Airband Radio FIXED in the Quansheng UV-K5 (Listen to Aircraft) 

The Egzumer v0.17 firmware is the best one I've found for my UV-K5 so far. Thanks a bunch. It makes the UV-K5 an acceptable air band receiver and has a lot of useful features to use it on the ham bands.

HUUUGE improvement. I played around a bit last night. After installing this firmware, i also set the AM freq's all to NARROW. The audio is now even more clearer than when it is set to wide , and it seems to be more sensitive, as im also receiving MORE now when set to narrow than i do when its set to wide. I see you can also set blaclight intensity BLMin/BLMax which is nice and will probably save a bit on the battery 73

I bought mine a week ago and it's great. People seem to be coming up with new firmware variants almost every day so it's great fun to play with.

Cool! Cant wait to see what other creative firmware comes out for this little gem.

Just tried the airband mod on my K8...massive improvement, hard to believe a firmware mod would do that, but it does. If only all the other mods worked as well, or at the same time. I suspect this radio actually needs more flash memory to store all the mods, and I will eagerly await a new iteration, and I will buy it, because the UV-K8 is amazing compared to all other cheapies. Oh and it could do with substantial water-proofing as I use mine on boats at sea often in rough weather , ( with Marine Rescue.) Great video too, so thanks.

The "flash" upgrade worked for me . Thank you for your videos which I find most helpful

Just done the mod, and have to say it's spot on. As these radios are so cheap I now just keep one in my car all the time.

Thnx for sharing! I just did the firmware update to latest Vers 0.22, and it does make an improvement to airband listening. This radio is a steal of a deal.

Ham Radio Prep is wonderful, you will pass the test. It took one week from start to licensed 7 days is all it took.

I miss living 4 kilometers from brisbane airport. My scanenr and antenna setup picked up almost evey radio in the entire brisbane to gold coast to toowoomba to the sunshine coast. It was great. Now im in a rural area i get aircraft and cb and amature but a lot less than when i was in brisbane

Excellent!! I can't wait to try it! Thank you!!

Nice mod indeed. Thank you. 👍

Wow. That sounds wayyyy better with that firmware update!

The feature I'd like to see would be the doing away with the fake dual VFO operation and devoting more screen space to what really matters.

Makes it sound like FM nice upgrade

Cool video, there are a few people out there adding interesting mods including real MDC-1200 to and rx.

mine arrived today its off to be modded tomorrow love it for the price

Good job - I need to dig my K5 out and upgrade it. Thanks!

Nice one brother

I have the same programming cable as shown in your video. Could you please tell me which driver I need to use? The CD that comes with it has too many to try, lol. Thanks

Hiya, am interested in one of these for motorcycle comms when touring but also fancy the airband upgrade as a bonus. Can you turn the backlight off to save battery?

Awesome! I will do it on all mine. TY

Yeah, been playing with the AM FIX mod for several days now, and it basically took the Air Band from being unusable to clear as a bell. Looking at the code, it appears to have been a gain problem.

Hi good video can you get the 27megs on the am -fm CB band I do have quansheng uv-K5 and the UV-K6 this is the newest model for 2024 do I need to change the steps for the airband like you said it comes over quite bad I don't have my ham licence yes I only like to monitor the air band most of my hand held are uniden bear cat just scanners I do have some ABBREE and baofeng my uniden scanners the battery's drain to quickly I am just trying to get my head round the quansheng and only using a 108-136 antennas cheers for any help

Cheers for the video mate - I'm the same as you. My unit does not receive on the HF at all - I don't think some of the chips have the wide band facility and we were the unlucky ones. I tried a small test to transmit on 27.780 FM from my 7100 and can't hear anything even in close proximity.

Also Meant to ask, are you using the custom online flasher and what did you enable? Does the kastest include the AM reception Fix?

Awesome video mate, this unit makes it the cheapest receiver for Aircraft ! Just remember folks, these radios are not approved for use on Australian bands, so buyer beware. 👍

hey ive just done this MOD but the radio no longer transmits on the UKCB 27mhz band. Cant seem to find a way of making it TX anymore, any suggestions.. ?

i can't get rid of the hissing sound in backgrowund with am even if i get this firmware, so i wonder should i do an extra flashing for it?

