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Next step, the free programming software CHIRP. It arrived, not with a Chinese but with a Netherlands stamp on it, on 10 September. Yes, I could have made that myself but at ВЈ4.36, post paid, from Shenzen, why bother? Ordered on 25 August, it was due here on 12 September to 6 October. So I bought a lead with a chip and USB plug on one end and a mic plug on the other.

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I could organise leaving out my local repeater (3km away), install the one I use (30km away), screen out the ones I can hear every day (50 to 60km) and listen to the one I use as a propagation predictor (80km). Well, I used the FT-817 on 2m FM for a while and it taught me that a proper progamming suite (in that case the ancient but free '817commander') was a big plus. So I struggled on until I could have no more of it. Spend ВЈ50 to a certain company for their product! Shudder. I set my heart on some programming software, but this ran up against my skinflint nature. And I had to use the 'memory bank link scan' to do what I wanted to do and then if the scan stopped in one bank you could not tune to the other bank. It takes hours, and you are not very sure if what you have done is correct. The biggest bugbear I have with the FT-2900, apart from the heat, is that it is utterly fiendish to progamme channels into it. Let us say that 'value for money' has clearly been a big part in my buying decisions for FM rigs. I want it to work, and I am not so bothered about where it came from. But of course it is none of your 'Proper Yaesu'. My Anytone 888 has a passive heatsink and no fan but it runs dead cool. I feel guilty that I sold that FT-1900 to someone and it blew up shortly afterwards. I should have known: my FT-1900 also used to run hot even though it had a lower maximum power. 'Does not need a fan as it has a large heatsink' the blurb said, but it does need a fan anyway. Now discontinued, this model was one of those rigs with a huge heatsink built onto the back, in an attempt to avoid the expense of a fan (what, 50p?). Hard as I try, three people worked each month is all 2m FM does for me. I am not anti-social, there really are only three people who I can regularly work on 2m FM. I do not like it, I just cannot justify spending money on a squalk box which only serves to work three people. Why should I care which part of the world it comes from, so long as it works? Which it does after a fashion. Instead I avoid spending on things that I think I can manage myself, and save the rest for nice things.ДЄ bit of penny pinching brought the Yaesu FT-2900 into the shack. Yes, I do quite well and I am thankful for that.

It might appear that as I have a nice rig I must have money to spread around. Or I am 'a bit tight' might be another way of putting it. I guess you might say I 'like a bargain'.

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