I'm looking for an All Mode Base Transceiver for $800 or less. I have bid on eBay for 3 or 4 different Yaesu FT 897 D's and have been out bid on every single one. At this point I'm quite frustrated. I know that I can buy a 857 D for less than the price I'm looking for but I'm just worried it won't have in it what the 897 D has. Does anyone know of any similar or comparable radios for the price I have to spend? I want a radio that will work all the bands in all the modes.
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All Mode Base Transceiver for under $800
- Thread starter Peter Walker
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Have you compared the specs and features of the 897D vs the 857D? I've owned a couple 857D's and they are a really nice rig. HF, 2m and 440 bands, DSP, detachable face to run mobile, etc. What else do you want it to do? If it were my first rig and I wanted to buy new under $800 I would buy the 857D.
Yep, exact same radios in a different package. Same RF board, same microprocessor board etc, etc, etc. Functionally and performance wise they are identical.
I think the 857 D is what I'm going to go with. I will be spending everything I have on the radio so I'm not sure what I'm going to do for an antenna.
So true. I used a 857D with a homemade dipole in the attic and made psk31 contacts in Japan, Russia, Ireland and all over the US only running 25 watts. Get a programming(CAT) cable and Ham Radio Deluxe makes it a little simpler to use
