Bought one as an all rounder radio, tremendous value for money, great fun, small size, carry anywhere, lots of features. Comes with it's own rechargeable battery and charging base for £15.

Bought a few of these to play with, very impressive what developers have done with the firmware. The hardware obviously has severe limitations but it is fascinating what the chipset can do.

Been enjoying mine for the last month or so. Bought it for the airband mainly and thought I'd made a mistake before finding that firmware that fixes the AM. Now it's a budget joy and Chirp support is ace.

what the unofficial mods have done, is amazing. but sure there are limitations. but what it has done, is shown us all what is possible with this radios chip set. so, there is no reason why Quansheng, seeing all this, can't make a real official radio with these features and all the hardware filtering to go with it. Even if it cost twice as much as a k5 does, a k5 with tx/rx 2/70 ssb (or more like 10/6/23cm) out of the box would be a game changer and make them rich, and hams (and cbers) very very happy 😀😀😀

For the price, this radio is truly amazing. That it can receive SSB at all is just astounding. And it sounds really good for a device not even remotely designed for managing SSB. Definitely usable enough for me to have as an all day carry device, to check on bands now and then. Not something I would use as my main shack RX radio, for sure, but then at this price that's hardly what I'd get it for.

Finally, a well presented description and illustration of the limitations, and actual purpose of this radio.

For the price of $17.00 US, I have enjoyed experimenting with this radio.

The best feature of this radio for me is mic gain and companding. The FT4 and UV-5R I had before were both way too quiet on TX and getting heard clearly was a real struggle, a bit like trying to cut a gramophone record must have been a century ago. The sound level is great on this. Finally I have a handheld I can use. The firmware mods are just a bonus. I find the spectrum analyser’s ability to listen to a signal as soon as it appears much better than using a scan function.

hi and happy christmas i only paid £10 for mine from aliexpress came within 5 days great box great quality radio its a steel for the money got the latest IJV firmware and SSB is amazing got mine as low as 15mhz worldband broadcast stations like china international came in very strong on 17,490mhz by the coast of llandudno love it

OM0ET posted a firmware comparison today (29 Dec 2023), one day after Matt posted this Tech Minds video. It examines reception in SSB-mode on 2 m using three firmwares: IJV v.2.3R5, FAGCI 1.1.2 Lite Test, and EGZUMER v.0.21. In that very limited test, reception was most sensitive with IJV, slightly less sensitive with FAGCI, and least sensitive with EGZUMER: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e-Cld7eatNvSno0.html

hi matt good video ... im running v20.1 on mine great for RX out of 2m/70cm bands ie airband / marine band i really like it i also set my hri200 up into FM mode and had very nice audio reports on America link with some on east and the west coast NA

the crux about most china radios is not the receiver but the unwanted tx products. I would not shrink from such a versatile little gadget. Thanks for your video Matt!

I only added the custom firmware yesterday, dead easy to do Now I need to learn how to use it properly, it’s quite a complex radio

Worth installing for the spectrum analyser alone (F and 5 to start).

Meanwhile it's forbidden in Switzerland due to their strict harmonics regulations. The reception is ok, not as good as a lot of people say. But as a cheap fun radio with modding skills it's great. I hope that people don't pollute the air too much with such modded tx radios.

intresting toy with a lot of optione... Which love it in this hobby. True antenna reserching is more intresting for me but cfw things can be allsow fun😉I wish happy new year all of you 🤓🎉🐞

Always on some corner of the internet looking for some weird stuff and when that intro plays I'm like "YASS! that's wassup!" haha thanks for the video (again *10)

Informative video, as always.Thanks! I have a K5(8) and intend to update the firmware when I get a little time. An off-topic question for you: where do I get those whizzy transitions from? Or are they built into an editing package? If so, which one?

Your content is always so well-researched, thank you for the knowledge you impart.

I got the EGZUMER version 0.22. It is amazing, and I love it! I hope this brilliant Polish guy hasn't given up on the uv,-k5, what he does is just the stuff of Legends😊

Grabbed two from Temu at 35 bucks for the pair. If you are a radio hobbyist you will love these little things with the modded firmware. For the price and utility you just can't beat it.

SSB is absolutely usable on 144 I should say

Got mine from ali xpress for about £10 and put fw on it 0.21 now and it's brilliant bit of kit I'd say better than most radios out there for features and usabilty. OK custom fw has a heck of alot of key combos but you soon get used to it

Newest software permits SSB (DSB) transmit on 2m and 432

Thanks, Matt 👍

Interesting. I ordered a UV-5R only yesterday with a longer antenna, so we'll see how we go? Maybe I needed the programming cable too?

I lheard SSB filtering was available in the firmware download, using the same as the DSP. I seen this on another KZfaq channel.

it's a fun radio to play with.

Certainly no GIMMICK. It has its purpose and use. All the improvements with such small internal memory is amazing. The improved AM reception alone is a great addition for a radio that should have had it right out of the box. I don't think the firmware developers are interested in GIMMICKs but improving the features and performance of an impressively priced radio.

