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  • What's next for Yaesu?

    From nathan@ng-mail.net@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 17:41:46 2023
    I noticed that Yaesu canceled a few of their flagship mobiles and HTs in
    recent months. Any idea what they are working on replacements?

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  • From Ricky DeLuco@21:1/136 to nathan@ng-mail.net on Tue Jan 24 08:16:23 2023

    I noticed that Yaesu canceled a few of their flagship mobiles and HTs in recent months. Any idea what they are working on replacements?


    Yup .. IMHO, I think the dumbest thing they disco'd was the FT-8800. That Radio was a pure rock star.


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  • From nathan@ng-mail.net@21:1/5 to Ricky DeLuco on Sun Feb 5 23:03:52 2023
    Ricky DeLuco <Ricky.DeLuco@f136.n1.z21.fsxnet> wrote:

    Yup .. IMHO, I think the dumbest thing they disco'd was the FT-8800. That Radio was a pure rock star.

    Agree, that was a good radio.

    Following up to my original post, it looks like they are putting out an
    FTM-500 model that takes the place of the FTM-400. From the build sheets
    I've seen so far it actually looks like a downgrade from the 400, but I
    guess they are having issues sourcing components.

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