Review on Yaesu Original FTM-300DR: 50W 📻 Dual-Band Digital Mobile Transceiver - C4FM/FM 144/430MHz by Jared Winebrenner

I have FTM-400XDR, FTM-100DR and now FTM-300DR line from Mobile Fusion; I'm on my second device, having traded it in for another due to issues I'll address later. 400 stays at home and is too good for mobile use. Touch screen and drive is not the best solution when you need to set up the radio. The hardware buttons are still tactile without looking. 100 were mobile but will now run WiRES-X full-time with the HRI-200, which 400 were doing part-time. The color screen is good but small like the FT3DR and not a touchscreen, which I'm glad about. no I'm not sure of their reasoning as big letters are always better for a quick look, being superior to 400 others. I really wanted two VFOs and this solved the problem. You have C4FM capability on both VFOs like FT2DR and FT3DR but you cannot receive sound from both at the same time. None of them do. You can switch between VFOs and the active one will be heard, but not both at the same time. A disappointment in this price range, especially when the device is made in China. You can get simultaneous audio with analog-to-analog and analog-to-digital combinations. I want them to keep separate VFO memories as merging them prevents me from using the memories the way I like and grouping them based on where I'm wandering. The new group mode makes things a bit easier, but it's only one group. Why can't they have bands like this? How has HT been lately? Yaesu still doesn't have any programming software, although I've never been a fan of it. but RT Systems finally released the version on June 19th! Thank you RT Systems! Now they install external firmware update switches and there are no more after-the-fact holes in the radios. It would be nice if there was menu driven software for updating the firmware as we hope they don't have to use it often. The fan on this machine is loud, and I've never seen other models make that much noise when just scanning. You had to replace the control cable so you have to rip out whatever 400/100 barrels you had as they won't work. You just needed to attach a camera/microphone to the main unit, which I think is useless with such a low resolution and slow RF transmission. That's why they obviously needed more wires. And the MLS-200 that worked for you at 400/100 doesn't work at 300. Pull him out too. The new mic doesn't have a lamp switch and there's no way to turn off those backlights that are annoying when driving at night. Why take away our ability to turn it on and off, Yaesu? I thought I read/heard somewhere that you could use a second VFO by using it as a WiRES-X node. You really can't, so it's a waste of a dual-band radio; 100 is the only one worth sacrificing for perpetual use, but is now being discontinued. I traded in my device because it locked when manually tuning the radio on the first day of ownership. The only way to reset the settings after trying several methods is to unplug the power cord. A few days later the radio jammed again while programming memory groups and eventually came back but lost all sound and wouldn't scan. Nothing fixed it to include factory reset or restoring from a micro SD card. Unplugging the power cord again solved this problem. When asked about this and no one had ever heard of these issues, I decided to trade in for a different unit and hope it doesn't suffer the same fate. It's in my car now where I have the software and copied all my frequencies. I don't think I'll have as many hands on it once the programming is over and I won't be as active as I was at the shack. - Disconnect the power cord. A few days later the radio jammed again while programming memory groups and eventually came back but lost all sound and wouldn't scan. Nothing fixed it to include factory reset or restoring from a micro SD card. Unplugging the power cord again solved this problem. When asked about this and no one had ever heard of these issues, I decided to trade in for a different unit and hope it doesn't suffer the same fate. It's in my car now where I have the software and copied all my frequencies. I don't think I'll have as many hands on it once the programming is over and I won't be as active as I was at the shack. - Disconnect the power cord. A few days later the radio jammed again while programming memory groups and eventually came back but lost all sound and wouldn't scan. Nothing fixed it to include factory reset or restoring from a micro SD card. Unplugging the power cord again solved this problem. Asked about it and no one had ever heard of these issues so I decided to trade in for another device and hope it doesn't suffer the same fate. It's in my car now where I have the software and copied all my frequencies. I don't think I'll have as many hands on it once the programming is over and I won't be as active as I was at the shack. however, lost all sound and was not scanned. Nothing fixed it to include factory reset or restoring from a micro SD card. Unplugging the power cord again solved this problem. Asked about it and no one had ever heard of these issues so I decided to trade in for another device and hope it doesn't suffer the same fate. It's in my car now that I have the software and copied all my frequencies. I don't think I'll have that many hands with it once the programming is over, and I won't be as active as I was at the cottage. however, lost all sound and was not scanned. Nothing fixed it to include factory reset or restoring from a micro SD card. Unplugging the power cord again solved this problem. Asked about it and no one had ever heard of these issues so I decided to trade in for another device and hope it doesn't suffer the same fate. It's in my car now that I have the software and copied all my frequencies. I don't think I'll have as many hands on it once the programming is over and I won't be as active as I was at the shack. It's in my car now that I have the software and copied all my frequencies. I don't think I'll have as many hands on it once the programming is over and I won't be as active as I was at the shack. It's in my car now that I have the software and copied all my frequencies. I don't think I'll have as many hands on it once the programming is over and I won't be as active as I was at the shack.