Recent content by Akytarus

Thanks, That explains it!

Hi, I was tuning around the 20 meter band only to discover that its jammed with more CW than I've ever heard before...!?! The video show me tuning from around 14,003KHz to 14,115KHz almost 110KHz worth...! YouTube - CW Overload.m4v

Beat-Boxing was the first word that came to mind when I first herd the phenomena...! :whistle:

Thanks that makes sense... :-)

Hi, I've just noticed a strange occurrence when the left VFO is scanning the right VFO squelch starts to beat box. It only stops when the left VFO is tunned to a station. The issue starts about 18-19 seconds into the video. At 52 seconds I key up on simplex using a hand held, the issue only...

Yes you can you just need to be on the national APRS frequency on all radios taking part.

It's kinda interesting you ask... I'm actually using my HTC Diamond Phone attached to a clamp (I don't own a video camera). It has a 3.2Mpix Camera with real auto focus. Makes for a good substitute video camera eh....! I hope they come back to visit and see that I've fixed the issue... and...

The tech at Yaesu just cleaned it up and did nothing to fix it as far as I can tell - They just sent it back... I figured in desperation of a fix that I might as well take a peek inside the radio to see if I could do anything...

Hi to all again, Since my last video/post... I've received my Yaesu VX-8R back from Yaesu Inc. California with a note saying they cleaned it up and generally found nothing wrong with it in so sent it back to me?!? Apparently the tech who wrote the note saw my YouTube post via worldwidedx.com...

Ill keep you guys posted...

Hummm What to do... Ok, So it's a given that I'll send it back. But do I send it to Yaesu in California or back to my place of perches. Sending it to California will be fairly costly from Canada and also will get stuck in customs for a week or so before it even gets anywhere.In so turn...

** Yaesu VX-8R - Audio Problem Solved ** Hi to all again, Please see my solution thread including new video ****************** Original Problem with Audio ****************** Hi, My Yeasu VX-8R has developed an issues with it's speaker where the sound output is muffled or as some would...

How unusual, that a strange one to figure out. I've only noticed mine rebooting/restarting when I try to TX at 5 watt when the battery's low. I've been monitoring your posts since you first got one. This seems to be the only forum with info about this HT. Thanks for providing such good info...

Hi, Most Ni-Mh rated at 1800mAh freshly charged last about 7 hours of monitoring with RX save 1:5 Most Ni-Mh rated at 2200mAh freshly charged last about 9 hours of monitoring with RX save 1:5 Most Ni-Cad rated at 1500mAh freshly charged last about 5 hours of monitoring with RX save 1:5 Most...