The UV-K5 ISN'T Better than the UV-5R?

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00:00 Introduction
00:31 The UV-K5
05:38 Frequency Scanner
08:10 Scanner
07:50 More Features
08:44 Menu
11:32 Weaknesses
13:21 Receiver Testing
18:00 Conclusion

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@w1btr Жыл бұрын

One big update for everyone, the Quansheng UV-K5 is now NATIVELY supported in CHRIP-NEXT! No Developer mode / python script download work needed.

@daytona1212 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but not all features that are in the original software is not available in chirp, like setting a password.

@user-em6vi6sj7p 11 ай бұрын

CHRIP-NEXT runs in windows 10 64 bit. No good for me. my CPS's are on a Win 7 32 bit laptop. Because most of the early 2000's CPS for LMR like HYT 700 and Kirisun's etc i have, all use 32 bit windows. I'm thinking of setting up a laptop with linux i can use Chirp next on

@w1btr 11 ай бұрын

@daytona1212 this is true, but those settings will remain set even if programmed with chirp, so for quick additions and removals of memories will be helpful

@daytona1212 11 ай бұрын

@@w1btr Yes, I agree.

@JAKOB1977 11 ай бұрын

you can check the values. Baofeng 5R sensitivity. 145 MHz 20 dB quieting was measured at -125 dBm (0.13 μV), while 432 MHz this valueamounts -131 dBm (0.06 μV). 432 MHz Around the same as kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3aVlah8ZZx2r7c antennas can play a huge factor for percieved reception, just as span can and how wide a reception an HT is optimised for... K5 is weirdly diverse in its frequency and you can even mod it for 18Mhz to 1.3Ghz thats a weird fish..

@KiwiCatherineJemma 11 ай бұрын

Please turn off the background music. I'm trying to listen to what you are saying plus what the radio says, (on those occasions when it talks) and yet there is a thumping beat background music fighting against both of you. Great video, but PLEASE, I want to hear YOUR VOICE telling me information, and whatever voice prompts are coming from the radio. If I wanted to listen to music, I'd go elsewhere. (Well maybe still on KZbin, but a musicvideo, not a tutorial show-and-tell about a new Amateur Transceiver). Thanks

@Kieblosky 4 ай бұрын

Que delicada

@missionoutdoorsITM 9 ай бұрын

It'd be a nice video if I could hear you over the booming background music!

@JRSGandara 11 ай бұрын

Nice review. The music is unnecessary and for us non English speakers ads a bit of difficult in understanding. Thank you!

@KevinErickson Жыл бұрын

Lucas. Nice to see some new content popping up. This is a great review video for an interesting radio with all it's features. I'm looking forward to more content in the future. Keep up the good work.

@w1btr Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kevin!

@cliveevrall1071 11 ай бұрын

Why ruin an interesting review with mindless irritating "music. Switched off.

@lucase6407 11 ай бұрын

Because it increases the watch rate by about 25%. I don't even disagree with you, but I'm afraid you're the minority.

@edwardfletcher7790 11 ай бұрын

It's critical for the under 30's unfortunately. Their inability to pay attention without constant audio & video stimulation is ruining KZbin ☹️ That said, I don't think this is their age range subject matter. There are also plenty of less intrusive music choices without a metronome beat !! 😠

@edwardwhelan8182 10 ай бұрын

Music isn’t just annoying it is obscuring the narration. I’m out.

@mmyr123 2 ай бұрын

That is different than what I have experienced. I set up a 30 channel scan group for Sonoma California and the k-5 skips a lot of static that the uv-5r gets stuck on.

@miniwattnetwork8204 10 ай бұрын

I would like to save 11 meter CB frequencies on the memory slots but either CHIRP or Quansheng programming software seems to does not allow it.... anything I am missing?

@kenroberts4767 11 ай бұрын

With the 50 to 1300 firmware, will it receive AM mode in the 225 to 400 MHz mil air band?

