Rick,
Thank you for the response and I will be on the phone Monday. I just pulled the old girl out of the case and pulled the battery pack out. Guess I have to do some testing and get her on the air for the NAQCC word challenge.
This rig and a QRP+ if you remember are the start to my CW experience. Don't know what I would do with out them. Just like the old pup listening to the cw music and tail tapping her on the floor.
BTW, how do you determine the FT-817 serial number?
72, Dean
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Hi Dean, an email or phone call to yaesu in Cerritos California and ask for the parts department. Then ask for the PA board for finals replacement in the FT 817, but you need to contact yaesu directly. With the ft818nd just being discontinued there
should still be parts. Let us know how you make out. 72/73 Rick
Rick,
Can you explain in detail how the get the new boards. Google does not reveal any lead to obtaining a new PA board.
I have an original FT817 and need a backup plan.
72, Dean/ N2TNN
Hi Mike, sorry to hear about the potential final loss but replacement boards are very inexpensive,(I bought 2 for $60+ total a year or so ago from yaesu USA. Regardless I would buy a couple of spares for your 817s. The boards fit all 817-817nd
-818nd families. By 73 Rick VE1RNM
On Sat., Aug. 3, 2024, 6:41 p.m. mike bryce via , <prosolar=
[email protected]> wrote:
Okay everyone, I think I may have joined the blown final club.
I was listening to the maritime mobile net on 14.300 and thought, what the hell? See if 2W might get the net control’s attention.
The 817 reported ‘highswr’ on the rear antenna port, so I went to the front and the highswr went away. However in both cases, the power meter only had on bar lite even though power for set for four bars.
Highswr into a dummy load on rear port.
That’s not right! So, even though the power jack is fubar, I can squirt in DC and at 13V input, I still get from 1 to 0 bars and the radio is only drawing 530ish mA.
That sure sounds like a pop PA board.
Makes no difference if I’m on HF or VHF, no bars or 1 flickers a bit. I can hear myself on another radio i.e. 146.52 rx and while tx on the 817.
This is an older 817, I don’t know the vintage, so this being the weekend, does any one know the approximate cost of a new PA board from Yaesu? Can you still get ‘em? Is the PA even bad?
Mike wb8vge
FYI…. I put my other 817 on line and the net control gave me a s9 report. I am in ohio, he was on the west coast. That Yaesu 817 is an amazing little rig!
