Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Someone posted on Facebook today that the FT-710 is about 10dB deaf on 8m. It can be persuaded to TX on 8m by putting it is engineering mode...

This is a very good transceiver, scoring very highly on the Sherwood tests. However, I missed 2m and 70cm and found 4m a disappointment. In...

Both are excellent radios.  On the Sherwood tests the FT-710 came 4th, which is very good.  It is disappointing Yaesu has chosen to, effecti...

My IC-705 was traded in some months ago for the Yaesu FT-710. Both are excellent radios and I have enjoyed them both. The FT-710 has 4m but ...

In the last hour, I have added the FT-710 page to my website. Over time, I hope to expand this. See  https://sites.google.com/view/g3xbm4/ho...

At 0945z, I turned on my 10m FT8 using the FT-710. So far, spotted by 9 stations and I have spotted 43 stations after just 5 minutes. Statio...

As our visitor arrived earlier than expected, I was unable to do the firmware update until Friday AM. I am taking things in easy stages. The...

As you may recall, I have been struggling to get this working. Later today I have a "window" to update the firmware and try the re...

Thank you for all the suggestions.  I was going to do this yesterday (find out why the FT-710 does not work with FT8), but had no time. Toda...

My other Windows PC came back yesterday and works fine with my tiny QDX. It has already been spotted all over the place and works fine on RX...

My second Asus Windows PC has been returned from repair under warranty. This was very fast. Later I hope to try this on FT8 with my FT-710....

One of my aims this week is to try FT8 on my FT-710. As a keen QRPer, I usually run low power and this will be no exception. In the end I ov...

In a few moments, I hope to go on 8m QRP FT8 and 10m QRP WSPR TX with my 500mW beacon. Later, I need to test the FT-710AESS.

Puzzled.  MLS has just announced the price of the new 100W SDR transceiver, that seems to have a very similar spec to the FTDX-10. It seems ...