I’ve picked up my Yaesu FT817 (Fried FT-817)from the shop the other day. They hadn’t good news for me. After 2,5 hours of working the engineer managed to get it back to life. Well, it received. Transmitting still is broke. It seems that the feds are broken too. I’ve picked it up because the bill…
Category: Rigs
All posts that are about rigs, radio’s and Handy Talkies.
Shortage in Yaesu FT-817
It is a very sad sad day. My first rig, a Yeasu FT-817, is broken. The other day I wanted to turn it on, but it was dead. Shaking the rig gave me all weird noises, so I opened it. Seems that there was an exploded elco in it. All kind of lose smd pieces…
Fix repeater bug in Icom 910H
Some while ago I bought a beautiful second hand Icom 910H. Very nice radio to work with! Only one little problem: it has the ICOM IC-910H repeater bug. To work some repeaters over here in The Netherlands, you have to send a CTCSS-tone. Of course this rig is capable of sending a CTCSS-tone. But….. The…