I have a UV-K5 that came with the .25 Firmware. I downloaded the Firmware updater and that came with the .26 Firmware. I updated to the .26 Firmware and UVMOD is working fine. Now, on the Quansheng website is a newer Firmware listed for the UV-K5, version .31. I installed that version and it works fine. However, UVMOD doesn't seem to be working with that Firmware. I upload that Firmware to UVMOD, patch it and then download the patched version, upload it to the radio and then the radio doesn't turn on and I have to re-flash back to one of the stock Firmwares. I assume they changed something in the .31 Firmware?

Ideal for me, as I only want one for my backpack to receive right now!

Installed 0.19 and it works splendid, except FM reception now sucks, which was chrystal clear before. Am I missing a setting?

For Air band is that the step 8,33 khz ? Thanks

Hi Hayden. So I have a bit of an offbeat question. I was going to email you but i read somewhere yu don't respond to emails to much. Fair enough. So I have been a radio enthusiest since the early 90s, and Ive been subbed to your channel for a bit, which I love. I used to have my Unrestricted amateur radio license years ago in NSW ( I held a limited callsign as well as an restricted ). Now I've tried to look this up but its a bit confusing, given how callsigns are allocated, but before i actually go ring up the ACMA, I was wondering how easy it is to renew your license after a long time being unlicensed? I still have my original certificate so have the certificate number, but I am unsure if I will need to test again here in Australia after being away so long, or If I can just pay the fee, get a callsign allocated ( I see they do this now, you don't get to pick ). I was wondering do you know much about this situation these days at all and if you could give some advice? By the way I just bought a UV-K5 and programming cable to add to my radios. Mostly I play with receivers and SDRs, which are amazing tech compared to the radios I started with in the late 80s! I appreciate any feedback you give on this. Keep up the good work mate with the channel!

to me it seems to scan faster i still have the same meter need to figure out how to get ssb mode

I have 2 qyt 58 radios cb radios and they distort on am transmitt. But there clear on fm. I wonder if there is a fix for them Otherwise I just gotta sell them cheap or throw them away.

Is there a menu or button that will take me to Airband, I can’t seem to find any info on it? Thanks in advance

It's amazing how different AM airband reception for us both is. (Must be those couple of extra hill between my location and the pirt) Quick question, is the tower transmitter in Hobart actually at the airport? Or is on Guy Falks/ Mt Rumny?

Hello Merci pour cette vidéo 73's F4JMU Serge

I wonder if its possible to create firmware for Quansheng which could allow radio show images from weather satalites or video from leaks from cable tv. I wonder because where I live I picked up signal leak I notice by scanning with my Baofeng couple years ago when I notice audio from TV channel

I flashed v0.16. Are there any features from UVMOD that are missing and desirable?

Once the Mod is done, how do you actually access the Airport frequencies? Is there more than one? If yes can the radio scan all of them? I'm new to this I'm sure you can tell. I've already used the menu to turn the Air Fix on. Not sure what I do now??

There is no mention of the "AM Fix" on whosmatt latest firmware. Where is everyone getting this fix from or is it included in the latest firmware but not mentioned in the list? If that is not the case can you provide a link to where you got the firmware version with the "AM fix" mod? Cheers.

I do like the video, I am not blasting on your video. I use the Boafeng UV-5R 10 watt, and I love that radio. I also have a couple of other cheap models from China. I use them in a emergency situations.

Which version of firmware update is needed to fix it

Does anyone know if the firmware with SSB also has the AM fix?

Hey, I've finally figured out how to change bands. BTW, will the mod work on my K6 quansheng?

which one of the links is the air band mod

Can it be used with Quansheng UV-K6? fix

Can the uv-5r receive us military on the 300 to 400mhz?

Hello - please excuse my newbie questions. I got the UV-K5(8) for £8 from Alibaba maily to listen to air band as i have several local airfields and the Luton flightpath above me. Given how cheap this was I have no problem trying the firmware update, for fun really. But my question is: can I use the handset as a license free PMR446? Is there an issue with broadcast power for license free with this? If I can't use the PMR446 I will disable Tx completely - which I think I can do with the patch. I've never owned any kind of 2 way radio before so excuse the questions.

