Man, this is awesome! This little radio just keeps amazing me! 😎

The uvk5 is quite nice. Comparing to a Radtel it disappointed me a bit on receiving milsat but it was slightly more sensitive then my stabo receiver and my yaesu handheld. The cracked firmware and the price is the strongest asset for this piece.

Thank you Paul. Always something good presented.

The cheap radio that is worth more in excitement. Credit to people who spent their time making the firmware great.

Thank you Paul, most interesting video I must say. I enjoyed making contact with you QRP a week or so ago, which was a nice surprise and you were live on KZfaq.. Great stuff, Mike Nottingham, UK G8POL

This is a crazy little Radio Paul, I’ll definitely be trying that Firmware. Thanks for sharing 73’s

This is my favorite firmware for this radio, so far. A worldwide receiver that will do a great job as a tri band FM transceiver. Thank you for the videos on this unique device. 73's🎙KD9OAM🎧📻📡 🚧

Thanks! Your videos keep getting better and better.

At 8:45 you press the M button which highlights the fist of 8 choices. Could you tell me what the 8 choices are for? IF and MIC I will assume is I.F like in Intermediate Frequency and MIC could be the Mic gain? What do the others represent? Thanks, Ken

Great to see this. Could you make a video about the upgrade of the firmware? I would appreciate this very much. 73’s PD0ELK

Ďakujem om8el.Nech sa darí!

Just ordered one very interesting inexpensive little radio thanks for the video

Dzięki. Bardzo przydatny film.

I have 3 now, great emergency radio with the firmware mod, and so cheap! Thanks Paul. :)

In the scope screen use 9 to bring down the squelch line and it’ll receive that way.

That is simply amazing! Thanks very much for sharing

So omoet. Because of this vid I bought 2 of these radios. Was really studying on LSDR’s till I ran in to this vid, (thank you) think these will serve my purpose much better for the $ and portability 🤙🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼

I caught another video but unfortunately for me it was not in English describing what I believe a different firmware allowing DSB (Double Side Band) for Transmit. Have you heard of that yet and if so have you tried it. I want to try one of these but so many modded bins out there. I downloaded the bin your showing and might give it a go. Would there be a explanation how to use the new features? (What buttons do what) Also would you know if this firmware has the improved AM quality?

Is the scope screen part of the software upgrade? Really liked this video very helpful

This is the best firmware so far in my opinion. This will also work on the Radtel 590. Receives from 10.000 to 1300.000 and transmit from 14.000 to 1300.000.

Best software to flash I've used, nice one for sharing

Hey. Great Video! Is it possible to send out a transmission in 11 Meter Band? Or just with some milli watts? Regards

Thank you for your review! You gave a link to the firmware, but there are a lot of them. Can you provide a link to just this SSB firmware? Please!!! Thanks a lot!

Great video cheers

OMG .....Definately an improvement to the cheap chineese hand helds for sure ...... cheers de VK4LA

Nice video, thanks for posting. That said, can you recommend a digital "version" of this radio? Thanks.

I have just ordered a few to have a mess about with, it's unfortunate that the prices advertised on aliexpress inflate before you pay and they claim to be adding VAT at 20% on behalf of the UK Government - that is nonsense ! Radios at £9 were £14 at the checkout... Great little radio, can't wait to have a play and also see how good it is with 2m/70cm - I will definitely use it as a wideband RX.

Thanks for the great video.

Will your firmware also work on the Retevis RA79 which looks to be the same radio ?

Many thanks. It works like you presented in your nice video. 👌☝

thanks Paul great job.

Amazed by this radio! What a fantastic review, i Hope Quansheng gave you the radio for free! Ive bought 2 thanks to you!

On which bands you can transmit with the new firmware and is ist possible to transmit in any band on USB?

Good review, tks!

Is there a new firmware that has LSB? The firmware I have only has USB, need both!

Received the UV-K5(8) yesterday, and tried uploading custom firmware via a laptop with windows server and at 16% i got a BSOD :) I thought, ok, i bricked the UV-K5, but no! it just could be started up with the white led and was succesfully upgraded via another windows 10 pc... so wow i'm so happy with it and so glad it didnt brick when the 16% BSOD happened!

It's a very good firmware. But I have a question: is there any way to disable transmission on other bands but radio amateurs (enable TX only in radio amateurs band). With this firmware, I can transmit even in aerial (planes) band and commercial bands. Thank you.

after firmware upgrade, you can still use Ham 2m and 70cm correct?TX/RX?

How much does the antenna matter like will the stock antenna pick up am/stuff out of spectrum? even though it's 136-174/400-480?

wold there be any documentation describing how to use the new firmware, basically how to access the features.

Can you show how you installed the software?

Hi, with this firmware I' m not able to use the "air copy function" between two radios. Do you know how it is possible to activate this function?

Very interesting, thank you! I am a beginner and interested in RX only. Is it mandadory to use such an antenna? I tried with the original one but without any success. ...just noise.

From what i seen on GitHub this Firmware works on the Standard UV-K5 Also.Is this correct?

Will this firmware work with the uv-k5? I found the answer and it does. Thanks for sharing.

