Yaesu FTM-400D

Rt169Radio · #1 (**permalink**) 09-05-2012, 8:56 AM

Am not sure if anyone has posted about this yet,but it looks like Yaesu is coming out with a new mobile radio.

Yaesu FTM-400D, Yaesu FTM400D Mobile Transceiver

I tried to find that radio on the Yaesu website but it seems to be not listed.

MOONBOOTS · #2 (**permalink**) 09-05-2012, 9:08 AM

They don't usually list new radios until they are available for sale. This way they can get rid of all the lousy 350 radios. Otherwise, if they announced the new 400, people would wait for them, & quit buying the 350, & be stuck with a bunch of them. GARY

W8RMH · #3 (**permalink**) 09-06-2012, 1:15 AM

Yaesu FTM-400D released at the Amateur Radio Festival in Tokyo, supposed to be released in the US in November, 2012 pending FCC approval.

2 meter/440 MHz, 50W, C4FM FDMA, GPS, APRS (1200/9600bps), Micro SD, Rx 108-990MHz, mobile version of the Yaesu FT-1DR.

There are US suppliers taking reservations. Yaesu FTM-400D Video

The Yaesu FTM-400D has NOT been approved by the FCC for sale and this is not an offer or advertisement to sell this radio.

k2radio · #4 (**permalink**) 11-20-2012, 4:01 PM

Is Icom annoyed with this ?Looks like a IC-2820H to me,except no dstar.I think its butt-ugly,great going Yaesu!No P25? Not Dstar ?Who ya gonna talk to?

KC2OBW · #5 (**permalink**) 12-31-2012, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by k2radio

Is Icom annoyed with this ?Looks like a IC-2820H to me,except no dstar.I think its butt-ugly,great going Yaesu!No P25? Not Dstar ?Who ya gonna talk to?

You won't see Dstar in any other radio besides Ham Icom digital radios.

kayn1n32008 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-31-2012, 12:48 PM

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Sadly where I live the only digital game in town IS D-Star. Sadly I can not afford to put up a DMR or NXDN repeater. If someone put one up I would jump in with both feet. Yeasu digital? Not a chance. Not compatable with anything and zero infrastructure? I will pass thankyou very much

KA2ZEY · #7 (**permalink**) 12-31-2012, 2:05 PM

Do these guys (Yaesu) actually talk to ham operators? This is a horrible idea. Is it really difficult to make a multi digital mode transceiver?

kayn1n32008 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-31-2012, 7:20 PM

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Originally Posted by KA2ZEY

Do these guys (Yaesu) actually talk to ham operators? This is a horrible idea. Is it really difficult to make a multi digital mode transceiver?

From this digital format, compatible with nothing, with out any infrastructure, and nothing on the horizon? I am guessing they have their heads buried in the sand.

W5JER · #9 (**permalink**) 01-02-2013, 1:00 PM

It's visually appealing but that's about it to me.

newsphotog · #10 (**permalink**) 01-05-2013, 2:00 PM

I think the design is an atrocity. The color screen just doesn't do it for me. And the items on the screen are uninspired, the font looks like it was just translated from their Japanese version. Just because it's a color screen doesn't mean they should find reasons to add a purple background, shiny-looking on-screen buttons, and colorized S-meters, and whatever other icons they have. It's unusually-shaped for a mobile rig, and compared to the hand mic, the display actually looks small to me.

MTS2000des · #11 (**permalink**) 01-06-2013, 3:30 AM

It's a big control head that doesn't fit well in today's modern cars. I'd personally like to see a radio with a smaller control head, that you can actually flush mount. At least they moved the microphone connector off of the control head.

But with the unknown proprietary digital mode, no 7.5KHz tuning steps, I think I'll pass on this one.