Some reckon that the 5 watts an FT-817/FT-818 puts out is low enough, but there are some game to try even lower. This project involves a management team of volunteers who each take a topic of interest and manage it with passion.

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The battery cover fits perfectly, the battery is very close to the announced capacity and it has overcurrent and surge protection. Peukert’s law, presented by the German scientist Wilhelm Peukert in 1897, expresses approximately the change in capacity of rechargeable lead–acid batteries at different rates of discharge.Includes battery pack, new bottom panel for the FT-817 with switch and charge connector, and plug-in charger. It educates you about other spectrum users, teaches propagation and you'll probably hear some interesting communications that makes it worthwhile. This can be overridden, but bearing in mind the limited battery capacity this may not be a good idea. Now if you’d like to avoid all of the trouble of going to the airport with an external battery pack, there is one internal battery pack which functions really well.

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This makes it an ideal "do-anything" radio, suitable for whatever kind of operation you feel like doing.

To be sure of being able to transmit from anywhere you take the lot - transceiver, battery antenna coupler, mast and wire.