I have had many QSOs with this rig and internal power supply along with the VHF/UHF capability makes for a decent rig to setup in a hotel room, etc. It is now a backup rig and I use it regularly on the bench for working on amps. The 767 receiver is no match for the PROIII, but all in all is a very nice performing radio that I will keep for many more years. This was my main rig up until 2004 when I got a PROII. I bought mine new back in 1989, then soon after I bought the 6m, 2m, and 440-450 MHz band modules. Not up to a Ten-Tec or a KX-3 but certainly very usable.Īfter nearly 30 years mine is still able to hit 107-watts output key-down but I usually back the drive down to 50 or 75 watts. The built-in keyer (another rarity back then) is excellent and the monitor has three different audio frequencies (pick the one you like) and variable level control. These are coming up on 30 years old and they were (and are) complex radios with a lot of moving parts.īut they make an excellent base station rig with a lot of built-in features. Right now they are available at reasonable prices (late 2015) and for a first rig I don't think it can be beat for the price. I don't know if I can even get the filters to improve it (originally I only did SSB) but I stumbled upon a Datong FL-3 analog audio filter and that certainly cures the selectivity issue. When I got the CW bug again (you can imagine that I have worked a LOT of CW over the years) I found that the radio's sensitivity seemed ok but the selectivity left something to be desired. Lately it has pretty much stopped working but the power output indicator still works fine. The built in antenna tuner on mine was clunky and slow from the get-go but it worked. Bandswitching was easy and quick and a simple mod put the rig on all frequencies. I liked the built in power supply and the modules and frequency memories (which were new back then). It had three accessory modules in it for 6m, 2m and 440 but the only one I used was the 2m one. I boought mine from a friend for $1,000 in 1990 to use on the maritime mobile nets (I was a radio officer for Exxon then). The Yaesu FT-767GX was one of the top-of-the-line radios back in the late 1980s.
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