Wow super thanks :) nice video when I press the link for the custom firmware, the one that is selected is the one i have to download? van you also send on the CB freq ?

Hi paul chris from north wales UK just done the firmware with success but no sound on the shortwave bands i managed to get it down on 4mhz so i hope i can listen to worldband broadcasts on this upgrade am i doing something wrong having no sound the squelch is on 0

Thanks Paul great video. I presume the new fw will not allow CB bands 11m Tx on AM/FM/SSB ?

Muchísimas gracias

Do you have a list of frequencies you have or maybe a chirp file ?

Is this a regular uvk5? I bought one about 6 months ago.

does it comes with a UART-USB adapter to upload the Firmware?

I want to buy a 27 MHz antenna just like yours. I've seen one but it's 150cm (59 inch), which one is better? 130 cm (51 inch) or 150 cm (59 inch?

Great demonstration! Very nice radio. Does it work well on CB band?

Is there a RF gain in the firmware, could be a useful radio for RDF fox hunting.

I ordered one of these from Aliexpress to use as a portable receiver. I sold a Realistic 10 channel scanner last year for $50 which is probably worth next to nothing now...

When I go to the firmware page for which you have provided the link, there are several firmware upgrades by fagci for this radio. Which one of these upgrades enables the features that you show in this video? 73 Mark KK2L.

tnx! 73!

We need full shortwave bands please will look forward to any upgrades with firmware many thanks paul

Wow. I'm an old ham, but I just ordered one. I still want a HT that will do ssb and FM on 10 meters on the xmit side. I know this will technically do it, but it's not efficient at all, plus it has all kinds of spurious radiation.

Might be a stupid question, but I’m new. Can I pick receive frequencies outside my antenna’s stated range? I have a foldable 136-460 antenna. Will it pick up cb frequencies?

For the price, this thing offers a lot of fun

ваша прошивка самая лучшая, спасибо

How did you got Windows to recognmize this device? I tried to install the driver, but I get a "language not supported" message on both Wiindows 10 and 11...

@OM0ET Thanks Paul for this really nice Radio. But can you show hoe to install and update this new Firmware? It is in this Bands only receive or also transceive? If i can see how to do than i will order one of this Radio. 73

What bands can you transmit on? Can you transmit on 27555.00 usb ?

¿Cómo conseguiste que la radio mostrara sólo una banda? No encuentro ningún menú para hacer esto.

Any firmware for the Xiegu X5105 that improves receive audio? The last ver 3 could be better.

Great video! Does SSB reception include the 50, 70, 144 and 433MHz bands? Thanks

What install app you use on windows please?

Can this radio be used to receive CW signals and receive Morse Code audio?

Is there a downloadable user manual for this firmware that includes the new keybinds? thanks

can you switch between modulations ? SSB/AM/FM ?

i believed somebody going get this radio tx on cb channels that would be nice.

Finally.😍

How do you switch to SSB and bring up the table etc and have the backlight on all the time ?

is the sideband on this radio RX only? or can it transmit SSB too?

I bought one last week, got it charged up, and that's about it.

Thanks Paul. Hopefully they will also improve the AM rx on the rest of the bands that this radio covers soon. 73 DE ZS6AKW

is this the right firmware installation file for HF SSB (as seen in the video) ? uv-k5-firmware-fagci-mod-v1.1.2-SSB-lite-test . that is a "BIN" file , that in the link you have in the description of your video. how to install that firmware ? i would like to see a video how that firmware is installed.

I don't understand, this is a VHF-UHF radio? Correct? Or bring the new firmware that so low in the HF band?

What firmware is this? Open Spectrum Firmware by facgi , this one? or other ?? pls reply

Hi All, can any advice if the radio can pick up mid band frequencies, 66-88mhz?

But does it also transmit on USB 27.555 and other ham bands or is it just a scanner

Will the radio tune more finely for example 27.78125 instead of 27.78000 as the CB sounded off frequency in your demonstration. I guess im asking if it has 12.5khz steps?

I have Question, after upgrade use this Firmware for copy to device still normal or not?

Can you transmit on HF bands & can you transmit on CB bands ?

Will the fw work on the uv5r plus?

Did you try to use a ground on it?

Does it transmit SSB as well, or only receive?

I’ve ordered mine but it’s not coming with the programmable lead although I have one that will fit from a retevis rt3s does anyone know if that will work?

How can earth are they managing this? Does it have an SDR receiver inside that allows whatever demodulation the firmware can manage?

New to this guys can these mods be made to standard UV-K5 or does it need to be the [8] version

how do you switch to ssb? i order this radio 2 with a program cable i need to know how to do it

Quick question. If I was to upgrade the firmware so it did ssb, would I be able to receive 2 meter ssb signals ? Thank, Jack

la gran pregunta se puede modular en esas frecuencias o solo escucha?

I am assuming you can transmit on these added frequencies.... Is that correct?

There are many videos on youtube about the uvk5, and all of them (at least the one I found) are about receiving. Can this device actually transmit?

Does this mod include the AM mod for airband which improves AM reception.....?

please, what is the best benefit cost cb (26-27mhz) transceiver (for truck use)?