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my first Yaesu
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Hi all the following is to generate a bit of traffic?
Although I am new to the group but I do not see any activity is this because? we do not have any storage space to store associated literature to any of the articles? ? or is it??because??most have there equipment and it does every think thy want so no help required? Personal i fell in love with Yaesu at the age of 19? before that i could only admire the equipment my first encounter was the FT 220 being the first? 2 mt all mode rig? from then on I moved into a flat so aerials gave me a problem but more recently? i was sad to have to by my next rig from Icom 9700 because? Yaesu had not developed a multi mode rig for 2mt ,70 cm and 23 cm? personal the 9700 has good points but icom have missed out a bit? personal i think Yaesu could produce a winier as the market is crying out for a 4 band rig to do 2 mt to 13 cm as this will then cater for the growing satellite market? but it will require video TX and RX ether included or from an associated computer? the icing on the cake would be to include 4 mt as this would generate more activity on the band for the VHF operators Regards Paul?? |
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Paul . . .
On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:46:08 -0700, "Paul Bicknell" <admin@...> wrote: Although I am new to the group but I do not see any activity is this because we do not have any storage space to store associated literature to any of the articles ?At this point, the group is new so I wouldn't expect a lot of replies, but let's see if we get replies. As to whether it's because we have no storage space, I doubt that's the case personally since there are some groups with plenty of members and posts who have a basic group created before they started adding a per-member fee for gorups over 100 members. I created this group for that reason, in case it would be of some use to others. There are a couple of recent Yaesu groups that are well-esablished that have a few posts every week. A few years ago you could create a basic (free) group that had storage, no per-member charge for groups over 100 members, up to 3 subgroups per group, and more. There have been a few changes along the way but groups created before certain dates had their feature sets grandfathered into the group with no fees or charges. . I also created a bunch of other groups, some for vintage radio brands no longer made. Stick around until the beginning of the month and one of the reminder messages sent out monthly will have the entire list in case you're interested. As to the second part of your question, I also doubt that. Plenty of people have purchased new radios and seek out help on how to use the various features. Todays radios have features buried under multi-level menus that are sometiems not intuitive. I don't have a modern Yaesu, but I have been told by some that their menu system is less intuitive than Icom's. I have a Yaesu FT-767GX that I bought for $50 late last year at a tailgate hamfest and got it working for less than an additional $50. Working, but not fully restored, as the built-in antenna tuner doesn't work yet, but since I don't use the internal tuner on my Icom 7300, I won't likely use it on the 767, either. I use an external tuner. And owners of th enew radios run into simple problems they can't figure out for themselves, like a high SWR that was traced to a bad coax jumper that worked just fine the day before, or the radio shutting down when transmitting due to a bad electrical connection at the fuse, Molex connector on the back of the radio, etc. Many people don't have good troubleshooting skills and need the help and support of others. It's a great way to learn new things when you post a help needed questions. My 767 doesn't have a touchscreen or a menu system. Everything is accessible, mostly from the front panel, one or two things require removing the cover. I prefer this arrangement but love the features of the newer radios. And I did use some radio forums to get information when I was figuring out what needed fixes on the radio. Donald KX8K ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP |
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Thank you for the return mail The real subject of this posting is to invite all to give their account of their first Yaesu Sorry but from memory most Groups IO started as Groups and a fear few changed for the enhanced platform and Groups IO helped with the migration And all was going sweet until Groups decided to call it a day so those that acted quickly transferred at Zero cost Then it was cost at $100 and later any new sites would not get the storage but at present you can up grade for one month at $20 and this will give you the additional features Re your line "no per-member charge for groups over 100 members" this is new to me but one type of account dues give you 2000 members then charges you ?0.40 per member / year so I can see in the future that charges could change so each group member will have to pay $1 per year Regarding number of posts for a sight I am a member of a few and the active ones run between 10% to 80 % posts per month compared to the number of members Regards Paul -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donald Hellen Sent: 20 August 2021 00:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Yaesu-Amateur-Radio] my first Yaesu Paul . . . On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:46:08 -0700, "Paul Bicknell" <admin@...> wrote: Although I am new to the group but I do not see any activity is thisbecause we do not have any storage space to store associated literature to any of the articles ? or is it because most have there equipment and it does every thinkAt this point, the group is new so I wouldn't expect a lot of replies, but let's see if we get replies. As to whether it's because we have no storage space, I doubt that's the case personally since there are some groups with plenty of members and posts who have a basic group created before they started adding a per-member fee for gorups over 100 members. I created this group for that reason, in case it would be of some use to others. There are a couple of recent Yaesu groups that are well-esablished that have a few posts every week. A few years ago you could create a basic (free) group that had storage, no per-member charge for groups over 100 members, up to 3 subgroups per group, and more. There have been a few changes along the way but groups created before certain dates had their feature sets grandfathered into the group with no fees or charges. . I also created a bunch of other groups, some for vintage radio brands no longer made. Stick around until the beginning of the month and one of the reminder messages sent out monthly will have the entire list in case you're interested. As to the second part of your question, I also doubt that. Plenty of people have purchased new radios and seek out help on how to use the various features. Todays radios have features buried under multi-level menus that are sometiems not intuitive. I don't have a modern Yaesu, but I have been told by some that their menu system is less intuitive than Icom's. I have a Yaesu FT-767GX that I bought for $50 late last year at a tailgate hamfest and got it working for less than an additional $50. Working, but not fully restored, as the built-in antenna tuner doesn't work yet, but since I don't use the internal tuner on my Icom 7300, I won't likely use it on the 767, either. I use an external tuner. And owners of th enew radios run into simple problems they can't figure out for themselves, like a high SWR that was traced to a bad coax jumper that worked just fine the day before, or the radio shutting down when transmitting due to a bad electrical connection at the fuse, Molex connector on the back of the radio, etc. Many people don't have good troubleshooting skills and need the help and support of others. It's a great way to learn new things when you post a help needed questions. My 767 doesn't have a touchscreen or a menu system. Everything is accessible, mostly from the front panel, one or two things require removing the cover. I prefer this arrangement but love the features of the newer radios. And I did use some radio forums to get information when I was figuring out what needed fixes on the radio. Donald KX8K ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP |
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