Is The Quansheng UV-K5 The Best NEW Two Way Radio?
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Want To Listen To Aircraft? DON'T Buy These! Quansheng UV-K5
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Yep, I would Agree. Not too hot on the AM Aircraft band. Better use my trusty old AOR AR8000 , never let's me down 😀
Copy that, I'll stick with my baby Icom R2 for Airband AM, which scans the memories so fast! Only my Kenwood F7's can match it.
@@richard180961 I miss my AOR 1500E which was another amazingly fast scanner of memories and VFOs listening in on mobiles back in the day was peak fun : )
Shocking on Aircraft band! sounds like the discriminator has been detuned. Dreadfully distorted. I do tours at my local airport on historical aircraft, I found I could hear the aircraft reasonably well in my immediate vicinity if I removed the antenna and stuck my finger in the antenna socket, I recommend that if you want to listen to aircraft seriously, get an airband scanner.
It would be nice if you could do some dedicated videos on how to use every aspect of the radio, maybe if you set up a related channel for doing demos, like Mark Felton has for different topics
It also has a hiden menu (Hold the PTT button and the button directly below it, while turning the rafdio on) where you can enable TX on some bands. And a startup password option, which can keep people from playing with your toys. 😁
Which bands can you enable TX on? Wondering if it will allow transmit on 477mhz via the secret menu ?
@@Ben_3113 350 and 200
@@Ben_3113 you get 6 extra menus, so the menu will go to 57 and not just 51.
* 350TX (ON/OFF)
* F-Lock (438, 430, GB, CE, FCC, OFF)
* 200TX (ON/OFF)
* 500TX (ON/OFF)
* 350EN (ON/OFF)
* SCREN (ON/OFF)
It can actually transmit on all bands except the first two. There's a "secret" menu you can access when turning it on.
Please tell!
😮This is all we need is some tit keying up on airband ...
Just bought one and it'll arrive in a few weeks. US license holder since 1979 or so. Sold my ICOM 2AT about 30 years ago and have done nothing amateur since, although I kept my license active. Super thanks for getting me interested again. Like everybody else, I really enjoy your videos.
Get back on the air. 😇. Lots of great chaps to mingle with 😅
Thank you so much Mark!
Great show again, not bad for the price, seems to do the job, got myself a Baofeng juc jet uv-5R E , and for the price does exactly what it says on the tin , thanks again for your work and love it, in the process of trying to get a license but time and money. I’m on Cb ssb 26 CT-48-70 . Cheers again hope to speak on the Air one day soon.💯🇬🇧🍻👍
Excellent review Lewis, good to see you out and about on the radio and some beautiful views from your spot up on the hill there!
Cheers mate!
Thanks for the video Lewis. I had a Quansheng UV-R50 for 3 years and for it's low cost has performed really well. I have a K5 on the way and will be interested to see if it performs as well.
I was looking at one the other day, was tempted but I was unsure. Your review will help me decide
Just got one to play with (anysecu brand), so far it seems to have better front end than my UV-9S+. When tuned to my local fire department radio, the UV-9S is constantly breaking squelch for signals at different frequencies even with the squelch maxed (nothing on SDR waterfall at same freq). This radio programmed to the same frequency only breaks squelch when someone is talking. Having airband is also pretty cool, might be fun to take to an airshow to listen to pilots and ground crews.
Just ordered one a few days ago. Really curious to see how well it does on civilian air band monitoring. Thanks for the info Lewis!!
Thanks for the included graphics! Great review.
I'm very happy you did this video on this mobile, I just purchased it myself and wondered how well the stock aerial was going to do. It appears to do well enough for what it is and to pick up 4m seems like the icing on the cake? If it doesn't have spurious emissions like the baofeng it's already a winner. Which is why I picked this one as the uv-5 replacement.
YT channel recently put a video up doing a side by side of the Quansheng UV-5K & the Baofeng uv5r on the bench, it was very clean on the scope compared to the uv5r
I was looking at this today because of price and airband.Thanks for great review.
