The Quansheng TK11 First Impressions Video

Yes, it's now released and for sale. People have been waiting for this radio to drop for quite some time. For a while it seemed like it would never happen, but the day has finally arrived. I hope it lives up to expectations. It's got lots of cool features and the built quality looks great. So, what advantages does it have over a modified firmware Quansheng. Well, from what I can quickly see. It can go lower than an Egzumer'd Quansheng. Which goes to 18MHz. The TK11 goes down to 0.153. I presume that's KHz and not MHz. Transmit power is up to "10 Watts". Out the box the Quansheng TK11 can transmit on CB. Two antenna connections. The second one is a T-Shape, which deals with all the lower bands like short wave.

The Quansheng TK11 can be found for sale here

 
Battery is 3000mAh or 2500mAh depending on where you look. The TK 11 goes all the way up to 1160MHz. Apparently it is waterproof. And I'm sure there will be some reviewers putting that to the test. I can wait to see those results. All in all the Quansheng TK11 [is it the "8" or "5"] looks promising. I'm not sure what chip is inside this thing, but hopefully, once the mod developers take a look under the hood, they might be able to turn it into some sort of super radio. Out the box it is rather impressive anyway. No need to modify it for most people. But the temptation is always there if some mods do become available.

Quansheng Squelch Sensitivity CHIRP

I made a post a while back about the Quansheng and its lowest squelch setting being a bit too high. You can read that post here. The high squelch even on a low squelch setting of 1 led to choppy signals coming through, despite them being quite good signals. Anyway, this led me to look for an answer. Could it be the Egzumer firmware causing this issue. Did the developers make the lowest squelch a bit too high and possibly update this issue in the future with an Egzumer update.

The squelch settings from my Quansheng in CHIRP

Well it turns out that CHIRP has the ability to change the squelch settings on the K5-8 / UVK6, and also UV-5R Plus [here]. So I installed CHIRP, got my Quansheng details uploaded and had a look at the settings. I could see the squelch values and was tempted to change them. But I wasn't sure what numbers to put in and was scared of putting the wrong values in and bricking the radio. So I left it and did a bit of reading on the Internet.

I found out from reading on GitHub that the squelch values are on the EPROM [deep in the core settings I believe] and will only accept certain values. If the wrong values are added and then uploaded back to the radio using CHIRP, I think it can really mess things up. I don't know what the correct values are so I left it.

I didn't think it was worth potentially breaking the radio just for the occasional choppy signal. I can just disable the squelch completely when its choppy. I would probably leave it alone if I were you. But If you do decide to go through with this in CHIRP, I would appreciate a comment here to let me know how you got on. And, if it went well, what are the correct values.