[amsat-bb] YAESU FT-817 TX POWER

[Matthew Stevens]

It will do 5w on the internal battery, the power indicator will blink when set. Default is 2.5w on internals though.

- Matthew KK4FEM

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> On Nov 24, 2016, at 09:13, w4upd <w4upd at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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