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The Ham Radio two point zero Audio
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listening to this podcast. So basically
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Thank you in seventy three. I
hope you enjoy it. What is

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the difference between the Yazoo ft DX
ten that I have been loving on my

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PoTA activations for the last year and
this brand new FT seven ten, a

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e SS radio that just dropped that
looks a lot like the ft d X

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ten with some smaller form factor features
and a couple of things taken out.

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What's the big difference. Well,
today I welcome Doug in for H and

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H onto the channel, who is
who works in the radio industry and is

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much smarter about receivers than I am. So check this out. Let me

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know what you think of the comments
below and enjoy the video. All right,

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Doug, Well, thank you for
coming back onto the channel again.

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For those of you who don't know, Doug is in for H and H

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hide nor hair. That's how I
remember your call side you go in that

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last time. Oh that's good.
Okay, So give give us a very

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brief history of your background, Doug, because that's pertinent to U to receiver.

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The receiver talk. We're going to
talk about today about the FT seven

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tenth, So tell us a little
bit about your channel and then we'll just

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hop into it. Okay, Well, a quick overview of my background.

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I've been involved with radio professional e
Stance fourteenth. My first job was at

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a CB radio shop, as many
have come from, you know, we've

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all a lot of us have come
from that era, yes, and in

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the seventies, so I had I
was just had the privilege of working for

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a gentleman who took me under his
wing. Just a wonderful guy. So

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that led to later on I got
to work for Motorola, so I fast

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forward it a lot, but and
went through all the exams that you have

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to go through to be able to
work on transmitters, and and I was

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Primarily I was a page your technician, and I became a I had to

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do all the others. I had
to climb the towers and do the installs

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too for a while. And then
once I passed that General Radio Telephone Operator

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license, I was then brought into
the portable room again, which is where

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pagers were worked on as well,
but this time I could work on HT.

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So my main thrust was HTS.
And so I've been abound round radio

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professionally since age fourteen, you know. And I'm not bragging or anything,

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but I am glad that I never
had to flip burgers. I was always

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able to have a job doing something
in electronics. Sure makes sense. Good.

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So and my channel, my channel
began accidentally because I was on the

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search for my next base station.
Now to clarify that, I've only bought

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three, and I've been a HAM
since nineteen eighty two, so I went

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twenty years between base stations. Now, I had an FT nine twenty and

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I had modd at it within red
filters and it was really serving me quite

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well. Had a DSP fifty nine
plus from Time Wave on top of it,

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enhancing it some, and so I
just I'd go down to hr O.

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You know, fortunately I live only
thirty minutes from an HR and you

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know they got that desk. We
can go in there and play. And

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I just kept going there and I'd
saying, yeah, yeah, I don't

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see anything that really rolls me over, that makes me want to give up

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twenty but in twenty nineteen, I
said, you know what, I'm at

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a point now where I want to
go ahead and buy my retirement radio.

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And I started, I started looking
on YouTube and I had narrowed it down

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to a particular radio. I guess
I shouldn't mention it in here, but

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the one I walked out with is
not the one that I walked in to

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buy. And I actually wound up
in it, taking eight months and sitting

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there for about two or three hours
at a time. The guys in there

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just kind of chuckling trying these radios
on the air. I you know,

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laptests are great, but to me, the rubber meets the road when I

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get in there and try to pull
an S three signal out of an S

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five noise floor. Right, So
that's I'll say this. What I walked

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out up with eight months later was
an FTDX five thousand MP and yes,

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I had even tried out the one
oh one mph well the D model that

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they had on display, but they
had the MPN stop. And so that's

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the third base station I ever bought. And then along came the f TDX

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ten and um, that one was
I didn't mean to get it. It

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was dropped. It was dropped off
by by someone friend of mine who said,

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set this thing up for me,
and I guess you forgot about it

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over He never came back for it. No, he said, shoot,

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shoot a bunch of videos. When
you're done, I'll take take it to

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uh. I'll take it and put
it in my cabin. And he doesn't

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like any credit for this, so
I won't mention his name. But um,

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anyway, yeah, I wound up
acquiring that one. And and it's

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a great second radio because if in
emergency conditions, I can't run the five

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thousand, I don't have a generator, So that's a great radio for me

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to just reach down and switch it
over to a bayou and O backup battery.

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And I've got HF and and that
bad boy, that little dude can

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receive man, I mean it can
pull him right out. And I've shot

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videos putting it up against the five
thousand. Yeah, so it's a great

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it's a great trance. I had. I've had, you know, really

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high hopes for this seven ten when
I saw it introduced, when it was

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a rumor, um and um,
I was thinking it was gonna wind up

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being like a little portable type radio, sort of like a seven h five.

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You think Jasus do that, right, It's about time they produce a

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radio like that. So anyway,
but yeah, let's talk about the seven

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ten. That's what we're okay,
yep, absolutely, okay, Well you

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kind of hinted that this might not
be a cheerleader type talk, so we're

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just gonna we're gonna be real honest
with you. There's I mean, this

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radio is gonna work great for a
lot of people, but it's good to

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compare it to what else is out
there too. It's good to have it

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having actual factual comparison about what it
does and what it doesn't do, because

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it's not supposed to be at the
same level as the ten, or especially

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the one on one or even the
five thousand. So exactly, I saw

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the results of an independent lab test
because you know, I even had viewers

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telling me you know, emphatically.
Rob Sherwood's not going to tell this.

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He's retired, and you know,
and I kept thinking, nah, he's

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gonna he's gonna test that. Yeah. But but but before that, if

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you looked at the numbers from that
lab, it looked like it would come

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in around twelve plus plus or minus
in his list interpolating you know, their

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their test versus his. Sure,
so I was quite shocked when it came

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in, you know, right below
the ftd X ten And really they're they're

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equal on that on that two killer
Hurts dynamic range test, which is the

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one he ranks by right. So
the reason it's below the FTDX ten is

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a couple of the other areas it
doesn't do as well with one hundred killer

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Hurts spacing UH dynamic range it's a
one twenty nine decibel for the tech he's

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out there. Um FTDX tens one
forty one and FTDX one O one D

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is a one forty seven, So
that's still not bad by the way.

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You know, I think a lot
of people know by now, anything on

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Rob's list that rates over there in
that right column, if it gets up

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above ninety, it's good. If
it gives above one hundred. I tell

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people start picking the radio based upon
height, looks, brand loyalty, you

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know, yeah, because you're splitting
you're splitting hairs there because his test is

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run with one set of criteria doesn't
take into account all the additional things that

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a radio can do with DSP and
other filters and things. So because for

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example, my five thousand has now
slipped down to fifteenth on that list,

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but I put it up against the
ten all the time, and sometimes one

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wind, sometimes the other wins when
you kick in all of their other features.

