[CQ-Contest] Yaesu WILL DO SO2R

[John Geiger]

Thanks for clearing that up Charly,  Glad to know I wasn 't losing my mind 
by thinking this. I seemed to remember that this was one of the selling 
points for the Yaesu over the Icom 7800.  400 watts barefoot would be nice 
also with the MP.

73 John AF5CC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Harpole" <hs0zcw at gmail.com>
To: "CQ-Contest Reflector" <cq-contest at contesting.com>; "Charles Harpole" 
<hs0zcw at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1:35 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Yaesu WILL DO SO2R


> As an owner of a Yaesu FT-9000d transceiver, I can report definitively 
> that
> the ONE rig WILL DO SO2R.
>
> The menu has a selection #177 to switch into "full duplex operation" as 
> the
> instruction book lists it.  It also uses the term "SO2R" in describing the
> feature.  Page 49,
>
> Please do not write me declaring that this radio will not do this;  I just
> did it.
>
> The details are described in the book.  One can SIMULTANEOUSLY
> simultaneously transmit and receive.  The limit is that the xmit band and
> the receive band must be different;  no duplex on the same band.  The book
> is very careful to warn the user to limit the RF from the transmitter 
> going
> into the duplex-activated receiver input.  Unusual level of detail for
> instruction books today, the Yaesu book even states the input limit should
> be "10mW or less."  The book also gives detailed examples showing a full
> understanding of SO2R.
>
> I hope QST did not publish a retraction, because the review of this rig 
> was
> correct to begin with.
>
> 73,
>
> -- 
> Charly, HS0ZCW
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