Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

My first ever Yaesu rig was the 10W FT7, which I bought second hand in 1979. By modern standards it was big, but it was a great rig, enablin...

One of the best rigs I have ever owned was the Yaesu FT7.  I owned this from 1979 and it was a 10W rig really aimed at mobile use.  The rece...

DX means different things to different people.  To some, it is trying to work all countries available today on SSB, perhaps with the full le...

 I got mine second hand in 1979. It was a 10W SSB and CW rig covering all bands from 80-10m (no WARC bands then!), but with limited 10m cove...

My first commercial HF rig was a 10W Yaesu FT7. It was used mainly on 10m SSB and enabled me to work all over the world with simple, low, wi...

Back in the late 1970s I owned an FT7 transceiver. This produced 10W and allowed me to work all over the planet, mainly on 10m SSB. Contacts...

This product was around in the late 1970s  and was a 10W rig intended for mobile use. By modern standards it was big. From memory it was...

This was the first HF rig I bought, back in 1979. It was 10W on all the then HF bands. With it I worked all over the world on 10m QRP SSB ...

If anyone would like to give this a try, I am happy to try 472kHz FT8 this Sunday. Unless anyone can tell me different, I shall use 474.2kHz...

Yaesu FT7 - a true classic Way back in about 1979 I owned a Yaesu FT7 . This was a 10W HF rig using a modular construction.  It was a be...