Is it the BAOFENG programming cable you need for this? d to find a Quansheng one, but to no avail.

I picked one of the UV-K5(8) up off Aliexpress, It just didn't work as well as the UV-K5 I have. It doesn't receive any of the NOAA channels, It's FM broadcast receive was maybe in the shortwave band (?), and only got one channel - on many different (indicated) frequencies. I used my UV-K5 to do the OTA clone, thinking maybe a hidden setting was causing the issues. Interesting enough the clone changed the opening screen from Quansheng to Anysecu (my UV-K5 is the Anysecu model), I am now able to get FM broadcast, but it seems like it's off freq quite a bit. Still no NOAA channels, and AM is sort of working now. The UV-K5(8) came with European style base charger, I was thinking maybe it was setup for use in the UK, but I don't see any way to change it to US usage. I've always been hesitant about third party firmwares, but in the case of this cheap radio, I don't see how it could make it worse. And might actually make it better. Thanks for the video.

Where did you get the "ON AIR" sign in the background of this video?

thanx for this video, tomorrow i wil update the firmware for AM use nice. I paid not that much for this radio nnot 30 dollar but 17 euros so it was cheap. Depent on the country I think. 73 PE3FS

Does the fitted antenna work on airband or does it need replacing and if so what would be the best one to buy?Anybody know?Thanks.

Does the Airband fix carry over to the later updates?

So, which one is the airband fix in Github? Is it the release release v0.14 ?

Please advise which link is the AIR BAND firmware update.... the links on this page do not identify that upgrade, thanks Rob, ZL1RD

а без перепрошивки эта рация ловит самолёты? Вот взять из коробки и послушать?

Thanks for the update. Will this radio transmit on 40MHZ band and if so how many watts after firmware mod?

Another heads up: when I tried to flash it it loaded about 10% before the Dell Latitude Windows 10 gave me the blue screen of death and rebooted, bricking the radio. It did it again after it rebooted. Third time is the charm... Make sure you are running the pre-2012 Prolific driver for the cable before you brick the radio. Once I installed it the radio programming was a snap.

hi thanks..will it also transmit on airband in aus?

Is there a way to have this firmware mod as well as TX in airband? I want to use this as a backup radio in my plane and I need to listen AND TX.

Just a heads up...the link you provided features a "flash with a browser" option.

Which firmware did you apply? V0.16?

I've done the firmware but not getting the S meter. Everything else seems to be there but still seeing UVMOD meter.

does this work on uv k6?

Well, the AM thing works for sure, but can anyone help me out? I unlocked "F Lock" but when i press PTT on a CB channel, it says TX Disabled... What did i forgot? It was working with my last used firmware, its so irritating.

You say this is for the K5 but you seem to be holding a K5(8)/K6, certainly not the same radio your affiliate link sells. Which is it?

is the air band fix in the menu when the firmware is patched

Is there a best way that we can get a radio operators license online in Australia?

Is 18mhz unlocked in this software?

Hey everyone - can you get an Aussie Ham license off that linked ham radio prep course?

Does it have a transmit lockout on Air Band? Or bands outside the amateur frequencies?

Much better but to be honest it was perfectly legiable to me

i dont see the airband fix in your link?

What's your distance to the airport?

Are you able to transmit on airband such as 121.5 for emergency use ?

I can’t download the firmware

chirp not work with this firmware

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As you say, its AM lacks dynamic range. Here is my tip. If you want to listen to Air Band AM , get an Aicraft radio especially if you are feeding it to others. The OLDER Aviation radios have better sounding audio. The Rolls Royce are the King Bendix older style like the KY196 and its audio is better than you get in the latest aviation radios.

On airband does it low 8.33 kHz spacing?

