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.


CHIRP_Squelch_Quansheng

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.

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