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The five thousand has some things at
ten and one oh one do not

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have has a supernarrow APF function that
comes in really handy on CW. So

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you got to look at more than
just that one criteria, and I think

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that people have to. Just Ergonomics
is huge. I mean, yes,

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the FTDX ten caught some heat over
ergonomics. So I'll springboard in into that

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because my my most recent video I'm
doing a series on this video number nine

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is one Unboxed one and I just
released video number ten Tuesday, and it's

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actually a size comparison, but I
you know, I can't help it.

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I just pointed out a couple of
things, like, you know, the

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FTDX ten took a lot of criticism
over the crowding of the buttons around the

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VFU, right, And I'll agree
that there are two of those buttons that

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I might hit often that can be
annoying, and one is banned and the

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other is zen zero in for CW. I don't use it as much because

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I can do it by ear,
but but the band button is tight between

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the function knob and the VFO,
the main VFO and then you've got the

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outer dial, which that's another thing
I miss because I've yeah, I've missed

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that on this model too. And
I can't tell you how many times I've

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used the locked button for that VFO. When you're trying to punch buttons around

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that big knob on the FBX ten
year out in Poda and you look down,

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You're like, how did I get
in that frequency? I'm going,

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what the hell? What happened?
So, yeah, that lot that locknot

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that lock button on the ten is
is well used on my radio. I

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think I said in one of my
recent videos, the lock button is your

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friend, right, um, And
you know, and and again I'm not

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gonna get two bent out of shape
that because look how much radio they They

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essentially crammed half of an FTDX one
oh one D into a small box.

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Correct, and you you just didn't
get extra extra antena connections, and you

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didn't get the VC tune preselector,
which which is a phenomenal feature. But

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yeah, the I would say the
ergonomics on the FT seven ten, you

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know, or a lot of people
are looking at oh wow, they spread

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the knobs out, I'm gonna uh
if well, when we get to a

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picture of one, I'll point something
out that I feel about the ergonomics is

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a miss. I hate to start
off with a negative because there is a

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lot of good folks. I'll tell
you some of the good as well.

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Yeah, for one thing, it's
the highest rate did pure sdr in the

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world. Now, going by that
test that mister Sherwood runs, it even

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edges out the K three S which
is a hybrid. So you know now

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it of course is bested by its
big brother, the FTDX ten, and

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the FTDX one O one D is
still the king of the hill. And

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I've pointed this out on my channel
just to be fair, because I keep

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seeing people say it's fourth it's fourth. It's fourth, and FTDX ten is

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third. Technically, if you read
footnote why on Rob Sherwood's ranking list,

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the sixty seven hundred that's listed his
second place is disqualified because that one was

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sent to him for that test when
he went out and tested production models,

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various models. Even the able r
L tested some ninety nine decibels lower than

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the FTDX five thousand, which is
a ten two thousand, ninety sign So

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that I don't know why Rob leaves
that there, because it does lead to

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some confusion, and it really doesn't
matter, I guess when you when you

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when you take into account that anything
in the top ten's great, but true,

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that makes it not in the top
ten. And uh, you know,

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and for those who are saying,
well, I want to you know,

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bragging rights. You know, I've
got the greatest receiver in the world

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or the second greatest receiver in the
world, excuse it a little bit.

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But that said, the seven ten
is now the highest ranking pure SDR there

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is, and I kind of expected
Yasue would be capable of doing that.

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I mean, think of it this
way. They've they've been back with their

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arms crossed checking out what everybody else
is doing, and they had the opportunity

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to perfect it. Now. True, I would expect ICM is not going

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to be too far behind with an
update. You know. You know,

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people like to compare and when the
when the ten came out, this happened

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a lot, and when the seven
ten came out, this sappen a lot

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too. We always we always thought
that the seven ten was an odd model

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number to have. But that's I
don't want to get off in that rabbit

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hole. But um, you know, we talked about the fact that everything

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gets compared to the seventy three hundred. Yeah, every everything gets compared to

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the seven. Oh, it's just
going to be a seventy three. My

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friend calls it the people's radio because
well be sold right right exactly. Yeah,

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because the seventy three hundred when it
came out was was was very popular.

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It still is very popular. Yeah, it became a lot more popular

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a few years after I was there
at Dayton. The year it came out,

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they sold for fourteen ninety nine and
all of the high icon went to

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all of the retailers. Because one
of the retailers told me this, I'm

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not going to say who. They
said, please don't discount this. We

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want to make it fair for everybody. And the retailers were like, okay,

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cool, we're not going to discount
it, which means they make more

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money because they're not given discounts.
Right. So, but nobody went home.

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No retailers went home with the seventy
three hundred that weekend, so all

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of them were sold. Well,
that was back when they were selling for

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fourteen ninety nine when they did Beauty
at Daton. You know, fast forward

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three or four years later and on
Black Friday eight before the pandemic, it

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was Black Friday twenty nineteen. That
radio was like eight ninety. Yeah,

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I've seen him under under a grand
I tell my viewers this, if you're

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just gonna come home and relax in
your easy chair and your shack and you're

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gonna rag you with the fellows on
forty or eighty or you're seventy five,

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man, that that's seventy three hundreds
all the radio you will ever need.

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It's intuitive. It's a great radio
for I know this is not a seventy

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three hundred video, but it's a
great radio for somebody who's new because it

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kind of leads you along. It
even comes out of the box with good

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audio with a Yeasue. I had
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and I think, I think I
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He said, A Yasu's a thinking
man's radio. You gotta dig into the

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manual more. You gotta, because
it's gonna come. It's got two parametric

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eques in it, three bands each. Okay, it's not just a simple

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base in trouble, you can really
tailor that audio. But it comes out

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of the box with none of those
configured. And in fact, the mikey

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Q is not even enabled, so
you're you're on your own with the Yasue.

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You got to really dig into the
manual, which that sort of led

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to my channel because I could not
find videos that were showing me the things

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I wanted to see. I would
see videos people just put two radios next

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to each other and turn knobs and
and I'm sitting there, going, yeah,

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change that filter right, D and
you know, and so I just

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said, okay, you know what, once I do choose a radio,

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I'm gonna start some some videos about
it. Of course, that was the

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five thousand and then it's springboarded into
hight ninety one. But yeah, you

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know, it's not that I do
not work for you, a Sue.

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I shoot straight, I tell the
good to bad and the ugly. The

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ftd X ten. I did some
nitpick videos. Um, it's not a

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perfect radio. There are some things
that I would definitely improve if ye Sue

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would listen. I told them May
of twenty twenty one. None of it's

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been implemented, but it's still really
really cops. And that's what pains me

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is when somebody can make something that
good and get that close to perfection and

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miss out on something. For an
example, I can use my mouse to

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configure the menus, but I got
to press a button to get into the

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menus. I can I can't write
click. You know. I can use

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a mouse to change modes, but
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Therefore, I'm forced to press my
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the function knob. So a little
little nip and a tuck here things that

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could be done in firmware, and
it could be the perfect radio. But

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I'll tell you this. I mean, if there is no FTDX ten,

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that FT seven ten then becomes a
really great radio. But when you put

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it up against its big brother.
There are there are some failings, and

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I'm going to be unfolding that in
the series on my channel. Okay,

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but now we were going to talk
about the size because I don't know about

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you, but I've had that question
asked yes so many times, and you

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know, sometimes I chuckle and go, well, you can do what I

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did. You can go to the
manuals and look it up. But I

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do have if you if you want
me to switch over, I've got the

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two one sitting on top of the
other. I've got another camera here.

