This modern pint-sized miniature marvel from Yaesu needs little introduction or detailed comment!
I happen to think this is an amazing radio for it's size and price!
This was another second-hand purchase from EBay, and the rig is virtually standard apart from the addition of a CW filter and the very useful "Peg-Legs".
The thumbnails show the CW filter as installed, notice this is NOT the proprietary Yaesu version, but a "home-made" version comprising just the same type of Collins filter as the Yaesu one, but with 1mm socketed flying leads and ugly-style terminating capacitors, secured with double-sided tape.
All in all a very neat alternative at a fraction of the price - thanks to Paolo IK1ZYW for his crafty piece of work!
The following pictures show the mainboard of my '817 with the CW filter circled, and a close-up view of that filter
Note on the bottom picture the use of an inline RF key filter to protect the keying circuits from stray RF - an end fed antenna is often used at my station.
| FT-817ND Mainboard |
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| CW Filter Closeup |
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| 817ND, Peg Legs and Key Filter |
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| Whilst searching for some information about the DC power connector, I came across this nice little collection of titbits from Earl, N3EG | |
| Page Updated : September 13th 2011 | |