Portability is a great feature of the FT-817/FT-818, but few enjoy it to its full advantage. A great way you can do this is to operate HF pedestrian mobile. Despite the FT-817/FT-818's low power some great results are No obscenities, discriminatory, abusive, or other content not suitable in public or for younger readers. There really is no right answer to this question. Also, each and every one of us has a different requirement. So, what we really need to do first, is answer a few questions. longest-lived transceiver model. It has attracted a strong following amongst portable and QRP operators. While other

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First, because the cell is LIPO, it has a separate charger and a separate charge power input, and the manual rightfully strongly advises against using the NiMH charger.. The FT-817/FT-818 has a wide voltage range but you want to avoid a battery that gives around the extremes of this. Too low a voltage (eg 8 - 9 volts) will mean the FT-817/FT-818 won't be able to put out its full 5 watts To use CW with the FT-817 you need to install the optional CW filter. The standard filter is too wide, so you hear too many other signals and noise, making it hard to copy any other than the strongest signal in the passband.conditions. To see how low you can go you need an RF attenuator. Try it and see what you can do with 20 milliwatts or less. My FT-817 performed well enough on SSB and CW but reports on AM were mixed. AM is already a compromise compared to SSB but stations worked reported weaker than expected modulation. It turned out that the No ATU. The FT-817 has no internal ATU. Originally I thought that this was a reasonable design compromise. However, having experienced how hard it is to get small portable antennas to match in the varying environments in which they may be used, I began to realize that an ATU would be very desirable. Most ATUs are the size of the FT-817 or larger, which negates a lot of the benefits of the radio's small size. However, Elecraft has recently introduced a tiny portable QRP auto-ATU, the T1. Read my review of it. preferred as some of the earlier '817s blew their final amplifiers. You can recognise an ND model by its choice of Personally I prefer 500 Hz as I'm in Australia and the bands are fairly quiet. But those in more densely populated areas might got for a narrower (250 Hz) filter. Installation ie easy and requires no soldering.

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Only 2.5W on battery power. The FT-817 is advertised as a 5W radio. But on battery power the maximum output power is normally 2.5W. This can be overridden, but bearing in mind the limited battery capacity this may not be a good idea. But it's disappointing. Let's face it, out portable you are probably going to be using a pretty inefficient antenna, so being limited to 2.5W as well isn't going to help. Now for any of you who have watched my YouTube channel, or read this blog, you already know the answer I’m going to give. Lithium Iron Phosphate! Even though you know that’s the answer, you also know that it’s not always the right answer. So let’s go through three different options, and explain the pros and cons of each of them.

Poor ergonomics. Many commonly used functions are accessed from one of the three buttons below the display, which have about 11 different sets of functions. This means a lot of button pressing and knob twiddling just to do something like turn the noise blanker on or off, change the output power or toggle the meter between SWR and power out. Although to a great extent this problem is inevitable given the small size of the 817's front panel, I'm sure Yaesu could have fitted a slightly bigger LCD panel, with less of a surround, and this could at least allow the current selection of the three buttons to be permanently displayed. Perhaps some functions could have been made accessible from a key-pad mike, as well? Direct frequency input would have been nice. When the power goes off don't just sit around at home waiting for it to return. Instead find a battery, fire up the FT-817/FT-818 and savour the temporary pleasure of exploring the unusually quiet bands.

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The FT-817/FT-818's internal microphone is OK but not great. And if you're running low power you want the punchiest transmit audio possible. temperature compensated crystal oscillator) can greatly improve stability. Both the Yaesu TCXO-9 and aftermarket versions are available. I can't comment on the genuine Yaesu one but even the cheaper version gives a good Summer can turn often dead bands into active segments with massive signals. The cause is sporadic-E propagation, a phenomenon most noted in mid summer, and, to a lesser extent, mid-winter. Its five watts SSB can readily span hundreds of kilometres when communicating with well-equippped stations. The main Even when band conditions are tough on SSB or a major contest makes competition fierce, refuge can often be sought on the digital modes.

Do not submit a product review critiquing another review or reviewer. Reviewers should be able to share their product opinion without being publicly criticized. RX Frequency Coverage: 100 kHz - 56 MHz; 76 - 154 MHz; 420 - 470 MHz. (Exact frequency range may be slightly different) did improve reports. Here I am working 7 MHz AM pedestrian mobile, including working another QRP portable station. TX Frequency Coverage: 160 - 10 Meters, 50 MHz, 144 MHz, 430-450 MHz, plus Alaska Emergency Channel (5167.5 kHz).