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See if I can do this.
So we're nine point four wide with the

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TENT seven ten ten and a half
wide with the FTDX ten. We're three

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point one inch tall with the seven
ten, with three point six with the

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FT d X ten, and then
we're nine point seven inches deep with the

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FT seven ten and we're ten point
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So you know, it is definitely
a noticeable difference in size. And yeah,

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one would probably reason that a FT
seven ten would be a great portable

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radio. Now, in my opinion, you'd want to you'd want to unhook

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that SP forty speaker and use headphones
and uh, and I guess if you

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want to, we can springboard right
into what is AESS. So we're talking

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about the spty YEA one of the
so so I had John a little preface

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because I don't know if you saw
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drawn on on a live stream when
I first got this one. That's it

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next to me, and he explained
what AESS was. I'd like to hear

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your take on it. But the
question, the most common question in the

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comments and in the comments after people
could put in the comments after the h

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the live comments and the post comments, is that they were less interested in

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the radio having the AESS since it
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So that seems to be that seemed
to be a pretty common common lead.

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Well, it can't work over headphones. I work. I work in

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the audio industry now, I've been
doing it for quite a while. As

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another another, I have too many
hats to wear, right, I mean

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literally, I was a bass player
in the recording session night before last.

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I do all kinds of stuff nice, So, um, what you've got

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there? In terms, it's been
around for in the music industry for many,

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many years. A large public address
systems have this. Everybody talks about

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subwoffers. Yeah, well, the
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If somebody knows what they're doing when
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to the floor, the subwoffer.
There's something called a crossover. You don't

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want to send the high frequencies to
your subwoffer. Some of the subwoffers will

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cross what we call crossover at one
hundred and twenty hurts. Some are designed

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to crossover eighty hurts. So you're
literally filtering out all the high frequencies,

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sending them to the big speakers that
are hanging somewhere, and you're putting the

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lower frequencies into that subwoffer. So
what Yasu has done here is a similar

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concept. And so a couple of
the controls on this now the menu.

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But the menu system on this thing
is so much like the FTDX ten.

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And that's good because somebody who's already
got an FTDX ten, see I have.

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One of my viewers has made a
great point. He bought two FTDX

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tens, one for home, one
for Poda, and he said, because

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I don't have to relearn a radio
when I go out in the field,

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I know my way around it,
and I agree, and the seven ten

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is enough like the FTDX ten that
you'll be able to do do that because

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they share so many I'll tell you
this, here's a flaw. They share

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a flaw. Many people notice that
the RF game knob on the FTDX ten

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when you rotate it sounds like a
dirty potentiometer. But those are encoders,

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so it can't be the R the
FT seven ten has inherited that well as

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well. If you rotate your RF
gain knob, you'll hear us a scratchy

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sound. Um, so you know
they're very You can tell they're using very,

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very much the same firmware, just
tweaked, nipped and touch. But

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um so anyway, that is a
difference. But other than that, the

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screen is is practically identical to the
FT d X ten and uh and god,

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by the way, I guess it
goes without saying. If we look

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at the radio now you it's very
obvious Yasu didn't listen to all of the

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uh belly aching. That's how we
say it here in Georgia. UH no

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backlit buttons, you know, right. I think that's a missed opportunity on

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the ftd X ten and I think
it's well, they didn't have an excuse

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on the seven tenth, but uh, you know, but they did not

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give that to you. Notice that
glow there around the VFO that is kind

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of interesting. It's blue if you're
on VFOA, it's green. If you're

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on VFO B, it's white.
If you're I haven't noticed that it changed

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colors, well it will if if
you if you toggle over to VFO B.

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Let me do that now. I'm
doing that on mine right now.

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And yes, I mean you're you're
you're right of obviously, but yeah,

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it'll go to green. For VFO
B, it'll go to white if you're

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using memory mode, which I use
memory tune all the time with my rig

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Man. The memory tune is a
godsend With an FT eight ninety one,

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I run one mobile and I hardly
ever have to look at it. Yeah.

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Um, but and then it goes
red if you are like working split

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or using the clarifier. Ah,
that's got four different color schemes and it's

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and the menu you can actually change
the color scheme. But now back to

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the d NF thing, I should
mention. So there's a there's some distortion

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that's introduced in there with strong signals. On the FTDX ten, I reported

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at the Yasue way over a year
ago, the FT seven ten. This

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is a you remember, it's choosing
an NXP Semiconductor's DS peach up. Now,

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why Yasue broke with the TI thing
because it worked so well in the

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FTDX ten. Except DNF this one
does not have as much distortion. In

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fact, you have to you have
to nitpick it to hear it. But

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there, I mean, there is
some in there, but if you didn't

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turn it off to compare it,
you might not notice it. It's very

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very minor. And you know,
let's let's face it, things like DNF

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noise blanker, they're all the ways
that compromise. You really want to deal

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with the issue. You want to
cut the coacts of the guy that's tuning,

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just kidding, just kidding, um, you know, you want to

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call the power company to get rid
of the powerline noise. So those are

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stop gap measures. And that's why
if I'm choosing a radio that's not going

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to be the thing that makes me
go nap, I won't buy that radio.

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So in all fairness, but other
than that, those screens are about

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the same. Now this ae SS
system that stands for Acoustic Enhancement Speaker System,

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and what they've done back to our
my music industry roots here, the

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crossover is going to decide which frequencies
go where into what speaker. So I

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should point this out. Low frequencies
are omnidirectional, so you can hear low

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frequency like a subwayfer could be anywhere
in the room you don't even know where.

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But higher frequencies are directional. And
so that's why in a big PA

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system, the loudspeakers, you know, they're going to point the they want

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to make sure that the higher frequency
speakers, which usually look like a horn

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tweeters, you know, are pointed
at in the direction of the audience.

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So what JESU has done is they're
putting the high frequencies out on the sp

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forty this ode on the side of
the radio. They're sending lower frequencies to

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the internal speaker, and it's selectable
the other opts. Now, the setting

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I have it on right now is
to adjust the balance how much of the

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internal speaker do you want to hear
versus the external speaker. And I've actually

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found that nine works for me seventy
five eighty five is good too, but

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ninety percent beef sit up a little
bit, gives you a little bit more

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because this is a small radio.
Yeah, so those who are I've got

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a video coming up for the people
who are going, well, yeah,

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but how does it sound compared to
the SP thirty. Well, stay tuned.

