New version of Quansheng UV5R plus (made sure its not baofeng) supports 8w output

[lincolntan36]

Please add a version wherein an option for 8w is available. Thank you.

[armel]

I’ve moved your issue to the Discussions section, since it doesn’t relate to a bug in the firmware.
To my knowledge, there isn’t (yet) a Quansheng UV-5R Plus that delivers 8 W. And if such a model does exist, I don’t have one. Without the device in hand, I can’t add or test a specific feature, I prefer to avoid guesswork.

[lincolntan36]

What would you need aside from a physical unit?

[armel]

I’m no magician… If this so-called K5 really outputs 8 W — which I seriously doubt — it must have undergone a hardware upgrade (with a power amplifier) and be using a calibration table I’m not familiar with. But if you think it’s all that simple, my firmware code is open source, feel free to make the modification yourself.

[lincolntan36]

Here are pictures of the 8w version.

[lohtse]

Looks Identical to the standard 5w... Do you have a link? Have you ran it through a meter? Every listing I found only showed 5watt... And it seems odd they did not change or and sometihng to the from etc to identfy it as 8watt like most radios do... I wonder if it has been mislabeled somehow or is a counterfit?? I would have thought Quansheng would have said somethong it there was an 8 watt version..

Just seen in one of the quansheng groups

[lincolntan36]

Only got the radio yesterday, and I apparently haven't delved far enough into the Quansheng groups to have seen that. Don't have a meter currently with me right now but might be able to borrow one maybe in the next week. Thanks