Disclaimer: doing this from memory, always dangerous
I believe that the HF bands are treated as one setting but 6M, 2M and 70 cm can have the antenna port set individually. I know that my favorite configuration is to use the rear port for 6M and the front port for 2M and 70 cm.
73, Bob K0NR
On 3/21/2011 10:05 PM, Clint Bradford wrote:
I thought that the FT-817'a front and rear antenna jacks could only be switched from the default config out of the box ...
FRONT - 50mHZ, 2M, and 440 REAR - HF work
... and vice versa using Menu Item 7.
But is that Menu Item more sophisticated than that? Someone just wrote me, indicating that they could make the front jack 2M and the rear 440 - by choosing Menu 7 while working 440, and selecting "REAR." Then work 2M, and select Menu Item 7, and choose "FRONT."
I've never had to split it like that, using a diplexer with my sat beams.
Can that be done?
Quizzically yours,
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