EGZUMER on Retevis RA-79. Will it work ? 

Spectrum is F+5 hidden menu is ptt + function 1

The spectrum scan feature is amazing F+5 then 5 to set the lowest frequency use the F to lower the squelch thredhold, great info in egzumer manual

Another great and helpful video. Thanks Fred!!

Frid in the shed your Retevis RA-79 walikie talkie is awesome my friend

Brilliant fred well done ❤

Great video, sometimes content is everything!

It's nice to hear Fred again I like his videos

Thank you for this Fred! The quick “tutorial” on how to flash will push me to do my Quansheng UV-K6. I’ve been watching you for years from Chicago. Keep up the great work. I really enjoy your content.

For the price point, I bought 2 and have been experimenting with different software/firmware. Just wanted to raise the point that I had a lot of trouble getting my laptop to communicate. If anyone else has this problem, it turned out to be the drivers for the USB port on the laptop. Nice one yet again "old" fred!! 👍👍

I use both KENWOOD and YAESU equipment However since buying an expensive apartment on the QUEENSLAND - Sunshine Coast near the Coolangatta airport COOL -it is difficult if not impossible to set up Antenna - It was not a problem on a detached property in NEW SOUTH WALES For RX SDR does the job In any event should I decide to purchase a RETEVIS RA-79 ( QUANSHENG UV-K5 ) it will be for RX ONLY Using it for TX would be foolish and illegal I don't know about the UK (despite being born there ) and serving the RAF Bomber Command (1960s) The penalties in AU are severe I don't even fly anymore - having surrendered the Pilots License in 2012 Anyways - excellent video presentation

Just a note in egzumer each band has it's separate step which there are 7 different bands IIRC, nice video!

Frid in the shed I learn lot from you about bying cb radios and antennas for cb radios my friend

I tried egzumer on the Quansheng version of your Retevis handheld. V0.21 kept locking up the radio after 1 minute of it being turned on, so installed the stable V0.19. Works a treat. Very happy with the £12 cost of the radio plus £3 for the lead.

I did the HF hardware mod on that radio and it works.

Great wee radios i flashed the v02.1 on to the UV-K5 and used the 27mhz usb receive on it to check the frequency coverage on an old vintage ham international concorde 2 all you have on they old radios is a display of 73 and 81 etc 10kc jump switch and you realy have to work the kc shift and clarafier to get on the zeros .Then listned to some 2 meter repeaters and planes landing defo alot of bang for ure buck .

Ok,fantastic and beautiful thank 😊

Thanks for the screen shoutout lol

After watching a lot of vids from different channels I have bought one of these, not arrived yet. So no first hand knowledge. I did watch a side by side comparison of usb receive between egzumer and ijv and the latter was a clear winner. In fact egzumer was not receiving anything when ijv was. The test was done with the same antenna and both firmware on both radios, against a beacon. Seems like each has it's own strength's and weaknesses.

thanks Fred in the Shed!

Great info Fred....thank you.

Thanks for the video Fred, on my version I think you push either F5 o F6 together to access the scope, mine sounds pretty good on SSB, that sounds pretty shocking to me , plus the double Sideband is on the other programme Edzumer only has Upper Sideband and as everybody and their Dog says (as you did) don't TX on 27MHz

Try sliding the frequency up or down to adjust the dual sideband receive better.

Just wait till ya try Docking it its well cool.

Cb works great I've got a clip of some scousers talking on my 'channel' The thing works well, really well. It seems to compare with my at5555 but those locals were using 40w or more and less than 5 miles away.

Once you are in Spectrum, squelch bar goes down press F, and goes Up press “scan” (the two buttons below and above the 0). Then, if a super strong frequency in Spectrum capitalizes the frequencies, preventing other signals to show up - press the tiny button below the PTT (the 1st, not the one below it], it will mute the frequency at hand that pierces the squelch. You can mute up to 8 parasite frequencies. If you like the frequency you hear on the spectrum and don’t want it to be replaced by another frequency that hits the squelch, then press PTT - it will send you to another screen with only this frequency where you can choose a few options such as signal strength, modulation, etc. In this mode and in spectrum mode - press 0 to toggle all modulation modes. Press “exit”(or was it escape) to go back to previous screen. In this screen you can also press 5 to choose another frequency. When on the normal screen you can press the tiny button under the PTT to open squelch, then it’s fun to hold the up or down buttons and Lear “analogue -like” sliding through the frequencies when in a small step setting, can detect weaker signals like this. Do not forget for clear aviation radio sound to go to menu and choose “fix AM”. It’s advisable to go to menu and assign handy functions when “long press” the M button, the up and down buttons, the exit button, the two buttons by the PTT. For example I’ve chosen to use long press on the M button to toggle the three modulation modes without going to menu. I have the lower function button long press to “scan”. It’s very advisable when you make your lists of memory channels/scan lists (2 lists), to choose from the menu “display name (alpha tag) and frequency beneath it, it’s like on a high end radio! Hope I haven’t forgotten other nice options if yes I’ll add them. Have fun!!😀 R

Just a word of caution: the Web flashing should be done on a Windows machine, not a Mac.

The USB is actually DSB Double side band.

If you are receiving CB only, then the antenna really can be flexible. The CB signals do not know or care what antenna you use. They are still transmitting and ending up in the area you are listening and will hit the antenna you are using. You could use a speaker wire and get good listening results. Don't know if you are a licensed ham but if you do have one or if you get licensed, you could get your DMR ID and you can communicate clearly around the world and not rely on skip on CB.

Frid in the shed my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking 🤔 about getting my Grms license

Function 5 for spectrum analyzer

I have one question. Where do you guys get the USB windows driver from? Is it on a CD with the programming cable? Or did you guys install the Baofeng driver? Or does Windows recognize the device without installing a driver? I have seen so much video's. But no one talks about installing the USB driver software.

One question, I am just a rookie at all this, I was under the impression that Wide band was just for the FM & SW broadcast bands and all other transmissions like CB, HAM etc are narrow band. Also is that Wide/ Narrow setting for Rx only or both Rx & Tx as well ? So essentially when should I change it to Narrow in the menu settings, I'm just using my radio for Rx only btw. No Tx.

Same rig as Quansheng UV-K5

I wonder how well it transmits on 868Mhz? Could a Meshtastic mod be created. I would imagine it may need a pc to even have a chance of doing it.

Sideband sounds aewful on all the mods on youtube, is it that bad in person?

have you ever made yourself a dummy load for these small portables so when you transmit close like that so it won't over drive radio

Tomorrow when my wire arrives, Im going to try to update it by "flash with a browser" in the after 👍

Ive just bought a thunderpole tx fred. Ive got squelch set on 3 what would you recommed

Please do NOT use any generic programming cables, they cause all manner of problems. If you reflash and the radio is bricked try a real cable and this should resolve the issue.

you overloading the handheld becarefull with that,use your antenna from your ats plus it works great

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No matter what I do I just can't get it to flash the firmware. Bought the cable, installed the driver. Just will not recognise it.

27.555 27.805 USB? NO!