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It's gonna be in my next week's
video. I'm releasing videos every Tuesday

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about this rig. Okay, I'm
not sure when this one will release yet.

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So you check the playlist? Do
you have all those in a playlist?

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Dug, Yes, everything's in a
playlist. There's an FT seventeen,

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you know. And I admit you
go on YouTube as a you know,

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you and I will. We'll see
it a different view because the studio whatever.

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But you go in there as a
viewer and the playlist get a little

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bit lost in a shuffle over there
on that sidebar to me, Yeah,

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you see one, you gotta click
more. I got it. I got

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over fifty playlists, yeah, Sam, Sam here broken down into each subject.

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And I even had a guy while
back. You think you could put

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these in different folders and based on
the Yeah, they're called playlists. So

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the other option there for aess is
to pick what's what you might call the

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cutoff frequency or the crossover frequency.
YESU gave his two choices, seven hundred

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hurts and one thousand hurts. So
what you're saying there is which range of

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frequencies do I want to come out
of the internal speaker because that's more omnidirectional

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um. And so you can say
seven hundred hurts and down, which is

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a default, or you can do
one thousand hurts and down, which actually

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I tinkered with that a little bit
last night. I actually I've been doing

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some CW with the rig and and
last night at work Croatia, I got

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a five eight with one hundred watts
into my z S six BKWUM. But

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the U and I, to me, I was just tweaking around with that,

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and I felt like he sounded better
with it at ninety percent. And

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now I listened to a few other
people said, yeah, that's a little

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more full, you know for a
little bit speaker system. That does help,

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but you know it is it gimmicky. Yeah, I'm probably a little

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bit, but it does work.
And so I found that a thousand sending

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a thousand hurts and down into the
internal speaker rather than seven hundred hurts and

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down from my ear. See,
this is the thing that's great about having

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all these controls for receive audio.
For example, the FT seven d X

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ten introduced a three band DQ for
receive. You don't see that on a

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lot of radios. Literally a base, mids and trouble for receive. It's

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one of the very first settings I
do. I did it in the unboxing

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video for this rig, and I
did it for the ten. So I

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get viewers who go, man,
I have a hard time hearing certain frequency

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ranges. Man, you can tailor
that all over the place. And I'll

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tell you what I did last night
too, is I unplugged the SP forty

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just to see what will it sound
like with the internal speaker with it set

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on one thousand hurts. Now,
as you might guess, you don't get

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as much of the shrill highs,
but also you don't get all that noise

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that comes in at those higher frequencies. So it's a trade off there,

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but it will work with just the
internal speaker. I don't know about the

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impedance values. I haven't looked at
a schematic yet whether whether YAC might say,

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well it's not good to run it
on an internal speaker, but usually

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you get lower impedance when you hook
two speakers in parallel. So I'm trusting

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that that's okay. But I recommend
people that are going to operate portable we're

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headphones, plug it into the front. You'll get full range and be done

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with it. Now. One other
little thing about the ESS. I found

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that putting the speaker on the right
hand side, because the internal speakers on

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the left hand side, by the
way, putting the external speaker on the

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right hand side, because they allow
you to do it either way. You

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just kind of slide it over these
two screws and lock it in place.

406
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It's you get a little bit more
separate. Yeah, your picture is better

407
00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:48.440
there go Yeah. Oh see that
right up there on the top you can

408
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.400
see the internal speaker. Yeah,
right here, yep. So by having

409
00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.680
the sp forty over there on the
right, you're gonna get more separation and

410
00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.920
you're gonna hear I forget if it
was a sue marketing paperwork, somebody's described

411
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:04.480
it as more of a three D
sound if anything, I would say surround

412
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.559
sound, but surround sound. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna hear that difference

413
00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:11.319
more so with the speaker on the
right. If you put the speaker over

414
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.640
on the left when you plug up, you're gonna usd card slots over on

415
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.759
the left. But also you're gonna
have those speakers so close together you won't

416
00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:23.119
be able to hear as much of
that separation. So that's the AESS system.

417
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:26.400
Is it a little bit of a
trickery? Yeah, probably so.

418
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:27.960
And the people who say, well, I would have bought the radio that

419
00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.799
had forced an external speaker on me. I did a poll among my Patreon

420
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:40.279
team, and overwhelmingly people use headphones
and external speakers. It was like six

421
00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:42.920
percent use the internal speaker of a
radio. So you're gonna have an external

422
00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:48.039
speaker anyway, or you're gonna use
headphones. And so I guess in a

423
00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:51.480
sense, you know, it's okay
that it comes with a speaker, but

424
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:55.119
if you're gonna take it portable,
yeah, you probably won't use it.

425
00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:56.519
And I should say this to you. We're talking about the pricing when the

426
00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:02.599
seventy three hundred came out. Wow, this is a lot of people don't

427
00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:06.680
realize this, but they don't make
much profit on the radios now, it's

428
00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:08.720
minimal. I don't know if you've
been told that too, but yes I

429
00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:12.240
have. Um, that's why,
that's why a speaker inside of a metal

430
00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:15.440
box is one hundred and seventy dollars. You know, they make their money

431
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.319
off the accessories that they hope you're
going to buy that desk, mike and

432
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:23.079
the external speaker, the radios.
They're just bare bones on the pricing there,

433
00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:26.720
so I don't get too concerned.
I've had people gripe about the price

434
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:29.880
of this, and then I go
back and look at my nineteen fifty nine

435
00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:33.559
CQ magazine. On the back flat
there's a there's a Drake for five hundred

436
00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.599
nine dollars and there's a Collins for
twelve hundred dollars. So I think we're

437
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.400
doing pretty well these days. Price
wise. You get a lots good point

438
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.359
or for your money. You know, with the modern transceivers. So I

439
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:49.680
talked about the DNFUM no backlit buttons, RF gain still has the scratchy sound.

440
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:55.240
I've got a little note card here, so uh yeah, if you

441
00:29:55.359 --> 00:30:00.640
in no cwdcoder. But let's do
this. Let's talk about the economics a

442
00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.039
bit, because that was a huge
deal with people like oh yeah, look

443
00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:07.559
Finally they spread the knobs out.
Well, I want to draw your attentions

444
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:11.920
to something. The knobs that you
see there, none of them have a

445
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.680
ring, and in fact, you
don't have the you don't you don't have

446
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.920
that, Yeah, and you don't
have that outer dial for the VFO.

447
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:21.880
Yeah, there's no Yeah, there's
no outer dial ring here either. So

448
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:26.119
for me, I use the CS
button, the custom switch button, and

449
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:30.400
I permanently assigned the outer dial to
be the level for the scope sensitivity on

450
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.680
mine, and I'm missing that because
I'm now having to use the function knob

451
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.160
that for that well, for the
function NAB. I usually if I'm in

452
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.440
SIDEBAN, I use it for power. If I'm in CW, I use

453
00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:44.920
it for CW speed because you know, I'm working different people at different speeds

454
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.559
and I want to quickly reach up
there and change CW speed. So I'm

455
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.720
yeah, things are more spread out, but I find myself having to go

456
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:57.079
to menus more often. So top
right there, that's the RF gain and

457
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:03.759
the bottom right is AF gain is
audio frequency gain listen volume volume right.

