I have an 8900 and have found the right side hears the birds a just a little better than the left.... Anyone else hear anything like that?
73, Joe kk0sd
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Zachary Beougher Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:51 PM To: Clint Bradford Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Yaesu FT-8800
The 8800 is sweet for everything else that I use it for - repeaters, x-band repeat (handy function!), simplex, you name it, but I never seemed to have good success using it for satellite work. Maybe I need to pull it out again and give it another try.
Like I said, I can’t make an accurate judgment on it since I have only used it a few times. I do know that in my experience the receive sensitivity of radios (of the same make/model) differ from radio to radio. I have 2 THG71As sitting on my desk that are proof of that. I have to use a certain one for receive because the other one doesn’t produce as good results.
Just my 2 cents.....
Zack KD8KSN
-----Original Message----- From: Clint Bradford Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:43 PM To: Zachary Beougher Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: Yaesu FT-8800
... I do not like the receive sensitivity ...
Hmmm ... I just didn't experience that. Does your '8800 work fine for local/repeater work?
Clint, K6LCS
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