Ted Wager wrote: > Main interests are listening hf and digi modes, principally psk..My > choice is down to either the yaesu ft450 or the Yaesu ft-857d.Any > comments on my choice welcome and should I look at any other radios ?
It's always a personal choice, of course, but personally I'd avoid Yaesu. I have used the FT-857 at my local radio club station and would not buy one for my own use. I've ever had a Yaesu main station radio that I've felt really comfortable with, and I have owned an FT-101ZD and a few VHF/UHF mobile ones in my time, but I only use an elderly FT-817 for portable use with my 10 and 24GHz transverters as there isn't really anything else available that provides 432MHz all mode portable. I did start out with Yaesu FT-290R radios, but rapidly found that their HF big brothers were not radios that I got on with. Radios like the FT-One, FT-102, FT-1000, FT-1000MP etc. I have used Kenwood radios and liked them, such as the TS-830S and TS-850S plus the Icom IC-706MKIIG and I now use a Kenwood TS-2000X for almost all my Amateur work, apart from a SDR-IQ for serious receiving on many bands or inputs from transverters. Dave (G0DJA)
