THE MOST ILLEGAL CB RADIO EVER!!?? | QUANSHENG UVK58 

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Buy it and let the local rig doctor mess around with it.

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@@johnclarke2997 peak and tune! 💩

This comment should be pinned 😂

I am already hearing the oldtimers charging their pace makers and Mobility scooters. 😒 Probably they are most mad that there is no morse option in it too.

I had some do gooder threaten to report me to ofcom last week for using my little boafeng on PMR 446 saying baofengs are not legal on PMR as they don't have fixed antennas and that they transmit more than the legal permitted power of 0.5 watts lol

​@@mrlardstersome people, like theres not bigger issues in the world

​@@mrlardster i am a licenced ham but i am also a hobby radio enthusiast. as long as i don't get interference and if i do and give you tips to solve it you do them i don't care. i am not a cop. and it's not my job to police. it's my hobby that i like for others also to enjoy. and that enjoying part is the only thing i care about. those oldies think they rule the airwaves while ruining the hobby by gatekeeping and just being difficult. nobody needs morse anymore or soldering with everything being smd. they would do better to start using computers with their hobby and 3d printers. but that is just my 2 cents.

@@raunchyNO yeah no worries my mate and good for you too 🙂🙂 and the more people who enjoy the hobby the merrier eh, but yeah there'll probably always be some do gooder on the airwaves who wants everyone on there to do everything by the book won't there, just take no notice and laugh at them I say, I certainly did when that do gooder threatened to report me last week, just hope people like him don't put others off taking up the hobby 🙂🙂

I'm 55 myself soon. How did that happen.

"Modern radio" is a lot more than just radio and it's pretty cheap to get into. There's a whole invisible world of transmissions from car alarms to smart meters and all kinds of data. SDR's are cheap and the more you learn the more you can listen to. 2 SDR units and some free software and you can be listening to trunked comms in your area.

Any updates? Was it user friendly? Any decent legit ham use?

Why not just get rid of amateur radio altogether? Oh wait, that's already happened. There was a time when amateur radio operators actually built their own radios. Now you go take a simple test (that is if you want to be legal, many don't even bother) go get a $30 communist radio, and start cluttering up what used to be the amateur bands with your rf trash. Amateur radio has gone the way of CB radio, and that is sad. Of course I guess it had to happen. Trash technology has made real amateur radio obsolete. I got my technician license back in 1987, and bought a $400+ (in 1987) Kenwood TH-215 2 meter only HT. Then I had to wait a really long time until they did away with the code to get my general. I immediately bought a brand new Icom 718, which got packed up and put in the closet a few months later. I found a beautiful Yaesu FT-DX 560 tube radio that didn't work, and spent months rebuilding it. THAT is what I got into amateur radio for. To actually learn about and work on radios, not to buy some new computerized junk, hook it all up, and start talking. Amateur radio is no longer amateur. It's just like commercial radio. You can't work on today's radios. I have lost interest in amateur radio, and went back to 11 meters, where I started. I got an older SSB 11 meter radio, built a nice clean 100 watt tube amp for it, built an antenna, and have been having more fun than I ever had on amateur radio.

@@geraldscott4302that’s all fine. But even today most people don’t have $400 or £ even in today’s money to splosh on a new hobby they aren’t sure they will stick at. And buying a 400 what ever currency radio isn’t building it is it? In the uk the first level license hasn’t allowed people to build (that changed recently I think)…and I imagine that was to stop people building junk that interferes with the spectrum. These cheap radios are a gate way drug to the hobby.

@@geraldscott4302gatekeeping much? Most people can’t justify 400 even in today’s money on a hobby they don’t know they will like. These are a gateway dr#g into the hobby. Why is it ok to enter the hobby buying an expensive radio rather than building your own as seems to be the case with you?

@@ILoveMyBikes You no longer need to spend $400. The prices of new, name brand amateur radio equipment has come way down since the late '80s. There is also the option of buying used. I can now find a perfectly good, much newer, used equivalent of what I paid $400 for back then for under $100 today. Of course it is a LOT easier to get an amateur license today than it was back then, and when you got it, you had a real feeling of accomplishment. And you were proud of your equipment. I still remember on my first 2 meter contacts, everybody asked me what kind of radio I was using, and I was happy to tell them. It would have been absolutely humiliating to have to tell them it was some communist Chinese POS.

@@geraldscott4302 Hi Elmer!

Lol as if the risks are so bad to not use the radio like that... you take yourself too seriously

Thank you friend, appreciate it.

​@@VTXHobbiesyou are missing the whole point here. this is a bit teaching about harmonic and such.... you should know that this is also good to show to people who are not really aware about this. All of us started at point 0.

