Quansheng UV-KF HF Shortwave Listening Mod!

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@rl2109 19 күн бұрын

Catching up on your older vids; I recently bought a pair of Quanshengs and I'm just now getting familiar with them. I appreciate your instructional videos! Keep doing what you love! 73, every day! - KN4KZT

@temporarilyoffline 18 күн бұрын

Glad you're getting caught up! Thanks for watching!

@KS0JD Ай бұрын

Everyone does need a Baofeng. It gives you something to throw at the wall when things are going bad! Thanks for the video Steve! 73

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

Today is one of those days

@cornbread-KO5RN Ай бұрын

HAY COWBOY 🤠 HEART AINT THE ONLY THING IN TEXAS , LOOKS LIKE WE JUST GOTTA HAVE THAT LAST PIECE OF BAD WEATHER BEFORE THE END OF THE SEASON 🤷‍♂️👋😎

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

I am done with weather!

@ronwolenski-n8wcr Ай бұрын

While you were putting it back together I was yelling at the screen that you forgot the port cover!

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

You've always got my back Ron, thanks!

@cornbread-KO5RN Ай бұрын

YEP , more and more it’s becoming a younger man’s hobby , speaking with fellas that do testing they said approximately 80% younger fellas are testing AND PASSING , it’s out with the old and in with the new 😂 No more 100’ towers and aluminum tube yagis 40’ long with rotors that can turn a ton , they’ll always be a few out there that have the room and resources for well I hate using the term old school but alternative way of getting the job done , I’m trying to invite both world’s to my son giving a rounded outlook on radio operations . 🤷‍♂️

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

I'd love to have a tower... can't cart it around.

@cornbread-KO5RN Ай бұрын

@@temporarilyoffline May have to put it under the Rainbow 🌈 😎

@victorcharlie7491 Ай бұрын

You can take short trips all over the world on shortwave, interesting, Tnx Man!

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

Its a neat little toy!

@cornbread-KO5RN Ай бұрын

This is something to do 😂🍺🍺while I’m talking on my base , how the heck can they do it , $17.00 bucks new , can they get any cheaper 🤷‍♂️👋

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

$17 might be overpriced ;-)

@cornbread-KO5RN Ай бұрын

@@temporarilyoffline Yea I know what you mean , I said the same thing when I got my first lap dance 😂🍺🍺

@WECB640 Ай бұрын

Great mod. That vibrato is probably due to an inductor in the PLL. It's "microphonic" like a tube's grid could be. A dab of silicone might stop it. $17 is a bargain. 73

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

I thought (probably incorrectly) that ringing happened all the time, not with physical movement?

@WECB640 Ай бұрын

@@temporarilyoffline If it "warbles" only on FT8, that's a function of the modulation on FT8 and it's normal. If it happens on SSB as you strike the side of the HT, then it's microphonic in nature. You'll hear it more clearly by injecting a carrier (like from the NanoVNA on a short wire) and then tapping the HT to see if it warbles. 73

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

@@WECB640 I grok the concept, but I'll add(for clarity for future readers) that it's not only FT8 warbling. It's not a "great" SWL option, it's worth every penny you pay for it though.

@AZREDFERN Ай бұрын

I wish they would update the VX6 with SSB. Because it’s so good at receiving HF and shortwave AM. But all SSB sounds nightmarish in AM mode. I thought about getting a PL990, but that’s another $270, and a giant brick to carry around.

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

There are a couple of decent priced options on Radioddity.com, check out my discount code in the description if you find a good one.

@aidanm7225 Ай бұрын

Try fagci reborn firmware way better recieve with si4732 then cec or ijv firmwares, chirp module has support for all functions and can specify what chip to use in vfo so no seperate functions or menus

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

That's pretty sweet!

@hazer72 Ай бұрын

Saw the speaker rip coming lol

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

I knew it was there too... just got excited.

@bitemykrank1970 Ай бұрын

I bought one of these boards after watching Paul OM0ET fit one in a video on his channel. It looked fairly straight forward to do.....I WAS WRONG !!!! Aliexpress, in their IMPOTENT wisdom sent me a package of components not a built unit, there are 23 components on the board, 3 separate chips, various resistors and diodes and so on. They are so small, even with my largest loupe (10x magnification) I cannot see them, we are talking resistors that are less than 1mm long including their soldering pads. There is NO WAY a human could hand assemble one of these boards, the PCB itself is only 3 micron thick polymer, so any heat from a soldering iron burns it instantly, the components are so small they melt on contact with an iron and IF you were able to hold your hand steady enough to do surface mount soldering, there is NO INSTRUCTION SHEET SUPPLIED and none of the components other than the 16 pin chip have any numbers on them. There are 6 resistors on a backing sheet, all different values and they are all EXACTLY the same colour and size with no markings. 5 diodes the same way on another backing sheet. I doubt many people could fit the completed unit themselves, it's far fiddlier than it appears to be in the video, but I'm 100% certain there is NO ONE ALIVE that could do it from the parts they sent me.....If you can get one of these radios with this board already fitted, snap it up quick, there wont be many of them available I wouldn't think.

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

I have always stayed away from aliexpress - the long shipping times and the question of "what will I actually get in my order" just makes me nope.

@bitemykrank1970 Ай бұрын

@@temporarilyoffline Seems to be a logical course of action, i wouldn't use them either, but Amazon don't do Paypal, so I cannot buy from them.

@DonzLockz Ай бұрын

It looks like mine, V.1. I think. However, mine didn't come with instructions, so I need to find them. :)

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

what is this "instructions" word you speak? must be some aussie slang.

@heitorvrb Ай бұрын

Do a comparison with a CCrane!

@temporarilyoffline Ай бұрын

I bet the CCrane would blow it away on reception! When I get one, if I haven't given the quansheng away I'll do that. The CCrane already wins on usability without even looking.