458
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:08.319
So, um, I think that
that was a missed opportunity there, because

459
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.319
that's a lot of real estate for
just those two knobs with only those two

460
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:17.160
functions because on an FTDX ten those
are down to the lower left of the

461
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:21.000
VFO, which people you know hated
on. But and I agree, you

462
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.400
know, we do like a volume
knob on their lower right. Just people

463
00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:26.480
tend to be that way unless they're
left handed. Unless they're left handed.

464
00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:32.279
True, but you had the RF
gain and the audio frequency gain, the

465
00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:37.039
volume all on one shaft there right, so it took up very little space.

466
00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:40.640
Now you got all that real estate
over there on the right hand side,

467
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.720
that is, um just for two
funks two. It's really all that

468
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:48.920
over there to the right of the
VFO is just to replace one spot that

469
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.720
was on the FTDX ten. Well, here's my issue with that. On

470
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:57.519
the FTDX ten, the out up
in the bot top right was bandwidth and

471
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:04.160
shift. Grab a knob and the
automatically you're controlling, no menu selection,

472
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:07.400
nothing, You're it's right there at
your fingertips. The bottom right was your

473
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:13.720
contour, your APF, you know, or whichever one you selected to use.

474
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:17.160
You know, typically on CW it's
APF and sideband its contour, and

475
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:22.759
those are unique. Some radios don't
from other brands, don't always have that.

476
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:27.839
Some do, but um, and
then also your manual notch knob.

477
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.759
You need a manual notch. That's
why I didn't. It doesn't bother me

478
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.480
about the DNF having distortion. I
quickly just rotate a knob and it automatically

479
00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:37.640
engages the manual notch. You don't
have to turn it on with or not

480
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:39.079
button. There is one, but
you don't have to. And then I

481
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:43.839
quickly just a zero and I shot
a video recently showing how to use the

482
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:50.359
band pass scope that little display up
in the top right to see the spike

483
00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:53.039
of a of a head or nine
and then quickly move that deep V or

484
00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:55.759
the manual notch over there. I
always going to the menu system and set

485
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:00.720
the manual notch to its most narrow
setting and ap as well. So again

486
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:06.160
at your fingertips. And so now
how do we get to all of that?

487
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:09.240
We have to press that button down
there to the lower left, which

488
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:14.720
is if you just start rotating and
it changes frequency in five killer hurtsch increments

489
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:19.960
if you now, if you're in
memory mode, it cycles through the memory

490
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.680
frequency what you have stored in memory, which yesue a lot of people don't

491
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:25.640
know this, but YESU put sixty
meters in there for you in the memories

492
00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:31.000
there in memory bank five Memory zero
one is yours. But they actually do

493
00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:35.359
have a sample frequency in there.
It's always seven megaherts. But then you

494
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:37.640
can load it all up. I
like to go in order of one sixty

495
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:42.720
from one sixty meters. I'll put
my favorite CWS side band AM all the

496
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.759
way up with every band so that
NOB will also cycle through memories if you're

497
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:50.759
in memory mode, and then if
you press it, it brings up DSP,

498
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:52.799
so now you have to then you
have to rotate it to what do

499
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:57.359
you want to adjust in DSP,
and then once you select what you want

500
00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.279
to adjust, you got to press
it again. And then once you press

501
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:02.960
it, you'll see it blink and
then you can make a change, and

502
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:07.480
if you make a change, it'll
go from gray to that amberish yellowish.

503
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.119
So you got a lot of steps
there to get to nut things that I

504
00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:15.320
used to just reach for a knob
for. So okay, yeah, orgonomically

505
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.920
it's more spread out yet, and
you're gonna be hitting them in you more

506
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:23.320
often because of that. So you
know, it's always the good with the

507
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:27.679
bad. And then I mean,
you gotta you gotta you gotta take some

508
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:30.400
some you know, improvements, and
then you got some things that are to

509
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:32.880
me not as well thought out,
because what I would have liked to seen

510
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:39.480
is gained gained knobs again, bottom
right be a F and RF game and

511
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:44.199
the top right be width and shift, just like it wasn't on an FTDX

512
00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:47.559
ten. Talk about leaving your shat
and going out on a PoTA site with

513
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:51.639
the FT seven ten. That makes
it even more so. You're gonna naturally

514
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:53.480
want to reach up there to the
top right to adjust width and shift.

515
00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:57.480
And it's in the same place if
they had done that with this rig.

516
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:04.760
So I put it this way.
I see pluses and minuses with the ergonomics.

517
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:06.840
Some people are gonna say, well, I like it more spread out

518
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:09.039
like it is. Here's another little
funny thing, the band button. See

519
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:13.000
where it is up there to the
top right of the VFO. Yeah,

520
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.119
I'm used to it being over here
exactly now. Granted it was crowded.

521
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:19.519
I gotta be honest with you.
I got used to the FTDX ten.

522
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:22.719
I operate the thing no problem.
But now to cycle through the band stacks,

523
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:28.760
you gotta tap band and then tap
function or tap or tap the band

524
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.880
button there, but you can also
press function in and it'll cycle through the

525
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:36.960
band stacks. You know, each
band has three. Think of them as

526
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:42.239
quick access, you know, like
you can have a favorite CW frequency in

527
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:47.000
there, sideband frequency and AM and
now you got to spread out to do

528
00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:52.079
that. Now. I have the
early firmware from my FTDX ten, which

529
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.480
I don't know why they changed it. I requested them to put it back.

530
00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.199
Numerous viewers of mine have requested.
And you just double tap band and

531
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.559
you cycle through the band stack.
Tap tap, next band stack, tap

532
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:07.039
tap. Um. That was version
zero one, zero four, the FTDX

533
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.880
ten after that, it's the same
thing, but the band button was of

534
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:16.800
course closer to the function knob with
the FTDX ten, so pluses and minuses

535
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:22.079
ergonomically. Um. But now can
the radio here? Yeah? It hears

536
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:29.360
very well. Um, it does. I believe Rob's numbers are being being

537
00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:34.280
proven to me as I chase week
signals. I've already used it on CWUM

538
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:38.880
and you know last night work the
Croatian station. Um. I'll say this

539
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:43.239
though, and this will be in
one of my upcoming videos. I'll give

540
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:51.320
a teaser. It's got a strange
annoying popping sound coming from that speaker every

541
00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:55.119
time when you're sending CW. It's
not the relay. You know, people

542
00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:59.480
go, oh, I hate radio
with relays. Well that's a whole another

543
00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:02.000
topic. Pen dios versus relay.
There are pluses and minuses to each,

544
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.079
but um, you could put it
on semi break in, so you've got

545
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.440
to I use a five hundred millisecond
delay, so the relay is only going

546
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:13.960
to click once and I'll send and
then it'll let go when I'm done half

547
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:16.679
a second after I'm done. It's
not that relay. It's a it's an

548
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:22.039
audio sound coming from the SP forty
and it's like a after every ditting dog.

