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Yaesu VX-150. Opinions?	Reply
by ATLMAGIC on November 4, 2002	Mail this to a friend!
I'd like to get my first radio and I see that the vx150 is in my price range right now. Would this be a good "starter" radio for 2 meter?

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by WB2WIK on November 4, 2002	Mail this to a friend!
I think any "handie-talkie" is an awful investment, if it's going to be your only piece of ham radio equipment; however, if you're looking for an "HT" anyway, the VX-150 is a great choice in terms of "bang for the buck." I didn't need another two meter handie at all, but saw the VX-150 on sale for $139 last February and just couldn't resist snapping one up, figuring at that price they may never come back. I was wrong. They're still very available, still at a low price, and still work great. I'm extremely pleased with mine. For all-out "two meter only" performance, it's impressive, and runs rings around my "multi-band" handies. WB2WIK/6

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by ATLMAGIC on November 4, 2002	Mail this to a friend!
After checking the comments on this board I picked one up today.119.00 Not bad and "Momma" didnt mind the cost of the new toy.

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by KG4OGN on November 4, 2002	Mail this to a friend!
I think this would be an excellent first rig! I have owned my VX-150 for almost a year now and it is excellent! AES has a special on them for $114.00. For another $13.00 and some work you can have yourself a 2 meter j-pole for the home QTH and you can get a magmount for the car, so for under $170.00 you have yourself a very nice base/mobile/portable radio. This radio is tough as nails and it will never die. The battery lasts the longest of any HT I know of and it is the only one under $210.00 that is Civil Air Patrol Compliant {which means it is a very very good radio, to give you an idea, no: Alinco ADI Radio shack radios are compliant only a very very few Kenwood Icom and Yaesu radios are compliant} so all in all it is the best HT out there {if Yaesu made it a dualbander it would be perfect} so if I were you I would go with the VX-150. C/Tsgt. Alexander Tubonjic Florida Wing C.A.P Fl.CAP-342 AKA KG4OGN

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by KB9YUR on November 6, 2002	Mail this to a friend!
I've got two VX-150's now and highly recommend it. It's one tough built radio and you can obtain a higher capacity battery (1650mAh), FNB-V57x, from www.batteriesamerica.com for about $40.

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by K2EPM on November 25, 2002	Mail this to a friend!
I had one of these for two years. For the price, you can't get a better radio! It was easy to use, worked great, is sturdy, and I loved it. I did sell it to get a VX-7R, but that is like comparing a Chevy Caprice to a Rolls Royce. You can't go wrong with the VX-150 for a 2M rig! I also had the ADMS software, and it made programming a bit easier if you are going to put a lot of frequencies in the memory. I did buy the AA dry-cell case (OUCH), they got me for over $40 for that case!

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by N2JLL on October 5, 2003	Mail this to a friend!
You cannot go wrong with this one. IMHO, this is the best built HT since the Icom 02-AT was discontinued.

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by KE7AGI on November 29, 2004	Mail this to a friend!
This was my first radio, and I was impressed by how rugged it is. Also got lots of compliments on the sound quality. The FT-60R looks like it might be intended as a dual-band version of the VX-150. There is certainly a family resemblance that doesn't exist with other Yaesu HTs.

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