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This is a great transceiver that is easy to use and works very well on my home made 40M dipole that is in the loft. It works well on the other bands but 40M is my favourite and that is where it get's used the most. All the reports are good on it and I have worked all of Europe and into Russia, actually on the side of my dipole! So I have had it for 3 weeks and am delighted with it after 35 years away from Ham radio. I like the fact you can turn unwanted bands and modes off so things you do not want don't keep turning up as you work the radio. The ATU works well where you can get the SWR down under 2.5 but over that I use an MFJ 945E and that has never let me down on any frequency. A couple of Hams have told me they regret upgrading from the FT-450 to more expensive kit and I can believe that. It is a great radio and NEVADA have done me proud with lot's of good advice and help, especially with the aerial. To get a 40M aerial in my loft I use a 40M mobile whip for the negative side and I use 27 feet of wire with 8 feet of it wrapped around 3 feet of plastic drain down pipe. That gives me a SWR of 2.5 and my first contact was Orkney (I am in Southampton). The drain pipe is 1/3 rd from the end of the wire.Read full review
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An excellent beginner radio, easy to use and understand. Having been an SWL for many years I finally took my licence and have been able to make contacts on both SSB and Data modes. There is enough control go be able to dig out weak signals without being over complex. I am sure I will want something more advanced in the future, but for now this is more than enough and will probably always be around the shack as a back up or data rig even when I upgrade to something more advanced.
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Bought this after looking & looking at different HF sets. This works really well on HF & 6. Nice filtering & very easy to set up. Works even better with MD100 Desk Mic
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Packed with features and easy to use as not over packed with buttons and knobs as some of the many functions are menu based which keeps it compact enough you can take mobile and is still large enough to be your main base station radio,cant fault it and well impressed 👍
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Has all the features required. Only minus there is no keypad to select a frequency although it can be entered via control from PC remote control.
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