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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

FT-817 resources online

There's a wealth of digested experience on this particular radio online.

ka7oei has a detailed site which has pages devoted to the following topics:
  • Repeater coverage analysis using the FT-817 and GPS
  • About the RF Power Amplifier 
  • The NiCd/NiMH page 
  • "Customizing" the FT-817 
  • FT-817 Correspondence 
  • The FT-817's 'Soft Calibration' Menu 
  • The FT-817's Schematics  
  • Quirks of the FT-817
  • The Receiver 
  • VSWR/Reflected power metering on the FT-817 
  • A Detailed circuit description of the FT-817 
  • Current Consumption of the FT-817 
  • Optimizing the power consumption of the FT-817 when using battery power and a switching supply 
  • Operating the FT-817 from Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) cells 
  • Operating the FT-817 from other types of cells 
  • CAT (tm) Interface Programming with the FT-817 
  • FT-817 Bugs, Manual Errata and Omissions, and Birdies... 
  • FT-817 Radio modifications 

    Other FT-817 related sites include:
    • OZ9AEC has an FT-817 page
    • Yaesu's own web page about the FT-817 
    • K6XX's FT-817 pages 
    • The Yahoo FT-817 E-group which also hosts the useful FAQ page
    • 

The "Ham Radio Deluxe" page 
    • FT-817 FCC Type-Acceptance Documents
    One of G4ILO's 'Radio topics' pages is devoted to the FT-817. His document points to 817-Mem, a program to manage memories on the radio.
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