Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Interesting Links...


Police Impersonator's Month-Long Fake Police Radio Operation Ends in a Confession

Tulsa Amateur Radio Club (W5IAS) Facebook Group

Kansas City Wide, an international network of Amateur Radio digital repeaters.


Tulsa Amateur Radio Club - Super Link






Free study with TARC.


Greg Meador
August 7
 ·
I am posting this for a fellow amateur radio operator.
If you need more information, please reach out to Rol Anders roland.anders@comcast.net.
If you or anyone you know is interested, here is the information for our upcoming, free, live Technician Class Licensing course on Zoom.  Please feel free to share the following announcement online or at your club meetings.  
A free, weekly, live, Amateur Radio Technician Class Licensing course on Zoom will begin on Thursday, Sept 3, and will run through Thursday, October 15 (7 sessions).    The three-hour sessions will start at 6:30 PM Eastern Time.  These are the classes that we have been holding for years sponsored by the National Electronics Museum.  Please publicize this with anyone you know that you think would be interested.  Those wishing to sign up should email me at roland.anders@comcast.net.
We have overlapping mailing lists, so if you received a duplicate of this message, thanks for your understanding. 
Thanks.
73,
Rol Anders, K3RA



Friday, January 23, 2026

Monday, January 12, 2026

What F4HWN Firmware Actually Is.

 

F4HWN firmware is a community‑developed custom firmware for the Quansheng UV‑K5/K6/K1 family.

It focuses on:

  • Cleaner UI

  • Better scanning behavior

  • More usable features

  • Bug fixes

  • Extra tools (S‑meter, spectrum‑like display, etc.)

It’s not the most feature‑packed firmware—that title usually goes to EGZUMER—but F4HWN is known for being stable, polished, and practical.

Use the FTDI USB Programming Cable ONLY!!!

An FTDI‑based programming cable is considered the best cable for ham radio because it is the only chipset that is consistently reliable, driver‑stable, universally compatible, and immune to the counterfeiting problems that plague cheaper cables. It simply works every time—especially on Windows—while Prolific‑chip cables often fail, disconnect, or refuse to install drivers.


Why did I brick my UV-K5??? by: Kevin Omura

This post is mirrored from Facebook.  All credit goes to Kevin Omura



 Why did I brick my UV-K5???

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

QUESUM (Quansheng) M7 DMR / UV

STAY TUNED!!! 


Ok... I figured this WHOLE thing out! I will try to make some posts/videos in the next few days on my blog BUT I definitely have EVERYTHING working! Whew. It took about 40 hours of my time. www.bageyes.com The ONLY thing that is NOT going to change is this... when you see THIS screen, you are locked down to that ANALOG template. Example... If you add 462.xxx and then you want to add 146.xxx it is NOT happening. This setting is a GLOBAL template setting and if you set everything up THEN change it, you will lose ALL saved frequencies. ALSO... the ONLY cable that works with this radio HAS TO BE the FTDI cable. ALL others give you the "password" issue.