[OKDXA] YAESU FT-891

[N5OK]

Fantastic!

Coy C Day, N5OK
20685 SW 29
Union City, OK 73090
H(405) 483-5632 C(405) 448-2368
n5ok at arrl.net


On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 2:32 PM Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bravo, Roger!
>
> > On Sep 4, 2022, at 1:59 PM, Roger Simpson <rksimpson1 at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I won the grand door prize a few years ago at the Claremore Ham
> Convention.  This was a couple of years ago  when the last “in person”
> convention was held before the COVID shutdown.
> >
> > After the convention, the convention manager called me on the phone and
> told me that I had won the grand prize which is a YAESU FT-891 They sent me
> the radio via UPS.
> >
> > My main rig is an ICOM 7600 which is working FB. I also have and ICOM
> 756 Pro2 as a backup rig.  I am used to the “look and feel” of the ICOM
> rigs.  The way you setup the scope and setup split operation is basically
> “the same” across both of my ICOM rigs.  I don’t like the “modern” rigs in
> which many of the physical knobs on the rig are replaced by flat panel
> buttons which might be visible if you page down thru layers of menus on the
> display.
> >
> > I would like to give away the 891 to someone who is new into DXing. Do
> any of you know of somebody who is getting into ham radio that could use
> the rig?
> >
> > I would like to “give back” something to ham radio. Back when I was a
> novice growing up in Downey CA a guy from the Downey Amateur Club gave me a
> “beat up” but operable Hallicrafters SX-28. I used that receiver to make
> hundreds of QSOs on the 40m novice band. I used this receiver along with a
> homebrew crystal controlled rig on the 40m novice band.
> >
> > 73  Roger   K5RKS
> >
> > Sent from Mail for Windows
> >
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