Speaker 1: Thank you for choosing to download the Ham Radio two
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Speaker 1: out of a video or a live stream I did recently.
Speaker 1: You can catch all my videos on YouTube Ham Radio
Speaker 1: two point zero and catch us live every Sunday night
Speaker 1: at seven pm Central Standard Time for a different topic
Speaker 1: each week. Thank you for the support and thank you
Speaker 1: for being a member of the community. I had John
Speaker 1: Crook from Yazoo on the channel in March. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna remember what month I'm in, in March, March of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and we were talking about the YAESU
Speaker 1: FtM five ten, the new dual band mobile system fusion
Speaker 1: radio that they had. But the live stream went for
Speaker 1: almost two hours, and towards the end we just kind
Speaker 1: of started talking about random stuff that Yesu's doing. I
Speaker 1: cut out a clip of that, like a ten to
Speaker 1: twelve minute clip of that where we were just talking
Speaker 1: about the new FTX one F small QRP ten watt
Speaker 1: radio that will be dual receive with hf VHF UHF
Speaker 1: six meter all mode on all the bands. And I
Speaker 1: put that up there and it was I got a
Speaker 1: lot of really really good comments on that video, but
Speaker 1: I got some good comments on Reddit too, and I
Speaker 1: want to share those with you today. Today's video is
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Speaker 1: that is web based and works from any platform. So
Speaker 1: I like to browse around Reddit. As I've told you guys,
Speaker 1: I really like to read articles on here. Some of
Speaker 1: them are kind of good, some of them are very good.
Speaker 1: Some of them are kind of like, ah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: guy's just being a troll. But generally speaking, I found
Speaker 1: some really good art articles on Reddit, and I've made
Speaker 1: some videos about him, and you guys seem to comment
Speaker 1: about them quite a bit. So first off, when I
Speaker 1: want to get a shout out to Coastal Radio, don't
Speaker 1: know who this gentleman is. No idea who this person is.
Speaker 1: He does not share his call sign in his profile
Speaker 1: picture here. I don't think this is Walt Coastal Radio,
Speaker 1: Coastal Waves and Wire. I don't think this is him.
Speaker 1: I think this is somebody else. But he is a
Speaker 1: top one percent contributor and he posted this. He just
Speaker 1: posted basically a title and a link to my video.
Speaker 1: This is a clip from the live stream that I
Speaker 1: did where I was talking to John about updates to
Speaker 1: the FTX one F and then he posts Coastal Radio
Speaker 1: posted on here. It says, in terms of updates, we
Speaker 1: have no updates. Okay, I don't agree with his assessment
Speaker 1: of that. But the reason I'm making this video is
Speaker 1: I wanted to read through some of the comments. The
Speaker 1: comments are the good part of the video you're watching
Speaker 1: right now. So we're gonna start at the top. This
Speaker 1: post is only about four or five days old at
Speaker 1: the time of this recording. I made my post at
Speaker 1: the very bottom here, and I'm gonna read that to
Speaker 1: you last. So we're gonna go through here and do
Speaker 1: this year and Happier with the seven oh five is
Speaker 1: the first update Coastal Radio the original poster here. He says,
Speaker 1: I was about to buy the seven oh five when
Speaker 1: this radio was announced last year. Now my money is
Speaker 1: burning a hole in my pocket. He says, edited to add,
Speaker 1: I'm happy that you love your seven oh five. I
Speaker 1: may still end up with one. I've got my seven
Speaker 1: oh five in my armlock cage in it's actually in
Speaker 1: the truck right now. Just did a twelve meter PoTA
Speaker 1: activation with it. Ten watts on just last week at
Speaker 1: a park because the twelve meter band has been up.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting rid of my seven oh five. I
Speaker 1: will be picking up the new yea'zy radio. I'm not
Speaker 1: getting rid of my seven oh five. I'm one of
Speaker 1: these guys who likes to cry and complain about QRP,
Speaker 1: and then when a new QRP radio comes out, I
Speaker 1: go buy it. Moving on, the next reply says, this
Speaker 1: is exactly the kind of comment that I don't understand.
