a whole lot cheaper.
I've just bought one for 6 pound on Ali express and I'm upgrading to this from my uniden UBC125xlt because I've been told this one is far more superior once modded so we shall see.
Nice video, very helpful. Of course I didn't rtfm or watch in full before starting out and missed the disclaimer bit in the "instructions" readme file and couldn't find the enable tx features. For anyone like me who thinks they know better and dont need to rtfm..you have to go i to instructions and tick a box or two and the hidden stuff appears like magic. Who'd of thought it? 😂. But seriously, this is a great way of getting a few bits changed, thanks.
Hi, I've just done this update, it's absolutely brilliant thanks for your input, yeeeehaaaaa,
Ed from Scotland 7/3
Glad it helped
Hi Ed i got one of these radios too, finding it difficult to update, any help would be appreciated mate
Denis from scotland 👍
@@denisthacker9825 hi Dennis , if you follow the links in the video it'll take you to the firmware download and then install the drivers and follow the prompts, it's fairly easy, I have no computer skills whatsoever and I managed it, I'm in Ayrshire where are you ?
Kind regards Ed
Ive been using an old uv5r cable i think that may be the problem
This would be a fantastic emergency radio, especially with the mods.
Have a baofeng already (someone should port the firmware and get some unlocked MCU for it), now I have a Quansheng aswell, way cooler and nicer to use in my opinion while stock firmware, but also bought it for the new firmware hacks. I said to my wife she needed a radio aswell, so she is getting my baofeng. Nice video, definitly gonna flash myself the newer firmware.
Wife asked why she needed a radio to talk without mobile phones, she is the one who wanted to prep for bad times, have food stashed, emergency water filtracion, cooking tools. I mean, she is a bit overreacting to whatever Russia is up to (we live in western europe) but if she is gonna prep, im gonna prep with electronics. batteries, generate power, talk to my dad over the radio and i might sign up for the local amateur radio club (I should get a license am i XD to be allowed more TX power and more frequencies). Long comment, im afraid ill start collecting portable radios soon
I would like permanent backlight when the radio is on the charger base, plus 4 metres, ( for UK use )
It is a great radio for silly cheap money :)
Fantastic. Great idea to do on my K5 for sure. I will never tick that tx box for airband... the fine will cost me as much as the replacement car I've put a deposit on. Lol
Thank Haydes, top info as usual mate! :)
Glad to help
Does updating firmware include Tx under 50 Mhz (with appropriate antenna?) What frequencies can be had?
I haven't tried to mod the radio, other than expanding the tx frequencies. Apart from that I can't see a real need for all this stuff. I agree with a previous poster; yes it IS a great SHTF radio, especially with its USB C charging, which means that a power bank can charge it when no mains power is available. I've had four bars just charging it directly from a Solar panel, but it took almost a day to do that.
Maybe some battery-saving mods, keeping it going for a week. It is time for some hardware modifications, speaker exchange or actual mic upgrade. What about a good dsp noise cancellation. Maybe this Radio can do good AM but the CPU needs help?
there is room inside for some more electronics. i think a switched filter board to unlock full power on hf and above/between uhf and vhf
I would like TX on 4m (70Mhz) as this is legal in the UK and no cheap radios can do it.
Don't try it with these radios , I have and the output is so dirty on 70mhz it's dangerous, I've blocked the tx there so as to prevent accidental ptt.
Another great vid mate, especially when you show what happens if you encounter small problems.
My bearcat 120xlt is getting on a bit now, look forward to getting this radio as my new airband receiver, I take it though that this receiver can be made to have a 'lockout' function so I can not pickup ATIS ?
Is there a mod to clean up the quality of the airband receive?
There is an eastern European guy that put a switch on some wires that changed the value of a resistor or something....
@@damiengirvan5020 anu way you could share where you found it? A link maybe? Id really appreciate it
👍Thanks for the modification information. I wonder if there is a similar modified firmware for the Radtel RT890?
Is there a firmware available that will turn the UVK5/UVK6 into a portable Drone Detection device (seeing as it is capable of waterfall and spectrum analyzer scanning I figured that there has to be someone that has developed a bata version for this usage out there somewhere…?)
Is there at Learn switch for the UV-5R? How do I set my UV-5R to learn and load the firmware? Didn't see anything or a way to make this happen?
What are the details on the cable? Seemed to breeze over that. I presume it’s not a normal USB cable?
What do the ends look like?
Does it come with the radio? If not, where should I source it and what is the cable called?
