[OKDXA] YAESU FT-891

[Kim Elmore]

Fabulous! 

Kim N5OP 

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> On Sep 5, 2022, at 3:51 PM, N5OK <coyday62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Fantastic!
> 
> Coy C Day, N5OK
> 20685 SW 29
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> 
> 
>> 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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