I use mine daily as my primary shack rig.? Mostly 2m FM, but I work
all the other bands as well.
My gripes with the rig:? One is that the "Fast" button's action is
backwards when using the Band up and down buttons.? I typically have
Fast turned on when spinning the dial, hardly ever needing to get
down to fine adjustments.? Then when I hit the up or down band
buttons, it jumps from HF to VHF, instead of from 80m to 40m.
Also no VOX, but that's only because the operation of CAT with the
digital modes is utterly broken.? When the rig is keyed from CAT,
the audio comes from the Mike input, not the jacks on the back of
the rig.? It seems like they were trying to be "smart" when
selecting the audio source depending on where PTT was keyed (which
itself is brain damaged when one is using a sound card to drive both
HF and Packet modes), but totally ignored that computer-driven modes
can use CAT for PTT.? If it had VOX, and if VOX payed attention to
the back jacks, that would have simplified a lot of wiring in the
shack.
Other than that, a great rig!
Greg? KO6TH
Richard AG5M via groups.io wrote:
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Well, happy for now, no problems. It isn't used all that much
but will get a good amount of workout come Springtime when I
start learning Satellite ops. 73, Richard AG5M
On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 07:14:47 AM PDT, Rob
<g4ujs@...> wrote:
This list has 158 members....and
super quiet, I guess 158 people totally happy with their
FT-847's
I am
73 de Rob G4UJS