Baofeng, aka 2 pin Kenwood programming cable. This is the one I use - geni.us/odJ5ja
Looks like the TX on all bands except airband is not there anymore :/
Hello, may be you found it already, but have this option in "Instructions" / "Hidden mods" now. Bye
It got better. I liked.
I planing to get this radio and listen mainly to airband. Does this moded firmware include the AM fix? Thanks
you can use chirp after this firmware upload?
Hi, my back light use to go out when scanning. Stays on now for some reason. Help required please? I have k6
There might be a newer updated motherboard revision.
I could be wrong , but I checked listings on Amazon for the radio , and
There's 2 that have the same model number , but only one says
factory specs can go past 400 mhz .
The other model said it was more limited .
Do you know if they revised and changed things with the latest
made units .
Be aware I used this with the double back-light time setting and I now no longer have a back-light at all .obviously it's no biggie the k5 was just a bit of cheep fun but if anyone out there is worried it could hurt the radio and if its there one and only radio maybe think twice otherwise rock on I'm sure most havnt had any issue and there was just some odd circumstances that mine now no longer has any back-light iv tried flashing the og firmware still no good so I got unlucky radio still works fine still radios just need a flashlight to see the screen lol
Thanks for the warning I was going to try it thinking that I could just reflash the stock... Did you try to reflash a few times or just one time?
@damiengirvan5020 I tried afew times and a few versions of the og firmware unfortunately it's just some bug that's done it I would almost be willing to bet it would be hard to recreate it as I had used some of the previous hacks for the s meter and spectrum display which worked perfectly I bet its something to do with the chain of events from those mods to the new ones I kinda wantbto buy another to see if I can recreate it so I can figure out what it was that sid it and how to get around it but I'm probably not smart enough to figure it out tbh but hopefully things get figured uo
@@nickkendall3764 sounds weird... It seems each install is leaving something over...
Thank you!
You're welcome!
This won’t work for me. Checking the port in the device manager, there’s a message saying “THIS IS NOT PROLIFIC PL2303. CONTACT YOUR VENDOR”. Is this because of wrong cable or wrong driver?
Probably wrong cable I think - I replied via email
@@HamRadioDX Ok. Thank you
Very cool! 👍🏽
Thanks James! 👍
Is this radio analog only? My Baofeng picks up 0 repeaters, I'm assuming because they are all digital.
For fun and experimentation the K5 is bloody marvelous! Cracking tutorial video btw :-) Just wondering though ... isn't the 'UV-5R Plus' a triband version of the Boafeng UV-5R
Nope the UV-5R Plus is a recased K5 with a blue screen, and USB C removed?!
But with a bigger battery, so they are worth buying just for the battery
When you enable am receive on all bands, I couldn't get it out of am on 2m and back onto FM, except a one off menu setting. I had to go to the programming software and turn the AM flag off, that fixed it. Also, enable tx everywhere- wouldn't transmit on 6 metres or 17,15 or 10 metres. Receives ok. Also, how do I get it to receive 23cm?
Is there any firmware upgrade that sorts out the flappy squelch? Even on the lowest setting, the squelch is badly implemented.
is there any way to use the channel 124.105 for example, it override the 5 always to 0
I just ordered one of these and I have a question. Can I use it to transmit safely on 477MHz CB/PRS (I think PRS? I’m fairly new to radio.) It only goes up to 470 stock, but firmware upgrades unlock it. That was half the reason I bought this radio but didn’t realise it couldn’t go up that high.
Dunno the rules in NZ, but in Australia they won't be type approved for UHF CB.
Thank you. Bought one to program and experiment.
Waste of time to also add a wideband LNA to enance the extreme rx edges or just amplifying mostly noise?
But what happens to Air band AM reception? Is it worse after this update since it has to go back to the old version?
You do alotta good stuff on this channel. Thanx.
Sooo...don’t you think it’s time to start doing physical mods like changing out the speaker etc etc?
Your the guy to do it!!!
I do everything in video and can’t get it to flash to the radio
Instead of the bar signal meter, is there a mod for a needle type receive meter?
That would be pretty sweet
to few pixels..would not look good.
@@JAKOB1977 I know it would not be great , but just a very basic swinging needle. There must be someone that has the skills with a few pixels😀
I want a real needle with a dull light behind it like an 80's CB....
this works on uv k58 .... im unable to get UK cb though ,,, as it wont let me imput it ??? i cna get EU CB
Was the Transmit on all frequencies removed ?
can you use the USB C port to programme?
