It's amazing how many antennas you can build with a Lowes nearby. Very good old school improvising. Real ham stuff!

Thank you for the informative video. Lighting and audio were absolutely fine. I could see and hear everything clearly.

Thanks for the great video. I currently have a Yaesu FT DX 1200 and I use the contour function the same way. Contour function is amazing. As soon as I can sell my Yaesu FT DX 1200 I'll be getting a 710. I've been looking at this radio for a year now and I definitely want one. 73 👍🙂

Very cool, thank you for sharing your project and knowledge.

great performance.

I was looking for someone to explain the transmit modulation settings and you nailed it for me. Thanks and 73. KB3ZWR

what a cool design. Well done ,we need more stuff like this experimenting to make ham radio cheaper cause dang it can get expensive. Thank you for this.

From one Wofford Brother in Christ and fellow Ham in Mississippi (K5OLV) to you in Arkansas, I enjoyed watching your yagi build. I wonder if we share a common relative somewhere back up the family tree. My relatives all hail from North Mississippi (Webster County), migrating over from Georgia and Alabama back in the 1800s.

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nice vid. will try 1 myself

Brilliant Video Subscribed to you, too fantastic build one for 40m with traps to :) 73's

ditto- great video- subscribed

Great video and just subscribed

good video, Will give it a shot, Thanks !

Great video and subscribed

Thanks for sharing!

What is the reason for using 10ga wire here? Power handling or its just a wire you had available ?

FB comparison between your 80M loop and your new mini yagi. Great performance on the yagi, and the bandwidth would be fine for me since I'm 100% CW. Vy 72/73 de Paul in MT

Do you think the loading coils helped with lowering the SWR? I’ve seen this same design for a 20m yagi and without the coils the SWR is about 1.3-1.5 at best. Do you use a choke at the feed point for your setup?

Very nice build and cheap to construct it seems. I might give this a try. Thanks. 73

Nice video!!!

Thank you very much! Last night I received feedback that my modulation was weak with the factory settings. I just found this video, I adjusted the values. I'm curious. :)

Great build! I built a 2 elements Yagi for 10-12-15m with fishing rods and aluminum tape is my best antenna at the moment, it did out performance all my delta loops antenna as well. 73's my friend.

Nice build, 73 de OO4M

Don’t worry about the Jerks. Some of us-appreciate your input!!

Thanks, the "long hold" tip helped a lot

PS: I’ve designed a 20M mono band Yagi using a similar pvc boom. It sagged more than I wanted, too. I inserted a very lightweight wooden dowel into the middle of the boom which cured that sag.

Sounds great to me i am currently looking for a mic for the ft-710 .I have the stock mic sounding good and now looking for desk mic its great to see these results with inexpensive mics before spending a small fortune on one .I spoke to a station who had spent £600 on a mic and it sounded terrible

Amazed at the price, I was expecting it to cost a lot more. Sounds great!

Looks fantastic. You did a great Job on that 2 El. Monoband Mini Yagi Beam. 73 de Uncle Günter across the Pond 💯👍🙋‍♂

Good job, John! I enjoyed this audio exposition. I have a dx10 which will parallel these settings.

Excellent audio. I'm hearing you on 18.133 right now. I had just watched your video and applied your settings for a start. Nice coincidence!

I dont know if is a bug, if is by design or if just that I cant figure it out but I am not able to save in to memory a split frequency and that kind of sucks from Yaesu. Got everything working as split but after save it it doesn't save the split feature neither the second VFO, only the primary VFO

I purchased a 710 yesterday and, want to say think you

Just turn off the comments, if people are being jerks. Plus I think you can delete comments, can't you? There are always going to be critics. It comes with all social media. Accept it, or do something about it.

its sideband, not too critical. set it up on Am and see if you have any luck with that.

religion god is a jerk , believe in me or burn in hell for all eternity! i will pass on that deal.

John is the Al-811 still available ?

Can you talk on this license free

I have one and the Bypass light illuminates with an antenna that I know is resonant... I am using an ic-7000

When adjusting the Parametric EQ bandwidth. 1 is the widest range of frequencies you are manipulating and 10 is the narrowest, ( this is centered on the frequency you have selected). 0 is basically shutting off that parameter and any such adjustment. I suggest you change all your zero's to ones ! Do you also know that holding down the Mode and NB buttons on the top of the radio as you power on ( until the waterfall appears), this expands the transmit to 4K. You must also adjust that frequency expansion in TX BPF Select option in the menu. VE7KEG

THANKS JOHN ! ! excellent Video, helped a LOT ! .....OnWard........

Very helpful for getting started. I am using the monitor function and headphones fo do the adjustment. The hand microphone is very hot. Even pucks up the creaks from the switch.

Hello, modestly it seems to me that to understand the difference in audio quality between ICOM IC-7300 vs YAESU FT-710, it would be wise to take as a reference the ICOM IC-7400. Why? Personally, I believe that the manufacturer ICOM has made a huge mistake. ICOM focused primarily on a customer budget (sales price) of €1200 to produce its ICOM 7300. According to you, why today is the ICOM IC-7400 (25 years old) better in Rx than the YAESU FT-710 and ICOM IC-7300, and competes without complex with the FTDX10 at the Rx level ???🤔 Obviously, the design and the sales price of ICOM IC-7400 was well above ICOM IC-7300 (marketing date: 2015) Cordiales 73' Diki58

Great video. I've decided which rig to buy. Thanks from a Japanese radio fan.

I had my 7:10 set up your way and almost every other contact I was being told you got a great audio well I had to update the firmware does the reset and I got on and try to make a pota contact and the activator couldn't hear me so I rewatch this video and reset everything up and I made two contacts punching through Pota pile-ups getting a 59 signal Report with compliments on my audio thank you very much

Hi John, thanks for your video collection on the RS-918. I'm a bit confused about the builds tho, do all the clones use the same Nazr builds or are there different builds for the RS-918 and 9xx versions? Also I've been playing with my new RS-918 on firmware 2.9.48 but I have no transmit on 160m 80m and 11m but it works on all other bands. I can't seem to get the touch screen to calibrate either, when I hold down the power button I get the calibration screen but see no touch screen calibration prompts. Can you offer any advice ?

I just bought this little radio and i'm waiting for delivery. Thank you so much for the information I know.I'm going to enjoy it.

One big short fall is the inability to edit a memory channel. You will notice in John's video that when he shows you how to scroll or move through your memory channels some have NB on then some have DNR on and AMP1 and so on. This is a trap. Before any memories are programmed make sure you have all these setting DNR, NB etc where you want them. The only way to fix all this up after is to delete the channel and start again.

Very helpful. I got my 710 only 2 weeks ago so still learning.