Yaesu's Newest Transceiver The FTdx3000

Gary,

It's just humorous how YAESU and Kenwood fans called the ICOM's fish finders and ridiculed them. Now YAESU and Kenwood is following suit and it's now the best thing since sliced bread. Gotta take all this from where it's coming from. LOL!

 

Really? All flex radios operate on 13.8 VDC and will run with a lap top. Sounds portable to me.

 

Portable?

He maybe trying to say is "it is not as portable as your traditional radio", and it's not I agree.

* Running on battery back up your consuming a lot more battery life.
* You have more hook up time running additional cables than needed.
* Most importantly is if your laptop is infected with a virus, runs slow ,or most importantly no longer works your screwed.

* No working laptop, or P.C. "No Flex"!

73!

 

Dollars

For me, anyone willing to shell out $5000 or more for a radio, can have at it....frankly, haven't seen any in the past 10 years that really jump up in performance that significantly or offer that wide of options/capabilities. They all can work the DX and most can handle themselves in a contest, some a bit better then others, but for the high price tag, I can live with slightly less contest capability. Did it for years and many years ago and still had contest achievements.

All comes down to how much does it appeal to you and how much are you willing to cough up.....

All about $$....and I suppose bragging rights....

 

The TS-850 has a cult following and for good reason. Look at the performance numbers and talk sometime to the tech guys at ARRL, as many have the 850 and won't part with them. Non DSP and a sharp, sharp receiver....

Pan Adapter to me is eye candy. You look on the FT_3000 display and the scale increments. About all that scope is seeing is loud stations and noise...you won't see an S-2/3 signal, you will see the noise long before you see that "opening". FOund that out with the 756PRO3, 2000 with Band Scope, etc. They are pretty much useful for displaying radio parameters but pretty much useless displaying a "real opening" where signals are not that strong. Never did understand the hype for a spectrum scope....

Can get that with a pan adapter and IF Stage S/W on a much, much larger display and much more features....

I think the 3000 will be a step up (possibly) from the 950 and more than the 450...but not a top of the line radio....

 

I'll be amazed if this rig comes in anywhere near the FT-950's price point.

 

All of this talk about radios that most of us can not afford, find some kit radios, to build or roll your own. I have a lot of fun building kits, try it some of the kits out there will run circles around many commercial radios.

 

I owned a $$$ IC-7800, and after six months of comparing it to my other rigs... some new Kenwood, Ten-Tec, and Yaesu, I sold it. The band scope was nice, as was the 2nd independent receiver, but the overall dynamics of either either independent receiver in the IC-7800 were not up to par with either of the other new rigs - each of which was significantly less costly than the IC-7800.

 

Sure Not FCC approved is only an issue in the good old US of A so what about the rest of the world as this is an international site...

 

Garbage sorry but the Icom 756 pro series is a great radio not sure why you could say the 756 series is garbage many who own and used the 756 will agree a great rig and to compare a Yaesu to a Icom is not fair like to hear if anyone eles agrees to my comments or disagrees.
73

 

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Life is too short for ugly radios with small displays.

Don W4DNR

 

If you're running (most) digital modes, you'll need a computer anyway. I prefer having the Internet handy anyway for call-sign look-ups, prop reports, etc. Sure, the Flex is useless without a computer attached, but I haven't had a radio NOT attached to the computer for nearly my entire license (about 7 years). Just recently invested in a microphone for HF!

The Flex radio connects all it needs via 1 cable to the computer.

Stop surfing porn and downloading pirated software and you won't get viruses. No, wait, I'd lose half my income if not for spyware, so keep at it! 8)

Although the Flex 3k I have is road-rugged, I'd never go portable HF anyway, so I'm not the best witness to the cause.

 

I'm not sure where the "...being 6+khz wide..." comes from, but the audio width, both TX and RX, on the Flex 3k is anything between -9999 on the left to +9999 on the right.

I can reduce my RX or TX bandwidth down to 10Hz and as wide as 20K. I can see nearly 100K of waterfall. The big-brother Flex 5000, and surely the newer 6k versions, can do at least twice that.

Pretty much any size TX/RX bandwidth, and any width you want on (about any number of) filters is at your fingertips on a Flexradio.

And that's just one of a 100 great reasons to own a Flex. Having had my share of rigs, I'll never go back to anything but SDR.

Although, in all fairness, I can't speak for the audio quality as I've only used voice once on the radio. Dusty microphone here but just-in-case!

 

No doubt! 22"x2 of everything I want to know at my fingertips. (Thanks to the genius of those that make so much possible.)

Plus I like all the pretty colors.

 

The Yaesu FTDX-3000 has a nostalgic look which appeals to many hams, in particular those who were young in the 1970's. Take it from me. What I want is the look and feel of the past, and underneath is today's technology. I believe that Yaesu is building the 3K upon some previous model, and the clean-cut design tells me the software/firmware is debugged accordingly. I think the model beams quality and restrained purity. Do you want to get on the air, or do you want to fiddle with buttons?

I have a FT-950. Okay. At the moment I also have an IC-7600 on my table, just for the sake of comparison. As a matter of fact indeed, I cannot wait to kick out the Icom. Honest to God.

Oh, finally I go it out.

About what the FTDX-3000 will replace, I think the FT-950 stands on the scaffold. And in the near future we will se a FTDX-4000 replacing the FT-2000. I am sorry to see the analog meter (the real thing) a thing of the past.