[MRCA] Hamvention Military Radio Nets

[sbjohnston at aol.com]

$30 Quangsheng (Anysecu) UV-K5 handheld transceiver on Amazon...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C13RS4L1
It is modded with the "egzumer" firmware
Link to custom firmware I used:
Releases · egzumer/uv-k5-firmware-custom
My process with the Anysecu UV-K5...
The computer I selected was my daily use laptop.  It had already been used for programming Baofeng radios and it seemed to recognize the Anysecu serial programming adapter without any fuss. 

With the stock firmware still in place, I found I had to update Chirp to the latest version before I could talk to the radio.  Once that was done, Chirp-Next could read and write to the radio.  I selected "Quansheng UV-K5" as the radio and I believe it was on Com 8 in my case.  I only programmed a few test frequencies in at this point.

Next I updated the radio's firmware to the "egzumer v0.22" using the "flash with a browser" link opened in Chrome.  That went smoothly.  After the firmware update I found the test frequencies were still programmed in the radio - nice.  
I reconnected with Chirp-Next and finished programming with useful frequencies.  No problems noted.  I discovered I could copy and paste my favorite Baofeng lineup into the UV-K5 programming to save time (two tabs open at once in Chirp-Next).




Steve WD8DAS   

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