@DonzLockz 11 ай бұрын

I have a few of these, great value. My biggest issue is airband. My first one had keypad issues so i had to open it up and align the silicone pad properly and all good.

@HarryHamsterChannel 11 ай бұрын

Airband will never work. No internal AM receiver. Learn the other features, first. There's a heck of a learning curve to cross.

@EagleEyez786 11 ай бұрын

Which mini antenna is that? Plz reply. Thanks

@daytona1212 Жыл бұрын

I also noticed that the frequecy san can be a little bit of frequency like you showed us, but when I connect the cable and read from the radio it's correct to the right frequency in the software. And the speaker is a problem, it's not a normal speaker. It's very flat. And I just watched a video of a guy changing the speaker, and the sound quality was way better after that upgrade.

@la7dfa 6 ай бұрын

I have updatet mine to a hacked firmware with USB (DSB) and frequency is spot on. So within 20Hz or so on 50MHz.

@wysoft Жыл бұрын

On the "for emergency use only" USB-C charging... I'm gonna guess that the radio has a rudimentary embedded charge controller that may not have ben extensively tested and they don't want to be responsible for a lithium cell explosion if the unit overcharges. I'm sure you could test for this with one of those inline USB-C meters and see if the radio is pulling current even with a fully charged battery and the radio turned off.

@HarryHamsterChannel 11 ай бұрын

When you use the USB for charging, you bypass the "smart" charger in the cradle base.

@damiengirvan5020 11 ай бұрын

So would it be safe if you used a good phone charger wall wart thing? I assume it would because I assume there would be good charging control in a good brand one of those..... I charge 2 or 3 baofengs and 2 Motorola PMR446 walkies at the same time with a cheep Chinese powered usb hub thing.... It seems to be working ok.....

@edwardfletcher7790 11 ай бұрын

@@damiengirvan5020 I really REALLY wouldn't trust my entire radio collection to a no name Chinese charger, they're notorious for missing filter & control components☹️ (I can still smell the melted plastic in my bedroom 🔥) Try to pick up a cheap Anker, Belkin or similar. The 4 port ones are often on special or secondhand as people upgrade to 6 or 8 port. Avoid anything less than 60W and without USB C PD.

@damiengirvan5020 11 ай бұрын

@@edwardfletcher7790 what is usb pd? I think this is a 7 or 8 port hub.... I think the power supply for it is more than 5 volts.... I think it's about 8 or 9 volts.... But it's still a cheap Chinese one....

@damiengirvan5020 11 ай бұрын

@@edwardfletcher7790 dude what does usb c pd mean? Is it something to do with the usb hub or the radio?

@mmyr123 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for mentioning the receiver quality. I almost ordered a couple of them.

@dougstout3663 3 ай бұрын

I wanted to find out what you had to say about the weaknesses....started watching, started getting annoyed by the elevator music, skipped to the middle...... Have you tried different firmware to see if it improves receive? Has anybody else told you the music is annoying? My baofeng uv5r is relatively deaf compared to my yaesu, my kenwood is noticably better than my yaesu. I bought a k6, haven't taken it out of the box yet. Maybe that's a nice place for it?

@krzysztofsoja5301 11 ай бұрын

You just confirmed my own observations - Bao UV5R has a substantially better receiver: more sensitive and selective one. I was suprised by the fact that with Bao I can easily open repeater some 60+ km away from me and easily recive it from inside of my house, but Quanscheng - it is deaf as wood; I mean on the Bao I can hear Quanscheng has raeched and opened repeater but Quanscheng can't hear the repeater back, even if I am outside my house, on the open field. It is disappointing. Since good reception is as important as good transmitter and antenna, I don't recommend buying UV-K5 in it's present form. It has great features, but we don't make QSO's based on features, but based on good reception and proper transmitter. 73!

@germanjohn5626 6 ай бұрын

Only problem with the Bao is that is is inherently dirty and spews out not only high and thus illegal levels of harmonics but also crap below the frequency.

