Ham Radio Hottie - Quansheng UV-K5(8) - Why I Like It.

I also bought 3 Quansheng radios, due to the really cool firmware mods that are out there. They've got to be selling tens of thousands of these handheld radios simply because of the non-factory firmware. Yaesu, Icom and Kenwood should take note that people ARE interested in radios that can be updated with different firmware, and the hardware sells..... I would love to have a toolkit for some of my Yaesu and Icom radios to make some more custom adjustments that I would like to see. Open source firmware can sell LOTS of hardware.

Since you're interested in SHTF, let me introduce you to the wonderful world of..satcom and all of it's pirates 😸, you can start slow with 255.550mhz (in case you don't know, those are geostationary military sattelites that have no security so russian and brazilian pirates use them as repeaters to talk all over the world), you can use a bnc banana and 2 x 23cm tape measure pieces and making it in to a dipole, happy listening 👍🏻

Amazing radio, can't wait for it to arrive! Just imagine the price tag if some of the "big" manufacturers came out with a model with all these options.

I have a couple of those radios. Those new features look pretty cool.

Really digging that ammo box

Great video! Thanks so much for posting!

Great hands-on video, many thanks 📶✅

I bought a couple of them just to play with different firmware's, I was surprised to see such low power on 220, I get into our 220 repeater from across town full quiet.

Great little performer, I use it as a scanner and for 2/70 rx tx only. AM airband pretty decent after the new firmware update. 73

this is good

Thank you for the tip about powering the radio from USB C without a battery. I didn't know it was possible but it does indeed work! (I've found that USB C quick charge and power delivery cables don't work, but standard ones do).

Where you at in n.c?

With the upgraded firmware how did you program the radio? I can’t use CHRIP with the firmware version I am using.

Thank you for the video! What antenna are you using on 10 m and CB?

perfect lighting! What kind of lamps do you use?

what firmware and version are you using in the video?

Did do you do the chip upgrade?

73 from Mystery Radio return ;-)

Can you transmit on the stations you pick up?

Dose any handheld companies make a radio that you don't have to download a bunch of garbage to make it SSB and ham and not making it a big science project just turn it on and go. Thanks for the video