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Is it possible to save a cross band memory channel? like TX on 144 and RX on 440? Any feel on the RX sensitivity or selectivity? The USB programing port looks to be the wrong gender, do you have to use some special USB cable? Thanks

That actually wouldn't be a half bad idea, HF + 100W 2M.

There are some videos up of the rig. FTM-400D - YAESU 08/25/2012 08:06pm PST - YouTube FTM-400D - YAESU 08/24/2012 08:54pm PST - YouTube The mic attaches to the body and the body looks a lot like an FT-8800 but with USB and SD card slot in the front. In the second video they show the banner...

I have an 857 (nearly electrically identical to the 897) that does something similar,mine has no power on CW across all bands but is fine with other modes. I have a friend who had a problem that sounded almost exactly like yours on his 857. No out power all bands all modes. It just happened...

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...

FYI Here is a place to buy ready made cables. The VX-8GR serial port connector is the same connector/pin out as Kenwood serial port. Though the hole for the dust cover is fairly deep and narrow, You may need to widdle down the rubber over molding slightly to get this cable to fit in...

Sorry, as a fairly new owner of a VX-8GR who purchased it for high altitude balloon tracking and recovery I have to disagree. The radio its self has no useful navigation functions. It will show you a gimmicky picture of a compass that will give you an idea of the direction of the station from...

I have the same problem with my VX-8GR hand held. They really need a setting where you can set it to hold/delay beacon transmission if the other band has open squelch.

Dup = + offset Dup- = - offset

Actually there is an option for setting the white LED to flash every few seconds (adjustable) when an APRS (text message) message comes in. The GR also has a vibrator like a cell phone and you can set it to go off when you receive a message. I think the GR has really steps up text messaging...

In the Phoenix area we have an emerging UHF APRS network on 445.925 with a few mountain top digis covering the central part of the state. Unfortunately I was having a difficult time accessing the UHF APRS with my 8GR. For reference I connected the radio to a 2m 1/4 wave on my roof (resonates...

IK2BCP apparently was able to track down the missing piece for the alignment procedure. I found it posted by him on the Yahoo groups. http://www.worldwidedx.com/yaesu/85990-vx-8gr-alignment-procedures.html#post249447

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...

My radio did come with a spare back cover sticker in the box. I mangled mine fairly bad when I pulled it off, It would not have been water resistant if I had tried to put the old one back on. This tells me that they did plan on users having to remove and replace this sticker. Perhaps this is a...

O good that is what I was hoping to hear. There is a lot to like about this radio and also a lot to hate which could almost all be fixed in firmware. I have a dream that one day they release a very useful user installed update. I am going to start compiling my wish list, now how to bend the...

So I got my GR today and here is what I have found. You can set the serial port to output your current position, $GPRMC,033415.000,A,3323.4865,N,11148.3687,W,0000.00,162.80,171210,,*21 $GPGGA,033416.000,3323.4865,N,11148.3687,W,1,05,01.7,00387.9,M,-026.5,M,000.0,0000*40...

Hers a picture of my GR. http://www.worldwidedx.com/yaesu/85804-vx-8gr-out-band-mod-mystery-switch.html

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 when removing the second diode you did not notice any change in TX range or new features like crosband repeat enabled? To bad, I wonder what it is supposed to do. Wasn't there a radio that had to be moded like this to allow crosband repeat? I think it was the European version of a radio.

any idea what the other diode is for?