What Cable do I need?
I wonder if future firmware updates will help stop or
lessen many of the spurious TX signals that are being
sent out during the transmissions ?
That's a hardware issue not software. Would require major mods to the power amp/ filters.
I checked the Web site I don't see about enabling TX nothing there
Hi can you transmit straight from first swhich on
After updating unlock 18-1300, from stock firmware 31, and using RSSI bar 78, why does the LCD sometimes give an error when we PTT (freq 142) and also sometimes go blank, finally I restarted it back to normal.
I tried again on uvmod with firmware 26, unlock 18-1300 and rssi bar 78, still the same symptoms as above.
Does anyone experience something like me?
This radio is out date there is a new quansheng on the market the UV-5R plus similar firmware
can you "mix and match" different mods from different hackers? I've been told there is very limited space to install mods...
Anyone know if the linked firmware update site will work in conjunction with a uv5k8?
How to unlock broadcasting mod IJV 2.9R5?
OKAY....COOL.....but there’s a problem!!!!!!!!
I CAN NOT CHANGE THE VALUES IN THE MENU!
when I try to change the value in ctcs, it lets me go in to the options and lets me change them but when I try to save/confirm, it just returns to OFF even though it says confirm.
How is this fixable?
Thank you sooo much for all the great videos!!!!
Good question. What firmware version are you running?
@@HamRadioDX this was an out of the box in messed with radio. It did work okay before I flashed it. Everything seemed to be really cool until I tried to put in the tone to open up the squelch so I could test noaa.
Thanx so much for a quick response!
(My twin to this one I did upgrade on the QUANSHENG site and is working very well. )
Do you think you can help figure this out? Thanx!
@@johnemmons9087 So did the issue happen after flashing using the website? Have you tried flashing the original website
@@HamRadioDX I’ll explain from beginning. I purchased two QUANSHENGs maybe 2 months ago just when they were becoming popular. One I left in the box. The other I upgraded on the QUANSHENG website and then put our clubs (in Florida) repeaters addressees in. It worked fine and I could change values in the menu.
The one I left in the box I checked to make sure it worked and it definitely did! I wanted to use this one for experimental programming.
When I watched your awesome video! I thought that this is the time to try stuff on it. So I did! I did exactly what you do plus I added a couple more of the add ons. Tried the noaa channels to test and they would not work because they needed a tone to open them up.
I went into the menu and tried making changes. I could make the changes and when I tried to save them, they would not save nor work. I tried making changes elsewhere in the menu and nothing worked.
Sooo..that’s it in a watermelon shell!!
Thank you for your help!!!!
You can check at 245.1250. Please tell us what percentage of sending power you have. Thank you.
Got a UV-k5 since yesterday and did already the tx mod, but when i try to send on a cb frequency its almost impossible to hear myself on a real cb radio.
I think if you try and tx in am mode it's not really am mode.... And is advised against because it might burn something out.... But I had to test it anyway....
Tried this, but no go. The Boefeng USB cable drivers are installed and USB-serial adapter shows up on COM3. When flashing, it just says, "No data received, is the radio connected and in flash mode? Please try again." Also tried flashing with the tool included in the Download updater software and as soon as I select the proper COM port and click Connect, the Update button gets greyed out! Any ideas?
Try incongito mode in Chrome or Edge whichever browser you are using
Are you plugged securely into the radio? I have seen a couple guyz have that problem. You really have to snap it in with a click.
Tried incognito mode and made sure cable was plugged in firmly. Maybe this radio I bought a couple months back is locked out from updating or the Baofeng cable is bad (it is brand new though and PC assigns it COM3). Doesn't even tell me what FW is currently on radio.
@@OGThinkster Same here. Did you solve the issue?
@@johnemmons9087 Thanks! Fixed the problem here, I wasn't pushing it hard enough into the ports...
Nice…
It would be nice with a combined boot screen. With your call sign and the batter voltages.
You can actually make your own and use that
Will this work on the ANYSECU UV-K5?
Does it work with QuanSheng UV-5R Plus?
totally fried 2 radios, UV-K5 and UV-K5 (8), very hard to find any help
How?
Got it going again, but had to use the web flashing tool, a mixture of usb ports and a flaky cable, always have spares, i bricked the original uv-5 I have, oem updater tool is flaky at the best of times
Any firmware that can let me talk on air band?
Extended TX not working in UVMOD ...
The spectrum analyzer is not working on k5
Google Chrome is very close to becoming a complete operating system. Accessing a Com port, jesus. The transmit on any fequency mod is the most interesting.