Risks wtf are you talking about 😂😂😂😂😂

@@flyiny_sqiurrel i hope this is a troll post. If not. Go read about harmonics.

@@ImproveConditions What? Radio isn't even light. It's EMF. I cant tell if you're stupid or just jealous. Go get licensed. Doesn't mean you have to stop using CB, just means you can legally do more so when CB band is closed you have like tons of others to pick from

The last thing ham radio needs is a bunch of CBers... I mean they're more than welcome as long as they leave their CB nonsense behind, but they're not they're bringing it with them. The ham bands are starting to sound like glorified CB with jammers and people playing music on repeaters and purposely interfering with people. Not to mention bringing junk radios into the hobby, The HF bands are starting to suffer from Chinese splatter boxes being hooked up to amplifiers because your average CB or has no clue what phase noise means or what impact it has on the bands. ham radio was a much better hobby when it was propagated primarily by engineers scientists and physicist. about the only place safe from the CB crowd in ham radio is 10 GHz and above, operating At those frequencies requires knowing what you're doing because there is no commercial appliances for the CBers to use.

@@dannelson8556 did you read my message "top tier" ? The better CB crowd.

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The lure to those who are interested in radio should be that you get to LEGALLY exploit bands for various purposes that you couldn't touch or risk fines and jail for using if caught. 🤷‍♂

Where did you buy it? Some are sold on Temu and Banggood, and I heard bad things about those sites, so I don't wanna buy some knockoff.

No contact wireless charging would be preferred.

​@@Enonymouse_they have phone cases that mate with the phone using micro USB or usb-c, and the phone case has a wireless charging coil built in. This is for phones that don't support wireless charging.nit obviously adds bulk in both thickness, and length, but something similar might be able to add wireless charging to this radio since it has a USB port! I feel like you could take a reputable wireless charging case, tear it apart, and fit the components onto a 3d printed case for this radio. Maybe even go all in and throw some 18650 cells into the shell, so the wireless charger goes into the 18650 cells, and the 18650 cells are like a battery booster for the radio's battery

​@cyleleghorn246 I think you're onto some good ideas! What would be awesome is if there is a way to set the display up with the handset so it could be used in the field without any power other than what you bring with you. Possibly even a separate power pack so you could bring some extra 18650. Or make a separate power pack with some switch's power output to be able to boost the handset when needed. To power the display screen component when needed or use both when needed. Do you think that's possible?

@@JuggaloNY I'm not sure what the radio's voltage is that it would need to be boosted to, but they have adjustable DC to DC converters (buck converters) that take an input voltage and can convert it to any output voltage between a certain range. So on ming be able to be fed by 3v-9v, and have an output of 5v-24v. They are sold rated on the amps they're capable of outputting. However if you want to build it yourself, once you have more than a few features I think it would be easier to just make 2 devices. One 3d printed case that adds wireless charging capabilities to the radio (with or without extra batteries in the case), and then another separate battery pack with ten or more 18650 cells, fancy USB qc 3.0 plus ports for fast charging devices, and an adjustable buck converter on the other side that has a barrel jack for the output, for which you'd make your own adapter wire to plug into your mystery radio to power the display. Having 10+ cells in the battery pack and buck converter as a separate device just means more power, but specifically more power anywhere, not just for that radio. Charge anything with USB or custom barrel jack or Anderson powerpole adapters. If you pick good 18650 cells and get a good USB charging circuit, you can make a really good battery bank for less than most on the market, but you need to factor in the cost of tools you don't have, like a spot welder for connecting the batteries

Can I buy on of these from you

Thanks mate, yes they struck gold by using that chip in a fairly decent piece of hardware. The question is what is their next move. If they are clever they will embrace the communities efforts on the firmware and come up with a hardware design that truly embraces the full capabilities of the BK4819 and the third party software. Hope you are all good mate.👍🏼

@@andykirby all good mate! Good to see you making some awesome radio videos again. I hope QS do bring out something new and refine the hardware for us

Cheers mate, yeah me too! Good to see your channel is going well also!

I have been waiting for more than 20 years for a radio with a firmware that can be modified by the user! So "our" guys were not willing to give us such a thing, the chinese finally did. Now go on this way! A community will develop software much faster than a company. Next model -> more memory for software extensions please! Then bring out a shortwave transceiver. Just good & capable hardware required, software can be very basic, the enthusiasts will do the rest.

@@C4H6As capitalism vs socialism

I buy the uv5-r plus for the battery to put on my other quanshengs

Fine, but you have to first ask yourself why they went to the trouble of putting the extra tab on there. Were they doing it just to be shitty or would there have been an important safety concern? @@TomR459

Thanks for the info mate... Why do you like that one in particular?

