Ham radio: Installing optional voice memory board in Yaesu FTDX-1200

Ham radio: Installing optional voice memory board in Yaesu FTDX-1200
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[@smallick653]

Your video is very informative . Subscribed :😊

[@learnelectronics]

Thank you

[@simeonmihaylov6123]

This was a really interesting video, Paul. Good job.

[@learnelectronics]

Thank you

[@rrowan327]

Hi Paul, I'm not really a Ham guy (maybe bologna) what is CQ?

[@learnelectronics]

It just means "hello, anybody want to talk?"

[@pulesjet]

Your well above my hands on and Pay Scale. Back in my times we thought we were someone when we could Tx DTMF tones and make a Phone Call. Just got back into radio taking baby steps playing with a SDR USB card. Worked Shuttle Support from 85 - 88 Providing Special Communications at Patric AFB. They didn't even know I was there. We just kept the Channels Up and Running. LOL So Now you can be one of those ROBO Callers Using Persistence to contact ?

[@learnelectronics]

Nah, not so much. If you are working a contest, you lose your voice calling CQ for 8 hours.

[@michaelpadovani9566]

I'm not a Ham guy but it was cool watching you put this together. I got to see the Saturn V close up and man it's crazy big.

[@learnelectronics]

Really? in Huntsville?

[@michaelpadovani9566]

@@learnelectronics Johnson Space Center Houston

[@kevfrets]

Cool! I like the HAM videos. Nice set up ya got there, bro!

[@mikeburton8687]

cool video....I thought about getting into ham radio years ago but they said I had to know electronics so that's why I'm here

[@jimmeeGray]

Basic electronic theory is all to start. Then the bug bites you and you start building things, they work, you learn more etcetera etcetera etcetera.

[@mikeoliver3254]

Pretty easy but really cool mod. Are the headers placed like that so you can add more sub boards? The Saturn V is the coolest piece of engineering That humanity has ever built, hopefully the next big rocket that out does it gets built soon.great video my friend. KZbin is still not telling me when your videos are going up btw. Have a great weekend Paul.

[@learnelectronics]

Im not sure about the headers. There is only one other board offered, it is for FFT and CW decoding. It fints in a different place.

[@stewartrv]

I think we could have a go at building a voice memory using a Arduino and a MP3 breakout board or something, might be a nice project! :)

[@ti2wmp]

Hello friend, thanks for uploading this video. I have a Yaesu 1200 and I need to activate this option for the contests. I know that the N1MM program has an option to record audio files but I haven't been able to get it to work well. Watching your video I realize that you do it with these two components and I would like to know if I have to buy something else?

[@sasha.djordjevic3071]

Hi Paul, really informative video, as always. Sadly but somehow every time when I see US space rockets, first toughs are Wernher’s V1 and V2 and British victims.

[@g00glian0]

Paul, that is a great video. I am a ham radio operator, but I had no idea these voice modules existed. So happy to have learned this! Also, I tried to get the name of the repeater I heard and Google it, to see where your location is. Not to be creepy but just out of curiosity, but I must be miss-hearing something. hehe. A local repeater for me is W8BI, which is owned and operated by DARA, which is the group responsible for Hamvention. I attend Hamvention every year since I live so close to it. So I really enjoy the amateur radio vids!!!

[@learnelectronics]

WD8IIJ

[@MCsCreations]

Pretty nice work, dude! Really interesting! 😊

[@learnelectronics]

Thanks

[@pda49184]

In my humble opinion Yaesu are doing quite well selling a tiny, and not overly complex add-in board for $75... And another $100 for a very basic hard wired remote ..But at the end of the day it's a hobby and we're all guilty of a touch of overindulgence occasionally 😁.. Interesting stuff on the NASA vehicle difference from start to finish...I suspect the guys flying the Saturn 5 said too the Mercury guy's : "Mines bigger than yours"...🤣

[@learnelectronics]

You really think astronauts were into playing who's is bigger? lol hell yes they were!!!!

[@ae1tpa92gwtom2]

Hi Paul, i have the 3000, bt it used, nice radio, the 1200 looks allot like the 991a in many ways,.. im a Yaesu man, so like to Yaesu radios on the video was very informative,.. cheers n 73s AE1TP

[@learnelectronics]

I like Yaesu as well, I also have an 891. But I love the 1200. Superior audio quality, built in roofing filters, and a great preselector. And now it has voice memory.

[@NGinuity]

My biggest takeaway from Field Day has always been "I need to make a voice memory solution". My biggest regret on Field Day is always "Why didn't I make that damn voice memory solution I thought about last year?", usually said to myself, hoarsely. Between midnight and 1AM on Sunday, I pulled 83 contacts during a pileup I was holding. Could have used that memory system for signal and location reports.

[@learnelectronics]

Yep, when you operate for hours, voice memory is a lifesaver.

[@NGinuity]

@@learnelectronics I'm cheating next year. My Icom 7300 has it built in 😊

[@georgechambers3197]

HAM you AM. CQ,CQ,CQ. It's all Greek to me. Thanks for the video!

[@fernandocarapeto7429]

Hello I like your video I ask if it is possible on this radio with this card to record the 20 seconds of qso and transmit the recorded audio. thanks ct2jtf

[@VideoJoop]

I think like most, interested in electronics know all the KZbin channels, like Dave or Dronebot. Though what I somehow miss is a step wise introduction like tutorials with some theoretical background and in combination with a project. Like following a course in school. Step wise. Like your site. Many and mostly beginners can get disappointed or get scared when they don''t have a background of really understanding CPU's and boards & programming, when the basic principles is not understood.. Arduino is a good platform but merely plug and play without the basics of electronics is in a sense not wrong. Could you make some step wise tutorials - think of being a teacher - that makes hobbyist understand why and how.

[@learnelectronics]

I literally have hundreds on this site

[@PY2NGN]

Good afternoon, could you tell me how to put messages in CW on the ftdx1200?

[@SV8DJW]

Nice video. i have dull audio output when i record a voice message at Yaesu voice memory, even if i have set the parametric equalizer with compressor in and out. if i record the message to my pc is crystal clear. Any suggestion??

[@bblod4896]

Took longer to r&r the screws then install the board. Contact me when you are on 40 meters.

[@daveodessa]

Nice addition to your rig. A bit pricey though.

[@learnelectronics]

The voice memory board wasn't bad but 100 bucks for the keypad is crazy. Guess what's inside? Resistors.

[@daveodessa]

@@learnelectronics I guess you're paying for the Yeasu name.