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Thank you for saying what needed to be said, Ken!

The negativity, shortsightedness, and lack of gratitude around here lately has been increasingly unpleasant.

I wish Yaesu all the best with their new offering and am glad they're still in the game.

73, Jeff WN1MB

On 9/6/24 01:38, Ken N2VIP wrote:

What FT-817 owners wanted was something different, yet the same - size, 
weight, features, etc. Yaesu instead added a few more years to the life 
of the FT-817 ecosystem with the very slightly redesigned FT-818 that 
was *almost*
 exactly the same as the FT-817, except the TCXO was now included, an 
additional watt of RF output, and higher-capacity batteries... and what 
did the user base do? They complained - the new finals use perceptibly 
more power, the battery life is shorter at full-power, and my 15 
year-old FT-817 already has a TCXO! Why would I buy one to replace my 
trusty 15 year-old radio?

Lost on them was the reality of what Yaesu did - they put out 
(essentially) the same radio to give FT-817 owners one last chance to 
buy an FT-817 radio with a 3 year warranty, and the community said they 
wanted something different - and now the community is saying "we don't 
like this new field radio, it's not an FT-817 replacement, it has the 
wrong shape, it doesn't have this, they left that out, was-waa-waa!"

Yaesu has produced a very interesting new radio - a dual-receiver, 
'shack in a box' rig with a lot of the latest features, and people 
complain about the shape?

Wow.

If NOTHING ELSE, the new field radio should appeal to all those 
so-called FT-1634 owners who strapped two FT-817s together to have a 
great satellite radio. (but of course, they complain they can't hang tge
 new radio around their neck!)

/soapbox

Ken, N2VIP