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Having recently
sold my Icom IC-7000/AH-4 combo and replacing the Icom with a Yaesu
FT-950, I quickly found myself greatly missing the ease of use of the Icom
combo. The AH-4 is a great tuner when coupled with Icom rigs, and is
compatible with the Yaesu FT857/897 when used with the BetterRF tune
control.
(I did a fair
amount of research before finding out that the AH-4/BetterRF would work
with the early FT-950s, but due to a firmware upgrade in the later model
FT-950s, that is no longer possible).
The FC-40 is the
Yaesu version of the Icom AH-4. It is a coupler/tuner designed for long
wire or whip type antennas and designed to interface with late model Yaesu
HF transceivers.
This coupler,
like the SGC models and ICOM AH-4, are typically used at the feedpoint of
the antenna, as opposed to a standard antenna tuner located just
downstream of the transceiver.
Per Yaesu specs,
with a 2.5 meter long "whip" freq coverage should be 6m-40m and with 20+
meters of wire the range is 6m-160m. The FC-40 is rated at 100w (3 minutes
max continuous transmit, ie RTTY), can be tuned with 4-60w, and has 200
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