UVK5(99) Handheld Two-Way Radio, 200 Channels, LCD Display, Red

As a lifelong radio guy this is the best radio value I ever got. Before I even used it I bought the latest Baofeng USB cable and downloaded Chirp. As soon as I unboxed it, with the battery off I could see that this said V3 on the back, meaning this is the latest hardware which works with F4HWN Fusion firmware. I downloaded the stock programming from the radio with chirp, then went to the F4HWN Fusion site and flashed the radio with F4HWN Fusion and the Baofeng programming cable (push that sucker in FIRMLY!). I then found the Chirp module for F4HWN Fusion (*.py file). *You need that to use chirp with Fusion firmware on this radio. Then, went to file menu in Chirp, "load module" (found and loaded that *.py file I downloaded), then Chirp recognized the radio with F4HWN Fusion. *You must load module every time you use Chirp for a radio with this firmware. I then found that I had a 1,000 channel capacity, and 24 scan lists. I entered the 300+ frequencies I needed, their tones, offsets, etc., and created a half dozen different scan lists based on category. The picture shows some of the bands I can receive (and transmit where legal - be careful!). *You MUST have a V3 radio to use Fusion! If it doesn't say V3 with the battery off, you have a V1/V2 radio. If you have a V1/V2 radio and want custom firmware you need to look into egzumer or IJV firmware. *Fusion will brick a V1/V2 radio! Though I'm a licensed amateur extra I mostly bought this as a conventional scanner for milair monitoring for when I'm on the go. I live between Luke air force base and the Barry Goldwater test range, so I'm in a great spot for listening. On the ham radio side, this radio is able to work local repeaters in VHF, 1.25 meter, UHF, and 33 cm band with the stock antenna. On 1.25 and 33 I just threw out the call and it went out over the repeater unanswered. That's all I did on those bands since I haven't tested for spurious emissions outside of the VHF / UHF bands. I can imagine the actual signal strength at 927 MHz isn't that high, but it was enough to get into the repeater with clear audio from 6-7 miles away. This radio does a solid job with both VHF and UHF ham bands, but is better at UHF. I verified with a dummy load that it will transmit in GMRS, MURS, and many other places it shouldn't be transmitting. For monitoring public safety channels, you can lock out transmit, and also set the transmit level at 200 mw and even set a transmit offset so that if a the PTT accidentally gets hit with transmit enabled, it transmits in a band you are legally allowed to transmit in. It's crucial to make sure you cannot transmit in any public safety band that you monitor. As expected this inexpensive radio is an FM transceiver, but on the AM side it is only a receiver, and cannot transmit voice over AM (only transmits empty carrier on AM frequencies). Sensitivity is great overall, especially in UHF. The strongest band is probably GMRS. VHF is pretty good. Weaker VHF signals are a bit noisy, more so with AM, but it's not horrible. It's great in the 225-400 MHz am air band, as well as the civilian am air band. Finding a traditional scanner that handles milair well will normally cost nearly $200+. The UVK5 will also pick up CB radio if the signal is strong or with an outdoor antenna. I tested this radio with my outdoor discone antenna, and while it was excellent on the GMRS band and on 225-400 MHz milair, I was getting what I suspect was overload in the VHF public safety and VHF civilian airbands with the outdoor antenna. There wasn't much intermod, but the radio also wasn't receiving much in VHF likely due to strong signal overload. So it won't be a very good VHF base station radio in a big city, but other than that it could be pressed into service with an outdoor antenna, especially in the UHF band. The broadcast FM radio feature works great and does a great job picking up distant stations with the supplied duck antenna. I played with a few Nagoya / clone antennas that have worked well on other handhelds. I tried my dual band 155/462 duck, and my dual band 120/300 duck, and a few others. Band-specific antennas DO help some on weaker signals per-band, but I found that the stock duck did pretty well everywhere I tried it, and it's compact, so I'll mostly be using it. I programmed the key right below PTT to be my scan button. Cycling that button takes you through scan lists as it scans, including one called "all" that scans all scanlists / memories unless you lock individual memories out by going into memory and setting those channels to "channel list" "none". When scanning hit the M button to stop on a frequency. Hit up or down arrow to resume scanning. Pros compared to a dedicated scanner? I spent $26 for the radio, $6 for the programming cable...a total of $32 invested! Band specific antennas are less than $10 each. Chirp, the Fusion firmware, and the chirp Fusion module are all free. Scanners and their accessories are always much more expensive, and still have the feel of cheap toys in your hands. The Quansheng feels like a commercial radio, with a solid build quality. Audio is louder than Uniden or Radio Shack scanners. The UVK5 has a better display than scanners give you, with higher resolution. The standard battery seems to last forever even with some transmitting mixed in, and you can buy a spare battery for $15 ($20 for an extended capacity version). You can charge with either the high speed charging cradle or with the convenience a USB C cable when needed (slower charging but handy when out of the house). This radio really shines in the GMRS bands and oddly, in the 225-400 am milair band (receive only of course), better than my scanners in both bands, and at least equal to most scanners in the other bands. Cons compared to a dedicated scanner? Slower scan speed, around 20 channels / second. That's significantly slower than a current high end scanner, but adequate for my needs. No temporary scan lockout like current scanner models have (you have to go in through menu and manually "lock out" a channel by making its "channel list" "none"). A bit noisier on weak VHF signals than a top end scanner, but it's not a huge difference. No download directly from Radio Reference database. You also need a $5 adapter (made for Baofengs) to go from the onboard SMA connection to a BNC lug for BNC duck antennas. The Quansheng has more limited memory architecture than a current top end scanner. If you want the same frequency on more than one scan list, you need to program it in a second time and assign it to the other list. No ability to select just two or three scan lists out of a larger number of lists. It's either any one list, or the "all" setting which scans everything. Hopefully the fusion guys can make scanlists individually selectable in future firmware. Every radio nerd needs one of these, and for $26 this radio is an absurdly good value, especially once you have Fusion firmware in it.

