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Mike Olbrisch
开云体育Good morning Ray. ? Going over my notes, I show 240,000 radios sold a couple of years ago.? I imagine they hit 250,000 radios before the 818 came out.? Maybe not….. but only Yaesu knows for sure, and they are not telling. ? I sometimes wonder if the 818 should be carried as 817 sales, or if it should stand under its own numbers.? Is it different enough to make a difference?? To me, there is a difference, and not for the better.? While the 818 is essentially an updated 817, for my wants the made it a bit worse.? The 817 power levels are 5w-2.5w-1w-0.5w.? The 818 runs 6w-5w-2.5w-1w.? The difference between 5w and 6w is only useful if you are driving an amplifier that needs the 6w input.? Actually on the air, all the 6w does is run your battery flat 20% quicker.? But for my ops, the 0.5w level is very miserly on battery use, and is great for driving transverters, a very popular use among V/UHF ROVERS.? The FT-818 announcement was a roar.? The actual implementation was a whimper! ? And you are correct.?? There still is not any other radio out there that directly competes with the FT-817.? The FT-818 could have been so much more.? It could have beat the KX3.? Instead, it was a disappointment.? But at least it kept the style out there.? It would have been even worse if the 817 were discontinued and no replacement made. ? Vy73 - Mike - KD5KC. El Paso, Texas - DM61rt. SOTA W5T-Texas Association Manager. NA-SOTA info is at:? ? ? ? ? ? From: FT817@...
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2019 7:13 AM To: FT817@... Subject: Re: [FT817] Re: Power pole adapter ?
? The FT-817 and it's successors, ARE the best selling rigs of all time. ?Ironic, since Yaesu originally viewed it as a rig only for their domestic market. ?But, hams around the world saw the advantages of a compact rig that was all-mode, and all-band (160 M through 70 cm). ?It's surprising that no other company has sought to make a directly competing product. K2ULR ? -----Original Message----- The radio itself is enormously popular and with so many in use theres bound to be a variety of mods and improvements. I dont know any numbers but it is probably among the highest selling rigs of all time. Sonny n1khb On Saturday, April 20, 2019 captrjbowen captrjbowen <FT817@...> wrote: ? ? I don't know of? any other radio that so many operators devise so many ingenious ways of powering.? ? -------- Original message -------- Date: 4/20/19 17:09 (GMT-05:00) To: FT817@... Subject: RE: [FT817] Re: Power pole adapter ? ? ? ? ? ? I ordered 5 myself, why 5,?I don't know............ ? ? Randall ? From: FT817@... [mailto:FT817@...] ? Thanks !? Just got a couple. Rich W1GBB ? -------- Original message -------- Date: 4/19/19 22:37 (GMT-05:00) To: FT817@... Subject: RE: [FT817] Re: Power pole adapter ? ? ? ? ? eBay, of course... ? ? ? Randall ? From: FT817@... [mailto:FT817@...] ? Where is that pigtail available ? Sent from AOL Mobile Mail ? ?
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