[bars] Yaesu FTDX10 opinions?

[Geoffrey Feldman]

Having worked at HRO in Salem high end Yaesu stuff had a following but
others that didn't like it.  If I could sum it up it seemed to have to do
with a more elaborate user interface than ICOM.   I got an instinctive sense
of who went with what product line, but there is a very real difference in
the two.   Both are excellent radios and do what they are supposed to do
really well but the operating styles are notably different.  Some were
delighted with Yaesu and others frustrated.  I have no opinion which is
better but they are different.  As a salesman, ICOM was less likely to be
returned.

I also think that people who got well introduced to Yaesu by some Elmer,
swore by them.  Yaesu is a name and people would buy it for that cachet but
if it turned out to be not their personal thing, they could regret the
choice.  Yaesu has some really elaborate DSP algorithms, but which is what,
are not well defined. I expect that the definition were it made would not be
that helpful.   Users who stick with it find out how to make the magic work.


Hopefully that all fits with and perhaps explains your observations.  I
always recommend downloading the manual from a manufacturer, reading it,
consider what you want to do and whether the manual makes sense to you. 

-73-
W1GCF
Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: bars [mailto:bars-bounces at w1hh.org] On Behalf Of hgcsenior at gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 11:13 AM
To: 'Andy Wallace'; 'BARS Reflector'
Subject: Re: [bars] Yaesu FTDX10 opinions?

Andy et al, 

Hope you don't mind my piggybacking on your FTDX10 comments, with some
interesting wireless radio news event for tomorrow as the end of this
message. 

Use my 7300 5 hours a day, every day for 3 years and never experienced a
degradation of performance.  I am thank full for the SD card system backup
tool, which has restored the "system" in seconds from operator errors.
Yaesu is a fine radio, especially the top of the line, I wonder if some of
the top of line users were disappointed with FTDX10 as an entry level radio,
or use for POTA etc.

Bletchley Park ZOOM presentation for 4/20.  Sign up at FREE:
https://bletchleypark.org.uk/

Below Zoom event is opening day for revealing information until recently
classified about Bletchley Park global wireless radio encrypted
communications.  Having spend over 100 hours researching wireless
communications during WW2, which how I found this presentation for tomorrow
4/20.  

Bletchley was hugely successful and never bombed, which show just how well
they maintained secrecy.

The "Y" Stations, were equally important, Y is short hand for "wireless"
sound being the same.  Some of these stations had 1,000 foot wire antennas,
and large arrays.

My misunderstanding that Bletchley employed 90 was smashed  2 weeks ago
learning it was near 10,000 and still secret.

Y stations fed intercepted messages to Bletchley on foot, motorcycle,
bicycle, etc. 

The Y Stations used HRO and Hammarlund receives mostly, I'm looking for more
sites showing Y Stations.  The most  interesting knowledge for was the
evolution of mechanical computers to digital electronic computers prior to
1945 withing the walls at Bletchley in 1947 all the hardware and message
were destroyed, an Enigma and Colossus machines have been built in the last
10 years.  It appears that the Allies wanted the intelligence destroyed,
since ever wireless message in the world had been copied.

73/88,
Henry WA1VAB


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