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Englishalan
Junior Member
Username: Englishalan
Post Number: 10
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 10:22 am: | 
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These are just great radios,
strongly recommend them, takes a 2 minute mod and you have tx/rx 0-450Mhz all mode, with 100 watts to 50Mhz, 50 watts to 200Mhz and 20 watts above that.
Full featured with everything your heart could desire, just got to work out how to fit an echo in it
LOL
Alan |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 1711
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 8:32 pm: |
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will it xmit ALL MODES 222mHz??? i thought they only xmitted like 0-60, 130-180, 400-450 or something like that after mod... |
Englishalan
Junior Member
Username: Englishalan
Post Number: 12
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 17, 2005 - 12:03 pm: |
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No, you can fully open them, check out mods.dk, in the discussion forum, just remove all the jumpers, TX/RX all modes 0-450 Mhz...
Gotta be good |
Ab9lx
New member
Username: Ab9lx
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 1:08 pm: |
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Will not tx on the 220 band even after mod |
Revpo
Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 78
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 18, 2006 - 3:31 pm: |
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what mod do you look under modify for mars?, I looked today but had my one a day look have to wait until tmrw
revpo |
Chad
Senior Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 1220
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 1:29 pm: |
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The FT-857 and FT-857D have different procedures. |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 941
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 5:00 pm: |
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What about offsets for repeaters?
Mikefromms |
Chad
Senior Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 1221
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 8:57 pm: |
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It (857D) has auto repeater offset. This feature goes away with the transmit expand as does the Alaska emerg channel. I'm not sure what else goes away. It, nearly as I can tell, reverts it back to the 857 (nonD) firmware and still had use of the DSP.
Chad |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 951
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 6:48 am: |
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With auto repeater offset does it do this on FM upper end of 10 meters? Just sounds too handy to lose.
Mikefromms |
Caledonia
Junior Member
Username: Caledonia
Post Number: 36
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 7:16 am: |
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Just to clarify--you only lose the AUTO repeater offset--you can still set the repeater offset to the correct setting manually, in all bands, including 10 meters. |
Chad
Senior Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 1242
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 10:43 pm: |
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Yep that's right, honestly, after you lose it it becomes ingrained in your mind where it needs to be. It still offsets, just not automatically as you move the VFO. For example you just have to select positive, negative, or no shift. It still DOES shift though. Look at the 2M/440 shift chart about 3 times and you won't need the auto feature.
There IS a Yahoo forum for the 897 and another for the 857, both are VERY informative. |
Rich_1833
Junior Member
Username: Rich_1833
Post Number: 36
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 3:00 am: |
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I have one and love it. |