Great to see a review video and this little radio looks like great value for money, I'm sure it will sell well, you can apparently open up the tx on it with a hidden menu, use that with caution you might bring down one of the planes Rog 😂 great video and I'm glad you didn't get rammed by that thing with horns.
Thanks Lewis. Natty little handheld to throw in the travel bag. Enjoyed the series on the monitoring stations and antennas. :-)
A YT channel recently put a video up doing a side by side of the Quansheng UV-5K & the Baofeng uv5r on the bench, very clean on the scope the uv5r was as we know dismal to an extent.
Going to pick one up (don't know why, I don't need it, I just need it)
Yep, Mine is in the post. Just curious to have a play, and check out the XT emmissions over my Baofeng.
@@richard180961 The UV5R showed harmonics spurious emissions the Quansheng UV-5K was surprisingly very clean. Its too cheap not to buy one but do we need 5 or so handsets 😂
"I don't need it, I just need it"...huh? Just like a cheap hooker.
Hi Lewis, I grabbed two of these after seeing your video plus one other… Seems pretty straightforward to program almost everything that you might need straight through the keyboard on the radio. The biggest downfall that I see at this point, although based on my experience so far isn’t as bad as I thought, is that if you charge using the USB-C port, whatever transformers they’re using inside the radio create so much noise that it makes it unusable on 70 cm and also causes significant interference on 2 m. Why this isn’t as bad as I initially thought, is because for just monitoring, the battery will last over 12 hours. In fact, today I have been running it all day with the back light on, it’s been running for 12 hours on scan mode, and it still has three of the four battery bars showing. So I am impressed by the ease of programming, and also by the battery life, but disappointed that USB charging makes the radio basically unusable during charging. I haven’t checked thoroughly, but I believe the wall charging cradle does not create any Interference at all. Perhaps you can do a follow up video to corroborate my findings? :-)
Love it rog. Great to see reviews again. Keep it up 👍
Thanks rog
I haven't looked into this radio yet, but I wonder what sort of unlocks might be available. Almost certainly there's a way to enable AM on any band, along with a wider TX range.
The unlock is easier than the baofeng.
Very interesting radio. Seems really good. I will have to add one to my collection.
Love the thumbs up 😁
As a follow up Lewis, try this radio on the Egzumer firmware update... It powers this handsome handheld with AM an SSB, plus it makes possible to see a spectrum analyzer....
You can also liberate the radio to transmit on all frequencies, but this is not advised.... However, this is the best radio since sliced bread! I use it for keeping contact while making video's with multiple people, and it never let me down. Battery life is fantastic, after a days work still more than 80% left!
Love it rog! Good to see you playing radio!
Thanks rog
The UV-5R has a direct conversion receiver, and opened squelch in another ham video while other HTs stayed quiet from an HT under test on another band. I'm generally suspicious of the inexpensive radios because they just compromise on so much. I've carried another brand HT since the mid 90s and it called itself 3 band because it transmitted on them, plus wideband receive for the other, near-continuous coverage it had.
Mine is in the post, something a little different from a Baofeng to check out. There seems to be a bit of a buzz online about them. Looks like a good size display screen. Thank's for the great review. Will be interested to see if it will work with "chirp" it appears to be a similar cable type. Looking forward to checking it out.
Such a great channel mate, nice review!
The receiver audio sounds pretty good. Note to viewers: he's testing it on simplex only so you get a good idea how it works with the included rubber duck.
“As we can see here, the terrain is quite hilly”
To me that’s a small slope.
I second what was said over the air about your channel and what you do. Your efforts reflect, great work Lewis.
that was one i am looking at. hear in the US we have 1.25 meter ham band 222Mhz even a FM repeater buy me. but no transmit. the problems you have with receiving is very common on that type of radio. most scanners are super heterodyne and offer much receive.some HT are super het type. love the extra video in this test as well. the ram was great and the plains in the air and the nice view. I am in Boston NY,USA and was great looking at the country. nice test on that radio HT. 73's
Great review sir.
