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G6DLJ
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Rating: 5/5
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Jul 4, 2009 04:27
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Ideal for mazda MX-5!
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I've only owned this rig for 3 days so this a 'first' impressions account rather than a full blow review, however so far so good, I'm very impressed. I picked up the rig for £175 including a mag mount and weird 3rd party mounting bracket. I'd read various comments here to say the rig was hard to drive and even harder to program, yet I found both to be the easiest of any on the Yaesu rigs I own (FT-8900, VX-2, VX-7 and FT-857). The menus seems very logical and simple to me buy maybe that's 'cos I sat down and read the manual cover to cover first?
I went for this rig as I've just bought a new MX-5 soft top and space is at a premium, so it fits nicely in the centre consol with a simple L-shaped bracket covered in black tape and fixed with double sided tape making for quick removal and a no-hole installation. The umbilical cord is terminated in an RJ45 meaning you could use a regular screened network cable to remote the head which I've done.
Not quite sure why I'd need a PA or a siren but having the mic and second speaker in the remote head has saved me having to fit a gooseneck mic and extension speaker. Likewise being able to alter the mic gain and the option to automatically increase the RX volume as road noise increases is huge bonus, Yaesu really thought this puppy out. Both AM Air and Marine VHF reception is good and easy enough to label and program into memory. OK, so there's option to program via PC but let's it only take a few seconds to program each memory and making changes is a doddle, and once it's done it's done...zzzzz. This rig would make an ideal Air/Marine scanner in it's right.
So far I'm very impressed, personally I can't find any negatives, though I really need to get my head around the various memory layout options!
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