Speaker 1: What about this radio makes you think it's somehow better
Speaker 1: than seven o five? Are you just hedging on the
Speaker 1: cost of the radio being lower. I think most speculation
Speaker 1: is that the radio cost will be higher than the
Speaker 1: seven oh five. Again, we talked to John about that
Speaker 1: on the live stream and in that clip that I
Speaker 1: shared with that's the topic of this original post here,
Speaker 1: and he says that they don't They don't have any information,
Speaker 1: or at least none they can share with us about
Speaker 1: what the cost will be. The speculation is gonna is
Speaker 1: that it's going to be somewhere closer to two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars rather than one thousand dollars. At the time of
Speaker 1: this recording, that the seven oh five is around thirteen
Speaker 1: fifty ish. Kind of goes back and forth, depend on
Speaker 1: what monthly deals Icon's running. So, but the speculation is
Speaker 1: that it's going to be more expensive than ICM. I
Speaker 1: could see it go the way. I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have an opinion one of the other.
Speaker 1: They want to compete with the seven O five, So
Speaker 1: maybe it's cheaper, but it's going to have more features
Speaker 1: of seven O five and newer, and it's gonna be newer,
Speaker 1: so maybe it's more expensive. I don't know, Okay, But
Speaker 1: the op replies to that statement. He says, I like
Speaker 1: doing satellite operations sometimes, but my walks on kV. You've
Speaker 1: KGUV nine D mate D senses itself on VU VU
Speaker 1: birds works fine for UV. Interesting, hadn't heard that before.
Speaker 1: It seems like Yes will have the ability to do
Speaker 1: full duplex and on VHF and you UF. Yes. Now
Speaker 1: they have said that the Yazu will have full will
Speaker 1: have full duplex because it's dual display. And you can
Speaker 1: see that on the screenshot that I used for my thumbnail.
Speaker 1: You can see four thirty two dot five on the
Speaker 1: right or on the left. Rather, i'd learn my right
Speaker 1: and left four thirty two dot five on the left,
Speaker 1: fourteen twenty meters on the right. So it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be full duplex for doing satellites, Like what the original
Speaker 1: posters talking about here, it would be cool if my
Speaker 1: field radio was able to do dual duty rather than
Speaker 1: buying another high end dual band mobile just for satellite. Additionally,
Speaker 1: if this is full duplex, it would let me work
Speaker 1: linear birds in addition to just FM ones. Yes, very true. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: I don't know what all the specs are and if
Speaker 1: it will be better, worse, or the same as the
Speaker 1: seven oh five. I'm curious to see if this thing
Speaker 1: will offer what this thing will offer before I make
Speaker 1: a decision to drop the cash. Previously, the seven oh
Speaker 1: five was the only game in town. As soon as
Speaker 1: the ft X one F is available, we have choices
Speaker 1: for me. It's ultimately not about the best radio, but
Speaker 1: the right radio for me. That's a very good statement.
Speaker 1: I like that statement. I like that statement right there.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. For ultimately, it's not about getting
Speaker 1: the best radio, but the right radio for you. What
Speaker 1: are you gonna use that for? I've said that many times,
Speaker 1: and all my best videos best, HT best Mobile, best HF,
Speaker 1: best QRP best DMR. What are you gonna use it for?
Speaker 1: How are you going to use it? And that answers
Speaker 1: a specific question, So this is a very good statement
Speaker 1: he's making here. There's also possibility that the user interface
Speaker 1: may be similar to FT seven ten, which we regalnize.
Speaker 1: I think it probably will be. That's just my guess.
Speaker 1: I also don't understand your comment. What makes you think
Speaker 1: that it won't be better than seven oh five? And
Speaker 1: I commented on this little thread here. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: not my last comment. So most everything Yazu has relieved
Speaker 1: in the HF rold in the last five years is
Speaker 1: better than its ICOM counterpart as far as received sensitivity
Speaker 1: and signal purity. Okay, basically I'm talking about Sherwood reports
Speaker 1: and tests in a lab, not in a real world environment. Okay,
Speaker 1: they don't have a great menu system. Granted ICMS is better.
