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Kirk
Intermediate Member
Username: Kirk
Post Number: 275
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 10:50 am: | 
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Anyone have one of these? Thinking of trying one. Need pro's and con's if your able to provide. Thanks!-- |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 3701
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 6:04 pm: |
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Kirk
I have one very nice simple radio with 1000 ch! |
Drexel
Junior Member
Username: Drexel
Post Number: 21
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 12:02 pm: |
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Kirk, I have had mine since Jan of this year and really like it. Have gotten real good reports on it also. It was a little tricky programming for a layman like me at first. It does have the detachable face place and you can get(I heard) a 6 wire phone cord at the shack or Walmart and operate it remote. Run mine on base and my Astron 20 power supply handles it nicely. |
747
Intermediate Member
Username: 747
Post Number: 184
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 4:44 pm: |
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Kirk,
I have had one since I first got my ticket ... I sold it off to get a Kenwood with all the bells and whistles - only to sell the Kenwood and get another FT-7800!
Do yourself a favor though - if you plan on programming a lot of stuff into it - get the software! |
Jbird
Junior Member
Username: Jbird
Post Number: 11
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:32 pm: |
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Good lil radio. I used the software to program it. I got every repeater, both 2 mtr and 440, within 100 miles plus every police freq. my scanners have ever picked up, throw in State PDs and township utilities and a few school bus freqs (my kids' buses) and I'm at about 40% full. |
Funtimebob
Intermediate Member
Username: Funtimebob
Post Number: 219
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 2:56 pm: |
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Theres a ham radio board (not sure if I would be allowed to post it here) that primairaly is for reviews of ham equip by other hams.
would be easy enough to find if you did a google or yahoo search typing in ft-7800r review. has about the best reviews on there for a dual bander.
have heard a couple of them here locally and they sounded pretty good. would like to be able to afford one myself.
Using a VX-170 HT. another radio I heard locally that sounded good and had high marks on the review site.
73's
kd8dey |