I love the QUANSHENG and it beats out boofeng. There’s got to be some one that can mod the hardware for filtering! And show us how to do it!

Excellent video please can i get the info to modify this please and what cable.is required and what firmware thanks

Do you think a tuned antenna would help?

So Quansheng got stable SSB modulation, it time to look at it. Thanks for information @TechMindsOfficial

The issue with SSB on the video is more due to fixed bandwidth on SSB, I hope the ability to make the band narrower will be added

Have the freq.range changed scince last update?? (i have Fagci) - mine is 14Mhz -1879Mhz, and also TX on all, but i know it is not working well besides 2M and70Cm - i might try the new Firmware, thx for good video, - mind you, my font is much smaller, cant get it as big as yours - 73 from Levi in Sweden

Bought 2 and scanned all sorts of frequencies but am yet to hear anything. Guessing useless with the antenna it came with.

Took mine out of the box and this thing just transmits sporadically , transmits on various differant keys and when you set it on the table it will key the Mic,,, strange , sure a weak solder joint but right out of the box is bad.

This firmware allows you to send written messages via radio?

I am going to get mine set up to receive Satellite ssb, then pair it with my FT-818 on an Arrow Yagi

where can I find the chirp moded for it?

My radio makes strong AM Air-band signals totally unreadable ... its just creates a synthetic noise that has no resemblance with voice behind a poor AGC implementation. Maybe there is a new version out and it is just a matter of updating? ... but I thought mine shows the same release. One thing, the newer version with the top metal panel has a major improvement in terms of spitting out harmonics, with that one you can actually transmit on 2m without breaking the rules and irritating military air traffic.

I love this little radio. I wish yeasu or icom would be this forward thinking. It’s a lot to ask but it’s so cool to see the community come around such a cool little cheap device.

For a tenner I think its a fun toy to play around with. I mean how can you grumble at that price.

more fun than a uv5r

I wish 1of11 firmware had spectrum scanner tho

I guess it's kind of cool if you're into it. I dont want one and usually skip the youtubes about it. I certainly wouldn't use it for TX. Maybe some hardware will cone out in the future that will be clean and the devs can put all this research to good use.

How do you “bag” a station that you didn’t even talk to?

Awesome bang for buck to play with. 😊

Hi, with other firmware (not only in the italian version) can TX in DSB on 2meter and 70 cm!!! 73

Thank you for explaining how to put the radio in to flash mode and not to talk a load of waffle. Much appreciated. J

great video and yeas for ne it is a gimmick, its great you can flash it for the price but but after living with it for a week every day i just wanted to shoot it lol ok for 2 and 70 but for everything else not so good. if you have no other radio then it is great but it will not replace my icoms, yaesu and kenwood just yet. but..................... with a bit of luck it will force top band name radios to look at this and make changed to what we have on the market. if this was a 200 quid kenwood or icom it would be great, but it is just a ht for under 20 qrid. its like putting alloys and a spoiler on a 1L car..... its still a 1L car. i may own and hate the radio but i am looking forward to seeing what they do next with it or newer radios. after testing it as an edc radio on 2 and 7 i found it poor, before owning this radio i had a kenwood for an edc ht, after living with the qwan shite i ended up buy a wouxun and even tho i will never pick up the kg5wr3zyz again i cant bring my self to get rid of it. great wall hanger and back up ht but just a gimmick for me

For £12 sometimes.....good gimmick.... Can't wait for the £5 boafeng copy 🤪😄🤣

SSB receive is a game changer for myself, hopefully a new model in a few years.................................... 🙂

No Gimmick, for €40 these radios are allot of fun, I have one, and wouldn't spend 100's on a yaEsu.. Hats off to the folk who update the firmware

Buatkan saya frumware egzumer yang bisa tx di semua band dan bisa tx pada mode spectrum. 🙏

Best gimmick I ever bought for just €15. SSB is nice, but it's not what I bought it for.

I did the mod just to have one in the car for CB RX. Almost no CB RX rcvd. External CB antenna was used. It is a gimmick and not at all useful for me.

It's a shame you can't transmit on 2m USB. Oh well. Can't grumble for the price.

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Really a gimmick. But works well. In CW/SSB it is able to decode stronger signals. But weak signals around S3 on my IC-705 aren't decoded on the Quansheng. But this wasn't my expextation at all.

@TechMindsOfficial I've tested a lot of firmwares and can't properly transmit in SSB, am i doing something wrong? Seems it's always txing in fm: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ib-TebSoytubmZs.html

Of course it is a gimmick, but it is a very good one. Especially at the price point.

Gimmicks cost money, this doesn't.

Thanks but I will stick with my dedicated SW receiver - much better reception.

You showed SSD working, and it appeared to work well, but you didn't answer the question about it being a gimmick. Why even ask the question if you're not going to answer it?

UVK58 is better than the deepelec SDR101 cannot stand this radio anymore its software upgrades are finished

The way I remember CB'ers is that they know the phonetic alphabet whilst hams are just... W.T.F

This firmware keeps resetting the power level to low and the bandwidth to narrow. I don't like this firmware version.

Radio is junk