Looks like a decent unit for the money, albeit with a lot of frequency band coverage that is probably irrelevant to most people. I bought a SenhaiX 8600 off the strength of your review and found it great value for money. In fact, on airband, it has pretty much the best audio quality of any unit I have, which includes a Yaesu FT5D and various dedicated airband scanners!
Totally agree!
Great video Lewis, would be interested if you could get a UV-17 to compare this with. Same sort of price, and maybe the 2023 update to the UV5R.
Hey Lewis, congratulations for the great review!
Wondering if you could help us dive deeper into its air band receiving capabilities although you said upfront it's not a scanner. Perhaps it can do better like when you switched to another antenna you had on 4/6 meters.
Anyhow, 73's and keep it up. 📻🎙️🗺️🌐🛩️
A product I've been looking at getting reviewed by one on my favourite youtubers
Hehe "quite possibly". 😊 Adding that to the good receive sensitivity test video from Hayden VK7HH.
I'm curious as to the parasitic drain on the battery when not in use. I have a Quansheng tg-6a, the last time I charged it was march of 2016, just turned it on today and it still has 100% charge and works great. I have others that would be completely drained after sitting unused for a few weeks.
it seems to work great. I have one coming to play with. thanks for the demon. :)
Thanks Lewis. Nice views from that location!
Hi Lewis....was hoping you were going to tune into MCR Approach freq up there so I could see how it performed on airband......thats the only thing I would buy the radio for.....
I know you said its not as good as a scanner on airband but in what way.....a lot of people would be very interested.
Keep up the good work Lewis.
Stay tuned tonight 19:30 Nick
I don't have a radio but I did have a CB radio back in the day I'm retired now still interested
looks/sounds a good radio - the market is really missing an affordable APRS handheld tho - really strugglign to find something to replace my THD7 with built in APRS/TNC.
I’ve been messing around with an HT called the HG-UV98. Little bit of problems for me on APRS side of it, but others have had better luck.
Great price and looks well built.
Thanks Fred
Looks good sounds grate Lewis keep up the good work 2e0liu
Nice unusual design dual band set with broadcast
Nice to see one the Gallagher brothers from oasis is into amateur radio 😅
Thanks 👍
Any idea what the battery life is like? Would like to use this as a work PMR but would need to be on for about 9 hours with light use
Both sound nice audio and get the job done
Good review.
Does anyone know if there is a way to display a single VFO or group of memories instead of two simultaneously?
Just received my Quansheng UV-K5. Intersting to note that it has Bands. Some good info here in your video. As you mention, some of the bands are AM only, so of no use, other than the aircraft band, on F2 which does appear to switch to AM if enabled. F5 does not. After doing a little research on UK Radio Scanner, noticed the F4 band 174-349.9975 MHz does contain a mix of AM & FM. FM appears roughly between 177.00-191.00 Mhz. As for F7, there appears to be nothing listed. I also noted that upon attempting to enter PMR channels, the radio will not accept a direct frequency entry, as it will round up/down, unless the frequency step is first set, 6.25 Khz. Selection of the A/B is somewhat fiddly, as there is no dedicated button to switch between the two, having to hit F first each time, buttons are small and fiddly.Also VFO/MR button. Also noted that it does not work with "Chirp" Unlike my faithful Baofeng UV-82 One of the best in my opinion. Good points, yes it does have a 200 memory storage capacity.
"I also noted that upon attempting to enter PMR channels, the radio will not accept a direct frequency entry, as it will round up/down, unless the frequency step is first set, 6.25 Khz." Thanks for this I had the same issue but was being dumb and couldn't figure out why it was not accepting direct inputs. I also failed to find a quick answer online so I thought to check this comment section and you came to my aid. No one just writes tech advice these days and I spend half my time looking at youtube vids lasting way too long or searching comment sections, it was easier 20 years ago when people just wrote things online. Thanks again.
