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Yaesu's popular FT-857(D) and FT-897(D) transceivers are wonders of
compact efficiency. These do-anything, go-anywhere transceivers were
science fiction just a few years ago, but ham's today are using them in
shacks, mobiles and on DXpeditions from the back yard to the top of the
world.
About
the only problem with these radios is that we hams who are old enough to
remember when stuff like this really
was science fiction are also old enough to wish that the display
were just little bit bigger. Add to that a strong desire to see a real
live meter needle bouncing on voice peaks, and you find yourself wishing
that Yaesu had thought all this through when they designed the radio.
Well,
it turns out they did. A little known feature of these radios, noticed
only by compulsive manual readers, is a meter jack on the bottom of the
front panel. Well, help is here! The LDG FTL-Meter is a large,
easy-to-read, plug-and-play solution to all of your metering needs.
LDG’s
new version of its popular FTL-Meter
presents a lush, highly readable 4.5 inch meter face with calibrated
scales for signal strength and discriminator reading on receive, and
power output, SWR, modulation, ALC action and supply voltage on
transmit. Each function is selectable from the radio's menu |
