Mod Your Quansheng UV-K5 - EASY! [Make it Even Better]

These new mods for the Quansheng UV-K5 unlock the radio with many cool and nifty extra features! You can create and download your own firmware, but you can also directly flash it to the radio thanks to a cool feature called Web Serial.
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[@HamRadioDX]

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[@JAKOB1977]

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."

[@S1lenc31991]

@@JAKOB1977 Does that mean this Handset is not usefull for Airband anymore? (Because the channel spacing is 8,33kHz afaik)

[@Luke-bu8zb]

Ive still got the original flash tool but this is awsome, thanks Hayden and Matt love playing with this little radio.

[@RayDabkowski]

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

[@HamRadioDX]

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!

[@TribbleBot]

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!

[@Michigan_Tactical]

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.

[@iowahank1]

Thanks Hayden. More good info on this little gem. It seems to be more moddable than the X6100. And a whole lot cheaper.

[@danielgrafflin9689]

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

[@K5QBF]

Excellant video! This is a fun lil radio.

[@HamRadioDX]

Thanks mate!

[@Dusty_Ham]

You finally convinced me to buy one.

[@HamRadioDX]

Haha, not my fault :) Worth a plan with though

[@604cpr]

This would be a fantastic emergency radio, especially with the mods.

[@kb5elv]

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.

[@johnemmons9087]

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!!!

[@MrKeys57]

I found the hidden MODS!! - and i subbed

[@HamRadioDX]

Welcome!

[@apsoos]

It got better. I liked.

[@JamesHannibalKH2SR]

Very cool! 👍🏽

[@HamRadioDX]

Thanks James! 👍

[@hemitj]

Thank you!

[@HamRadioDX]

You're welcome!

[@jcramond73]

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 ?

[@ED19763]

Hi, I've just done this update, it's absolutely brilliant thanks for your input, yeeeehaaaaa, Ed from Scotland 7/3

[@HamRadioDX]

Glad it helped

[@denisthacker9825]

Hi Ed i got one of these radios too, finding it difficult to update, any help would be appreciated mate

[@denisthacker9825]

Denis from scotland 👍

[@ED19763]

@@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

[@denisthacker9825]

Ive been using an old uv5r cable i think that may be the problem

[@tvbox6955]

👍Thanks for the modification information. I wonder if there is a similar modified firmware for the Radtel RT890?

[@DonzLockz]

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! :)

[@HamRadioDX]

Glad to help

[@terryhayward7905]

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 :)

[@c3kkos]

An open firmware is on development. Stay tuned with k5

[@tonyoutdoors9369]

latest egzumer update is a great improvement on airband and 10/11 meter bands just updated today give it a try mate

[@HamRadioDX]

Cheers I’ll check it out!

[@mikesey1]

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.

[@bigbadscar8463]

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.

[@JAKOB1977]

@ 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?

[@JAKOB1977]

@ 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

[@damiengirvan5020]

@@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....

[@alphalunamare]

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

[@user-em6vi6sj7p]

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

[@CodeAsm]

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

[@BarefootBeekeeper]

I would like TX on 4m (70Mhz) as this is legal in the UK and no cheap radios can do it.

[@MyKaren112]

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?

[@MW7YEE]

Hi, I wish to have fonts like Yaesu FT991A. Waiting for that 😊 Nice content BTW

[@mmpiforall5913]

Does updating firmware include Tx under 50 Mhz (with appropriate antenna?) What frequencies can be had?

[@JhKnife-OZ4HJ-Jimmi]

Nice… It would be nice with a combined boot screen. With your call sign and the batter voltages.

[@hudsonbear5038]

You can actually make your own and use that

[@kenroberts9943]

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.

[@YouTube-Security]

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 :(

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

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.

[@djdonbentley2141]

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 .

[@chrisjohnston1989]

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!

