Egzumer Needs a Squelch Lower Than One

Egzumer is great software for using to modify the Quansheng radios. It has many excellent features and is very easy to use. But one thing I have noticed that does annoy me a bit is the lowest squelch level. It reads number 1. But for this to be the lowest squelch setting, I think it is set a little too high. Some signals, which are not too bad in terms of how clear / strong they are, are choppy on the lowest squelch setting.

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Disabling the squelch does get rid of the choppiness but then the squelch is making a heap of noise each time the transmission ends. This can not be stopped by pressing the M [menu button], or the middle side button if the squelch is set to off [zero]. So It would be great if there was a lower squelch setting of 0.5 so that all the faint signals could be heard without being choppy, or without having to disable the squelch completely [which is a squelch of 0 = disabled].

Other than that Egzumer is excellent. I have seen some people say that the Quansheng K5 / K6 etc are not really scanners. But they are. With Egzumer installed you get 200 channels to add frequencies to. These are scannable, so its basically a 200 channel scanner with tons of features. And the scanning works great. Each channel is totally customizable. You can change steps, mode [AM, NFM etc], Demodu and much more. A lot of the older scanners can not do this for individual channels, so yeah, it's really good. 

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