{"id":46398,"date":"2020-11-09T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=46398"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:51:37","slug":"shortwave-listening-with-the-yaesu-ft-817-ft-817nd-or-ft-818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/shortwave-listening-with-the-yaesu-ft-817-ft-817nd-or-ft-818\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave listening with the Yaesu FT-817, FT-817ND, or FT-818–?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently re-acquired a Yaesu FT-817ND<\/strong> general coverage QRP transceiver. I wrote a post with some info about this radio and how it came into my possession over at QRPer.com<\/strong><\/a>, if you’re interested.<\/p>\n

My question here:<\/strong> Have any folks in the SWLing Post community ever used the FT-817 or FT-818 series transceivers for serious shortwave broadcast listening?<\/p>\n

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I originally owned a first production run FT-817 back in 2000 when I lived in the UK. I did quite a bit of SWLing with it then, but I never compared it with other radios. I do recall feeling it was a very<\/em> capable general coverage transceiver, though, and remember logging a number of broadcasters (although I can’t seem to find those logs these days). Of course, propagation was quite a bit better back then, too!<\/p>\n

Please comment if you use or have used the FT-817\/818 for shortwave listening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently re-acquired a Yaesu FT-817ND general coverage QRP transceiver. I wrote a post with some info about this radio and how it came into my possession over at QRPer.com, if you’re interested. My question here: Have any folks in the SWLing Post community ever used the FT-817 or FT-818 series transceivers for serious shortwave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43],"tags":[2807,8748,6859,4859,2808],"class_list":["post-46398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ft-817","tag-ft-817nd","tag-ft-818","tag-yaesu","tag-yaesu-ft-817nd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-c4m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47105,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/upgrading-my-yaesu-ft-817-transceiver-with-the-g7uhn-rev2-buddy-board\/","url_meta":{"origin":46398,"position":0},"title":"Upgrading my Yaesu FT-817 transceiver with the G7UHN rev2 Buddy board","author":"Thomas","date":"January 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Last August, SWLing Post contributor, Andy (G7UHN), shared his homebrew project with us: a genius companion control display for the venerable Yaesu FT-817 general coverage QRP transceiver. 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