Another way to clean up the AM reception on these radio's is to use a better antenna for that band. the little rubber ducky antenna isn't even CLOSE to the airband frequencies, but a 55cm long antenna makes a world of difference. Paul from Slovakia - OM0ET, uploaded a video on his channel about a new firmware aswell, it supposedly fixes the SSB reception along with some other improvements. ITS NOT this firmware your using. It might be a different option for some people. I have installed it on my Quansheng UV-K5 and my KSUT UV-60D, both the same radio, just a cosmetic and name change on the case. It seems to work OK, but as with all these firmwares, it's not perfect. After installing, you push the function button, then button #5, then use the function button with the FM button and you can scroll from FM to AM to SSB, I'm still trying to work out how to get the desired frequencies to be easily accessed. I can enter an airband or six meter frequency via the VFO, but as soon as I enter any of the expanded displays shown in these RU-vid video's, such as the spectrum, the frequency is simply random, usually 5-10Mhz away from the channel selected, and the ONLY way to adjust it is by 10Khz steps, it takes FOREVER to get from 136Mhz down to 127Mhz at so small a step, and once the radio DOES get down there, any further button use makes the frequency jump to a random spot on the band, or even to another band entirely. It can be a pain in the arse at times, but for less than $50 delivered, both of these radio's are fine with me.....I cannot afford to buy a $3000 radio to to get these bands, and a scanner is better for airband anyway, as this radio can only use ONE CHANNEL at a time and it's VERY difficult to make a scan list on them for anything other than the 2m or 70cm bands. They are fun though. Shame the cheap upgrade antenna's usually have an SWR of about 12:1, I have a box full of unusable SCAM Nagoya NA-771 clones that are so wildly out of tune all you can do is laugh about it, good thing they only cost $0.70 each. They say HAM radio is a fun hobby.....

50Mghz to 600Mghz... so um.. no shortwave 1.6Mghz to 20Mghz and no scanner frequencies... which is like 700Mghz to 960Mghz (I think from memory). Okay without those two, what's the point of this radio. Maybe if it could actually transmit on the aircraft band, as a dirt cheap better than nothing radio for an ultralight aircraft pilot radio.

50 $ Canadian for this great radio from temu

Now if it could transmit on air band, wouldn’t have to spend big bucks for an air band unit.

We defunded the police here in the US, ain't no one going to jail for transmitting without a license, I do it everyday. the FCC isn't going to do anything about it either

The channel scanning is very very fast.

No TX on CB frequency's :(

Has anyone tried this on UV-K6?

returnredreturn (freq + (step + 1) 2) step * step; int32 t TX freq check(const uint32 t Frequencyreturn 0 if TX frequency is allowed// otherwise return '-1'return 0; if (Frequency < frequencyBandTable[0].lowerFrequency > frreturn -1.not allowed outside this range if (Frequency >= BX4819 band1.upper && Frequency < BX4819 bancreturn -1; BX chip does not work in this range switch (gSetting F LOCK) case F LOCK DEF:if (Frequency >= frequencyBandTable[BAND3 137MHz].low(return 0;if (Frequency >=frequencyBandTable[BAND4 174MHz].1 the air bond tranceiver has been cracked

AFAIK it's even forbidden to listen to airband for ham user in Germany.

You only need license when you transmit on repeaters or if your talking to someone else who is licensed. The fact you can buy them, use off channels with other members of the community as a com when hiking, camping. As long you are not on a emergency channel. You don't a license unless you are on a repeater or emergency channel or military channel. Other than that, the FCC is not coming after you. Remember, Repeater! Emergency Channels! other than that, you can transmit on private channels as walk talkies. There are no said laws that violate. Unless your in the UK, their laws are petty AF LMFAO, but you know what I mean. Of course if you want to talk to the members of the HAM community you need a License. but if you using these types of COMS for Hiking, camping and stuff like that, you don't need a license period. You should explain to your viewers what that license is for and how it applies to that radio. There are Millions of people around the world who use a HAM radio without a License and they not in jail or charged with criminal offences. there are certain situation like talking on repeaters, emergency channel, the normal stuff you would need a license for.

Not bad for a baofeng

i paid £14 from ali express with upgraded antenna D77. ear piece headset with mic. charger/ dock. separate cb microphone and programme/ charging cables :)

it's 10 dollars in China,not 30