Actually my first radio ever, how'd I do?
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That's a nice radio. It has memory banks, which are essential for managing the 1000 channels it holds. For some reason, Yaesu stopped putting memory banks in their newer radios. The US version is tri band, which is nice if you have any 1.25m repeaters nearby. The batteries are a bit expensive though.
What do the memory banks help with? I'm curious because I recently returned a radio specifically because it used memory banks, making it impossible to monitor multiple channels spread across multiple banks (could only select channels from the current bank).
To me it seems like a huge limitation vs just having 1000 channels with no banks.
@MangoPenguin @AG7LR
I believe you overlooked the 'linked banks' feature in Yaesu radios. This feature allows you to combine multiple banks into a single space.