[Yaesu] FT8500 gone ?

[Kurt A. Freiberger]

At 10:36 AM 2/9/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Relax Bill, the 8500 is still around and will be for a long time. Both AES
>and HRO are advertising it. There is no problem with the radio, other than
>the Mr. Potato Head microphone intimidates most people so they buy the
>8100R

I bought one for my wife, with the MH-39 mike instead of the potato mike.
It works very well, although the programming is a bit bizarre.
Fortunately, the ADMS-2 software mitigates nicely.  

73/Kurt

>73 - Patrick - AC6YD
>

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