@jimcombs6760 11 ай бұрын

Have you had any issues with the firmware updates to enable 800mhz?

@w1btr 11 ай бұрын

I haven't tried it personally as I have nothing 800MHz around me here and I heard the TX is terrible on 800MHz.

@rdaw33 10 ай бұрын

It works!

@irixsyncd 2 ай бұрын

I do have the same toughts on the USB charging. Makes me really nervous. I perfer the TD-H3.

@daytona1212 10 ай бұрын

I have a UV-K5 and two UV-K6 radios and they are receiving at the same strength as my boafengs. You can also installa MOD that makes it receive from 18Mhz to 1300Mhz And more nice features. Like a way better S-meter, play Pong on it and even send short messages from on K5 to another K5.

@muppetpaster 7 ай бұрын

Yep, same here (reception).

@stevelimbrick9185 11 ай бұрын

I have one of these, only 4 weeks old. It was sitting on my desk and got knocked from sitting vertical to horizontal on the desk (not knocked off the desk or anything) and doesn't work and more. Build quality doesn't seem to be a strong point.....

@HarryHamsterChannel 11 ай бұрын

They are also ugly.

@multiverse-rc 11 ай бұрын

UVK5 HAS A MIC GAIN AJUSTER ALSO

@bradrogers4281 3 ай бұрын

Just tell me what's 1 better the baofeng or this 1

@w1btr 3 ай бұрын

Hard to say. There are many different baofengs. I'd say it's slightly better than the UV-5R as far as it's vertility. The frequency counter has been useful on the field a lot.

@germanjohn5626 6 ай бұрын

looking at the harmonic content . this is so far the only chinese cheap radio I have found to be in compliance with FCC requirements.

@WhenIWasAKitten 7 ай бұрын

The receive is much better on my Baofeng UV-5RA. Better buttons and also lighter. I can barely pick up things with the Quansheng UV-K5(8). The mic is better on the Quansheng though (could just be because of being able to set mic level, have not compared both using external mic yet). Airband is also much better on my Radiwow R108 receiver. Think I'll return the Quansheng and get another Baofeng UV-5R. The novelty of tinkering with the software just isn't enough for me.

@techtinkerin 5 ай бұрын

Yes it is

@Dont_stay_long_k077 6 ай бұрын

I think sometimes its worth *coming back in the room* and remembering these cost less than a pint of Beer in The West End

@newoaknl 6 ай бұрын

But the baofeng you cannot upgrade the firmware ... and airband is on Quansheng solved with that update. I have both of them (Baofeng 5RH and UV-K 5(8))

@multiverse-rc 11 ай бұрын

JUS GOT MY UV-K5 and its way better than the UV-5R

@muppetpaster 7 ай бұрын

1:44 Reception goes all the way up to 1300 Mhz, with a little tinkering.

@gks6022 10 ай бұрын

Nice vid, background track is way too loud.

@HarryHamsterChannel 11 ай бұрын

Only one major flaw? Besides that tin can speaker causing deafness? Airband will never work. No internal AM receiver. Learn the other features, first. There's a heck of a learning curve to cross. The screen is sunlight readable, after all. Backlight kinda sucks. Times out too fast. Upgradeable firmware is the big star here. So is "CHRIP". The new model has been improved, too. ;-)

@timdixon1166 11 ай бұрын

Mine certainly had a major flaw. It is never recognised by the PC. Tried everything I could with the drivers etc.. It's always an unknown USB device. Complained to the company but could not be bothered sending it back so they refunded half the price. I just have to do everything from the radio keypad. So, there are occasionally defective units out there...

@w1btr 11 ай бұрын

Hi Tim, that would not be an issue with the radio but with the programming cable youre using. If it recognized it but failed to program it *could* be the radio, but is still more likely the cable. Which one did you get and where from? I recommend the AIOCs I sell on the website or RT system's cables, but any "UV-K5" or "Kenwood" programming cable should work. Anything that says prolific is likely to give trouble too. Note if you're plugging it in via the USB-C port, there is no expected functionality there other than charging.

