I may be making too much of this, but this little HT is the greatest -
EXCEPT for one thing. It has left me with a dead battery too darn
many times, just when it was very undesirable. If I'm involved in
doing something else, and waiting on someone to call me, and the
battery chooses then to go dead - I never know I missed the call.

That's just one example. It goes dead right in the middle of my
transmissions sometimes, WITHOUT WARNING. I find myself with a dead
radio when I let up the transmit button, and never know how much of
the transmission got sent. Then I have to dash around looking for a
charged battery to put in, and hope the guy I was talking with is
still there.

With the ENORMOUS number of features this radio came with, of which I
only use a small percentage, surely they could have included a feature
to send an audible set of beeps when it's battery is near the end.

Has anyone else had this reaction? Surely I'm not the only one with
this beef. More important, has anyone out there figured out how to
modify it to allow some audible beeps at low battery? Surely Yaesu
can do this if they want to, all my portable telephones have such a
feature, telling you when its batteries are about to fail. How about
it - Yaesu?

73,

Mac, W4PFZ

Sounds like you got all the bells and whistles, but they just ran short of
beeps :-)

Maybe it was made on the friday afternoon of a 3 day weekend??

"Olin K. McDaniel" wrote in message
...
I may be making too much of this, but this little HT is the greatest -
EXCEPT for one thing. It has left me with a dead battery too darn
many times, just when it was very undesirable. If I'm involved in
doing something else, and waiting on someone to call me, and the
battery chooses then to go dead - I never know I missed the call.

That's just one example. It goes dead right in the middle of my
transmissions sometimes, WITHOUT WARNING. I find myself with a dead
radio when I let up the transmit button, and never know how much of
the transmission got sent. Then I have to dash around looking for a
charged battery to put in, and hope the guy I was talking with is
still there.

With the ENORMOUS number of features this radio came with, of which I
only use a small percentage, surely they could have included a feature
to send an audible set of beeps when it's battery is near the end.

Has anyone else had this reaction? Surely I'm not the only one with
this beef. More important, has anyone out there figured out how to
modify it to allow some audible beeps at low battery? Surely Yaesu
can do this if they want to, all my portable telephones have such a
feature, telling you when its batteries are about to fail. How about
it - Yaesu?

73,

Mac, W4PFZ

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:49:40 GMT, (Olin
K. McDaniel) wrote:
It goes dead right in the middle of my
transmissions sometimes, WITHOUT WARNING.

According to p. 10 of the Owner's Manual, it i supposed to show a "low
voltage icon" when it is time to recharge. For the Li-Ion battery, it
shows four different icons, depending on voltage.

Accoridng to p. 68 of the manual, you can monitor the actual voltage
of the battery

Ken KC2JDY

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:40:33 -0500, Ken C
wrote:

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:49:40 GMT, (Olin
K. McDaniel) wrote:
It goes dead right in the middle of my
transmissions sometimes, WITHOUT WARNING.

According to p. 10 of the Owner's Manual, it i supposed to show a "low
voltage icon" when it is time to recharge. For the Li-Ion battery, it
shows four different icons, depending on voltage.

Accoridng to p. 68 of the manual, you can monitor the actual voltage
of the battery

Ken KC2JDY



No dispute with either of those, BUT they are about as useful as the
classical "tits on a bull", though. If I have the radio in the clip
on my belt, and am busy doing other things while waiting for someone
to call, it might be dead for an hour or two before I think to look at
the display. Furthermore, the voltage reading is ONLY given if there
is only ONE line occupied with a frequency setup. And with it being a
dual band rig, which is what I bought it for, then I cannot see the
voltage when using it for dual band operation. Likewise the Icon of
the tiny, tiny battery emblem when set for dual band operation is
almost invisible to the eye.

Bottom line - it is very poorly configured for keeping on top of the
battery status. Otherwise, a very good, but much "uselessly over
featured" radio.

A simple beep like those on my several portable telephones is all it
needs. It has other beeps, for features I'll never use, why not for
this? I suspect if enough people complain, Yaesu can issue a mod to
the software to provide this very needed feature.

Mac, W4PFZ