I recently purchased a Alinco DJ-G7 handheld for 2 reasons. 1) It is a full duplex handheld. 2) it has the 1.2 GHz (23cm) band. I am somewhat disappointed in the full duplex mode. When you transmit in full duplex mode you can hear the CTCSS tone loudly, and it makes it hard to hear your return signal. Why is that I wonder? For L/V mode on Sundays with AO-92 It works great with only 1 watt output and my home brew 12 element yagi that I attached to the boom of my 2 meter/70cm tripod mounted antenna. I had 5 contacts today on the AO-92 passes. The real challenge is the manual doppler shift correction!

Dan Eggert - AC9E

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