Speaker 1: I'll I'll acknowledge that, and I have icons, And again
Speaker 1: I'm keeping my seven or five. I'm not getting rid
Speaker 1: of it. But as far as performance goes Yaesu's on top.
Speaker 1: Look at the sure reports and other test results. If
Speaker 1: you don't believe me. Also, how many radios has Yazu
Speaker 1: released since twenty twenty now count icoms releases, And I've
Speaker 1: said that in multiple videos in the past. Okay, this
Speaker 1: guy run wants to know why do ampture radios have
Speaker 1: to look like an aftermarket car stereo head unit from
Speaker 1: the nineties. I don't really, I don't really agree with that.
Speaker 1: I see what he's saying. Okay, it is a different
Speaker 1: form factor, very very very similar to the seven o
Speaker 1: five form factor. I see what you're saying. If you
Speaker 1: don't like the look of it, you know, to each
Speaker 1: his own, Okay, I get it, I get it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna thumbs up him anyway, because the kids were putting
Speaker 1: aftermarket radios in the cars in nineties and now they're
Speaker 1: old enough to get started ham radio jokes. Aside, My
Speaker 1: YESUFTDX ten looks almost exactly like the Sony I put
Speaker 1: in my eighty eight Terseell back in ninety six. But
Speaker 1: I kind of like it. I've never seen really that
Speaker 1: would be a big freaking car stereo because the YAZUFTDX
Speaker 1: ten screen is huge. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I don't I can't see that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking, I can't see that. But hey, if what
Speaker 1: you're saying, okay, here's some here's a little bit of
Speaker 1: merit to which I don't think there's any merit to
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I don't think they look actually look
Speaker 1: like car stereos from the nineties, But hey, if they do,
Speaker 1: then aren't we always asking how to get more younger
Speaker 1: people interested in amateur radio. Give them something they can
Speaker 1: relate to. This one's good. Here, What would you like
Speaker 1: them to? What would you have them look like? An
Speaker 1: iPad with garbage touch screen? Everything? Definitely not, definitely not,
Speaker 1: And he replies, definitely not. I prefer a mix of
Speaker 1: vintage brawn design esthetic and military utilitarian ruggedness. I you
Speaker 1: know what, I can't say. I disagree with that. I
Speaker 1: think that would be I think if we had I
Speaker 1: think the most recent radio that might fit that description
Speaker 1: is the recently discontinued twice Icon ice seventy two hundred.
Speaker 1: It had a very rugged military design and look and
Speaker 1: feel to it. The screen was just monochrome, was not
Speaker 1: touch screen, was the old eight bit character screen like
Speaker 1: your alarm clock, and nothing special about it. But it
Speaker 1: was a fantastic, very rugged radio. So yeah, I would
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. ICM definitely has better ergonomics,
Speaker 1: and the UI part I will agree with. I think
Speaker 1: something to do with it is that for new buyers
Speaker 1: these days, waterfall is more important than the received sensitivity
Speaker 1: and antennas. Yeah, sadly, I think you're right, And so
Speaker 1: for the rest of the design, short design sort of
Speaker 1: falls in line with the large, fancy color display. Now
Speaker 1: the icom Ic seventy three hundred and the new seventy
Speaker 1: seven to sixty have a large color display with a
Speaker 1: really fancy waterfall two, So everybody's doing that. In other words,
Speaker 1: the latest u HF radio from Kinwood is the TS
Speaker 1: eight ninety I believe has a good a good waterfall,
Speaker 1: So everybody's doing that. But more people are concerned about
Speaker 1: the waterfall than the receiver sensitivity. And that was my
Speaker 1: that was the point of my original comment at the top.
Speaker 1: In a hobby where people still actively using sixty plus
Speaker 1: year old gear, I'd imagine it's tough to figure out
Speaker 1: how to time and produce new, updated equipment. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Wk U ace Hamy Radio two point
Speaker 1: zero had a yes you rep on the other day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one that was in the video that you're replying to.
