I feel like they just redressed the old proven models the ft2900,ft2980 ft7900

Maybe Jason's radio is glitchy and needs a firmware update to correct it.

I'd try it on an actual 144-148mhz frequency while being used simplex epeater. I'm certainly not going to judge it based on the already poor quality WX stations. I've been amazed at the other demos I've seen on here.

I have the ftm 150 myself I don't like the ASP on the radio because on a repeater it makes it sound like in the background like you're on an am cb channel with sideband bleeding in on it sounds gargling .

MisterTwister55, so it looks like his video is flawed. You have the rig, can you do the same test he did and report back. Thanks, Mark

I completely disagree with your opinion. You clearly do not understand the feature or the proper use of it.

I agree, same thoughts. I'm disappointed. Yeasu doesn't have software yet, RT systems software isn't up to par, menus are confusing. I'm thinking of just going back to my DB-50. Clean, easy to understand, program, etc.

EOWS 612 and EOWS 115

Is there a MARS mod for this available yet?

Good to know about the crossband repeat feature. I've become spoiled on that which is why I have the 8800. I may bite the bullet and get one of these. 73 de N5NUK.

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is it noon there when it happend?

How about showing how the channels look when they have a label, can you see both freq and label at the same time?? Also what kind of memory grouping is there? Are there hyper memories or at least memory groups of some kind? Not just memory groups by band but can you choose which memory channels to put in a given group or bank? Thanks!!

what is the tx range after unlock mod?

it's just like kenwood tm-v71 and others used to be. the digital garbage took that away from us...

wow great job thanks 73 from kb2uew

@MisterTwister55 , The signal level vs noise ratio used in this video ... is obviously the ideal ... lets say it is about half way ... and the best for this filter to work good ... But on stronger signals it becomes digital sounding ... and on weaker signals it zaps and interrupts the audio ... does that describe it correct ? (asking cause i dont have one yet)

Now that was pretty epic. Good Job 👏

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not sure why there would ever be a feature called Super DX on a VHF\UHF radio that is NOT "all mode" to start with. Maybe I'm not the brightest "Ham" in the world but is FM a weak signal\DX mode? Are we trying to make it into one? I have never one time in my ham experience thought to myself what kind of DX or weak signal can I go find in the FM mode where working without a squelch makes me want to rip whats left of my hair out by the white noise... What am I missing here? I'm open to be educated... I have literally been TRYING TO SPEND (and literally this drive for a new radio is why I watched this video, I'm still searching...) a $1K-$2K budget on a worthy VHF\UHF radio for three+ years... Just waiting for the right radio to come along. Closest radio so far to tick all the boxes is the IC-9700, unfortunately the 9700 has no V\V U\U OR General coverage receive both of which are deal breakers at that price point. The Russian design "Wolf" radio is close and looks very nice and a few other Chinese radios almost fit the bill but severely lack in the VHF\UHF Transmitter\Amplifier sections to the point they are deal breakers too.

sounds good to me you need to get your hearing checked....

I think it has its use case, but I don't think it will be widely adopted. I remember Motorola had one called "Companding" - It's been a while since I've touched my 8000 and 8500, so I don't know if it's optional on the APX or XTS series but I do very much remember using it on their business series radios. Myself and a few of my friends actually had it enabled, it worked well on repeaters you're somewhat close to and you just didn't want to hear the static or random noise/flutter generated on VHF from nearby street lamps. It didn't sound anything like what this radio sounds like, I'd say this sounds more pleasant than what M had, more "digital" sounding like you mentioned in your first video about this. I'd say naming the feature "Super DX" is a bit misleading when you can hear stations better without it enabled lol.. Hopefully they release a fix for it where once the signal reaches a certain threshold it will deactivate, maybe potentially reactivate if the signal is above the threshold after x amount of time.

Definitely removing some of the good sound as well, but for strong signals a lot of people will really like the ASP.

being a digital lover, the ASP sounds amazing. now to make a new digital capable WITH ASP for the analog side. may have to upgrade the shack

I was wondering if it would act this way. Digital works clean fairly deep into the noise then... poof, gone. :) Can't do the math anymore in there, somewhere, so it just drops out. Thanks.

