5/7/2021 0 Comments Yaesu Ftm-400Dr Dk-Mods
Dual watch, APRS, integrated GPS, easy to read display, easy to operate (from either head unit or mic), head separation, GPS and other logging.
![]() Yaesu Ftm-400Dr Dk-Mods Archive Format OnlyHam.com remains online in archive format only. Being able to convert digital tofrom FM is handy for half the bridge but anyone using digital will still have to listen on FM in the mixed mode if you want to talk to everyone in your rag chew circle in a single repeater pair scenario. AMS on the radios makes this fairly seamless, I guess, but you end up in FM. It would be cool to have analog voice inout on the regular pair and digital on a linked UHF digital inout pair. Maybe the DR-1 can control an external auxiliary repeater for analog FM voice, its not clear if it does or doesnt. Well actually used. It seems like there are a lot of hams that buy stuff, never use it then sell it off for a discount. Im going to set it up in my studio for now to play with the file IO. Completely unused. Just got it on the air a couple of minutes ago and all is good. The seller would only do PO money order, so I was taking a bit of a chance to save 100, but I did my due diligence, so once I mailed the money order, I was pretty confident. When I was looking for mounts, I found: But I ended up using a panavise bracket designed for my FJCs center console and their generic extension bracket. The FTM-350 came with a nifty bracket that I never used and the FTM-400 has little angle bracket that isnt of much use. The FTM-10 had an optional bracket that also works with the FTM-350 and FTM-400 control heads. I ended up fabricating a bracket using Panavise and RAM pieces, theres not really much in the way of off-the-shelf solutions. I ended up using a couple of parts from it to make an adapter more or less. I gave up on the T-slot idea and went with a vehicle-specific Panavise AMPS bracket using their 685-PM swivel between the head and mounting surface when I installed the FTM-400 control head. The Arkon part numbers: AP2T17MM - Dual T-Slot to 17mm Ball Adapter SP-SB-RING - Swivel Tightening Ring for 17mm Ball Heads SP-1420CAM - 17mm Ball to 14-20 Camera Bolt Pattern M5x15 flat head bolt. Amazing radio and no issues with programming that wouldnt be expected. I couldnt even find a 14-20 adapter to 5mm, just 6mm and 4mm. Cut away a portion of the FJ plastic to keep the cable from getting pinched. Still need to sort out the mount for the external speaker, though I might just leave it were its at. Havent yet pulled the permanent antenna coax as Im still sorting out my antenna mount.
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