FT-857D Venezuela contact on first try call

Just fooling around and decide to call
back to a Venezuela ham doing DX. Got thru on the first call to him despite a pile up. Thanks Yaesi ..Love this radio.

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[whistlesun]

KD8EZU from KD0HON FB UR 59+ even with my auxilury computer speakers, QSL?

[mobay1517]

@whistlesun

I am so sorry that I did not reply earlier. This is really late but thanks for the taking the time to view and comment

73's and all the best.

[kc9mav]

I hear him on there alot

[mobay1517]

Hope I'm not repeating. Yeah Werner is a great guy and a gentleman

[mobay1517]

@torch39

Torch..., thanks for looking and commenting. YES! I agree , the essence of ham radio should be simplicity ( I'm a hypocrite cuz my station is no longer simple). I give more credit to the guy with the 20 year old radio , 100 watts and a wire antenna , than the "superstations" with a gazillion watts and the $10,000 Icom 7800.

Take care and best 73's to you TORCH

Randy

[torch39]

And a G5RV in some trees in what the hobby is all about! Great Job!

[HighFlyer186]

Fantastic transceiver, well done on the contact.

73 Peter G0OMH

[mobay1517]

Hi Gopher,

Wish I could say a fancy antenna but all I have ( and was using at the time ) is a G5RV antenna about 25 feet off the ground in some trees. That's it.., nothing else.

73

Randy

[gopher2x]

what are you using for antenna?

[mobay1517]

Except for the known bug at 70CM (where transmitting at that freq will cause the tuner to start to tune ) it works VERY well and remembers where it tuned. Takes a few weeks to build up enough memory of ALL the places you go to , but once it memorizes it you will get tuned in a matter of seconds. For the known bug I mentioned earlier simply turn off the tuner when transmitting on 440MHz .

[kg4zyz]

how does that tuner work for you??