Speaker 1: Alrighty, So this is the FTX one series. And the
Speaker 1: reason we're saying the series and calling it the series
Speaker 1: is because it really is not just a radio. It
Speaker 1: is a series of radios on there. This model that
Speaker 1: we have here a lot of people have been seeing,
Speaker 1: obviously the FTX one, but this is the FTX one
Speaker 1: in the optimum version. So what is the optimum version, Well,
Speaker 1: it is the FTX one here with the SPA one
Speaker 1: as a package deal. So it's not just when you
Speaker 1: buy the Optima. It's not just hey, I'm just getting
Speaker 1: the amp or something. You're getting the whole complete radio
Speaker 1: set with it on there. Now, we built this with
Speaker 1: a concept of as someone said yesterday and I don't
Speaker 1: even know it's a real word, modularity. It's going to
Speaker 1: be buzzword. Sounds good, but what it is is basically,
Speaker 1: it's like you're at home. You want to do one
Speaker 1: hundred wats through HF and six meters, but now or
Speaker 1: fifty watch on VHF and UHF. Now what I want
Speaker 1: to do is I want to go out somewhere. I
Speaker 1: want to take it with me to go camping. Whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever you do, you simply push the button on the
Speaker 1: top here and then it's gonna go ahead and disconnect
Speaker 1: that simple, that easy on there. Now a lot of
Speaker 1: people have had questions about the connections. The connections, yes,
Speaker 1: are built into on there and then you have in essence, technically,
Speaker 1: if you come both in TENA ports, you have five
Speaker 1: intena connects or five connections you need to do on
Speaker 1: the radio, we suggest always powering it off. But what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do is you're gonna pull this part out
Speaker 1: here and then that is the antenna connections for the
Speaker 1: HF and then as well as VHF. Next you're gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and unpluged the speaker connection on there. You're
Speaker 1: gonna unplug the thirteen point eight volt DC, and then
Speaker 1: you're gonna unplug the actual tuner amplifier connection cable on there. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the radio. This is good to go. What
Speaker 1: you can do then is you could either connect it
Speaker 1: with thirteen point eight volt s DC or as you
Speaker 1: see on the back here there's the modularity concept. You
Speaker 1: can attach the battery to it. You can actually attach
Speaker 1: to FC eighty and TENA tuner over the battery with
Speaker 1: it two. So it allows you all that functionality in there.
Speaker 1: Now win on battery does only do six walks. When
Speaker 1: you connect in the thirteen point a old DC, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do ten walks. But as you
Speaker 1: see here, very simple, easy, I mean, it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of like the old old like military style. You know, Hey,
Speaker 1: you'll be calling in there, you know. But it does
Speaker 1: have a whole list of features on there too. This
Speaker 1: is the actual GPS chip.
Speaker 2: Is that available now?
Speaker 1: It is? If it's not available now, I know they're shipping.
Speaker 1: We have a lot coming in right now. That's where
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of confusion and people saying, well,
Speaker 1: how soon is the optimal? How soon is the SPA one.
Speaker 1: We have them coming in right now. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of getting them in and then getting them to
Speaker 1: the dealers for their how do you wanna say, their
Speaker 1: their pre orders? However they have it set up. We
Speaker 1: don't know that with the dealer's on there. But the
Speaker 1: SPA one itself, which you can buy later, is coming.
Speaker 1: That's probably gonna be maybe say a month or two,
Speaker 1: is what we're saying. We don't know how fast shipping
Speaker 1: is going to be. That's the only thing on there.
Speaker 1: Could be tomorrow, could be one or two months from right.
Speaker 2: So when you say sbe SPA one, you mean the
Speaker 2: amplifier by itself.