[@sidd8310]

I planing to get this radio and listen mainly to airband. Does this moded firmware include the AM fix? Thanks

[@circattle]

Is there any firmware upgrade that sorts out the flappy squelch? Even on the lowest setting, the squelch is badly implemented.

[@marcovL1970]

This radio is out date there is a new quansheng on the market the UV-5R plus similar firmware

[@RandallRash]

You are a MOD man.

[@QUADBOYification]

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?

[@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024]

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

[@denp54z]

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 ?

[@user-lp3cf5yn5b]

That's a hardware issue not software. Would require major mods to the power amp/ filters.

[@mre9593]

and... (I just thought of this) add a function that can select if a specific channel can transmit (or receive?)or not (like a Baofeng) because the k5 doesn't have this i do not put civic bands on it.

[@iLiJa333]

But what happens to Air band AM reception? Is it worse after this update since it has to go back to the old version?

[@johnemmons9087]

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!

[@kenYTCA]

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.

[@johnemmons9087]

@@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!

[@kenYTCA]

@@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.

[@johnemmons9087]

@@kenYTCA you rock Buddy! Thank you! If you ever come to Florida, I’ll buy you a steak dinner!

[@kenYTCA]

@@johnemmons9087 Haha thanks! Glad I could help!

[@ricowilko]

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?

[@HamRadioDX]

Baofeng, aka 2 pin Kenwood programming cable. This is the one I use - geni.us/odJ5ja

[@OGThinkster]

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?

[@HamRadioDX]

Try incongito mode in Chrome or Edge whichever browser you are using

[@johnemmons9087]

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.

[@OGThinkster]

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.

[@adivor9993]

you can use chirp after this firmware upload?

[@youlife7219]

You can check at 245.1250. Please tell us what percentage of sending power you have. Thank you.

[@josnoordhoek5531]

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

[@HamRadioDX]

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.

[@josnoordhoek5531]

@@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

[@asamcdaniel5167]

Just gotta ask is your name Josiah? Thats my brother's name and we call him jos never seen it anywhere else.

[@TimErdreich]

is there any way to use the channel 124.105 for example, it override the 5 always to 0

[@uzaiyaro]

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.

[@HamRadioDX]

Dunno the rules in NZ, but in Australia they won't be type approved for UHF CB.

[@Wraith0898]

Hi, my back light use to go out when scanning. Stays on now for some reason. Help required please? I have k6

[@RichMantaray]

this works on uv k58 .... im unable to get UK cb though ,,, as it wont let me imput it ??? i cna get EU CB

[@nickkendall3764]

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]

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?

[@nickkendall3764]

@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

[@damiengirvan5020]

@@nickkendall3764 sounds weird... It seems each install is leaving something over...

[@j7ndominica051]

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.

[@t.c.2776]

can you "mix and match" different mods from different hackers? I've been told there is very limited space to install mods...

[@the1spyderryder]

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.

[@zerofox1579]

Anyone know if the linked firmware update site will work in conjunction with a uv5k8?

[@curryiguana]

Is there a mod to clean up the quality of the airband receive?

[@damiengirvan5020]

There is an eastern European guy that put a switch on some wires that changed the value of a resistor or something....

[@curryiguana]

@@damiengirvan5020 anu way you could share where you found it? A link maybe? Id really appreciate it

[@VA6OIL]

Looks like the TX on all bands except airband is not there anymore :/

[@advfrance]

Hello, may be you found it already, but have this option in "Instructions" / "Hidden mods" now. Bye

[@MI7DJT]

Would be cool if the squelch could be modded to open quicker.

[@anonimenkolbas1305]

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.

[@SolgerLemp]

Was the Transmit on all frequencies removed ?

[@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM]

Anyone got modifications for the Quansheng UV-K6/UV-K5(8) or Quansheng UV-5R Plus?

[@curseofsasuke]

Can you do this on the K6 also?

[@chrisg7veo495]

Instead of the bar signal meter, is there a mod for a needle type receive meter?

[@HamRadioDX]

That would be pretty sweet

[@JAKOB1977]

to few pixels..would not look good.