No Chirp? Ughhhh
It works on Chirp
Thanks for the Video. Do you know how to enable the 70cm Band ?
Lewis,
I am no expert, but am looking for a two way radio (handset) to communicate with a second handset in a forestry location to communicate between two people.
Can you recommend a handset and set up?
Cheers,
Callum
Lots of videos dropping on this radio of late. Scored one before the cheap Amazon sellers sold out today.
Still waiting for an SSB transceiver on a chip. It can’t be that difficult to do if most of it is software defined. A £25 dual band SSB portable would definitely be more interesting than lots of extra RX only bands.
There is if you can still get one, Kenwood F7E in the UK or F6A US version is a triple bander both have wide band receive LSB, USB, and fine tune, I've got two I love them so much but they were £280 a pop and that was along time ago! Both can be Mars modded for extended TX.
@@mybrightonKenwood TH-78 too
@ringway - Can you program it with CHIRP? Thank you
How many frequencies does the memory hold and does it work with chirp?
Is the crossband (transponder) function VHF/UHF present?
if this could receive 800MHz and decode digital P25 that would be great
The backlight on this radio stays on while scanning and there seems to be no way to turn that off. This irks me so much.....Such an oversight. I tweeted Quansheng about it. They said the demand is low so they won't be providing firmware updates for now but will let us know later.
Each time I go to the website and click on their DOWNLOADS icon my Avast Free antivirus software goes nuts and blocks things. I contacted the seller and they told my there was no problem. It was probably that my anti-virus just doesn't like to download executable code. However, I download executables all the time without Avast going berserk. And I hadn't even gotten to any downloads. The alarms went off from simply clicking on the downloads page icon. I realize that others have downloaded the software without complaint, but I figure it's best to trust Avast. Have alarms gone off when others tried to access the downloads page? As I have 2 of these radios, and CHIRP doesn't seem to support any UV-K5 under any brand name, I'm more than curious how to program them.
I may have missed it, will it transmit on the 220MHZ ham band?
I have an older model quansheng, and I like it better than my UV-S9plus even though it scans slower than the UV-S9+.
Recently gpt one of these after seeing your video. Mine works on receive fine but the TX harmonics are truly aweful. For example pmr ch7 hits ch13and others making it unusable as it will cause havoc on other users. Is this a known issue or have i received a dud?
im seeing alot people are complaining about the programing cables driver and cant seem to find them.
Despite the failings, USB-C Charging and Scrambler makes it worth it for £26, sounds ok.
Certainly worth a punt at that price, if for no other reason than a throw in the bag radio. Looks a lot nicer that the UV-5R too.
I have a Quansheng 2m/70cm I bought about 8 years ago, but never really used it much.
I hate how the knob sticks out so far , hard to put into pouches and holsters. I'm sticking with the baofeng. Can also get AA battery packs for emergencies for a feng.
Thanks
Thanks so much!
I've been out of the hobby for many years but kept my licence valid and the more videos of yours I watch the more I feel the urge to buy new equipment and get back into it. 73 2E1FBK
Are these radios clean on the Spectrum
Its just the same as a socotran or an abree They have amazing air band rx
Does this have the same antenna connector as the baofeng? I'm thinking about getting a signal stick for it.
It does
Nice
What about harmonics?
Good value, but that squelch tail makes its unbearable for me. Thanks for the review
MURS? I can't receive or even program this model to the MURS freqs. Don't know how to expand. Stops at 151.800.
It looks a nice radio where is it strongest point is it the ham channels
as mr duck says its a nice QUAKING SPOT ..jeff
Is it considered QRM if the ram gets you while transmitting?
QRA/M, either 😂
basically a reskinned og uv5r with a jailbreak
Arguably better audio, wider RX range.
I'd say a better radio, another chap did a review and the harmonics were definitely acceptable (except for 222MHz tx)
Nothing like a re fresh
@@jamess1787 can I tune my Ryzen 5700x down to 222mhz to listen in?
