Bug #10681
closedQuansheng UV K5 - No WFM
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Description
Please modify to allow use of wide band FM (WFM).
Updated by Wito Krasnal over 1 year ago
the radio supports FM (MENU 10 WIDE) and NFM (MENU 10 NARROW). Both are available from CHIRP, column "Mode" in channel spreadsheet.
Updated by David Z over 1 year ago
Some versions of Chirp offer WFM (25 Khz), FM (20 KHz) and NFM (12.5 KHz). The manufacturer's CPS just has options for 25 KHZ and 12.5 KHz. Where it becomes a problem is when you are copying and pasting from another radios Chirp file.
Updated by Dan Smith over 1 year ago
- Assignee set to Jacek Lipkowski SQ5BPF
CHIRP considers FM to be 5kHz deviation, NFM to be 2.5kHz and WFM to be 200kHz (i.e. broadcast radio). I think this radio probably does not support WFM on the regular channels (doesn't according to the menu) and that's why it has separate memories for its broadcast receiver.
So when you set chirp to FM, that is what the radio calls "Wide", only because it's wider than "Narrow". These are the wide and narrow used in land-mobile communications, which almost all amateur radios in this area call "FM" and "NFM" or "narrow". The "WFM" mode designation in CHIRP comes from Icom and Kenwood radios, which use WFM to mean broadcast FM.
I'll let Jacek confirm the above details of the radio itself and close this as appropriate.
Updated by Jacek Lipkowski SQ5BPF over 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Not a bug
It's exactly like Dan wrote.
Most FM transceivers will have FM with about 5kHz deviation, which is for the wider channel spacing (25kHz in Europe, 20kHz in the US), and NFM for the narrow channel spacing with about half of the deviation, which is usually half of the wide spacing (12.5kHz in Europe, 10kHz in the US).
It's like this for most radios. For another example check the Baofeng UV-5R, or most other radios.
WFM can mean a lot of things (broadcast quality FM with about 100kHz deviation, some "a bit wider FM" with 10-20kHz deviation etc). The Quansheng UV-K5 doesn't support it (and neither do most other radios like the UV-5R for example), and the driver is not going to pretend it does.
Updated by Tony Ling about 1 year ago
The Quansheng K5 & K6 do support the Band II FM broadcast band, but this is handled externally to the main system by a Beken BK1080 dedicated broadcast Rx IC.
For this reason, broadcast FM channels do not appear within the usual memory channels and functions are offered as an adjunct within the factory CPS and under use.