Open reimplementation of the Quan Sheng UV-K5 v2.1.27 firmware

This repository is a cloned and customized version of DualTachyon's open firmware found here ..

https://github.com/DualTachyon/uv-k5-firmware

A cool achievement if you ask me

User customization

You can customize the firmware by enabling/disabling various compile options. You'll find the options at the top of "makefile" ('0' = disable, '1' = enable) ..

ENABLE_SWD                    := 0       enable only if you're using the CPU's SWD port (debugging/programming)
ENABLE_OVERLAY                := 1       cpu FLASH stuff
ENABLE_UART                   := 1       without this you can't configure the radio with your PC
ENABLE_AIRCOPY                := 0       easier to just type frequency in
ENABLE_FMRADIO                := 0       FM band 2 RX
ENABLE_NOAA                   := 0       Everything NOAA
ENABLE_VOICE                  := 0       want to hear voices ?
ENABLE_ALARM                  := 0       TX alarms
ENABLE_BIG_FREQ               := 0       big font for the frequencies
ENABLE_KEEP_MEM_NAME          := 1       maintain the channel name when (re)saving a memory channel
ENABLE_CHAN_NAME_FREQ         := 1       show the channel frequency below the channel name/number
ENABLE_WIDE_RX                := 1       full 18MHz to 1300MHz for RX (though frontend is not tuned for full range)
ENABLE_TX_WHEN_AM             := 0       allow TX (always FM) when RX is set to AM
ENABLE_CTCSS_TAIL_PHASE_SHIFT := 1       use standard CTCSS tail phase shift rather than QS's own 55Hz tone method 
ENABLE_MAIN_KEY_HOLD          := 1       keys 0-9 can be held down to bypass having to first press the F-key
ENABLE_BOOT_BEEPS             := 1       give user audio feedback on the volume knob position at boot-up
ENABLE_COMPANDER              := 1       compander option - not yet fully operational
#ENABLE_SINGLE_VFO_CHAN       := 1       not yet implemented - single VFO on display when possible
#ENABLE_BAND_SCOPE            := 1       not yet implemented - spectrum/pan-adapter

Some other changes made

• Various QS firmware bugs fixed
• Added new bugs
• Finer RSSI bar steps
• Nicer/cleaner big numeric font than original QS big numeric font
• Various menu re-wordings - trying to reduce 'WTH does that mean ?'
• Extra menu items (including hidden menu freq calibration)
• plus others

Compiler

arm-none-eabi GCC version 10.3.1 is recommended, which is the current version on Ubuntu 22.04.03 LTS. Other versions may generate a flash file that is too big. You can get an appropriate version from: https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/gnu-rm

Building

To build the firmware, you need to fetch the submodules and then run make:

git submodule update --init --recursive --depth=1
make

To compile directly in windows without the need of a linux virtual machine:

1. Download and install "gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10-win32.exe" from https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/gnu-rm
2. Download and install "gnu_make-3.81.exe" from https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm
3. You may (or may not) need to reboot your PC after installing the above

Then you can run 'win_make.bat' from the directory you saved this source code too. You may need to edit the bat file (path to make.exe) depending on where you installed the above two packages too.

Credits

Many thanks to various people on Telegram for putting up with me during this effort and helping:

• DualTachyon
• Mikhail
• Andrej
• Manuel
• @wagner
• @Lohtse Shar
• @Matoz
• @Davide
• @Ismo OH2FTG
• OneOfEleven
• and others I forget

License

Copyright 2023 Dual Tachyon https://github.com/DualTachyon

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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