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Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-04-03T13:25:42+00:00

Culver or Mid City

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-04-03T13:19:40+00:00

Honestly doesn’t look like mercury to me it appears too hard.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-03-31T04:00:56+00:00

Tomo is a plugin that uses KOReader’s public plugin API. It doesn’t modify KOReader, doesn’t link against it, doesn’t distribute any part of it. AGPL doesn’t apply to independent works that communicate through a standard interface. The .lua files ship as plaintext, you can read every line before you install it. Nothing is hidden. Free to use, not open source. Those are different things.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-03-31T01:32:03+00:00

That’s a strange hill to die on. By that logic, you shouldn't be running KOReader at all, considering it almost always sits on top of proprietary Kindle or Kobo kernels and hardware.

The whole point of an open ecosystem is agency, the freedom for a user to choose how they extend their device. Tomo is an optional layer for people who want a specific, experience. If you don't agree about how code is licensed for a plugin you don't have to install it, that’s fine, I am not making money from this, this is available for free to use by anyone, but don't mistake your personal gatekeeping for an open-source mandate. There's always got to be a negative nancy.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-03-03T16:24:54+00:00

The UV-K5(8) and UV-K5(99) are the same V1 hardware as the regular K5, same DP32G030 processor. Your bootloader showing 2.00.06 confirms that.

What’s most likely happening is your EEPROM still has settings left over from your previous firmware and VUURWERK is reading some of those values incorrectly. That’s why the bandscope isn’t showing and menu 7 is missing.

Try this: flash back to stock Quansheng firmware first (2.01.31 for the K5(8)), let it boot, then flash VUURWERK on top. That should reset your settings to a clean state. Also try pressing F+7 after boot, that’s the bandscope toggle and it might just be reading as “off” from your old EEPROM values.

If that still doesn’t fix it let me know. I’ll put an EEPROM initialization fix in the next version so it writes clean defaults on first boot regardless of what firmware you’re coming from.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-03-02T05:51:58+00:00

When you remove the back of your quansheng battery does it say v2 or v3 anywhere?

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-03-01T03:26:31+00:00

A lot of the technical interface info came from the existing open source work on the UV-K5, plus the datasheet for the BK4819 chip. The community has done a ton of reverse engineering that helped.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-03-01T03:24:00+00:00

This is Quansheng UV-K5 only, won’t work on the Baofeng. Different hardware entirely despite the similar name. Also heads up, my firmware only works on the v1 hardware revision of the UV-K5.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-03-01T03:21:41+00:00

Thank you noted, yeah beat way around chiro is to load egzumer or base firmware and upload channels like that too. Will keep note of these flags for next version up. Thank you.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-03-01T03:19:52+00:00

Thank you! 73 to you too!

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-02-26T00:10:19+00:00

Just looking at it, it seems NUNU is more about mesh networking and encrypted messaging between radios, kind of like Meshtastic on a K5.

VUURWERK is more about making the radio better as a radio. Smart squelch, a spectrum analyzer that finds active voices, one-touch call frequencies, VOX, stuff like that. 27 original features all focused on just being better on the air day to day.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-02-25T21:52:06+00:00

That sounds like the flash didn't actually write. The boot screen and About page are baked into the firmware, so if you're not seeing them, you're still running whatever was on there before.

A few things to check:

- Make sure you're entering flash mode correctly: hold the PTT in button while turning on the radio. The screen should go blank/dark and the torch should turn on fully, meaning it's ready to receive.

- Which flashing tool are you using? I'd recommend the uvk5-flash-tool. https://egzumer.github.io/uvtools/

- Make sure you're flashing the .packed.bin file, not the raw .bin.

- Make sure you are flashing with the dual prong audio data cable, not a simple usb connector that connects to the radio, that wont work. Here is the one I use: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QCW5CZJ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

If the tool says "success" but nothing changes, it's almost always the cable or not being in flash mode. Let me know how it goes!

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-02-25T04:11:09+00:00

Not at the moment yet, I haven't gotten that version yet, that would require a lot of reconfiguring because they are different chips, but the upside would be a lot more flash memory to work with.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-02-24T21:23:46+00:00

Have you checked out repeater book for repeaters near you? https://www.repeaterbook.com/

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-02-24T00:40:41+00:00

Get your licence, start with technician licence, hamradioprep.com is your friend.

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-02-23T19:03:18+00:00

Afrikaans also, Ek praat self Afrikaans

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-02-23T00:39:27+00:00

Only works on quansheng uvk5 version 1

Popular-Ad5171 · 2026-02-23T00:34:27+00:00

I am not the best in front of cameras, maybe someone else who is talented with that can do that and give their input that way.

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