[@chrisg7veo495]

@@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😀

[@damiengirvan5020]

I want a real needle with a dull light behind it like an 80's CB....

[@urbexgamma]

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.

[@damiengirvan5020]

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....

[@outsider427]

What Cable do I need?

[@indonesiasakhatra]

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?

[@davidkroc1423]

Will this work on the ANYSECU UV-K5?

[@christophermichaelsundquis7814]

Hey can you also mod this one. QUANSHENG K6 UVK5(8)AM/FM/DTMF walkie

[@stratocasterblue]

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

[@eddiedowning2571]

I do everything in video and can’t get it to flash to the radio

[@rosie9490]

I found that after I do any mods the power output on 446 Mhz was only 2.4 watts. Anyone else experience this?

[@ironhead320]

I checked the Web site I don't see about enabling TX nothing there

[@VideobyRenta]

Does it work with QuanSheng UV-5R Plus?

[@fredjordway5211]

Can DMR and P25 mods work on this radio.

[@mieciuuu506]

How to unlock broadcasting mod IJV 2.9R5?

[@stephenwalters9891]

None of these radios seem to do low band VHF? 30MHZ? 50MHZ? 70MHz? G7VFY

[@russellwilson5246]

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?????

[@HamRadioDX]

Your question has been answered. You cannot TX on AM Airband with this - period.

[@russellwilson5246]

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

[@techl8974]

HOW TO SWAP OUT STOCK SCREEN BACKLIGHTING TO BLUE IS IT POSSSIBLE.

[@HamRadioDX]

Dunno

[@denisthacker9825]

Do you know where i can get the most reliable and the latest firmware from

[@HamRadioDX]

Link in description of this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYOalXqgbsuZna8

[@silviuisari9341]

Extended TX not working in UVMOD ...

[@TRIPPLEJAY00]

Do you know if there is any new mods?

[@HamRadioDX]

There's been a few more added to the website since this video - link in description

[@coolgamer125bmd6]

The spectrum analyzer is not working on k5

[@johnemmons9087]

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]

Good question. What firmware version are you running?

[@johnemmons9087]

@@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. )

[@johnemmons9087]

Do you think you can help figure this out? Thanx!

[@HamRadioDX]

@@johnemmons9087 So did the issue happen after flashing using the website? Have you tried flashing the original website

[@johnemmons9087]

@@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!!!!

[@josephlansard8113]

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?

[@HamRadioDX]

Probably wrong cable I think - I replied via email

[@josephlansard8113]

@@HamRadioDX Ok. Thank you

[@MagicRoosterBluesBand]

Since it can listen to 10m, it would be nice if it could listen to 20 and 40m.

[@denisthacker9825]

Hi will a uv5r cable work with this radio ?

[@jt65a]

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...

[@denisthacker9825]

Many thanks for the information

[@paulkolbe-hurley7194]

totally fried 2 radios, UV-K5 and UV-K5 (8), very hard to find any help

[@HamRadioDX]

How?

[@paulkolbe-hurley7194]

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

[@lucas_mende_s]

The option Enable TX Everywhere is not there anymore

[@advfrance]

Hello, may be you found it already, but have this option in "Instructions" / "Hidden mods" now. Bye

[@mre9593]

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)

[@mmpiforall5913]

Yup, I saw that claim too but no details in manual or elsewhere.

[@W4TRI]

So I have AM on all bands in there. How do I select between FM and AM? Thanks!

[@bertle2287]

Menu, 48, turn it on.

[@quentinbush]

Played and read the booklet and spent all day getting acquainted with the QUANSHENG UV-K5. Chirp is useless on the PC & MacBook, won't configure on either. I suppose without CHIRP, it is very limited. It doesn't scan on either F+Scan or F+4, I just get FREQ:*** . *****, CTC :******, SCAN.... FAIL. It's a bit useless for scanning. I am not really bothered if it breaks or bricks. Inexpensive at the price of a Costa for 3

[@ryanjaffe]

Does it play Tetris yet?

