Thank you very much for that brilliant explanation, I am so impressed. I was at the point of throwing my FT-65 in the bin when I saw this. I have been a radio ham for 50 years (now M0JEV) and 71 years old. Your presentation drilled through all the brain fog and I now know how to do it. Deep felt gratitude to you, from your new fan. Anthon!
9:30 My father just bought the FT-65. He is 80+ years old and, though quite sharp, he had trouble programming the unit as "the book" wasn't helpful (I'm guessing full manuals are online). Apparently the step re: #29 was exactly what he needed, and he is all set: thank you very much for the video!
I own both an FT-4 and an FT-65, and can CONFIRM they are completely different animals! In terms of programming, NEITHER of them are a "Beginner's" Radio. That being said, Ilke the FT-4 and LOVE the FT-65! I built a small HT GO KIT in one of the Harbor Freight Hard Cases. Right now, it houses my T-65 and my VX-6. I'm planning to buy a 2nd FT-65, and Clone it from the first one, in order to have a matched PAIR in my Go Kit. I intend the VX-6 as my everyday Carry Radio. The FT-4 belongs to my wife. I got it for her for Christmas to replace her ailing 12 Year old FT-60. My ALL-IN "SHTF" Handheld is a VX-8.with ALL of the Mods.
I have a question on PL tones, what if you run across a tone that is not in the list of pls in the radio? how would I program this..thank you for the video WRPR-732 James
Why, oh why can’t Yaesu allow split CTCSS tones on all their radios? Very happy to see this as in the past Yaesu hasn’t allowed this! Even my FT-5D & FTM-400 can’t do it. In my area there are several repeaters with different TX & RX tones. With our mountaintop repeaters the repeaters must transmit CTCSS because of interference and the repeaters where I can only set TX tones are sometimes unusable due to the interference. The cheap Chinese radios all have this though. 🤷♂️
Does anyone know how to program a repeater memory channel with split tones (DCS TX and CTCSS RX) from the front panel? Standard offset of +5.000 MHz. Is it even possible on the ft-65?
@@jamienleah732 Which option do you choose in menu item 29 (SQL TYPE)? I can set a separate RX CTCSS tone in menu 8, a separate TX DCS code in menu 11, but I can't activate them both in menu 29... Only one or the other, judging by actual tests...
Repeaterbook.com is the best reference. They organize by state and county to help narrow things down. You can even specify specific bands that you're looking for.
Thank you very much for that brilliant explanation, I am so impressed. I was at the point of throwing my FT-65 in the bin when I saw this. I have been a radio ham for 50 years (now M0JEV) and 71 years old. Your presentation drilled through all the brain fog and I now know how to do it. Deep felt gratitude to you, from your new fan. Anthon!
9:30 My father just bought the FT-65. He is 80+ years old and, though quite sharp, he had trouble programming the unit as "the book" wasn't helpful (I'm guessing full manuals are online). Apparently the step re: #29 was exactly what he needed, and he is all set: thank you very much for the video!
I own both an FT-4 and an FT-65, and can CONFIRM they are completely different animals!
In terms of programming, NEITHER of them are a "Beginner's" Radio. That being said, Ilke the FT-4 and LOVE the FT-65! I built a small HT GO KIT in one of the Harbor Freight Hard Cases. Right now, it houses my T-65 and my VX-6. I'm planning to buy a 2nd FT-65, and Clone it from the first one, in order to have a matched PAIR in my Go Kit. I intend the VX-6 as my everyday Carry Radio. The FT-4 belongs to my wife. I got it for her for Christmas to replace her ailing 12 Year old FT-60. My ALL-IN "SHTF" Handheld is a VX-8.with ALL of the Mods.
What's in your HT Go kit? I just picked up a FT-65 and waiting on the delivery of my VX-6. I'd love to see ideas of what to include in a Go kit.
Thanks you! I thought my device is broken, but it was this squelch type setting that was set to off. Very helpful tutorial!
Thx for all the great work.
Thank you for this series, because you have been a big help with the tips and tricks for the FT-65R. KC3UEE
Well put together video
I have a question on PL tones, what if you run across a tone that is not in the list of pls in the radio? how would I program this..thank you for the video WRPR-732 James
Why, oh why can’t Yaesu allow split CTCSS tones on all their radios? Very happy to see this as in the past Yaesu hasn’t allowed this! Even my FT-5D & FTM-400 can’t do it. In my area there are several repeaters with different TX & RX tones. With our mountaintop repeaters the repeaters must transmit CTCSS because of interference and the repeaters where I can only set TX tones are sometimes unusable due to the interference. The cheap Chinese radios all have this though. 🤷♂️
OK, so I've programmed what I wanted to memory. Can I now set any two saved frequencies to A and B that can be seen in dual display mode?
Did you make the FPP repeater video for the FT-4?
Just to clarify: is it possible to program the radio without cable? thanks.
My repeater has an "uplink tone" and a "downlink tone". What do I put for SQL Tone?
How do you do a 1 meg odd split? thanks. I don't have one, trying to help a new ham . Our repeater is odd split. w1ip
Great tutorial! Thanks
I'm inputting frequency, but it's not going to it exactly.... let's say it's 100.999, it gives me 100.985 instead... am I doing something wrong?
Does anyone know how to program a repeater memory channel with split tones (DCS TX and CTCSS RX) from the front panel? Standard offset of +5.000 MHz. Is it even possible on the ft-65?
Yes I just tried a tx ctcss and a rx tone on dcs code and it works fine..
you program it the same as you would anything else from the front panel..
@@jamienleah732 Which option do you choose in menu item 29 (SQL TYPE)? I can set a separate RX CTCSS tone in menu 8, a separate TX DCS code in menu 11, but I can't activate them both in menu 29... Only one or the other, judging by actual tests...
new to amateur radio here...where can I research and learn the frequencies for repeaters near me?
Repeaterbook.com is the best reference. They organize by state and county to help narrow things down. You can even specify specific bands that you're looking for.
Can we program 4 decimal places on these HTs?
No. it will only take 3 in VFO mode.
@@KS6DAY what if I were to use Chirp? (Which would require me to order a programming cable lol)
41 radios! Good man! 😂