The radio performed flawlessly. I received good signal reports from all the ham operators I talked to. The battery lasts a very long time and provides excellent value as well. The charging time was exactly what I expected. It fits very well in a pocket or bag, making it easy to carry wherever you go. Overall, I am very pleased with its performance and portability.

This is a cool little radio. However realize it is a very cheap Chinese radio. It has a band scope, cross band repeat and is very “open”. You need to have enough understanding of how to set it up so you can operate in a legal fashion. The big weakness I’ve found on both of mine(yes I have two) one from AliExpress and one from Amazon is the mic port. One I can program via chirp through the mic port, the other one doesn’t fit right. Neither one will work with an earpiece . I tried to set up cloning but only one of the radios will enter cloning mode. So my experiment with these radios is nearly over. Fun and interesting to work with but don’t buy unless you are willing to experiment with its shortcomings. 73s

Buyers either like or dislike this little radio. It internal design is very different from most other HTs. I think I received a return. I've done lots of testing on it. Big surprise, it transmits everywhere. Pressing F+5 brought up the spectrum display which looked exactly like a video about the Egzumer firmware. Going through the menu items, there was no setting to leave the backlight on all the time, 5 seconds was longest time. It insisted on a 25 kHz step. I think it was an older version of Egzumer that someone installed, then returned it to Amazon. With Egzumer, this little radio does plenty to keep me busy. AM (air band) fixed, backlight always on, step set to 5 kHz, etc. The charging stand is really nice, a perfect fit. Battery (1600 mAh) lasts a long time, better then expected. Do charge it until full, then leave it on until it shuts off, then repeat, manual says to do that. Why do this? The charging chip records these 2 cycles to give greater capacity. If you have a DMM, you can measure the battery voltage & enter it using the menu, this gives greater accuracy of the percent. Menu 58. Actually, you should do a couple of charge/discharge cycles on any new product with a Li battery. Look up UVK5 flash with a browser. I did it with no problems at all. It now has the latest version 0.22 in it's little CPU memory, 98% used for Egzumer firmware. You can assign the 2 side buttons to do many things. If you want to work 220 band, this isn't the radio for you. It puts out 4.5W on 2 meter, 4.3W on 440, and a whopping 0.35W on 220. I tried it on 6 meters, 4.2W, 10 meters, got 4.0W. Next I checked for harmonics. 2M, (144) is good. 440 is very good. 6M and 10M are horrible! Only transmit on 144 and 440. The hardware supports listening on any frequency, 20 MHz to 1300 MHz, AM, FM & SSB, but transmit is FM only, limited by the main chip. My meter is only good to about 500 MHz, so I can't get a power reading higher than that. I did check the higher frequencies using SDR Console with SDR Play RSP2 & it does transmit up to 1300 MHz, covers the 33 (902 to 928) CM band and the 23 CM band. However, the power output is 50 uW @920 MHZ, 2.5 nanoW @1276 MHZ. Won't go far. Next, programming my repeaters and other frequencies assigned to channels using CHIRP. Just installed the latest version, that includes the driver for it. Along with 2M, 1.25M & 70 CM frequencies, I put 927.950 and 1287.9 MHz in 2 chirp channels, uploaded to the radio, no problems. Tested using SDR Console with SDR Play RSP2. Good, on frequency carrier but low modulation. Receive is very good on 144 and 440. It is obvious to me that this is a VHF/UHF radio. My tests revealed it's poor performance on the 11 M band. Why not just buy yourself a regular ol' CB? I'm impressed by the FM BCB tuner. Beats my other regular AM/FM radio. It uses a dedicated chip. Now, on to the antenna. We all know HT stock antennas aren't all that great. This one is better than the antennas from a Talkpod & Btech UV-5X3. I compared them using a good field strength meter. The Quansheng antenna was better, and like the radio, it is very sturdy little thing. Hope this info helps with decision, buy, or not. For me, it is a keeper.

A very nice HAM radio for the price. I love the display, and I love the clear case. It looks really cool at night. It works really well. Everyone should have one or two

This was delivered with an opensource firmware osfw-bd90ca3. The manual doesn't follow along with the opensource firmware. The firmware is probably better than the OEM since the radio is aging. I'm hoping for RX in the full advertised range and still working on how to best configure the radio and antenna options to get good reception. Hoping for air-bands near air ports for takeoff and landing pilot to tower chatter. CHIRP is apparently compatible with this radio if you place CHRIP in Developer Mode. Otherwise it will throw a firmware not supported error. Radio sounds good and I believe it's a good value option for not a whole lot of money. Fun to just tinker with it as well.

I love this radio! Match it with Egzumer

This is an older version of the uv k5. If you want a v2 or v3 to run newer custom firmware, don’t buy this version. Any of these with the color whether it’s red/blue or whatever might end up being an older version of this radio as well. Not worth the hassle of returning so I’m just running some old firmware with way less features

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