Tag: yaesu

  • Yaesu FTM-500D Review: A Compact Fusion Mobile

    Part of our Where to Spend Your Money guide. The FTM-500D fills a genuinely useful niche in Yaesu’s mobile lineup: a compact Fusion-capable mobile with a fully detachable head, small enough to work in vehicles where dash space is tight. Detachable Head Design The separated head and body let you mount the display wherever it…

  • Yaesu FT5D Review: Fusion’s Flagship Handheld

    Part of our Handheld Radios (HTs) guide. The FT5D sits at the top of Yaesu’s Fusion handheld lineup, and it is built to showcase everything System Fusion and Wires-X can do rather than just check the digital voice box the way a budget dual-mode radio does. GPS and APRS Integration Built-in GPS feeds directly into…

  • Yaesu FT-710 AESS Review: A Compact Desktop SDR

    Part of our Where to Spend Your Money guide. The FT-710 is Yaesu’s answer to the desktop SDR category that Icom’s IC-7300 essentially defined, and it is worth a serious look if you are shopping that segment rather than assuming the IC-7300 Mark II is your only option. SDR Receiver and Front End The FT-710…

  • Icom IC-705 vs Xiegu G90 vs FT-891: Which Portable Radio Fits You

    Part of our Where to Spend Your Money guide. These three radios get cross-shopped constantly, and I own two of the three, so I want to lay out the real tradeoffs rather than just declare a winner. Power Output The FT-891 wins here decisively at a full 100 watts. The G90 sits in the middle…

  • Radio Field Cards: Quick-Reference Programming Guides

    Part of our Handheld Radios (HTs) guide. I keep pulling up the same four questions on every new radio that lands on the bench: how do I program a repeater, how do I get into VFO mode, how do I adjust power, and how do I scan. Every radio buries these in a different menu…

  • 2013: Yaesu System Fusion (YSF) Brings C4FM to Ham Radio

    Part of our The Evolution of Amateur Radio timeline series. By 2013, hams had two digital voice options: Icom’s purpose-built D-STAR, and the commercial DMR standard amateurs had adopted for its cheap hardware. Yaesu decided the market needed a third option, one built entirely in-house, and released System Fusion, commonly known as YSF. Yaesu builds…

  • FT-891 vs FTX-1 Field vs G90: Which Portable HF Radio Wins for POTA

    Part of our Getting On The Air: Modes, Operations, and Making Contacts guide. I get some version of this question constantly: which of my three portable-friendly HF radios should someone actually buy for POTA. I own all three, I use all three in the field, and the honest answer is that they’re not really competing…

  • Setting Up WIRES-X on the FTX-1: Registration, Software, and Getting Connected

    Getting the FTX-1 onto WIRES-X, from radio ID registration through the PC software’s confusing COM port setup, laid out start to finish.

  • The Heil PRO 7: Why It’s One of the Best Upgrades You Can Make, Especially With the FS-3

    Better audio, easier pileup hunting, and hands-free operation. Here’s what the Heil PRO 7 and FS-3 combo actually does, and what you need to run it on a Yaesu FTX-1.

  • Setting Up the Yaesu FT-891 for Digital Modes: Digirig DR-891, WSJT-X, and Your First FT8 Contact

    The FT-891 has no built-in sound card and a quirky single-USB CAT connection. Here’s how the Digirig DR-891 solves that, and how to get from unboxed to your first FT8 QSO.

  • The Yaesu FT-891: The Complete Guide

    Every Yaesu FT-891 post on QSO Journey in one place: the overview, digital mode setup, manpack build, mobile install, and how it compares to the G90 and IC-7300 Mark II.

  • Do You Need a Linear Amplifier?

    What extra watts actually buy you in S-units, when an amplifier is worth the cost, and what it takes to run one legally.

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