I'm fond of my FT-817 and plan to keep and use it . ?Have portable and walkabout antennas for it.

Planning to get either a PTT or VOX headset for it.

Very happy with my 2 FT-991As. ?Will do "expeditions" in my minivan sized RV and use nearby repeaters that have 90 mile radius as I search for hobby farms that still raise the Stone Mountain Cannonball watermelons (aka Black Diamond). ?These are the best and were the most common in the US Southeast until about 1960. ?These are big, round, dark green, and average 40-60lbs each. ?They do not pack at all in stake-bed farm trucks, so there were frequent "melon avalanches" that often had fatalities. ?The melons were outlawed to be taken to market because of this, so they are now only found at farm stands by a growing patch, and these are not easy to find!

Probably need a MOTA award for "Melons On The Air" when found ? ?:-)


Chuck

K4TZO

-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Hartwell
Sent: Aug 11, 2020 3:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ft817] TX ERR on 40m from .101 to .200

That group are designing yet another amp, much smaller is footprint too and more

upgrades since improvement in design features. From my experience and lack of

much use for the current one I am not sure I would sell mine just to build a newer one.

I think if anything I would keep what I have and I need more power or features I would

go with an FT-991 maybe.

Not doing much of anything for the time being though.

Cheers

Marty kd8bj

PS. By the way during one of my longer trips to UK in the 80's I had the good fortune

to meet the Rev George and attempt to operate from a park in Oswestry with a very

under powered TX and very poor antenna with a home brew small unit. With a nice

antenna from the home area on a better antenna it worked fine.

On 8/11/20 5:51 AM, Peter (G1FXE) via groups.io wrote:

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 02:42 PM, Marty Hartwell wrote:

I have been following along here with this discussion, and just noticed that Peter is and I

would presume have a UK version of the ND. While Mike has a US version of the ND.

Marty,

You are correct I do indeed have the UK version but it does appear that my rig is somewhat unique in allowing a Softmod as others with UK versions
(including my colleague who bought his within weeks of my purchase) are unable to use this method

BTW I also have a HFpacker amp..well most of it anyway as I have still to complete the build !
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Peter.....
(G1FXE)