Very true. I think Yaesu would have done us all a favour (well, maybe
not the manufacturers of expensive portable whips, but the rest of
us) if instead of putting that tempting BNC socket on the front panel
they had built in a QRP version of an SGC autocoupler, and encouraged
us to use wire antennas instead.
Julian, G4ILO
--- In FT817@y..., "David Perry" <david.perry3@v...> wrote:
I have said it before and it's worth reiterating...the 817 is good,
but
let's not pretend it enables us to go handheld HF on a five inch
rubber
duck. It doesn't, what it does do is enable us to take radio where
we
couldn't before. But the laws of AC physics hven't changed to
accommodate
Yaesu.
Regards,
David
