[amsat-bb] YAESU FT-817 TX POWER

[w4upd]

As mentioned here, 2.5 watts if on internal battery. If you have a 
voltage source plugged in, it will do 5 watts. However, the supplied 
power pack will still only give about 3 - 3.5 volts due to the load.

My old FT-817 (16 years old), finally died with the known final s 
shorted. It went so bad, that it fried the driver PC board as well. 
Since it cost almost half the value of the unit to replace3 the PC 
board, I bought a newer FT-817ND unit which contains the 60 meter 
values, and the newer type of finals to prevent the previously mentioned 
problem.

Regards,

Reid, W4UPD


On 11/24/2016 8:40 AM, Norm n3ykf wrote:
> 5W is the spec for external power. 2.5? on internal battery.
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 8:35 AM, jeffory broughton
> <jefforybroughton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone ever taken time to actually measure the tx power on vhf and uhf
>> of the FT -817 ? After receiving a new one this week ,I took mine to the
>> work where we have all the eqpt to spec it out and was disappointed with
>> what I saw.
>> Thanks to all who reply. Jeff WB8RJY
>>
>> jeff broughton
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