Hi John

I have a FT300M in my movil station for years. It works great with FM sats with 1/4 whip on the roof. You will only need a headset if you want to work in full-duplex, although in half-duplex also works fine beacuse of its high power, near of 70 Watts.

But I enjoy receiving with a UHF hand held HT and a CJU antenna attached to it and using the FT3000M with a 1/4 whip antenna to uplink.

You can see some videos at:

http://eb4dka.laserenadigital.com

http://personales.ya.com/ea4cax/ Juan Antonio EA4CYQ 73s

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:15:35 -0800 (PST)

From: John Geiger aa5jg@yahoo.com

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Has anyone on the list used a Yaesu FT3000M on the Mode J FM sats? Does it have pretty good receive sensitivity for the birds? Can it do full duplex, where you can hear your own downlink? What I have seen written about it seems to indicate that it can. Any other comments-good or bad-about this model?

73s John AA5JG