Can DMR and P25 mods work on this radio.
Do you know where i can get the most reliable and the latest firmware from
Link in description of this video -
ruclips.net/video/WR7dGj9ffgM/видео.html
Hey can you also mod this one.
QUANSHENG
K6 UVK5(8)AM/FM/DTMF walkie
I have the same wuestion can Not find an answer but I thinit is the same radio cpu am ordering the k6 today did you find out anything in 2 days thanks
Been working with these available mods and really like them. Even figured out how to get NOAA to work.
So here’s a feature that would be nice to use. I have trying to make it work but with out success.
In the QUANSHENG programming software all the options are listed on the left to click on. Near the bottom is the “scan” lists. Two of them when you open it up. I can not figure out how to use these.
I want one of my lists for GMRS.
Think you can get this?
Thanx! Your channel is one of the few radio ones I watch! Thanx!
Make sure you have the radio connected and you have memory channels programmed in. Once you click scan lists, it opens up the window with the 2 scan lists. Scan List 1 and Scan List 2. Select whichever scan list you want for your GMRS radios, and at the top of that new window that opened up, click "Edit". Another new window will open, and on the left bar will be all of your programmed frequencies, and the right bar will be blank. Select which frequencies you want to be on the list by clicking on them, they will highlight blue. Then click on ">>" to move that frequency to the right bar. Once you have all of your GMRS frequencies in the right bar, click "OK". Then upload to your radio.
@@kenYTCA thanx for taking the time to write all that out! Thank you.
Sooo...now how does one access that new memory once it’s in to be able to use it?
Really appreciate your help!
@@johnemmons9087 no problem, once you have a list saved in the radio, go to MENU>31(should show "S-List" on the left, and choose which list you want to scan, either list 1 or list 2 that you added the frequencies to in CHIRP)>EXIT. make sure you're in memory mode then hold down the scan button and it will start scanning through all the channels on that list.
For example my list 1 has all of my channels, and list 2 has a few local repeaters, and some PAPA system repeaters I know I can hit. So I use list 1 to scan every frequency saved in the radio, and list 2 to just scan the most active ones in my area. A cool feature, even if it is a little cumbersome to get it started.
@@kenYTCA you rock Buddy! Thank you! If you ever come to Florida, I’ll buy you a steak dinner!
@@johnemmons9087 Haha thanks! Glad I could help!
Nobody seems to specify what frequencies and modes this will be able yo TX on after the mod..anyone ?? 🤷
None of these radios seem to do low band VHF? 30MHZ? 50MHZ? 70MHz? G7VFY
is it possible Tx rx on 50 MHz with this quansheng??
Not TX, the final amplifier does not stretch that far
Can you do this on the K6 also?
Hi Hayden and everyone,
Nice video thanks. I have owned the QuanSheng K6 since a week with SW version K5_201.26 in it, and I think it is great. Can say as a HAM I am already pretty well versed in progamming it, and have created a nice config file for HAM, VHF and Aviation band.
I'm looking for a TX Prohibit option for those channels I'm not allowed to transmit on and maybe press PTT there anyway. I haven't seen anything about it anywhere.
I did find on a forum that you have to enter 0 Mhz for the TX frequency on those channels. That works when the mode is FM, but in AM it expects a frequency equal to the reception frequency.
Ps. Even if you enter 0 Mhz for FM you still send RF into the air with a PTT.
Do you, or anyone else know how to realize this per channel?
Thanks,
Jos
I think the developers of the mod site (who have been in the comments here) did develop a lockout for ham only frequencies - but I guess for more general GMRS etc maybe something like that would be cool.
@@HamRadioDX TY,
Would be nice to have such an option. Better still would be to create an additional parameter: TX Prohibit On/Off so you can easily turn this on/off from the CPS for each channel instead of the entire band.
Also useful when editing a channel, the option for next and back in a channel. You can go to the next channel without having to exit to open the next one.
Let's hope these options will be honored in the next relase of the CPS software.
73, Jos
Just gotta ask is your name Josiah? Thats my brother's name and we call him jos never seen it anywhere else.
I used this same UVMOD website, works great! Keep in mind that if you go back later and try to add another feature, it will overwrite all the previous upgrades you did. You have to select all the upgrades you want the first time around.
I would like to see a mod that keeps the backlight on all the time, and something that improves AM aircraft band reception.
From what I’ve read, the AM problems aren’t based on the firmware, but rather the AM decoding chip (or rather the lack there of).
