Radio Direction Finding - Episode 2: Low Power Hunt with the Quansheng UV-K5 @TheTechPrepper
Radio Direction Finding - Episode 2: Low Power Hunt with the Quansheng UV-K5  @TheTechPrepper
Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is the second episode in a Radio Direction Finding (RDF) series in which I will attempt to learn and share the basic principles of RDF to find hidden transmitters. Let's take a look and try a close-in hunt with low power using the Quansheng UV-K5 radio.

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RADIO GEAR
* Quansheng UV-K5 amzn.to/4jMCJ0e
* MicroFox-50 - byonics.com/mf

FIRMWARE
github.com/armel/uv-k5-firmware-custom

0:00 Introduction
1:17 Bionics MicroFox-50
2:17 Quansheng UV-K5
3:51 RSSI Meter
6:13 Mock Hunt
8:33 Quansheng UV-K5 Programming
9:58 Quansheng UV-K5 Settings

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Radio Direction Finding - Episode 2: Low Power Hunt with the Quansheng UV-K5

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