The FT3 has a superb GPS inbuilt. It’s fast and accurate.. BUT you cannot program a waypoint into the memory unless its given to you by another radio in the GM Group, or you are actually there (which defeats the object). I do SOTA and I would love to prepare for my SOTA trip by ….  Read More

I love the bandscope feature of the FT3 but if you use it on the pre-programmed “BAND” frequency ranges the scale of the scope is too small and the sweep time so slow that it becomes a little unusable. The good news is that the special L/U programmable memories of the FT3 can act as ….  Read More

The FT3 has the ability to receive 1.8-30MHZ band using the BAND button to cycle to the SW program band. The VFO SCAN on this band will run from 1.8 – 29.995 in 5KHZ steps in AM mode. Great fro SWL but soon you get fed up punching in frequencies, or pressing scan and watching ….  Read More

The Yaesu FT3 is a great radio with a good Wideband RX. I use it a lot for Airband scanning, but like many scanners and receivers the FT£ suffers from spurious signals which hamper your scanning pleasure. There are times also when your local area has a signal that just won’t go away and stops ….  Read More

Update on using the FT3D for UHF Airband with AM mode. I had recently stated that I was dissapointed the FT3 would not do AM mode in the UHF AB section. I had read this in a review article by G4VXE Tim Kirby in Radio Enthusiast (PW artclie link included). I was wrong. Tim says ….  Read More

Automated Packet Reporting System or APRS is a really useful aspect of the Amateur Radio hobby. However, since learning that APRS on the usual 2m frequency 144.800 MHz is illegal within 50Km of GCHQ at Irton Moor in the UK I was forced to look for alternative frequency allocations or face the fact that I ….  Read More

The CCARC YSF Reflector has been running on the excellent G4KLX YSFReflector. However it hasn’t been been without problems for me. The reflector has a lot of issues going offline intermittent, and crashing when stations disconnect. I have been looking at pYSFReflector a python3 alternative and this morning decided to give it a go! https://github.com/iu5jae/pYSFReflector ….  Read More

New QTH – new QSL! Scarborough is a beautiful and historic place to live. I have tried to capture it in my QSL card.

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I recently added a YSF Reflector to the CCARC network. From the X button search GB-CCARC. There is a dashboard at http://reflector.2e0wwv.net:5038 which allows users to take a look at recent connections. 73 Scot