549
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:28.159
Yeah, it was so annoying to
me, and it screwed me up

550
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.199
a couple of times sending CW because
I wasn't you know, you need that

551
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:36.119
feedback of yourself to make sure you're
you know, you gotta. You don't

552
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:37.800
want to sound like you don't have
a good fist, as they say.

553
00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:43.719
So that's a little something. Now, all of my nitpicks I'm hoping can

554
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:47.960
be addressed in a firmware update.
Um, it is a different DSP chip,

555
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:52.480
So is that dspa chip even capable
if they do a firmware update.

556
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:58.079
That remains to be seen. My
next video is coming out Tuesday. I'm

557
00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:00.639
going to get into digital noise reduction. I won't. I won't do it

558
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:05.000
here because I want that to be
a surprise. And there is a surprise

559
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.360
related to the digital noise reduction.
See. I know people hate digital noise

560
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:12.840
reduction, but for me, I
can't operate without it. Now I'm spoiled.

561
00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:15.840
I mean, I like, I
like sideband to sound like I'm talking

562
00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:20.000
on a repeater. But the key
to that is a lot of people miss

563
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.840
out on this. They dump everything
from the front end of the receiver end

564
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:23.599
of the DSP and say, all
right, now I clean it up.

565
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:27.199
No, no, no, I
teach it all the time on my channel.

566
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.039
Deal with the noise in the front
end. Work that esimeter to the

567
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:37.360
left, not to the right,
IPO attenuation or f gain, minimize how

568
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.039
much noise you're sending to the DSP, and it will do a fabulous job

569
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:45.000
for you. But another weird thing, there's are quirk in Yasu radios and

570
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:46.960
those who don't know this yet,
You've got big viewerships, so maybe we

571
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:51.960
can get the word out on FT
eight ninety one. They use the same

572
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.039
chip, by the way as the
ten and the one oh one UM,

573
00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.320
but the algorithms are different, and
I don't I don't know if it's a

574
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:05.880
memory limit why Yasuo hasn't gone back
and upgraded those. Forget algorithms one through

575
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:09.400
eight on the digital noise reduction start
at nine, because one through eight's gonna

576
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:15.000
sound like you're listening underwater. Nine
doesn't do that. Nine You may hear

577
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:16.760
a little bit of an echo effect, but what you're hearing there is your

578
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:21.199
AGC tale. In other words,
it's cleaned up so much noise. You

579
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:27.360
can now hear the AGC tapering off, whereas before it was there but you

580
00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:32.599
couldn't hear because of the noise.
So on eight you want to do you

581
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:37.599
want to run it at algorithm nine
or higher, but that's gonna doll out

582
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:40.719
the highs. Only run it nine
if you don't go higher than nine unless

583
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:45.559
you need to. So the ten
comes out and the DSP on it.

584
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:51.920
The DNR rivaled my five thousand because
my five thousand never makes that underwater sound.

585
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.920
Doesn't matter if I'm an algorithm one
or fifteen, and when the ten

586
00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:59.159
came out, it just shocked me. Same chip, same chip, the

587
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.000
one on one even had the watery
sound. And that's why one of the

588
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:05.480
reasons I chose the five thousand,
many other reasons too. Nab I said,

589
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:07.000
Wow, they they they've got it, they've rived. They're rival in

590
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:10.239
the five thousand with this one.
And now later and later update made the

591
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:14.880
one oh one, I'll equal the
ten. So I'm told, Okay,

592
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:16.559
I've never had my hands on a
one oh one since the ones that I

593
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:22.360
tested to make my buying decision,
so I don't haven't tried one since that

594
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.159
update. But uh yeah, I
mean now that, as I'll point out

595
00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:29.159
in the video this coming up next
Tuesday, you know, the digital noise

596
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:31.320
reduction in the in the seven ten
is definitely different because you got a different

597
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:37.719
chip, and um, they're you
know, they're the differences are pretty noticeable.

598
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:39.480
Yeah, so did we cover I
think we covered about everything, didn't

599
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:43.880
I think that's a yeah. Yeah, I was actually maybe a little bit

600
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:45.599
more than than we talked about.
But but which is good. I mean,

601
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:50.360
it's all really good information. So
yeah, great, Okay, Well,

602
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:52.079
hey, so, so to be
clear, I'm not hating on the

603
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.400
seven ten. I think it's a
great radio. It's good to be honest

604
00:40:55.440 --> 00:41:00.440
with. And you know, it's
not supposed to be an ft d X

605
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:05.519
ten competitor. Why would Yasu make
radio that competes with an existing radio,

606
00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:08.199
an existing radio that's the only released
like two years ago, right, So

607
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:12.159
it's not supposed to be an FTDX
ten competitor. It's supposed to be an

608
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:15.880
FTDX ten in a smaller box with
less features, with the lower price tag.

609
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.320
And someone said, well, they're
only one hundred dollars within one hundred

610
00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:22.599
hundred and fifty dollars or one another. Yes, but the seven ten comes

611
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.679
with the speaker, and you can
say, well, I don't use the

612
00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:29.800
speaker. Well it comes with it, so you can. I don't know

613
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:31.400
if maybe you can sell it or
if you can just use it when you're

614
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:34.960
home in the shack, if you're
using it for a portable radio. I'm

615
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:37.719
totally with you on that. I
wouldn't think I want to take it much.

616
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:42.599
I mean, I find table maybe
yeah, and see, and that's

617
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.719
typically what I do with PODA,
and I find I don't use I've got

618
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:51.000
a Higle Pro seven for a that's
got a that's got a Yazu plug.

619
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:53.400
I bought that to use with my
Flex radio Mastro, which just the same

620
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:57.719
plug, so it'll I can use
it on my my Yaizu or my Flex

621
00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.400
radios. I don't use that when
I go to hold up because usually I'm

622
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:05.039
making a video and if I put
headphones on the video, can't hear the

623
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.239
audio come from the radio. Yep. So I'm like, you know,

624
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.679
now, not everybody is doing that, Not everybody's making YouTube videos like I

625
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:13.760
am. But yeah, I mean, I mean when I was on field

626
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:16.199
Day, Yeah, I'm plugging in
my Pro seven headset. Absolutely, it's

627
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:22.199
just it's night and day. But
between the signals you can hear whether they're

628
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:24.559
whether they're a loud signals or whether
they're in the noise signals. You can

629
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:29.000
definitely hearing better without all the people
talking around you and the we do field

630
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:34.039
Day in a big group. So
but that speaker is going to be at

631
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.960
least it's there if you want it
as an option in this package. So

632
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:40.599
but you if you don't want it
and you want a little bit more radio,

633
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:45.199
choose the choose the FDD Extent package. So field Day you bring that

634
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:49.639
up. That's a great, great
point to be able to make a point

635
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:54.960
in Rob Sherwood's test, the one
one hundred killer hurts number that he's got

636
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.679
in there, the one twenty nine
decibel though on a field day situation,

637
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.280
that's the number that would you know, because you gotta have multiple operators around,

638
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:07.199
multiple in ten is that number would
come into play there because you're got

639
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:08.920
to people on other bands. You're
gonna have people up and down a band.