Just that it is the latest model.@@RossTallo

huge difference between military radios and this piece of junk. The front end on this thing is like a barn door, someone can sneeze two blocks away and desens the front end of the radio.

@@dannelson8556who would do that anyway? Radio communication is based on a fundamental flaw of being easy to sniff since it’s a wide broadcast. Military radios and their techniques of possibly processing information to further enhance security has been studied and analysed for decades now, with the conclusions publicly released. Long story short if anyone was trying to capture information from ANY RF comms they would exploit the physical principles of the signal itself giving higher compatibility, not a specific frontend interface of a niché manufacturer.

@@Mikeowd Digital over Analog is quite effective and when targeting is a concern, tiny repeaters with out-of-band comms take care of that issue. Do you think militaries just quit using radio?!

Very good 👍🏼 drop me an email: andy@cloudsto.com

Oh my gosh, I am SO interested in this!

Any luck with the HW mod? Is it backwards compatible?

@thelydiaspringexperient6437 Where can we follow your hardware mods?

This will be fun. GL and 73 from Em89

You have to do what you must for off grid communications. The very first thing to go down in a widespread emergency is electricity. Cellular is always the second. Not to mention, while cellular is up, you can be bumped for VIPs right in the middle of your conversation, even if it is an emergency. Cellular is 100% dependent on a subscription. CB, amateur radio, GMRS, FRS, MURS, pirate radio, foreign radio service radios like Australian UHF CB, LPR433, PMR466, are dependent on a battery, and antenna, only. Thus, do not interrupt air traffic, stay off first responder frequencies, and collect all the other radios you can. 73 de KBX-1339.

5 kW? LOL If your splatter box you call a "linear amp" had this power on HF, and if it had 100% efficiency, it would take 45 Amps on your power outlet. But, no amp has 100% efficiency. In fact RF amps are rarely over 50 or 60% percent efficiency. If we consider 50% efficiency (50% of the input energy is converted into RF energy), 5 kW RF would need *90 AMPS* from your 110V outlet. This is sufficient to call bullshit on your claim.

@@superpieton It would have to be a 220 volt outlet and could make a 4400 watt, sweep tube, amplifier. But, I hate sweep tubes. They are sloppy and do not last very long. I once knew an amateur radio operator that was very proud of his sweep tube amplifier. Granted, he really should have been proud of it since most amateur radio operators would not know how to make one. But it was so messy. The harmonics were quite beautiful in his CRT spectrum analyzer. He was the one that got me interested in the radio hobby. It was interesting to hear him make contacts with Japan from Alberta. He told me that his amplifier was messy on the air, but did the job. He used a very narrow banded antenna tuner to help reduce the mess. But, it seemed what he did worked. He just had to watch the spectrum analyzer and adjust the homemade tuner a lot. It had four knobs to get the antenna tuned and the notch at the right frequency. He must have bought tubes for that amplifier about once a year, or a little more. He showed me how to make manual tuners, solid state amplifiers, power supplies, antennas, oscillators, and how to use test equipment. Though, not an amateur radio operator, I make lots of extra untaxed side money making these items, modifying radios from other services to work on amateur radio and to other services, installing antennas on towers, setting up volunteer fire brigade stations, and much more. I am still a hobbyist. I just never got licensed due to the hassle of finding a place to test. If I try rather hard, I can make a solid state splatter amplifier, even if the radio is clean. I am glad there are not much calls for them. I have only made one. He wanted the most messy amplifier. I made it for him. He was thrilled. I guess he thought harmonics causing lots of bleed over means extra power on the frequency you are using. It is actually the opposite.

I still have my 1979 Yaesu FT-101 that has the CB crystals in it that I used to run on the CB band back in the 80's. 100 Watts AM, 150Watts SSB! It probably needs the capacitors replaced by now!😲😲

@@superpietonwhy on earth would he lie? Get tf over yourself fella! 🙄

enough to chat with someone with a CB talkie in a 20m radius!

The problem I found with some radios like a Yaesu and the handful of Baefengs was that their receive ability was pretty good but their ability to transmit well enough to be heard by nearby repeaters was actually very poor.

Can I get an update from you?

I can only see them sold as a pair on Amazon? Canada here.

Yes, exactly

@@andykirby what's the stubby antenna you're using?

And splatters and make spurious and harmonics all over the spectum. Yeah, "amazing" as you say...