@@crf80fdarkdays if you're to talking about a graphics card, then no. You need a radio capable of tuning into 220MHz, like one of these fancy radios.
Definitely recommend reaching out to a local amateur club and inquire with them about the hobby.
This radio just got interesting to me because of the hacked firmware. I know the receive is junk but.. I want to test the hacked firmware for myself.
Thanks as always James
Hi can these cheap radiosp transmit and receive from my home base cb??
No
I have been to Manchester a few times and it rained every time. I would drive back to The Wirral and it would be sunny here. One of the trips was for an outdoor concert and it rained horrifically for the whole day but most people had no waterproof coats. Do you guys just say sod it and get wet?
It rains in Leeds more and Manchester isn't full of plastic scousers so I know where I'd rather be. 😉
Hey the title of the video has the "K" and "5" backwards. Might make it not show up in searches.
Thanks Christian!
Shame it won't trasmit on Australian CB (477 mhz), The boafang UV-5R does
Well, actually you can!
Just turn off the radio, hold down the PTT and the first button down below the PTT,then power it on. You will get extra settings for Freq-Lock and enable 350MHz/200MHz/500MHz Tx easily. So if you turn on the 500TX,you can enjoy UHF-CB now.
Go try it!
DE BA7MQN 73
@@MFWT
Thank you
@@MFWT
Does the setting persist or do you have to do this every time you switch on?
@@Ben_3113 Just do it once. But I had learnt that the 1.25m Band on UV-K5 might not work well. (Due to the hardware design, the output power may be extreeeeeeemely small.)
I live in China which is belong to ITU Region 3, so I can not transmit on the 1.25m Band.Honestly, I turn on the 200TX just for fun and nothing else. The only thing I can listen to on 200MHz band might be the wireless microphones.
DE BA7MQN 73 :)
@@MFWT
Ah ok so the 77cm band might be worse then?
Is it waterproof?
Which 1 is better This 1 or the bueofsng
Oh cool...
Is there a handie that does 4/6m 2m and 70cms, at any price.
Thing is, to make decent use of 4 or 6m you'd probably want SSB as well - I would love a decent dual bander that would do SSB on 2m and 70cm but it seems like the closest thing to a handheld you can get that will do the job is something like an FT818 or an IC705
@@m7dgz I remember the IC-705 being promised 4m in the original spec, which did not happen. Let's hope whatever replaces the FT-818 fixes this.
if not mistaken this is beta version...cheaply released and sold....2nd version has better speaker, different screen & latest firmware
The way to use these for airband is to program in a frequency and just listen to that avoiding the scanning function, maybe if it has a dual watch function program another one in and it will be fine. If you limit the number of channels you program in and just scan those that will also work to a degree. Entire band scans are pointless on these so don’t use it for that.
Still using my modded kenwood th-78A to this day, but this is nice for backup
Where can I get an anysecu hat?
I don’t think they’re for sale
Can it be programmed with chirp?
Had this radio for a week now.... functions all ok.... biggest drawback (which nobody is addressing) is the aweful audio quality... am/fm hands down the worst radio i have for audio quality.... thought it was my radio but listening to other CZcams vids they all seem the same to varying degrees.... back to baofeng as far as im concerned
I picked up two of these radios, struggling to get it to work. Instructions does not explain a lot in the USA 🇺🇸
Do you think these are being used in Ukraine as a make do thing ? You did mention scrambler
Hack ability it's miles better than a baofeng. In reliability and its lack of user friendly abilities it often sucks. Very hit an miss with programming cables and you can't charge it via usb-c unless your charger cable is charge only and not a data cable
The question on everyone's lips: How well does it work when attached to a Wullenweber array?
Find out tonight! 19:30!
Does it work at 446 mhz?
Yes it works. But I do not recommend this model. He is very bad at the reception. Baofeng is far superior in quality from this point of view.
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