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I have an FT-857D and recently noticed a strange problem. It has nearly no output power on CW, Regardless of what it is set to 5-100W I only get about 10mW out on CW. AM, FM, SSB seem to work just fine.
It was first noticed when I could no longer tune with my LDG AT-100Pro. I press the tune...
There has been a file out for a while (Moleculo posted it in this thread) on doing an alignment on the VX-8GR. Unfortunately I and others found that the procedure for accessing the menu did not work. I recently found a file on the Yahoo group posted up by IK2BCP that cleared things up for me...
I just got a VX-8GR and thought I would post a picture of what you will find when you pull the sticker off the hole in the battery bay.
The little black zero ohm resistor on the right is to be removed to perform the out of band mod. Once you remove it your radio will reset the next time you...
So on page 157 of the VX-8GR operators manual it shows a serial port cable with the same pin out as the cables used on Kenwood radios. It states that the port can be set to "Output Waypoint data of received APRS beacon" and it shows a picture of the radio being plugged into a Laptop.
Has...
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