640
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.039
Maybe you're working CW A forty meters, somebody else's up working sideband.

641
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.280
That's where that number will come into
play. And in that scenario, the

642
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:21.960
FTDX ten wins. But they are
neck to neck, I mean you know,

643
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:25.519
they really are their neck to net
on the received side itself, sensitivity

644
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:30.079
and all those aspects of it,
and and it is, I mean it

645
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:35.400
is number wise, it is the
best SDR pure SDR made. I have

646
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:37.079
a theory as far as why did
you see because I've had so many people

647
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:39.039
I don't know if you have,
but they asked me why did they do

648
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:42.800
this? Why they bring out a
radio so similar? Yeah? Yeah,

649
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.079
and when they should have and this
is what they say, and when they

650
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:49.199
should have brought out something like two
seven h five. Yes, and my

651
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.960
theory isn't then I'll probably be told
them wrong. I'm sure, probably I

652
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:59.159
am. But my theory is they
needed their me Too Radio because you know,

653
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:00.480
well, you don't have a pure
SDR. You came out with a

654
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:04.039
thing called a hybrid. Yeah,
we'll at hybrids number one in the world,

655
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:07.199
but you don't have a pure SDR. You know, the same thing

656
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:08.719
as being said to ken Wood.
I mean, like ken when you're gonna

657
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:12.119
come out with us SDR. I
mean, it's sad about ken Wood.

658
00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:15.199
They're hardly doing anything, looks like
but um, you know, yeah.

659
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:19.239
My theory is is that it was
like, okay, fine, we'll show

660
00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:21.960
you that we can make an SDR. And oh, by the way,

661
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:28.800
ours is now the best SDR ever
made based on that that ranking. But

662
00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:32.559
that's just a theory. Yeah,
I mean it makes sense. You have

663
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:36.760
sense and you Hey, I'm sure
Jasu watches your videos because you're all over

664
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:39.639
the world. Yea, sue,
we need a seven oh five competitor.

665
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:47.360
They well, I say they know
that, but um, yas Usa knows

666
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:51.159
that we put it that way.
Yeah, Jaz Japan, I don't know.

667
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:53.400
Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but yeah, you know,

668
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:59.320
what I mean, if you if
you think about it, the eight one

669
00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:02.280
seven in A one eight were the
predecessor to the seven oh five. Now

670
00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:07.360
those radios are night and day.
I mean, oh, they don't even

671
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:09.760
have they don't have DSP no,
and they don't come with a c W

672
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:13.239
filter. No, they don't have
a they don't have a lot of and

673
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.159
they're big and heavy and vulky,
but they're but they're in all mode HF

674
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:22.239
portable QRP radio with its own battery. Since the pandemic started, Yezu's released

675
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.360
like five this This is either radio
number five or number six since the pandemic

676
00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:29.920
started. Yeah, Kinwood, Kinwood
is gone. They're not gone. They're

677
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.800
coming back. I've I've got good
inside information that Kinwood's coming back. Kinwood

678
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:37.440
had a bunch of Elmar contracts they
had to focus on. Well, I

679
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:39.199
hope they do. I hope they
do. Yeah. Because of chip shortages

680
00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:45.079
and supply chain issues and that that
that's facing everybody. Icon has released one,

681
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:49.719
one or two new radios since the
pandemic start. I think the seven

682
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:52.519
oh five actually released in twenty twenty. Uh, it might have been twenty

683
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:55.360
nineteen. I can't remember if it
released before or after the pandemic. I

684
00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:58.960
think it might have been twenty nineteen. It might have been twenty nineteen,

685
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:00.960
might have been right before everything shut
down. When I was at the Huntsville

686
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:06.480
Handfest last August, it was two
months ago. Uh yeah, two months

687
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:08.760
ago. At the time of this
recording, the Gigapart store had the IC

688
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:14.960
seventy three hundred for almost for like
fourteen hundred dollars. Yeah, And I'm

689
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:16.920
like, and all of the all
of the icon stuff, the prices were

690
00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:20.440
like this. Yeah. And if
you look at the ftd X ten,

691
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.320
which came out after the pandemic or
during the pandemic, I should say,

692
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.559
yeah, it was sixteen ninety nine
and now you can get it for about

693
00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:30.360
thirteen. It's well, right now
it's back up to fourteen. But at

694
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:35.960
that handfest, one of the dealers
I won't say who had it for thirteen

695
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:39.360
twenty nine ninety five, and another
one had it for twelve ninety nine ninety

696
00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:44.079
five. Okay, that is an
unbelievable prize. I mean that's the price

697
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:47.119
at the seven ten, and I
mean the ftd X ten is a Yeah.

698
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:50.119
If I gotta pick between the two, I'm gonna get a ten.

699
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:53.280
Oh. Yeah. But now my
prediction is, I don't think the ten.

700
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:57.239
People have asked you think the ten's
gonna go back to seventeen hundred dollars.

701
00:46:57.280 --> 00:46:59.360
I mean, honestly, I gotta
tell you, when it came out

702
00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:02.519
at seventeen dollars, I said,
this is a game changer, because I

703
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:07.719
mean the three thousand D was still
at that point eighteen hundred dollars. And

704
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:08.440
I said, well, this is
going to kill the three thousand D.

705
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:12.880
And that happened to three months later. Yeah, and that's still a man.

706
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:15.920
The three thousand D is a great
radio. I mean it is.

707
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:20.320
Yeah, it's still it's still a
great radio, and it can use mutuning

708
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:23.880
preselectors like the five thousand KEN,
so you have that front end preselector that's

709
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:27.800
variable like you do on the one
oh one D and MP. Even now,

710
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:30.400
when you think about the price of
a Collins radio in fifty nine at

711
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.519
twelve hundred, we're being we're buying
some incredible technology even at seventeen hundred.

712
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:37.679
But I don't My prediction is,
I don't think they'll put it back there.

713
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:42.159
I think it's going to settle out
at either where it is right now,

714
00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:45.039
fourteen ninety five or maybe fifteen ninety
nine ninety five. That's just my

715
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:49.480
gut feel. Yeah, you know, you just look at look at the

716
00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:52.760
history of these radios that you do
usually settle somewhere, Yes, you know,

717
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:55.679
and I'm sure the seven ten will
settle somewhere. I don't. I

718
00:47:55.719 --> 00:47:59.920
don't know that except maybe on a
Black Friday if it'll get below a thousand.