Speaker 1: Without this, so right now, So like if you bought
Speaker 1: THEFTX one F, you're gonna get this, the battery, the microphone,
Speaker 1: everything you need to take this and start using it
Speaker 1: right away. This is going to be the SPA one,
Speaker 1: which you can buy separately. So you're saying, hey, you
Speaker 1: buy the FTX one F, you know what, I really
Speaker 1: want one hundred watts to really want more power, then
Speaker 1: later you can come and buy this now. You do
Speaker 1: get a discount if you buy it as the Optima
Speaker 1: package right off the bat obviously, but yes, this is
Speaker 1: available on there. The other thing we did look at
Speaker 1: it is we got the handle on the side. You
Speaker 1: have your connections there so you can actually there's actually
Speaker 1: feet if you see on there. So there's a whole
Speaker 1: host of mounting things out there. What are the things
Speaker 1: I will address? You get a lot of questions already
Speaker 1: on there. Well, why is what was the designed to
Speaker 1: be mobile? Realistically, it wasn't designed to be mobile because
Speaker 1: this takes about twenty I'm gonna say twenty two amps conservatively.
Speaker 1: I think it is for running at full high power.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of times you can do that in
Speaker 1: a mobile environment. Yeah, you can run off the battery,
Speaker 1: but it's really designed to be this is the base
Speaker 1: you keep at home. This is what I'm take it
Speaker 1: in the car wherever I want to go and do
Speaker 1: it and then give you either six or ten watts. Now,
Speaker 1: if we take a look over here, this has the
Speaker 1: actual Yazu design bracket on there. So somebody asked me
Speaker 1: about that yesterday.
Speaker 2: I've never seen them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is one of the new features on there,
Speaker 1: so locks into there. It's designed to be. Or Now,
Speaker 1: this is a stand that we have for it on there.
Speaker 1: It's not a specific stand or anything on there, but
Speaker 1: this is what you can do. You see, it's got
Speaker 1: handle grips there for you you want to hang it suspended. Now,
Speaker 1: a couple of things. I'm just gonna show this here
Speaker 1: because we've been showing it all morning long. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's on battery. Now I'm gonna take and plug into
Speaker 1: thirteen point eight old DC. Now I'm gonna do It's
Speaker 1: gonna take now the batteries off. That's simple, that easy.
Speaker 1: Now it's plugged in directly with the thirteen point eight bols.
Speaker 1: I have ten watts coming out of it right now.
Speaker 1: Then you want to go ahead and go back to
Speaker 1: portable operation, We're gonna take and slide the battery back
Speaker 1: on there. That's what happens when you get old. You
Speaker 1: can't see now, I take it on there now, watch
Speaker 1: as you see. Actually take a look at it, see
Speaker 1: that it's actually charging. I'm standing there now, Yank, I'm
Speaker 1: still operating. So it's that easy, that's flexible for it
Speaker 1: to go to do. What are the other big things
Speaker 1: I do want to point out for people they've kind
Speaker 1: of asked this question. Stuff grounding scools located on here
Speaker 1: too for you. So if you are going ahead and
Speaker 1: using like the FC forty connector, or you're going to
Speaker 1: be using something where you want to have the radio
Speaker 1: have a good ground plane for your antenna, you do
Speaker 1: have the actual grounding screwl on there. Like I said,
Speaker 1: thirteen point a little DC jack out there for data
Speaker 1: bands on there. Because some people I'm asking can I
Speaker 1: hook my own antenna tune or to it or amplifier.
Speaker 1: We don't test with third party devices, so we don't know, right,
Speaker 1: But then you have all the functionality there speaker right
Speaker 1: into the bottom here for you gives you the main
Speaker 1: and sub concept. That's the other kind of thing. People
Speaker 1: have asked, well, what is the concept is like an
Speaker 1: A and a B band. No, it's like the seven
Speaker 1: to ten over there that kind of has a main
Speaker 1: and a sub, the ft five to ten main and
Speaker 1: sub kind of concept down there.
Speaker 2: We were at the campsite yesterday and there was probably
Speaker 2: twelve people around me and we hooked infant halfway intended
Speaker 2: to it and turn the and found a station that
Speaker 2: he's working poda and we turned the volume way up
Speaker 2: and it sounded freaking fantastic. It was beautiful, beautiful audio
Speaker 2: coming out of that front firing speaker exactly.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people said, what, John, what what
Speaker 1: can you relate this to? Like like we've seen on
Speaker 1: your videos, you're saying this, the brochure says this, what
Speaker 1: would you relate it to? Well, I'm gonna relate it
Speaker 1: to performance and audio quality to the seven ten. This
Speaker 1: is this is probably And that's what we kind of
Speaker 1: tell people as they said, like what is this equivalent to?
