The lightest touch on either button with the mike right out of the box made the frequencies change and the up or down scanning start. I had to open up my mike because the up/down buttons didn't seem to have any "click-detent" action.
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(No, I don't work for or have any financial stake in HRO.)Ģ. Others may be pennies cheaper, but don't have the units in-stock like HRO does. HRO undercuts many other sources at $55.95 for this mike.
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One wish is for an RJ45 jack on the mic itself as is done with the stock MH-31 mic because then one more easily switch between microphones if needed.Īll-in-all this isn't a bad mic if you want DTMF for your Yaesu FT-8xx.īought one of these for my FT-817 at HRO.ġ. Backlighting of the keypad is soft red and looks nice. No big deal to me because I nearly never use the up/down buttons on any mic and find them to be more annoying than useful.ĭTMF encoding on this mic works well, and I haven't had any problems with using DTMF commands on several repeater & echolink systems. I don't care for the top placement of the up/down buttons and I keep the button lock turned on at all times so as not to accidentally change frequencies. It works fine and I've switched between it and the stock mic mid QSO without telling anybody and honestly they can't tell the difference and really neither can I.
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I haven't had any problems with this mic. This mic also has a condenser element rather than the stock mic with its dynamic element. The advantage over the stock mic for the FT-817 is DTMF encoding.