719
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:04.519
But it's possible. Yeah, I
mean, it is possible because let's

720
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:06.840
just face it, whether you like
it or not, it is going head

721
00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:09.159
to head with the seventy three hundred. It is. Yeah, totally,

722
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:14.639
it totally is. And and I
just I just I think Yazy's got something

723
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:19.079
cooking for the whole QRP thing.
I do hope. So because you know,

724
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:22.360
I haul an FT eight ninety one
up the mountains, I'm I'm I'm

725
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:24.719
mountain goat and a half now on
soda, and oh I've carried a five

726
00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:28.679
pound eight ninety one up because it
spoiled me. Man. Even on CW,

727
00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:31.119
that thing is the boss because it
does have a physical roofing filter.

728
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:35.000
Even though it's only a three K, he doesn't go down to five hundred.

729
00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:37.079
But the DSP is just that good. Yeah. My friend Joel was

730
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:39.880
saw me work. He was taking
a break. He does CW and I

731
00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:43.559
was up there on a mountain and
he walked over there and I gave a

732
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:45.679
guy five to nine nine. He's
looking at the meter. It wasn't it

733
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:49.400
was barely wiggling, and said,
well, he sounded like five nine nine

734
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.280
to me. Because we also use
a radio called an L in our precision

735
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:55.079
Mountaintopper and they don't have an AS
meter, so we always make it up.

736
00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:58.800
You know, we go a little
bit of white noise five to seven,

737
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:00.960
you know, a little more white, and always five five, got

738
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:02.719
a little grind in there, five
three, you know, nine five three

739
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:07.960
five nine. So um. You
know, these kind of radios with the

740
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:10.639
with the with the DSP we have
available to us today, you can make

741
00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:15.599
a five two nine sound like a
five nine nine and um. And that

742
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:20.679
spoil that has spoiled me, absolutely, it really really has. But yeah,

743
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:23.280
I mean I do carry the seven
ounce radio a little more often now,

744
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:28.679
the little the little mountaintopper, but
you know you're restricted then to CW

745
00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:32.360
only. Yeah, but I've got
I've got my eye on that that four

746
00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:36.840
br or whatever it is. As
soon as they've been watching their website for

747
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:38.119
when they they're supposed to come back. They're supposed to put some more on

748
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:42.679
their website sometime this month. So
well, and that's another American made radio,

749
00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:45.639
right, Yes it is California,
Yes it is. Yeah, and

750
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:50.320
they yeah they. I used to
have a the LD eleven, which was

751
00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:53.159
their sideband NCW version. I remember
that when an equipmaking it right. I

752
00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:58.079
wish I wouldn't have sold that thing. That was a great radio. I

753
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.880
don't remember why I sold it.
I think I sold to buy something else.

754
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:02.800
I did a poll among my patreons. I said, have you ever

755
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:06.719
sold a radio? And later regretted
it, and the majority said yes,

756
00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:09.480
yeah, yeah, yeah. The
majority did say yes, because you know,

757
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:14.920
just to be just to be upfront
with your viewers. Not everything that's

758
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.039
new is necessarily better. No.
I mean, I've got an old radio

759
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:21.400
over here. It was made in
nineteen ninety one, and I was running

760
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:24.159
at mobile. Joel, my friend
Joel heard it and he had just gotten

761
00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:27.840
out of his jeep or something with
a different one of the modern radios.

762
00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:30.599
He goes Man's Compared to mind,
it sounds like he took a blanket off

763
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:34.679
the speaker. I mean, you
know, then again, remember a mobile

764
00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:37.960
radio back in nineteen ninety one was
still big and it was about the size

765
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:43.440
of an ftd X ten really,
and so but you know some of the

766
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:45.840
old radios, man, they have
they have some Well I can tell you

767
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:49.679
this. The noise blanker on that
radio best I've ever I'll tell you what

768
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:53.159
it is, and says FT eight
ninety eight. It has an Antena tuner.

769
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:55.800
Ye with a ten meter hamstick,
I can work ten, twelve,

770
00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:59.719
fifteen, seventeen, and twenty.
But the noise blanker in that thing knocks

771
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:04.719
out my ignition pulses, and I
never know its own no distortion. So

772
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:07.880
newer is not always better. It
may be better for the manufactor because they

773
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.920
can pack a little more into an
IC chip and it costs less, but

774
00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:15.880
it may not always be better.
And we have to be smart shoppers in

775
00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:17.639
that respect. And that's one of
the things I try to give my viewers

776
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:21.760
is that type of insight, like
don't buy six hundred dollars microphone and plug

777
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:24.199
it into a y so you've got
two three band parametric eqs built into the

778
00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:30.119
rig more than enough EQ. So, for example, on this radio,

779
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:32.360
the seven ten and the d X
ten. You can set up the microphone

780
00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:36.920
EQ for the hand mike and then
immediately turn around and plug in an M

781
00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:40.480
seventy or an m D one hundred. It'll sound just as good, you

782
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:46.000
know, because they're very similar sounding, and those are not even I mean

783
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:50.800
with M seventies, I think one
hundred and forty five maybe one hundred and

784
00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:53.400
fifty dollars. You don't need to
buy that five and six hundred dollars microphone

785
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:57.599
for these radios, just totally unnecessary. You think about what you could do

786
00:51:57.599 --> 00:52:00.840
with that extra month. You could
buy an antenna. Yeah, I mean

787
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:02.880
you can buy a good off Center
fed dipole. True, yeah, uh

788
00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.280
huh, that is true. Well, hey, Jason is great getting together?

789
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:08.280
Yeah again man, Yeah, yeah, you two. Man. I

790
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:12.400
appreciate you taking the time out this
morning. And uh I want yeah,

791
00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:15.360
I gotta, I gotta box this
up and send it to Peter, the

792
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:17.559
guy who won this radio. So
I wanted to get this done before before

793
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:22.119
I congratulating my hands. Congratulations Peter. And look, you know, out

794
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:27.480
of the gate, I checked the
firmware versions zero zero, so so you

795
00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:29.800
know, hopefully it's going to get
better from here. With a little nip

796
00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:32.400
in the tuck here and there in
the firmware. Yeah, totally, Doug,

797
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:36.400
thank you for for the time today. I appreciate it. And uh,

798
00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:39.000
well, we'll catch him next time
and you guys go check um the

799
00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:43.199
Dougs. I'll put a link in
the description blow to Duck's channel, but

800
00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:45.920
also his playlist for this specific radio
that he has eight or nine videos on

801
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:50.360
and he's adding too as time goes
on. So yeah, my viewers asked

802
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:52.320
me not to clutter my whole channel
with FT seven ten, so I'm only

803
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:57.840
releasing one video a week on Tuesdays
at noon. Yeah that's good, that's

804
00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:00.280
good. Thank you man, Jason
have a great one, man. Yeah,

805
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:00.320
thanks you too. Bye bye