UVK5(99) AM/FM/DTMF Walkie-Talkie 200CH 20-1000MHZ Walkie-Talkie NOAA Weather Forecast with Flash Copy Frequency Tpye-C LCD Display for Hiking Camping Travel Two-Way Radio (Grey)

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.

Great starter radio if your beginning your journey into ham radio, the quansheng uv-k5 is not a walke talkie like people think, YOU HAVE TO BE A LICENCED HAM TO USE THE FREQUENCIES THIS TRANSMITS ON, so do not give this radio to your kids (unless they have their ham licence then you know what's up) thinking it's a toy, or think this is like a blister pack walkie talkie. Moving on from that disclaimer, the radio itself is extremely moddable both on the firmware and hardware, there are kits they sell that improve HF reception (with unlocked firmware), add cw mode and Double Sideband which when received is indistinguishable from both USB and LSB (Also with unlocked firmware), overall this is an extremely good radio for the price just do not transmit out of band due to the harmonics created by poor filtering.

Hard to believe that you can get a radio that performs with all of these functions at this price. OK I will admit that it's not a common name brand radio, but for the price it's a nice radio and not 10x the price. The radio is packed with full features and has a very wide receive range. Even with the stock antenna, I have been able to receive signals in my basement that name branded scanners with better antennas haven't. It is a nice form factor and I like how it fits the hand and the budget. Scan speeds are better than some of the other radios in this category but still could be improved upon. I like the display and ease of programming as well. Battery life is really good and so far power output is pretty darn close to advertised levels. This radio also has expand-ability to include other frequency ranges for receive and all-in-all this is a solid performer for the price point. Would certainly purchase again.

Works great for what it is. Firmware upgradeable to custom firmware which gives it enhanced features. CHIRP programmable. Sounds good on transmit and receive.

Cool little radio that works as is advertised. Would get it again. Mostly used in receive mode and have not transmitted much on this so can't say really how it works in Tx mode but in Rx its great. Easy to use and fairly small. Would recommend.

For what you are paying, these are great radios. There is value for the money here. There is plenty of custom firmware available for them too. They are horrible at frequencies that are not meant for use with this. For example 27 MHz is only going to output in the milliwatts. If you stick to FRS/GMRS/MURS you will be fine 3-4 watts.CHIRP programming software will work with these. Note the programming cable does not come with this radio. You must purchase one. The Baofeng cables work. People often have problems with it for these reasons:1) The programming cable must be plugged into the radio AFTER it is turned on.2) The programming cable must be seated completely.Beware that you can set these up for illegal purposes. Be careful. However, it is a good option for a prepper.

Sure, the circuitry lacks functionality of pricier radios, noise isn't filtered well. But they are great for local repeater use, and the community around this model has come up with some nifty custom firmware. You can extend receive well beyond the tri-band range, listen to air and marine bands, even get a little bandscope on the screen. The price is definitely right for experimentation. I replaced the stock antenna with a SignalStick and reduced the squelch and now pull in stations at greater range.