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That's a really small screen on the 897. I know for me it's to small for daily use no matter how good the radio is.

My personal preference in the "shack" is to have separate radios for each band, i.e an HF, VHF and if needed a UHF. If one fails I don't lose all bands. In the car the 706 I run is just fine as I wouldn't want that many rigs in the car.

As someone else suggested start looking in the used market as there are plenty of options there.

As for antennas, well why not build your own. You will learn how to build one and it will cost a lot less then buying one built. I use an inverted V antenna at the shack that I built, it's in a fan dipole form meaning that I have separate wires for each band I want to operate. Currently I have wires on it for 17, 20 and 40. I can load 15 meters on the 40 meter wire and if i want to run 10 I use a tuner. I just prefer to have resonate antennas on the band than rely on a tuner. To build the antenna my total cost was about $30 and that included purchasing the balun. A balun, coax, rope and some 14 gage wire is all you need to build a very good antenna in about an hour.

<blockquote data-quote="w9cll" data-source="post: 446094" data-attributes="member: 29506">That&#039;s a really small screen on the 897. I know for me it&#039;s to small for daily use no matter how good the radio is. My personal preference in the &quot;shack&quot; is to have separate radios for each band, i.e an HF, VHF and if needed a UHF. If one fails I don&#039;t lose all bands. In the car the 706 I run is just fine as I wouldn&#039;t want that many rigs in the car.As someone else suggested start looking in the used market as there are plenty of options there.As for antennas, well why not build your own. You will learn how to build one and it will cost a lot less then buying one built. I use an inverted V antenna at the shack that I built, it&#039;s in a fan dipole form meaning that I have separate wires for each band I want to operate. Currently I have wires on it for 17, 20 and 40. I can load 15 meters on the 40 meter wire and if i want to run 10 I use a tuner. I just prefer to have resonate antennas on the band than rely on a tuner. To build the antenna my total cost was about $30 and that included purchasing the balun. A balun, coax, rope and some 14 gage wire is all you need to build a very good antenna in about an hour.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="w9cll, post: 446094, member: 29506"] That's a really small screen on the 897. I know for me it's to small for daily use no matter how good the radio is. My personal preference in the "shack" is to have separate radios for each band, i.e an HF, VHF and if needed a UHF. If one fails I don't lose all bands. In the car the 706 I run is just fine as I wouldn't want that many rigs in the car. As someone else suggested start looking in the used market as there are plenty of options there. As for antennas, well why not build your own. You will learn how to build one and it will cost a lot less then buying one built. I use an inverted V antenna at the shack that I built, it's in a fan dipole form meaning that I have separate wires for each band I want to operate. Currently I have wires on it for 17, 20 and 40. I can load 15 meters on the 40 meter wire and if i want to run 10 I use a tuner. I just prefer to have resonate antennas on the band than rely on a tuner. To build the antenna my total cost was about $30 and that included purchasing the balun. A balun, coax, rope and some 14 gage wire is all you need to build a very good antenna in about an hour. [/QUOTE]

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