How to Manually Program the Quansheng UV-K5 | Easy to follow!

[@chriscichocki61]

Just what I needed Got me started which is what I needed.. Any bells and whistles or short cuts will come with Time and More Videos.. Thank You..

[@tyreburster]

A very useful tutorial. I used this to help me programme my UV-K6; not exactly the same but I got the idea very quickly and my radio is now successfully programmed, complete with channel names. Thankyou.

[@OntheMicwithMike]

Thank you for the kind feedback. Enjoy the radio! 73 all the best.

[@mva1985]

so much simpler than stepping through the manual... thank you!

[@Techy125]

Great help with the entire repeater programming. Thank you Sir!

[@brianveitenheimer4492]

Pulled mine out of the box and hit up your video. Got me on to the basics of the menu and settings. Very well discribed. Thanks

[@davidniquot6423]

Tip : If you do not know, after pressing the menu key, you can enter the submenu number with the keypad for direct access.

[@michaelavery3742]

Another easy and informal video great video Mike

[@OntheMicwithMike]

cheers twin brother lol

[@f6eju]

Mike a big TKS to you. Being an old timer and due to low prices on this device I bought one. I was still at the time of the Icom IC2 E....... simplex duplex vfo no memory.....Hi. you have been to me a great help. I am so able to enjoy my new toy. Best 73 jean claude F6EJU

[@1975adam]

Thank you very much. I just got my uv8 yesterday, and it was a big help.

[@acestudioscouk-Ace-G0ACE]

Thanks Mike, I have a couple of these radios and had worked out how to do this but you make it so much easier. Great radio at the price, shame the audio isn't as good as their other radios.

[@OntheMicwithMike]

I’ve noticed over the past couple of days Quansheng have released a Baofeng UV5R clone, the Quansheng UVR5. It looks very similar to the UV-5R in looks and button placement with the nice big Quansheng screen with a blue backlight. From others who’ve bought it say it’s got a much better receive and a better internal speaker. I’ve been tempted to get one.

[@acestudioscouk-Ace-G0ACE]

@@OntheMicwithMike Thanks Mike, I'll have a look at this one. People say the speaker is poor in the K5. This may not be the case. It could be that the receive is so wideband and without sufficient filtering to eliminate the hiss. This then sounds like poor audio.

[@nevadanomad]

Thanks Mike, easy straight forward tutorial with an excellent Ham Operator giving back to our community ! Best Regards from all of us Lone Star State Ham Operator's. 73's

[@OntheMicwithMike]

That's what it's all about. I'm no expert by any stretch but my aim is to help out where I can with what I've been taught. Many thanks for the kind comments, very much appreciated indeed. All the best 73'.

[@rickvan102]

Your video helped in figuring out how to switch the VFO from AM to FM. Menu item 47 and N/W item 10. How to use the menu was a big help. Thanks

[@kb5elv]

One thing you didn't mention, and perhaps didn't know: All menus and the menu options can be directly accessed via the number pad. For instance, to activate a transmitted CTCSS tone of 88.5 hz, you could press menu, 7, menu, 08, menu, with 8 being the position of 88.5 in the list of tones. (Pretty sure, it's 8.) Anyway, access the frequency shift direction with menu, 8, menu, then 0 for simplex, 1 for plus, 2 for minus, then menu to confirm. To program the memory, menu, 13, menu, the channel number 031, menu twice. Could save a crap ton of scrolling. But all the menus are so arranged, so if you can remember where in the structure your most often used settings are, programming is even faster. Also great for blind ops for probably obvious reasons.

[@JxH]

Excellent intro for new owners, thank you.

[@ve2jgs]

Very well explained. Thanks so much.

[@thinmizzy365]

Thanks for the video. Cheers from Southern California 🤙

[@alisterwest6987]

Recently subscribed, perfectly explained, thank you.

[@01MONSTER10]

Thanks for the very clear explanation doubled down as that repeater is probably my closest. I've just bought this uv-k5 out of curiosity so everything you referenced is completely alien to me (step, wide narrow offset etc) I do want to replace the antenna to get some better gain? (if that's the right terminology). Anyway appreciate the video, thx.

[@jhartmac100]

Thank you, while some may think its not necessary or accustomed to these radios some of us are new to them like me lol

[@OntheMicwithMike]

I appreciate that, thank you.

[@TWS12345]

Can you direct me to where I need to go to learn all about the frequency and the setting please, this was a great vid to watch for a newbie (me)👍

[@OntheMicwithMike]

There's a website and an app to accompany it which is free on iOS and android called 'Repeater book'. You can search for all the repeaters in your area. Hope that helps.

[@juliusklein4284]

Thank you. Fast help!

[@bikeham]

A cheat sheet would be awesome

[@peterjones6357]

Thanks for the video. What antenna have you got on the UV-K5 please? Many thanks

[@OntheMicwithMike]

I have the Sainsonic INF-641 which came with a Baofeng GT3-TP. Found the SWR to be the lowest of all the cheap bundled antennas that come with the cheap Chinese radios. 73’.

[@newby2224]

hey Mike. I just bought this radio as an ex Pilot I just want to listen to Aircraft....Can you please advise best antenna to achieve this? and any other info that works

[@OntheMicwithMike]

Hiya, for air band this radio isn’t the greatest. The antenna that comes with it unfortunately isn’t really tuned for the air band and most of these antennas made for the handhelds aren’t really made for anything other than 2m and 70cm. It will receive a little but a dedicated small portable air band radio would be much better in fairness.

[@meggalavk3ktt]

thanks great simple and to the point.

[@73dem6vmo7]

Hi. Thank you for the video, just one issue, as soon as I press the PTT button I get "TX DISABLED", I tried all remedies I found on YT, but nothing helped. Any advice, please? Thank you. 73, M6VMO.

