Yaesu FT-897

The Yaesu FT-897 is my main radio. It is an all-mode, all-band transceiver, and can generate 100Watt on most bands.

The bands it supports are 160-10m, 6m, 2m, 70cm, and it can do all modes (SSB, AM, FM, CW, Digi) on all those bands.

I bought this radio second hand years ago. It still works fine. I use it most often when on HF, because the 100W output gets me heard much better than the 10W of my Xiegu.

During the PACC contest of 2023 I rediscovered the CAT-cable. This makes the integration with RUMlogNG so much easier. Now I don’t have to enter the frequency manually. I wish I had tried this earlier!