[Yaesu] FT-897 Screen color?

[mikea]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:51:22PM -0700, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> What is the actual screen color or colors of the 897?
> 
> The Yaesu site shows the radio with both orange and green.  The manual
> mentions color can be changed, but does not say what the choices are.  In
> another section, the manual mentions the color "illumination" can be
> changed, DIFFERENT from the intensity, contrast or what appears to be color
> choices.
> 
> It would be just my luck the choices are black, IR, UV or murky brown with
> black swirls.
> 
> What are the ACTUAL color(s) available of a stock FT-897?

All the colors of the rainbow. Well, 32 of them, from red through orange,
yellow, green, blue, magenta, cyan. Nice selection. You can have it change
color according to the strength of the signal in RX mode, if I recall
rightly, and change color according to the output power or the SWR on
transmit. Ditto for the FT-857, by the way: it's very much the same radio
in a different physical package.

There's an 897D on the floor of the shack right now, waiting for a new
autotuner; I *LIKE* it. If I hadn't traded the autotuner away with the
857D, I'd be using the 897D today and running the 450AT as a backup rig.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin