Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
I suspect stripes appear for several reasons. I've been baking my '857D through four car changes over the years, but have always shaded the front seat area with a windshield screen. The display is
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Kent Trimble, K9ZTV
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
It's not only heat.? I had the zebra-stripe problem appear on my 857D after a few years.? The rig has never been mobile, or even portable.? It's lived its life in an air conditioned house, and is
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Darrel, aa7fv
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
I cut a little piece of clear plastic to cover the display screen and also generally cover the head unit with a cloth when I'm not using it.? Car gets quite hot but no problems in years. 73,? Daniel
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n0bn
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
Yes, my experience is that the heat alone does it. I left my unit in the car quite a bit, covered by a box or cloth so people looking in the windows wouldn't see it (nothing here to steal). No direct
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Zack Widup
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
My ft-857d was installed in my vehicle for years. It developed stripes. I then removed it from the vehicle and did some SOTA activations during a Scottish winter, with minimum temperatures of -5¡ãC.
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Fraser - MM0EFI
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FT 857 D display LCD/control head
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Hai all Any body hvae an idea who deals with FT857/Yaesu repair/service in and around Hong Kong or Shenzhen,China to get my FT857 disply repaired.? I am not sttin the spare disply from any online
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Easwaran Unni Tharakkal VU2TE
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
If the screen problems are a result of direct UV rays shining g on the display, I could see that helping.? But I was under the impression that the problems were from just high heat levels.?Mike
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mikemm58
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
i made a little cover to go over the head unit in the car which just slips on/off when i want to use it, cant seem to find the right place where the sun wont hit it at times through the day, i have a
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Michael Newbury SA4MDN
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
I do concur with both comments about display is mostly with radio which have been use in a car. I bought mine in 2012 from a German fellow, with the guarantee that it was never use in car, as the
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Thierry
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
All of the display failures I've heard of were from mobile use. If you're using yours as a base station in a home with reasonable temperature control it should be fine. Randy (KE5EOT) ARRL, QCWA,
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KE5EOT
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Re: Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
My understanding is that the zebra stripes issue tends to occur mostly in rigs that have at some stage been installed in cars where they have been heat affected, but perhaps I'm wrong. I just had my
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Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...>
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Keeping the 857D Screen For Long Life
First, I have a perfectly fine working Yaesu 857D, screen and everything else.? I love it. I have read several messages over time that people had a failure of their 857 screen and were looking for a
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Peder Kittelson AA7OE
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Main board FT857
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Art N2AJO <olson339@...>
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Re: menu 59 missing RMT Option
Kent, Well that's an entire other issue which I think I understand now but at the time I was grasping. This all started with my rig having no TX on 14/10? MHz.? ?I've had a similar issue with my
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nw1b@...
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Re: menu 59 missing RMT Option
Troy ... Thanks for the additional info. You're right, another reset may restore the RMT option (along with others that might be missing). Be sure you and the rig are at the same potential -- touch
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Kent Trimble, K9ZTV
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Re: menu 59 missing RMT Option
As a follow up..... I've had this mic working on this radio with no issues.? I needed to do a factory reset and after I did I needed to set the radio back up again.? that is when I noticed I could
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nw1b@...
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Re: menu 59 missing RMT option
Are you first getting the "extended menu" ? Reference the steps in the mic manual ..
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John Sanford
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FT-857d and Heil HC-74 microphone
Hello group, Has anyone tried our radio with the Heil HC-74 microphone for DX? Any reports? Thanks 73 Stefano (IU?DFT)
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Stefano Tipaldi
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Re: menu 59 missing RMT Option
Typo ... RMT appears in menu 59 of my FT-857D whether a microphone is connected or not. 73, Kent K9ZTV
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Kent Trimble, K9ZTV
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Re: menu 59 missing RMT Option
REM appears in menu 59 of my FT-857D whether a microphone is connected or not. 73, Kent K9ZTV
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Kent Trimble, K9ZTV
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