I picked up a new (to me) Yaesu FT2D handheld radio to the collection so that I could, in theory, do C4FM without hopping in the truck where my FTM-400DX lives. Unfortunately I’m a bit too far out to hit the radio club’s Fusion repeater and haven’t figured out how to do so via hotspot (I have a borrowed MMDVM hotspot that I’m playing with).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The FT2D is a nice sturdy radio with a touchscreen. My only gripe with it is that it doesn’t include an option, when in memory mode, to show the name of the memory bank rather than the frequency. This is a feature that my dirt cheap Baofeng handhelds have and that my not dirt cheap but still inexpensive TYT DMR handheld has. The FT2D is a fairly expensive piece of kit, so to not have that feature is annoying. Other than that it really is a nice radio — good sound quality, reasonably easy interface, and Fusion capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
73, Marc NZ9A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I picked up a new (to me) Yaesu FT2D handheld radio to the collection so that I could, in theory, do C4FM without hopping in the truck where my FTM-400DX lives. Unfortunately I’m a bit too far out to hit the radio club’s Fusion repeater and haven’t figured out how to do so via hotspot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n