[@OntheMicwithMike]

Just a quick thought, within Chirp (if it is where you programmed it) there can be with some radios a TX enable and disable option within the sidebar when you have downloaded info from the radio. Have a look there, as the box for TX enable might be unticked. Worth a look at least. 73'

[@paulcarcamo6992]

❤ It was a very good video for myself thank you very much

[@David-km8in]

Hi, thanks for the video. I have just ordered two of the these radio's. One for me and one for a friend. He is not computer literate so he will have to manually program it himself. I am looking for the programming software for it at the moment, because Chirp doesn't support it. All the best David M0DUU

[@ianaero8634]

There is a modified chirp for these radios now, but I believe only if you are running the modified firmware.. 2E0IXN

[@LosPeregrinos51]

@@ianaero8634 It works fine with CHIRP using out of the box firmware - I connect with my old BaoFeng cable.

[@6vaxN2masks]

I just got one, can't figure it out. How do I scan for spies and space stations?

[@OntheMicwithMike]

You can’t :) you can tune into the ISS ham radio repeater though.

[@Darkwoods77]

Quick question, can you manually change the channel to name it? Like ( repeater) example.

[@OntheMicwithMike]

There’s no way of naming it in the radio menu at all. But if you want to change the display from frequency to an alphanumeric name, then you can within the menu. But like I said, you can’t actually name it, that’s done on programming software.

[@Darkwoods77]

@@OntheMicwithMike Thanks for the info.

[@markwilliam3162]

Great info thanks

[@dancahur4583]

excellent

[@KrisDruoid]

Once a channel is saved, Can you edit all the parameters of the channel in case you got something wrong? Or do you have to start all over again?

[@OntheMicwithMike]

You’d have to do it all over again. Unless you connect it up to the programming software on a computer.

[@PinetoBonilha]

Very good and didactic video, but I would like to know how to name the channels manually, I have been trying to program my radio via PC but the connection to the radio fails. Grateful

[@OntheMicwithMike]

As mentioned in the video you can’t name channels manually. Only by computer and software unfortunately.

[@x_manx9693]

on 7:00, how do you change the name of the saved channel without the software?

[@OntheMicwithMike]

You can't.

[@TruckDriver326]

where can I get the software from. will the cable from a Kenwood HT radio work.

[@OntheMicwithMike]

Software is on the Quansheng website. And if the pins on the Kenwood cable match this radio there’s no harm in trying it out.

[@melaniejacky6544]

👍 👍 👍 👍 Best 73 from Normandy France Mike ! Jacky 14FRS119

[@OntheMicwithMike]

Thanks Jacky, same to you my friend! Hopefully speak soon on the air :) Best 73'

[@ragheadand420roll]

Thank you

[@rickymcdaniel6708]

i have my gmrs license. i have this radio. i programed it for GMRS frequencies, but every time i transmit it says disable and dosnt transmit . any help ?

[@OntheMicwithMike]

That sounds like it’s frequency locked on that particular band. There’s a few videos online showing how to unlock it, that should unlock it for the band you’re wanting to use.

[@kb5elv]

Yep. It's probably locked to ham bands only. Try this. Turn it off, then with the PTT pressed with the top programmable side key, power on. You'll be dropped into the first of several hidden menus (number 52, if you're keeping track). Likely you'll see it's set to FCC. Press 0, then the Menu key, then cancel. This opens up 136-174 and 400-480 MHZ continuous transmit range. That should make it work on the GMRS channels.

[@rickymcdaniel6708]

@@kb5elv it worked

[@timwalsh7410]

How do you copy what you programmed to another radio❓(I have two)

[@OntheMicwithMike]

You can use the air copy feature but that’s very time consuming as I believe you can only send one frequency at a time. The best and quickest way, is with the programming software on a computer if you have the USB data cable. Then you can save the contents of one, to the computer and copy it straight over to another.

[@basebilljr07]

The air copy I believe sends up to 120 memory channels

[@rollarolla6179]

How to setting frequency to repeater because i try setting but disable....

[@OntheMicwithMike]

I don’t understand? Your radio might not be open to that band.

[@happydays425]

Can i listen to uk cb radio frequencies?

[@OntheMicwithMike]

No. This radio is a VHF/UHF radio with Airband. It doesn’t cover the UK CB frequencies unless you modify the firmware for it which is readily available online but you’d be better off buying a multi band shortwave receiver.

[@happydays425]

@@OntheMicwithMike Thanks for the reply. I've modded the radio it covers 18 to 1300 now but when I put the frequency for channel 19 or any other channel it doesn't pick up anything at all.

[@OntheMicwithMike]

@@happydays425 for CB and general HF, you'd need some height. Take it onto a hilltop or high ground, which should make a difference. But I wouldn't transmit on them, two reasons... first, the radio isn't designed for HF at all. It may receive okay, but transmitting on it will eventually do the radio some damage. Secondly and more importantly, you'll no doubt transmit harmonics as you'd be transmitting out of band that the radio was designed for. More than likely causing interference to the amateur radio bands. Other than that, enjoy the radio :)

[@happydays425]

@@OntheMicwithMike Thanks for your help I really appreciate it have a great day.

[@asdreww]

How do you name the channels?

[@OntheMicwithMike]

If you’d watched the video the answer was there :)

[@asdreww]

@@OntheMicwithMike I feel dumb... I can't see how/where you enter a channel description!

[@asdreww]

I can see how to switch the display between channel, frequency, or name, but how do you actually set/enter a custom name for the channel? I can't find this option in the menu anywhere.

[@OntheMicwithMike]

@@asdreww Because you can't do it on the radio at all.

[@AdamosDad]

73's🎙KD9OAM🎧📻📡

[@jkyontz]

Thank you so much. 73 de AA6JY