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The only thing I have against the FT-7800R is the burnt orange LCD screen. yuck! -moxta
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Now I know what moxta means about the orange LCD. As I type this I am sitting in a darkened room with the Yaesu 7800 sitting next to the computer monitor and its orange screen is about to drive me nuts. It really IS ugly. I am hoping to learn the menus today and/or tomorrow and get the darned thing installed in my wife's Ford Escape before I see RidgeRunner (KE7PIT) this weekend.
The only saving grace is that where I have in mind of installing the radio places the screen WAY below eye level.
I am also re-thinking my decision of buying the 50 watt, dual band Yaesu 7800. We don't have a lot of traffic on 440 around Yakima and I don't expect there is much anywhere else in the nether-lands other than in or near the bigger cities. So us back country folk might be better off with a more powerful single band 2 meter radio. Probably the 65 watt Icom 2200H like Mick runs or the 75 watt Icom V8000 would be better choices for emergency communication from backroad, overland, off-road vehicles. If I buy radios for the other vehicles I will definitely think twice.
Jerry