@timdixon1166 11 ай бұрын

@@w1btr It's the cable that came with the radio. Windows sees the radio as an unknown device as soon as the radio is turned on. I think I have another cable somewhere and may try that but not holding out much hope.

@munkeh365 8 ай бұрын

It's significantly better. Since the original Baofeng, once they were cloned after a year or so, the filtering was absolutely terrible. They splattered all over the place. So the fact that the UV-K5 doesn't splatter, is a marked improvement.

@muppetpaster 7 ай бұрын

This is definitely NOT a Baofeng clone...

@munkeh365 7 ай бұрын

@@muppetpaster I didn't mean that it was. I was talking about the fact that not all UV-5Rs are the same. Most UV-5Rs aren't Baofeng. They're cheap copies. I have 3. One is an original and it doesn't splatter. The other 2 were cheap copies and are terrible.

@falcorthewonderdog2758 6 ай бұрын

Your video is great just please drop the background music. Very annoying

@adrianstorr2370 10 ай бұрын

Wow. How annoying and loud is that music. I really wanted to hear the review but gave up due to it being so irritating. Maybe release it again without the music.

@BlackPlague1966 11 ай бұрын

I like your video but the background music for the first 14 minutes is annoying.

@TonyLing 8 ай бұрын

I agree, If I wanted to listen to repetitive bump and grind music here over a technical video, I could do that all on my own.

@TheAbs441 10 ай бұрын

music is louder than your voice

@MrKeys57 8 ай бұрын

You talk 200mp/h, and the background music is to loud, but the radio is nice! - 73 Levi

@guidelineuk 3 ай бұрын

11 bucks each 😊buy too😂

@KA9DSL 11 ай бұрын

The only flaw it has is a piss poor AM receive, bad audio recovery. Otherwise OK. AM overload of audio above 7uv'son my IFR1200 RF service monitor generator.

@edwardfletcher7790 11 ай бұрын

AM is only barely supported thru a dodgy division hack. The chipset doesn't have native AM.

@justin6125 11 ай бұрын

I bought two of these and can confirm the receiving side of this radio sucks baofeng definitely more sensitive

@JAKOB1977 11 ай бұрын

@Dont_stay_long_k077 6 ай бұрын

Its mad that the firmware is written in Linux / But for christ sake , its taken a re write to actually download the firmware to thr radio on Chromium at best

@stevebarrett_WF3E 5 ай бұрын

Lose the background music. Other than that good info.

@amlexpertwl 8 ай бұрын

What's with the annoying music?

@Stefaon 11 ай бұрын

You have a very low voice and unfortunately I can't hear what you're saying because of the music covering it.

@SiPoSS88 5 ай бұрын

Please be quiet i cant hear the music. 😂

@n6hgg1 6 ай бұрын

Lose the music dude

@nunyabusiness3082 6 ай бұрын

It's like a effin intro to a golf ⛳ tournament 😂

@nats50 9 ай бұрын

Can't you talk a little slower?

@ansomeBob 6 ай бұрын

I gave up after a minute or so, being hearing impaired and the background "music" destroyed the narration for me.

@jeffreywyke368 5 ай бұрын

LOSE THE BACKGROUND MUSIC!!

@johnstockwell8322 10 ай бұрын

Bloody irritating music, probably a good review but can’t listen that bloody music, so 😢

@dallasjames8610 Ай бұрын

Kill the music

@honumoorea873 10 ай бұрын

Super annoying music

@RJHElias 10 ай бұрын

Another review, again a copy of all others on YT. No news new at all. Everybody has a opinion on it but what do you expect for $20? A Big Mac with a soda costs the same. Respect for the people who could make it for that money. If you don`t like it: don`t buy it, if you like it: buy it. It is a nice little rig with lots of possibillitys and give a lot of pleasure.