So sadly we won’t see better AM anytime soon :(
I guess you already know this but the egzumer firmware (on github) apparently sorts the backlight and AM airband issues. I'm waiting for my K5 so researching what is out there. Looks fantastic value for money.
Nice video. I was looking to mod my UV-K5(s) //I bought three because I figured $15 a piece, I could afford to brick one//
I have been looking for a mod that will allow channel name and frequency to be shown. My mobile rig is the FTM-300D and I really like to see the name I assign to the frequency. And it shows the tone setting so it';s easy to remember what is up.
Keep posting!
Do you know if there is any new mods?
There's been a few more added to the website since this video - link in description
I found that after I do any mods the power output on 446 Mhz was only 2.4 watts. Anyone else experience this?
The option Enable TX Everywhere is not there anymore
Hello, may be you found it already, but have this option in "Instructions" / "Hidden mods" now. Bye
Hi will a uv5r cable work with this radio ?
Yes it will. Just make sure the cable is pressed fully home. To get it into the required update mode, switch the radio on whilst holding the ptt, let gop of the ptt and insert the cable (make sure the cable is plugged into the PC and correctly configured - if youhave a lot of com ports (including virtual ones, it can assign an already used port number to the cable, in which case you would need to go into the properties of the comport and change it to an unused number.
I used the USB programming cable that came with my Baofeng GT-3TP mkIII (the cable is marked 'Baofeng'). It worked first time (I used it with the latest version of Chirp, which supports the UV5k (8)). Providing the driver isn't made by Prolific, you should be fine. Prolific devices always seem to cause headaches - well all the ones I've ever used have been complete nightmares.
On my PC I have a couple of physical com ports and around 40 (yes, really) virtual comports. When I plugged in the cable it assigned COM3 to it, which was already assigned to a device, so I changed it to com50 which is one of the free ones. The reason I have so many virtual com ports is that I run SDR's, with control programs, multiple instances of data decoding software, log books, omnirig and other software, each of which requires one, or more, com port pairs. I've had to do a cheat sheet so I can remember what com port is used by what program or device. Then there are the virtual audio devices to consider...
Many thanks for the information
I got one last week on Ebay for £17 Uk.
Anyone got modifications for the Quansheng UV-K6/UV-K5(8) or Quansheng UV-5R Plus?
hey at 3.54 on this vid you say it can transmit on airband..in my recent question in another vid you said it can not transmit on air band?????
Your question has been answered. You cannot TX on AM Airband with this - period.
ok..thanks for clearing the confusion...iv got a video topic sugestion for you ..i can not seem to figure out what cheep radio paraglider and hangliders could use. a radio that gives us a listening watch in the visinity of uncontrolled air feilds and above 5000 foot goes along way in helping us comply.it would be a bonus if one of these afordable radios would transmit or could be unlocked to transmit on air band. we need it to be afordable,light,it would be grate if we could keep a listening watch and still comunicate between our selves on huf/cb and if we could also use it as a battery bank that would be usefull and we could trade the weight of a battery bank for the weight of the radio.clear sound like the program you show in your other vid is desiable in an enviroment with wind noise and if we are going to program it then its price will include cable.a collored radio would be benifitial as you can see it in the grass and may not leave it behind in the feild when landed and packing up.we dont understand them and we dont want them but rules demand we have them.@@HamRadioDX
Hi i have Three or four UV5RS WITH THE SAME SOFTWARE VERSION BFB298 TWO ARE GREEN CAMO AND ONE IS BRAND NEW UV5R PLUS BUT IS RED. LIKE I said BFB298 IS THE SOFTWARE VERSION NUMBER. HOLD NUMBER 3 DOWN WHILE YOU TURN IT ON.
Would be cool if the squelch could be modded to open quicker.
That's in the works :) in fact there's already a .py file for it. However, the rest of the squelch parameters that aren't delay-related are in the EEPROM, not the firmware.
Hi, I wish to have fonts like Yaesu FT991A. Waiting for that 😊 Nice content BTW
HOW TO SWAP OUT STOCK SCREEN BACKLIGHTING TO BLUE IS IT POSSSIBLE.
Dunno
Since it can listen to 10m, it would be nice if it could listen to 20 and 40m.
I read somewhere, perhaps when I was purchasing my radio. that these radios have a disable, kill feature. I'm too afraid to actually go there. but with all the modifications available I wonder if there is a reset by user ability (instead of sending it to Quansheng)
Yup, I saw that claim too but no details in manual or elsewhere.