Speaker 1: But okay, and he basically said that they were waiting
Speaker 1: for the FCC approval. Apparently the FCC really cracks down
Speaker 1: on sharing pricing if things are not approved, so they
Speaker 1: can't do that. Yet. The stuff is slow at best
Speaker 1: of times, and with this current political turmoil it may
Speaker 1: slow things down a bit. One comment says, I just
Speaker 1: saw that. He also said their planning on global release,
Speaker 1: so it's taking longer to coordinate approval. Yep, that was
Speaker 1: all in the video. That's literally what this video is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hotel Hero, Yeah, Hotel Hero, you get it. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize it was this link. I had maybe four
Speaker 1: or five hours of sleep. Oh man, I'm hearing you.
Speaker 1: My allergies have been killing me lately. Get some sleep, brother. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you guys are all correct. I agree with everything
Speaker 1: you say. So this guy says this is a BS excuse,
Speaker 1: and he links to something about new FCC equipment marketing
Speaker 1: rules allow pre sale of radio frequency devices to consumers,
Speaker 1: and he links to this wily dot law. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe I'll go read that. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go read that. Right now, I'll share a link to
Speaker 1: this article. You guys can go read that. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of comments on that original video saying that
Speaker 1: what John said was wrong about Yazu not being able
Speaker 1: to release prize due to FCC regulations. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know John. John's a pretty straight shooter.
Speaker 1: He he'll tell you. He doesn't tell you what you
Speaker 1: want to hear. He'll tell you the truth. And if
Speaker 1: it's something he can't talk about, he's like, I just
Speaker 1: I can't talk about that, And I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's an honest answer. I understand he is restricted from
Speaker 1: saying certain things because he works for Yaesu. Okay, you
Speaker 1: work for Icon, you work for Kinwood, you work for
Speaker 1: freakin' any tone in China. You going to be restricted
Speaker 1: from saying certain things. It's just the way capitalism and
Speaker 1: consumerism and commercial manufacturing works. It works this way and
Speaker 1: every You know, if you worked for Canon Cameras or
Speaker 1: for Nike on cameras and they were working on something new,
Speaker 1: as a person who might be a sales rep, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to talk about that until they say, okay,
Speaker 1: press release going out tomorrow. Now we can talk about this.
Speaker 1: This is not uncommon. This is very very common in
Speaker 1: the manufacturing commercial manufacturing industry world. And YESU is JAESU
Speaker 1: manufacturers amateur radios, but they are a commercial vendor. Okay,
Speaker 1: you and I can go build a radio in our
Speaker 1: garage and put it on the air. It'd be totally
Speaker 1: legit to use a home brew radio under Part ninety
Speaker 1: seven of the Rules and Regulations of Open Radio Experimentation.
Speaker 1: That's our license gives us that. But since YESU is
Speaker 1: selling stuff for profit, the rules apply to them a
Speaker 1: little bit differently than it does you and I. If
Speaker 1: I started building a homebrew radio and started selling it
Speaker 1: for profit, then my rules would say the rules would
Speaker 1: change for me, at least when I got to a
Speaker 1: certain degree of units sold they would. So it's just
Speaker 1: it's not the same thing. So this is this is
Speaker 1: common everywhere. I believe what John was saying. I do.
Speaker 1: I believe what he was saying. I don't think he
Speaker 1: would lead us as I don't think he would just
Speaker 1: make up something and say, no, we don't want to
Speaker 1: tell you the price. FCC don't have anything to do
Speaker 1: with it. We just want to I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't think he would do that, but that's my opinion
Speaker 1: and you can take that or leave it however you
Speaker 1: want to do. This is a good comment here. Folks
Speaker 1: complain about Yes's timelines like they are the worst ever.
Speaker 1: You really ought to have lived through ten tech, and
Speaker 1: this guy says, yeah, some folks are upset. I'm just
Speaker 1: a bit antsy. As long as I get a q
Speaker 1: r P field radio I like by summer, I'm happy.
