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Re: Why is wideband VHF coverage only to 154MHz?

Ray Sills All Messages By This Member #112690 Hi Group: I understand how having a rig that will enable listening to WX radio would save weight while climbing and hiking... but for me, I would rather have a lightweight radio that can be dedicated to that function. ?For example, I have a Midland crank radio that includes a flashlight, AM band, FM band, and WX band. ?So it does multiple duty, and does not impinge on the battery power of the ham rig. ?I also have a Standard C108A HT which runs on two AA cells. ?For light weight and power capability I use lithium primary cells. ?This tiny HT weighs ounces, and receives Air band, WX band and 2M FM. So I don't miss my 817 not having upper VHF coverage. 73 de Ray K2ULR toggle quoted message Show quoted text -----Original Message----- From: Ron Wright via groups.io <lt_wright_flg@...> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, May 1, 2022 12:48 pm Subject: Re: [ft817] Why is wideband VHF coverage only to 154MHz? For a backpack radio yes it would be nice for it to go above 154, go at least to 163 so it could receive the weather channels.? If someone is out in the boonies monitoring the weather would be needed.? But Yaesu chose not to let the FT817 go up into this range.? Why, I have no idea. And many of Yaesu's HTs cover the air craft band in AM mode.? FM HTs having AM.? The FT817/8 has AM for all bands. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE/R Hernando Co ARES EC BSEE Micro Computer Concepts Spring Hill, Florida 146.64 repeater, 1100 ft HAAT 352-835-5610 also n9ee55@... On Sunday, May 1, 2022, 09:38:39 AM EDT, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@...> wrote: Or, if you really want to listen in that extended frequency range, get an FT-857D. It isn't all that much bigger than an FT-817, covers that range and has features the FT-817 doesn't have. I find the DSP very useful. 73, Zack W9SZ On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 1:33 AM JD Erskine VA7OTC via <va7otc=[email protected]> wrote: On 2022.04.30 2232, Ken N2VIP wrote: > One of the great frustration many US FT-817/818 owners have is that the > receiver can not pick up the US National Weather Service VHF broadcasts, > it is a hard limitation of the FT-817/818, the reason for which I can > only speculate on. > > Ken, N2VIP > >> On Apr 30, 2022, at 23:20, g8tzl2004 via >> <g8tzl2004=[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ?Any reason why the 817 only covers up to 154 MHz rather than 175 MHz? >> >> All my other Yaesu VHF radios have 136 - 175 MHz RX ? >> >> I guess there must have been a technical issue in going beyond 154 MHz RX? >> >> Has anybody modded an 817 to provide RX up to 175 MHz? Sure, Environment Canada also has Weather Radio Canada in that range. It's also the Shore Transmit range for Marine VHF and near to North American rail frequencies. None of these mean there'd be any need to include them in a ham rig. So, Why: it's 1. a ham rig, 2. designed to replace the FT-690, FT-290, FT-790 -- no need to include anything other than ham radio coverage., and lastly, designed in a country, for a world, that has no NOAA/Wx Rdo Can (other CANUS.) If you need/want it on/with one radio, try a converter. There used to be the MFJ-313 VHF Converter. The schematic for the MFJ one is in the Files area for this list. There are other possibilities to acquiring one, having one made, making it oneself. 73, John VA7OTC

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