The Quansheng UV-K5 and the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM?🤷♀️🤔
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- Gi day all.
I bought the Quansheng K5 to see what all the fuss was about.Great radio, don't get me wrong, however how can a radio that can be so heavily modified be FCC or ACMA approved?
I am not the Ham Radio Fun Police but this radio raises some serious concerns about what it can do in the hands of a unqualified user and should we be encouraging this as Hams in the first place??
This video just made me buy 3 more.
A ham in the USA can modify any radio they wish in order to operate on any ham band they wish, just as long as the harmonic products are within technical specs. I may well get into the UV-K5 I bought to play with and set up filters to properly put it on 222 to 225 MHz, a ham band where in the past I modified a pair of old GE rock-bound biz radios to work as a repeater. In the USA, the FCC created the ham bands so that people could learn all about RF at frequencies from low to high, how to modify gear, how to optimize it, how to set up antennas and stations, design and match to antennas, and design and build radios, all of it. Lacking all sorts of inexpensive surplus military and commercial rigs to mod as hams used to do, the UV-K5 is a good substitute for us to play with. Those without a license to do such mods or operate on bands legally are simply scofflaws and not the problem of legitimate ham radio operators. With all these mods we US hams are doing exactly what the FCC intended for us to do with radio gear and what we got licenses so that we could do. I get no fun out of chit-chatting with people over the air. There are only so many '5 by 9' signal reports one can send or receive before one gets bored with that aspect of ham radio and wants to start experimenting, which is what separates Amateur radio from CB radio.
Thank you for this information Sir, now I have a better understanding of the US side of our hobby.👍👍
well i didnt know until u told me..
I hear what you're saying, but Hams know the rules and it's up to them if they choose to break them.
In saying that, the marketing of so many unlocked radios out of the box is crazy and you are right. Anyone without knowledge or skill can easily get in trouble. An interesting point you raise. I hear stories about the FCC but have no idea if ACMA does anything or even cares. I have one K5, and three K6's. I plan to try the different firmware mods to experiment and learn, but that's about it. I already have 6 CB UHF HT's, about 10 or 12 2m/70cm, and 2 UHFprivate motorola radios. I dont need to mod them for UHF CB, etc. I plan to use them as cheap listening radios or poor man's scanners. Lol
Next though, is an HF rig, finally.😂
de VK1DON 🤠🇦🇺⁷³
Non existent regulation, ACMA compliance and protection for any service and government duty of care. Waste of time that should be banned
its sad that certain people have preconceived notion that everyone that don't have a license will deliberately spoil the hobby 😔
I understand your concerns, but here you are literally advertising the fact it can do all the mentioned. So - contributing to the youtube algorithm that helps sell it haha. I think its cool. All hobbies get threatened with new challenges. Work around it and evolve. Maybe this will force your hobby to start educating and investing in it, rather than sitting in sheds hoping no-one catches on with it. The air is free for everyone. Regulation and education. All the new people that get interested in ham might help to make it better and absolutely keep it going after all the oldies have checked out no disrespect.
Great reply, agreed but i don't actively show how to do it for a reason,cheers.
Fuck the hobby,almost no one there
😢😢 Where are you sir?
A bit rude, don't you think?
Once Beofeng started selling the UV5R that was the end of 2 meters and 70cm here in the UK as every idiot bought one and now the repeaters are crammed with music, foul language and the usual idiotic behaviour from some licenced and unlicensed operators.... For example I was able to buy one of these Quansheng radios from a Chinese site for as little as £16..(30 Aus dollars). delivered... There's your problem...
Exactly what the problem is.
If the hams here in Colorado, USA hear anyone on one of our repeaters without a call-sign, or operating improperly we usually go on a little foxhunt and find them. A clown who stole an HT from a car a few years back was standing on a street-corner yelling "Breakity broke one niner," into the stolen HT through one of the local repeaters until we found him in under an hour and had the police nab him. In the USA the ham bands are a relatively self-policing entity. There are a few ongoing problems on certain HF frequencies, but we keep working to clean them up. And there is no comparison with the gutter madhouse of the 27 MHz CB band in the USA, with their 5 thousand Watt splattering amps and obscenenity, over-driven audio echos and bird-calls. But those freaks tend to avoid the ham bands simply because we work at keeping our sandbox clean.
I fully agree with you on this one.
My local repeaters are deathly quiet.
@@SuperBoobaloo, ours are mostly used for nets to keep the local ham community informed and to practice for emergencies. That's fine by me. They are there, and they are ready.