Speaker 1: This is equivalent to the people saying I want to
Speaker 1: seven ten with VHF and UHF in there gotcha. That's
Speaker 1: really what it is. It's not designed to also replace
Speaker 1: any radio on our line. Okay, you know. So it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: the nine ninety one is gonna be you know, and
Speaker 1: now and then this is this No, it's it's really
Speaker 1: SDR technology, DSP circuitry and that portable transportable based configuration.
Speaker 2: The other thing I really really like is that the
Speaker 2: battery itself has a USBC port on it.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. So so we did that because once again,
Speaker 1: looking at the USBC is more of the standard thing
Speaker 1: down there. And so you're in the car, you're operating,
Speaker 1: you're on thirteen point eight volts DC. Hey, I want
Speaker 1: to charge the battery before I go walking out. Great,
Speaker 1: All I simply do is take it, slide it out
Speaker 1: on there, and then now you know you got it
Speaker 1: right in there. Hey, I can charge in the car
Speaker 1: while I'm driving out to the site and you're good
Speaker 1: to go from there.
Speaker 2: Now there's a USBC port on the radio itself. Yes,
Speaker 2: does that charge the battery or what is that for?
Speaker 1: No, battery charging is only going to be through the
Speaker 1: thirteen point eight volts DC the.
Speaker 2: Us when it's attached to the radio.
Speaker 1: When it's attached radio. So like in this configuration you
Speaker 1: see there the red lights on there, it's charging right
Speaker 1: on there. We want to faster charge turn off the radio.
Speaker 1: What the USBC is that is going to be your
Speaker 1: interface going forward because this does have like a built
Speaker 1: in sound card. You are going to be doing FT
Speaker 1: eight all those functionalities on there. Okay, we went with
Speaker 1: it for two things, real estate and then once again USBC.
Speaker 2: It's hard to find it a more standard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really hard to find it a yeah, but yes,
Speaker 1: and then like I said, the GPS unit, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the APRS functionality in there. You have currently fusion
Speaker 1: to transmit and receive on it. There is gonna be
Speaker 1: some wires X updates stuff coming in August and we're
Speaker 1: gonna cover that, and that's gonna be done by a
Speaker 1: firmware on it. But right now it's literally vhf uhf.
Speaker 1: Like I said, functionality of a nine to ninety one,
Speaker 1: but design performance of an FT seven ten. It's the
Speaker 1: best way I can do it. The two got together
Speaker 1: when we weren't looking, and well, thanks happening. Internal tuner,
Speaker 1: theop tinner that goes on the back.
Speaker 2: What's the spects on that three.
Speaker 1: To one, it's about a three. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: our FC fifties in those it's it literally is the
Speaker 1: same INTENTNA tuner. It's about a three to one up
Speaker 1: to about one hundred homes. Hands down. If you are
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and be trying to as I said,
Speaker 1: Jenner or energize a wet noodle, get an external intenta tuner.
Speaker 1: We've told that on there. But if you're like me,
Speaker 1: I play around in eighty meters, I like thirty nine
Speaker 1: sixty five, thirty nine to seventy five, But hey, I
Speaker 1: want to get maybe get down to thirty eight to
Speaker 1: fifty on my homebrew. You know that I did. Then
Speaker 1: that's gonna go and be great. Now let me hold
Speaker 1: stay right here real quick. So this is the fan.
Speaker 1: I'm there. It's really easy and nice to clip on there.
Speaker 1: I'm going to kind of show you on this one. Here.
Speaker 2: I was wondering if somebody asked me if the fan
Speaker 2: went above or below the battery.