[@HamRadioDX]

You can play pong! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYCYiJquhs9nra8

[@ryanjaffe]

I knew that one. That’s why I asked. 😄

[@JAKOB1977]

@@ryanjaffe in the works, alongside snake game & Half LIfe2 episode 3.

[@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024]

@@JAKOB1977 doom

[@ralphnunn3]

So, I tried the open transmit mod for the radio. I wanted to see how well the radio worked on the 33cm band (900 mhz). I don't have any test equipment, but I did do a range test. I set both radios on 927.5 (calling freq. in US). Yards away, and the radios couldn't hear each other. So, it transmits with a MINISCULE amount of power. So, while it's a cool thing to try, it's not very usable. DE K7RLN

[@greenslash]

Probably lost a lot of power in a mismatched antenna. Have you tried this with an antenna cut for 927.5?

[@urbexgamma]

Same with cb frequency's : almost impossible to hear myself on a real cb radio because of a minimum power

[@JAKOB1977]

Tested it with TinySA Ultra and a -40dBm 5w attenuator, and its minute power, and have to activate LNA for it to show at 927.5.. I can see the trace on the waterfall. its like -60dbm at medium and -56dbm at high.. the harmomics below is many times stronger so yeah minute power at 927.5Mhz Though at CB fx 27.2Mhz it delivering way more. (batt 7.83 no LNA) low -6.3dBm medium' -5.3dBm High 3.2dBm 50Mhz low 5.6dBm med 11.6dBm high 11.7dBm (so not much gain on 50Mhz from medium to high) 100Mhz low 29.3dBm med 32.6dBm 33.1dBm with old hacked fw 18-1300mhz btw, how do you dial in values above 999.999 as flipping the "up" numerous times' is getting old quite fast.. is there a keycombo, or is it mainly for PC programing purpose.?

[@damiengirvan5020]

Would hooking it up to a linnier amp work? I have one for CB.... I didn't try it cos I thought it wasn't putting out enough power to be amplified....

[@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024]

@@damiengirvan5020 yes it works with amp and atu as a filter into 29 mhz antenna for 10m fm simplex

[@johnkatz5820]

If you select AM all Bands, the stored Channels which was FM changed to AM, that is a bug i think. AM to FM changing via Menu isn‘t a great idea, you have manually change to FM often. I switched back to another CFW, because this AM mode, is everywhere. The Switch should be on a Key not the menu. Standard have to be FM not AM.

[@javi30nkp]

what typ of cable need to program ?¿

[@javi30nkp]

@@londo776 yes but no see wired , may be a baofeng ? and sorry about my yoda english

[@user-gh5nc5iz9h]

all thats missing is a mod that allows for p25 and trunking demodulation

[@livelongandprosper70]

Nobody seems to specify what frequencies and modes this will be able yo TX on after the mod..anyone ?? 🤷

[@timdixon1166]

Interesting developments..useless to me though. My radio was never recognised by the drivers. Tried all sorts of alternates etc. but just an error message returned. Spoke to Quansheng, sent videos etc. but no solution. Opted for a 50% refund. Just have to program the radio 'longhand' and will probably sell to someone who doesn't care about using a pc to program it!

[@JAKOB1977]

also had a problem getting it to be recognized. got a cheap 3 dollar baofeng cable from CN, and butchered my registry and drivers etc on PC trying to get it to work as the cable was noticed in windows, it would simply not trigger that "upload" button in Quansheng program, when trying to load the bin file... finally concluded that the cable was semidefective. and was not align correct when it was molded so the pin didnt went far enough into the K5, a hobbyknife later it worked after cutting soem of the plastic away and now fully noticed in portable radio program and Chirp and the update program. so what I thought was a driver issue, was in fact hardware, as that Baofeng cable did not go down enough into the Quansheng.

[@anusarsehole]

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?