@ -114,10 +114,10 @@ For Christmas 2016 I bought myself a little gift, a Yaesu FT2D. The club had rec
of paying over $300 for an HT. I bought it along with a Mirage BD-35 amp; my reasoning being it would allow me to use the HT as a mobile radio with the option of plugging up a
different mobile radio in the future. Though I was very unimpressed with System Fusion and WIRES-X as a whole, it's been a damn good radio. It's been dropped and beaten to hell,
but it fires up every time I need it to (provided it's charged).
This one was on "extended loan" from a guy as no one else had a use for it, he wanted me to give a presentation on MMDVM hotspots, and the only mode I didn't have a radio for at
@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Yes, I bought one of the D74s. I bought it the same day I bought my 7300 at HRO.
the nice things about it was it's general coverage receive would actually do sideband modes; and it actually had a ferrite bar antenna for AM BCB. Mine did suffer that issue where
the internal charge controller died; so the power jack on the radio was 100% useless. But it was my first D-Star radio, the one I first used with a hotspot, I used it for a couple
of foxhunts, and it did send an <ahref="/images/aprsiss.jpg"target="_blank">APRS packet through the ISS</a>.
Look...I was a new ham and broke. I bought one of these and made use of it; but it was a pretty lousy radio overall. Tons of front-end overload issues. It's final resting place
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