I like it. Still a lot more expensive than it's competitor, the IC-2730A. And a pretty basic screen. But I still like it. The reason people are calling it the 150RASP is because their digital signal processing is called ASP. So it's more like a 150R-ASP? Haha. Most likely it was their marketing team that wanted to make sure that people knew there was something special about these, although from what I've seen and heard so far, it doesn't sound very good and can make the voices sound worse at times.

She's very annoying and bossy. Welcome to the dork net.

I think having it is definitely useful in certain circumstances. Is there no graduation on the reduction or is it just on or off?

No brand loyalty. Using a Kenwood to cross band to a Yaesu. 😮

Nothing wrong with that. Sounds great!

Please feel free to reach out to us for full education on the feature.

Is the superdx & the asp turned on simultaneously? Or are they separate functions? On my ftm 500 superdx is like a rx preamp sorta. But i see asp come on when you hit the button. So I wonder if it's not the asp feature causing the issues more than the superdx.

Has anyone done the mars mod on this radio yet?

Thanks for this video. I watched another video on this unit where the dials were rotating elliptically. So it seems like this radio is not quite worth the price. It's $100 more than an Icom competitor. I was thinking about snagging the FT-3185RASP, but it doesn't really make sense even with the 85 watts.

apparently there is a group or perhaps a generation of people now who don't mind the under water artifacts as long as hiss is reduced, I think those people grew up listening to highly compressed "music" of today with no dynamic range and that's why they're warped. personally I'd never trade noise for digital artifacts and dmr audio makes me queezy

I totally agree with your assessment, I've had my FT-3185R ASP for a week or so & I am very disappointed in the ASP!

OMG wow I love that new ASP feature. I very much enjoy the DMR robotic sound - over static. This is a huge step forward. However, I can see there are some oddities.

Have to bring down the squelch on low signal with the super dx. Like with any filter you have to play with it.

I would say maybe some squelch adjustment would help

and that is my chief complaint with digital, it's either there or it's not where with analog you might be able to pick out important information that might be way down in the noise. I'm sure that the 150R ASP is a fine radio, but did we amateurs really need that funky new digital signal processing? Nope. Yaesu could have left that circuitry out and dropped the price $10 of $15

Just add a BHI unit

Mine works just fine

real fine

The NR on that rig seems to work in a very similar fashion to my FTdx10. The algorithm needs to have enough signal to work with in order to figure out what is signal and what is noise. On the dx10 it works great under good signal conditions, but mostly I leave have it set off or at levels of 1-3 (out of a maximum of 9 levels, I believe) to achieve useful/tolerable results.

If you had a choice of a mint/unused quad band cross band repeat FT-8900 or this new rig, for a similar price which would you go for? Both rigs have the super DX function (or whatever it’s called). Not much FM action on 6m/10m but nice to have if you want to x-repeat. But then this new rig has some modern digital noise reduction. Stuck between a rock and hard place.

Hello, could you please introduce the contents of the ftm150asp box? What parts come in the box? thanks

I know this comment is late but are these setup for non affiliate or are you able to legally affiliate with the system?

Great I love this radio already listening to the guys in Cuba

Thanks for the video, curious to see how this is going to do with weak signals. I just got my FTM-150rasp hooked up last night, and I have seen similar results as you on repeaters. On a 2m simplex net last night and S-DX(ASP) did make a huge difference... this is based on my EXTENSIVE one night and 15 minutes of testing weak signals. 😜 Thanks again for sharing! 73

From your testing it appears that the Asp function works well if there is already a good signal present. I just bought 2 of these radios and a FTM-500 and have not even taken them out of the boxes yet. Overall I think these 150's are real nice full dual band radios that have come into the market. Perhaps these are not what was marketed as "pulling out the weaker signals" . But it still is an excellent feature that improves enjoyment even if it works best on good signals that I'm likely going to have >85% of the time anyways. If you want to sell it - let me know I might find another go kit to stuff it into.