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

Looks perfectly fine for CB band! Splatters over 10Mhz ✅ Has roger beep capability ✅ Mic turns up past 100% ✅

This'll stir up the angry old radio men brigade!! 😂😂😂😉

I am 55, and I have always wanted to learn all about how to use these radios since I was a child. I just stumbled into this channel and sub'd, hoping to learn as much as I can from this community!

@2:25 Ham operator here. And no not complaint at all. You are wonderfull doing showing what are the risks on doing this . Teaching people about this ham or non ham is wonderfull..!! Keep up the great work mate. Radio is wonderfull... Loving your videos !

As a ham operator of over 40yrs I'm all for these cheap Chinese radios, their value for money is off the scale!😂👍

I haven't operated radio for years, was A and B class license at 14 and 15 years respectively, 43 now. But remember being involved with some cutting edge stuff back then, copper tube wave guide for Microwave frequency transmission and some first satellite packet radio. It's come along way and glad that the door was opened to the interested. Love the look of this, always had soft spot for hand held with power ✌️

Beautiful!!! Now I need one to keep in my SHTF box...

Andy this is absolutely insane! Ive got the Retevis version ov this rig. I ghink it's time for some modding. Awesome video man, Thanks for sharing

It's worth noting, for anyone who is after one, that the UV-K5, UV-K5(8) and UV-K6 are all the same guts, just in a variety of similar cases, and different backlight colours. The UV-K5 plus, in addition, is a hateful thing with a jarring blue backlight and no USB-C charging. UV-K6 is my preferred favourite.

I have a few, I need to do this. Awesome for cheap receive radios. Brilliant video. Cheers!🍻🤠

The UV-K5 tests on the CB band show that its output power figures are in µWatts (yes, MICRO watts -- 228 µW to be precise).

You get military handhelds that transmit from 26 MHz to 520 MHz. SDR can give you the ability to do from 1 MHz to 1200 MHz. You just need a linear amplifier to follow.

*UPDATE! TRY THE IJV FIRMWARE. It will TX a very clean DSB and CW signal on the 2/70 bands. It also has a very nice user interface. 73. Original post: In the frequency scanner/spectrum mode, after pressing PTT to lock the frequency in, If you select SSB, And then toggle to the DEV setting and lower this to around 200 or 300, It will actually TX a reasonably good sounding double sideband signal. You can not only listen to SSB but you can talk there too! Amazing. (I did this test on 2m where I am licenced, and where the radio is reasonably clean (on VHF).

a few of us are working on hardware mods to match the firmware. the filters will be switched by spare gpio to give a better low pass or resonance at 28mhz as that is the only fm compatible hf band for non type approved amateur gear. if thereis space, filters could also allow 6m band at reasonable power, but i am working on the 28mhz 5w mod.

Great summary and test Andy. The Quansheng is truly a cool little unit that I don't think even Quansheng expected to be so popular!

Ordered one of these before I watched this vid, can't wait to get it and mod it. Cheers Andy!

I've had a handful of those 'illega' CB radios. Small list - Cobra 2000 with extra channels, Golden Eagle with extra channels, Trinidad with extra channels, Yaesu FT-101e (i know not illegal but I used it on CB), 5k linear amp with a set of Moonraker 4 beams. Miss talking skip and CB's in general. Great video, thank you!

Just picked one of these up from aliexpress for £15 shipped. Looking forward to playing around with it....... cheers Andy, another great vid.

I have one of those. Its surprisingly well built. That USB charging is a game changer as well. I installed the S-meter mod on mine and that was about it. I think you hit the nail on the head about someone developing this radio further and i am excited to see what comes of it.

Andy is the number 1 CB guy of all the radio amateurs. That's why I decide to pass my radio amateur licence. Way to go Andy if you want to lure the top tier cb crowd into radio amateurism.