@@superpieton hello sad ham. That's funny... Where did I say that I did this test out of band? I actually did this test on 144MHz where I am licenced. The radio is fairly clean on VHF. Not good on UHF and absolutely awful everywhere else. But my use is 2 m SSB. So I'll carry on and enjoy the radio for what it is. 73

"SOME PEOPLE" 🙁🐖🐷🐖🙁

​@@superpietonfudd alert. 🤡

more like AM but still neat. I tried mine on 432.1 Too bad there's no way to get rid of the carrier. THAT would be outstanding to have a VHF sideband portable. There seems to be limited info on the Beken chip. I would not try the "sideband" transmit anywhere but 2m and 70 cm bands where the PA's are good.

Looks like the tinysa had configurable input attenuation too (not sure if used here) which could knock another 31dB of the signal for a total of 71dB of attenuation.

@@ttttonyyyy I do not use it. Better to put whatever you need on externally. Why? Because you can't use the built-in attenuation and the LNA at the same time and with the right amount of external attenuation, the LNA is magical!

Yep pretty much the same situation as me, as soon as I got it the firmware was loaded.😁

@@andykirby Can you tell me a good pair of all-rounders you would recommend...I bought a pair of the baofeng ones you reviewed with the missus...just looking for an upgrade

Hi M8...did you have to pay any import duty,,,?

@@mikeluxy nope. I guess it was too low a price to warrant the import duty. Although I guess it will be different when I buy my portapack and hackRF one though.

Thanks M8...Im a bit green here...what do you mean by Portapack and hackRF.... Cheers@@murlock666

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Good lord that's a blast from the past lol

Excellent Melvyn....was this through Ali Express...Did you have to pay any import charges...?

Mike I just ordered one. A couple of quid VAT which Aliexpress should pay UK customs import duty

Where did you get it from? 👍

Yes through Ali - paid Tax through Ali and was delivered in 5 days.

Yes it's technically the same insides, the outer casing may look different. Good luck with your tech.

@triradio *Everybody on a budget: "YES!"*

Haha! great story!

I miss the military...always some good shenanigans

@@Mickwhyer That's for sure. Read the book "Catch 22" and you can probably associate names of real people you knew with the military characters in the book. Another transmitting shenanigan was when I worked at the Transmitter site on Midway Island. They had a ham radio club (real nice Collins S-Line setup) and they had an audio line over to the patch panel in the control center area of the transmitter site. Sometimes when they "needed more range" I put an AN/FRT-39 10 kW transmitter up on their frequency. (State of the art single side band capable synthesized transmitter.) And then connect to one of our huge rotating log periodic antennas if one was available. And aim it where they wanted. No FCC trucks on Midway Island.

Hmm, interesting indeed!

Prolly don't wanna b doin that on a navy vessel in case they think u a Chinese spy lol!

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Why do I feel like there's some goofy prepper Trumper political subtext to your comment?

There wasn't but since you wanted to show your ass and read into something that wasn't there, I'll clarify. When the AT&T bombing happened in Nashville a few years back, I was able to listen to the Ham network in TN and get more knowledge of what was going on. I had nothing to contribute to the conversation so I listened vs talked. Hopefully that clears up the subtext of my comment and now you can put away your Trump hating bullshit and try to have a reasonable conversation with some one. Absolutely ridiculous having to explain something that seemed pretty obvious. God gave people two ears and one mouth for a reason. Do I have to spell that out for you? Or are you gonna get on a God hating bandwagon as well.

@@johnroscoe2406 because, even though 2016 was nearly 8 years ago you still can't stop thinking about donal trunk. Is trunq in the room with you right now?

@@honse246 Go away and let the adult's talk please.

@@johnroscoe2406 you mean the adults in your head?

It will. You cannot transmit even miliwatts on Airband and similar. No TX and that's it

@@jplacido9999 milliwatts pose literally zero risk 4 watts much higher only has a 10 mile range with zero interference and that never happens so your range is more realistically 1 mile or 2 so with milliwatts you would have to be standing next to the plane to interfere so no its not going to pose a risk

Hi, not a stupid question, there's not really an antenna that receives well on all bands. You could use a 1.5m long telescopic and sort of slide it to the frequency you wish to receive, smaller antenna = higher frequency, longer antenna = lower frequencies. Hope it helps!

@@andykirby Thanks a lot for your answer! It's highly appreciated 🙂 I tried to reply twice already but obviously RU-vid doesn't like me posting links. Would the two following antennas make sense for you (with all required adapters)?: For lower frequencies : TWAYRDIO Portable BNC Telescopic Handheld CB Radio Antenna 27Mhz Extendable 23.3cm to 1.3m Antennas for Midland Cobra Uniden Handheld/Portable CB Amateur Radio For higher frequencies : Super wideband broadband antenna 2MHz-3GHz FRP type N 50 Ohm for two-way radio Hackrf One GRA-3000MII, black, 30cm (approx. 11.81'')