Speaker 1: That's the original poster replying to that, I'm sure Yes
Speaker 1: wants to sell it and they are pushing as hard
Speaker 1: as they dare. We need to just relax and let
Speaker 1: the lethargic system do its thing. That's a good way
Speaker 1: to describe it, the lethargic system, because these things are
Speaker 1: everything's a hurry up and wait game with new equipment
Speaker 1: being released to market. It just is. There are a
Speaker 1: dizzying array of excellent radios in the market to choose
Speaker 1: from for ops that need something immediately and coastal radio.
Speaker 1: The original poster says, one, I'm excited to see what
Speaker 1: it offers. I'll be buying either the FTX one or
Speaker 1: the IC seven to five as soon as the thing
Speaker 1: is approved. So my comment here which is the last
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Speaker 1: By the time this video post, there might be a
Speaker 1: few more comments on it than what you're seeing right here.
Speaker 1: But this is the comment I made right before I
Speaker 1: hit record on on the video. Okay, and this is
Speaker 1: this is what I think if you had spoken and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm replying directly to the title of this article,
Speaker 1: which it is in terms of updates, we have no updates.
Speaker 1: That's not entirely true. It's not entirely true. And here's
Speaker 1: my comment about specifically that if you had spoken to
Speaker 1: Yezu at the Tokyo Hanfair last year or Hamcasion this year,
Speaker 1: then watch this video of the updates. The updated info
Speaker 1: should be apparent to you. Yes, they are taking too long,
Speaker 1: but that is common from everyone in this industry, any industry. Actually.
Speaker 1: Patience is not our strong suit. I'm guilty of this too.
Speaker 1: I want the radio yesterday. I don't blame you, guys,
Speaker 1: I really don't. Crying and griping about it online is
Speaker 1: not gonna change anything. But I'm with you on that, Okay.
Speaker 1: Patience is not our strong suit. But I can almost
Speaker 1: guarantee that when this radio releases, they will sell out
Speaker 1: quickly and you'll be forced to wait for the second
Speaker 1: batch if you don't take early advantage. I might be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that. I am so. I can
Speaker 1: almost guarantee you that when this radio does release, it's
Speaker 1: going to be popular. It's gonna be popular. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of people buying this radio, putting them
Speaker 1: on the air, and using them. Dual receive, dual display,
Speaker 1: full duplex. As far as UHF VHF goes. Someone asked
Speaker 1: in one comment somewhere about whether it would duplex or
Speaker 1: crossbandpeat between HF and VHF UHF and while that might
Speaker 1: be a fun thing to try on ten meters, which
Speaker 1: is the only HF band where you can legally use FM.
Speaker 1: I don't really see the point in that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you could crossband it from UHF to ten
Speaker 1: meters and work some ten meter repeaters and that type
Speaker 1: of thing. I kind of doubt it will do that.
Speaker 1: I doubt the crossband feature will work on HF, but
Speaker 1: who knows. Who knows. Maybe that's kind of cool. But
Speaker 1: I think this radio is gonna be very popular, and
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be an introduction to a
Speaker 1: new line of radios that Jesu is releasing, because Yesu
Speaker 1: has been very good about releasing radios for the last
Speaker 1: five or six years. Ever since the Japanese factory fire
Speaker 1: COVID locked everything down all other lockdowns, you know, stuff
Speaker 1: in China get in lockdown for various reasons, they have
Speaker 1: been on the game releasing radios unlike some of their
Speaker 1: competitors for the last five years, and I've been pretty
Speaker 1: happy with all of the products I've got from them.
Speaker 1: So five years ago, I wouldn't have really claimed to
Speaker 1: be much of a Yazu fanboy, but today I kind
Speaker 1: of am. Although I still really like my Kinwood and
Speaker 1: my Ucom Radios two, so I try to be as
Speaker 1: brand agnostic as I can, but I will tell you
Speaker 1: which one I do like better. Given the opportunity, put
Speaker 1: your comment below. Let me go know what you guys
Speaker 1: think about this. I would like to know what your
Speaker 1: comments are on that, whether that video was actually updates,
Speaker 1: whether you like the updates, which you'd like to hear
Speaker 1: about the FCC and pricing thing. I don't know. Leave
Speaker 1: me a comment blow thanks for watching today, and YouTube
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