Speaker 1: Nope, it's gonna Actually it actually replaces the battery. Replaces
Speaker 1: the battery, and the reason being is is that it
Speaker 1: needs to lock in to use it. The fan we
Speaker 1: looked at the power consumption between the fan, the touch screen,
Speaker 1: the color screen, everything like that on there, there was
Speaker 1: gonna be no way that this battery is going to
Speaker 1: last you a long time. Like I said, that's why
Speaker 1: we when you're using the battery, you're looking at five
Speaker 1: to six watts, but it's going to have increased time.
Speaker 1: But if you're looking at something that's thirteen point eight
Speaker 1: volts DC. Now you got the fan, that's why we
Speaker 1: can go up to ten wats on there.
Speaker 2: How I mean if you just stick the battery on
Speaker 2: a full charge and receive only how estimated how long
Speaker 2: that you know?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that's subjective of objective because of how
Speaker 1: you operate it. You can make display so we see
Speaker 1: the side by side display. You could change it to
Speaker 1: be up and down display, and you can actually do
Speaker 1: single display. So that's gonna all do those kind of
Speaker 1: different factors on there.
Speaker 2: How do you change that? Is that is that easy
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 1: Do you remember? I'm trying to remember because like like
Speaker 1: we've had so many questions come through that there you go,
Speaker 1: So that's display and then that single display. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: because there are more features like because it all it all.
Speaker 1: It is all touch screen.
Speaker 2: So see I was looking on the screen for a button,
Speaker 2: but the button's over there, right, yeah, gotcha?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. And that's why it's like there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different things too, because when you get into
Speaker 1: the functionality on there, you can actually kind of turn
Speaker 1: the screen off if you want to flash the screen,
Speaker 1: test the screen, change all that functionality on there. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot to move around on there. Now, this
Speaker 1: is the FC eighty. Okay. Now, the f C eighty
Speaker 1: is designed to you could if you wanted to attach
Speaker 1: over a fan, but it's more so designed we take
Speaker 1: the fan off, we put the battery on, we take
Speaker 1: and attach the antenna tuner onto it. There's the modularity.
Speaker 1: You connect it up to your HF port on here,
Speaker 1: and then you connect it up to the actual I
Speaker 1: won't do that because I got all the plugs in,
Speaker 1: but you connected into the data jack there and now
Speaker 1: you're gonna go ahead and have the connection right off
Speaker 1: there for the antenna tuner. Another thing I know that
Speaker 1: a lot of people were asking about. They were saying,
Speaker 1: what is an M connector that's been the biggest thing. Well,
Speaker 1: if you see, it's basically like the equivalent of an
Speaker 1: SO two thirty nine connector, But an M connector doesn't
Speaker 1: need fifty homes. So that's why you'll see it used
Speaker 1: a lot, like in video and stuff like that in there.
Speaker 1: And what better sense if you think about it. Okay,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is an antenna tuner. Is it
Speaker 1: gonna be fifty homes here? No, it's not. Why is
Speaker 1: it gonna be well, because guess what, it's not fifty homes.
Speaker 1: So so that's that's why it's an M connector. Same
Speaker 1: thing on the SPA one, which is there's another one
Speaker 1: right next to it. They're M connectors because you're not
Speaker 1: gonna have necessarily fifty homes going to it. That's hence
Speaker 1: why there's an antenna tuner in there. The intended tuner's
Speaker 1: on there.
Speaker 2: But well, the PILL connect it's still worth the same, right,
Speaker 2: So if you take a look at it, it looks
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 1: PEL two fifty nine will connect right to it. But
Speaker 1: when you look at the operational parameters of an M connector,
Speaker 1: it is not fifty holmes, gotcha. So that's that's the reason.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were freaking out day.
Speaker 1: I heard so many people say oh it's a Motorola connector,
Speaker 1: it says from proprietary. No it's not. It's just non
Speaker 1: fifty ohms on there.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, Well that is slick, I like mine. Everyone says, hey,
Speaker 2: how do you like it, and I'm like, well, it's great,
Speaker 2: but I haven't.
Speaker 1: Actually used it yet.
Speaker 2: I haven't taken it out and transmitted on it yet,
Speaker 2: so but I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Man, thanks for your time, John, No problem,