[Lowfer] TS-890

[Douglas Williams]

It arrived today. I didn't expect it to be quite so......ginormous (and
heavy). It dwarfs my R-75. I'm going to have to build a shelf for my little
table if I want to add any accessories.

https://i.imgur.com/qbazcls.jpg

It seems quite sensitive at LF. I heard the usual daytime airport NDBs, and
the close ones were S9+. WWVB is S9+10 and some MSK station around 40kHz
was S9+10. It will not tune lower than 30 kHz.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 4:35 PM Douglas Williams <williamsdoug1966 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Zack,
>
> Gratz. Always fun to play with new toys. :-)  This new generation of
> transceivers is amazing.
>
> D.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 4:30 PM Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just got an FT897D. Nowhere hear the bells and whistles of that radio
>> but
>> it is a great small radio for portable operation, plus it has 144 and 432
>> MHz, too.
>>
>> But I was tuning around in the NDB LF band as well as 475 kHz with it the
>> other night. The FSK CW beacon (I forget the call now) on 475 kHz was just
>> booming in on the radio and I heard a lot of NDB's between 250 and 450
>> kHz.
>>
>> 73, Zack W9SZ
>>
>