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Yaesu FT-1D issues....

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I'm a brand new owner of two Yaesu FT-1D HTs and love the radio for the most part. I won't get into a full review of the pros cons in this thread but wanted to quickly address a few of the issues I've been experiencing. My hope is to raise awareness of these few early bugs so that Yaesu can fix them for the next batch of FT1D owners and hopefully expedite adoption of their new protocol.

If anyone else has experienced this or has any insights, would love to know!

First problem is an error I'm getting when trying to program VFO items into memory from the HT. I made a video of this on YouTube with a relatively solid overview of the issue. (While I typically use RT Systems for all of my programming, when traveling sometimes I need to program via the HT and this has been impossible).

The second problem comes when transmitting DTMF codes. If you're using DTMF on a channel with a PL tone(simplex or repeater) then you'll hear a buzzing as you key the DTMF. If you don't use a PL tone then this doesn't happen and it functions as normal. Yaesu tech support has advised that this causes no problem with the DTMF being transmitted and is only an awkward side effect but I sent one of my HTs in to them for their approved repair of the issue and will keep you guys posted on the results.

Aside from these two problems, I personally love the HTs and highly recommend them. To me its a combination of all of the best things about Yaesu and some future looking features all in one HT.

I do hope they will expand on the SD card capabilities (I owned Icom products for years and both ID51 and ID31s provide far greater feature sets on their SD card implementation) since presently it can only really be used to backup/restore the entire HT and not save different configuration profiles etc....

Look forward to my fellow hams thoughts/comments.
 

Can you describe the programming issue for those of us viewing on a smartphone right now and don't have the bandwidth to view the video?
 
Yup, if trying to save a channel from vfo mode, the ht says "vfo mode error" instead of programming the channel in memory.

It happens whether you're on vfo a or b, and it doesn't matter if it has offset, tones, etc. it just won't take.
 
Yaesu has received countless complaints over their squarewave PL encoder. This has been going on for about 10 years since they first introduced the VX-7R. They are well aware of the problem, have had 10 years to fix it and still introduce the same unacceptable PL encoder in their brand new rigs. How about they operate the company like they did when it was Yeasu Mussen? You know, they actually built the radio without bugs before mass production and sales to the unsuspecting amateur community?

Why hire a qualified staff to debug your radios when you can start selling them immediately and use us to do the job for free? Use to be all you had to do was wait until the "D" version of the radio was released and you would know we already debugged it. I think the "D" stood for "debugged" where all the ones before the D were someplace short of being done or completely working. Now they just prematurely slap the "D" on for no reason.

If you're real devious and NEVER admit fault or publish a service bulletin, you won't even have to go back and fix most of the thousands of defective radios you already sold. Better than that, if the buyer doesn't check every feature as a new owner, you might go past the warranty period before you notice the bugs. Then Yaesu will be happy to charge you about $200 to fix the very problem they sold you.

Having worked at one of the largest ham radio dealers in the North East for more than 7 years and being a loyal Yaesu customer since the FT-101ZD came out I feel more than justified to expose this companies poor business practices. Problems that would require complete redesign to correct such as installing a sinewave PL encoder are never corrected. Problems that cause illegal operation such as their 6 meter oscillators installed on all FT-857 and FT-897 are corrected only after years of frustration.
 
Shockwave said:
Yaesu has received countless complaints over their squarewave PL encoder. This has been going on for about 10 years since they first introduced the VX-7R. They are well aware of the problem, have had 10 years to fix it and still introduce the same unacceptable PL encoder in their brand new rigs. How about they operate the company like they did when it was Yeasu Mussen? You know, they actually built the radio without bugs before mass production and sales to the unsuspecting amateur community?

Why hire a qualified staff to debug your radios when you can start selling them immediately and use us to do the job for free? Use to be all you had to do was wait until the "D" version of the radio was released and you would know we already debugged it. I think the "D" stood for "debugged" where all the ones before the D were someplace short of being done or completely working. Now they just prematurely slap the "D" on for no reason.

If you're real devious and NEVER admit fault or publish a service bulletin, you won't even have to go back and fix most of the thousands of defective radios you already sold. Better than that, if the buyer doesn't check every feature as a new owner, you might go past the warranty period before you notice the bugs. Then Yaesu will be happy to charge you about $200 to fix the very problem they sold you.

Having worked at one of the largest ham radio dealers in the North East for more than 7 years and being a loyal Yaesu customer since the FT-101ZD came out I feel more than justified to expose this companies poor business practices. Problems that would require complete redesign to correct such as installing a sinewave PL encoder are never corrected. Problems that cause illegal operation such as their 6 meter oscillators installed on all FT-857 and FT-897 are corrected only after years of frustration.
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well, I can't speak with that kind of detail/knowledge but I am certainly a bit concerned/disappointed as a customer at the moment. My first FT1D that came back from repair did indeed have the DTMF fixed but no longer transmitted any PL tone (I've sent it back again). Unfortunately its outside of the return period at HRO so now its all in Yaesu's hands. It's concerning to me that my radio seemed to get worse while at Yaesu (the DTMF thing was annoying but didn't kill functionality, now my radio doesn't work!)

I'm hoping they fix these few bugs and I can just experience early the adopter pains, if not I will unfortunately I think there's going to be some major major issues with the rollout.
 
The bright side is at least they improved it so it only buzzes when sending DTMF. The earlier rigs would buzz on TX anytime you were sending a PL tone.
 
Shockwave said:
Yaesu has received countless complaints over their squarewave PL encoder. This has been going on for about 10 years since they first introduced the VX-7R. They are well aware of the problem, have had 10 years to fix it and still introduce the same unacceptable PL encoder in their brand new rigs. How about they operate the company like they did when it was Yeasu Mussen? You know, they actually built the radio without bugs before mass production and sales to the unsuspecting amateur community?

Why hire a qualified staff to debug your radios when you can start selling them immediately and use us to do the job for free? Use to be all you had to do was wait until the "D" version of the radio was released and you would know we already debugged it. I think the "D" stood for "debugged" where all the ones before the D were someplace short of being done or completely working. Now they just prematurely slap the "D" on for no reason.

If you're real devious and NEVER admit fault or publish a service bulletin, you won't even have to go back and fix most of the thousands of defective radios you already sold. Better than that, if the buyer doesn't check every feature as a new owner, you might go past the warranty period before you notice the bugs. Then Yaesu will be happy to charge you about $200 to fix the very problem they sold you.

Having worked at one of the largest ham radio dealers in the North East for more than 7 years and being a loyal Yaesu customer since the FT-101ZD came out I feel more than justified to expose this companies poor business practices. Problems that would require complete redesign to correct such as installing a sinewave PL encoder are never corrected. Problems that cause illegal operation such as their 6 meter oscillators installed on all FT-857 and FT-897 are corrected only after years of frustration.
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So tell me....just when did Microsoft buy Yaesu anyway? :laugh:
 
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Doesn't seem OK to me as a consumer. Almost tempts me to run back to my ID-51s (if I only used/liked Dstar)
 

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