Ft 897 Battery Connector

The ft 897 comes with a mh 31b8 hand mic and power cord.

Ft 897 battery connector.

Essentially an ft 857 in a bigger box with a handle and feet. Valley enterprises yaesu usb ftdi ct 62 cat cable ft 100 ft 817 ft 818 ft 857 ft 897 4 6 out of. The ft 897 is designed use from 1 an external dc power source 2 internal battery requires optional fnb 78 ni mh battery pack or 3 ac power source requires optional fp 30 internal ac power supply. Could i make a power cable to connect to an outside battery such as seal lead.

If i were looking for another radio with those capabilities i would buy an ft 857 and mount a gel cell to it. Yaesu ft 897 can operate from two internal battery packs for portable use. Adapter ft 817 ft 817nd ft 818 for anderson powerpole adapter connector 3 6 out of 5 stars 6. Even 4500 mah is a large capacity ft 897 needs more than 600 ma on.

The rig is very portable and the internal batteries are most convenient as you don t need any separate power supply. It would be easy to rig battery handle and radio together. This would give a significantly greater battery life than the 897 offers. But do not want to use the internal batteries.

I also prefer it overall as a base unit to the other potential option the yaesu ft 857d. Exact frequency range may be slightly different. I had it several years then sold it. Hello i would like to take advantage of the low power consumption of the yaesu ft 897 while using batteries.

Internal batteries in the ft 897 i liked operating portable with my ft 897 with its internal fnb 78 battery packs. I like to power the radio through the batt. 160 10 meters 50 mhz 144 mhz 430 450 mhz plus alaska emergency chan. So i have bought the yaesu ft 897d for it s versatility in being able to have fitted internally an ac psu or battery power.

Features tx frequency coverage. 420 470 mhz. Make offer 8 band equalizer noise gate to yaesu ft 450 ft 817 ft 857 ft 897 ft 900 ft 991a mini link 5 radio connector yaesu ft 817nd ft 857d ft 897d radio connector 52 88. I wire up the optional battery sense pin to create a custom low power battery mode cable.

Rx frequency coverage. External dc power source operation. I will have to live with nearly four times the weight of the ft 817nd and twice the weight of the ft 857d. At 10 w power the pair of batteries lasted a weekend of casual operating.

Bat socket of ch 817s charging hatch and the outgoing line of p p charging hatch is butted into the supply line of ft 817 battery they.