A thrill with FT-7800 and magnifying glasses

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A year ago I got two of these cheap, small and featurepacked duobanders from Yaesu that are called FT-7800. What I like about them is that they fit into the small console between the chairs in my ancient car.:)

But now I thought just for the fun of it (and to keep the tradition up) to do a little research about the configuration of them.

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More information on a TM-V71E?

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In the search of a good, cheap, modern, flexible and well performing dual band rig with two receivers in, my choice fell onto the Kenwood TM-V71E after having looked on what “the three big companies” had to offer.

Only the Yaesu FT-8800 was a resonable alternative actually. But it doesn’t have backlit buttons, and the memory management isn’t as flexible. For better memory management I’d have to get the even older FT-8900 for more bucks. And Icom®… wayyyy too expensive!

Of course there are also some other interesting, more technical aspects involved… so hold your solder irons gentlemen:P

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FT-817 and the blocked transmit

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I recently bought one of these handhelds on steroids, you know the Yaesu ft-817nd.

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Squares and DXCC’s at the moment…

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I decided to play around with the statistics that the log program outputs and, well, it’s a lot of data…

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SM6XIN’s statistics for year 2007

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QSOs worked by SM6XIN (JO68RK)

Type of propagation: All Mode: All modes
From 2007/01/01 to 2007/12/31 Distance over: 0 Km.

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QSOs/band

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QSOs/mode