I have mostly given up on amateur radio anyway, so my tolerance threshold has become pretty low when it comes to putting up with certain things in a mobile installation. I literally had the 857 set up so I never had to look at the radio while driving. I used to run an FT-857 in the mobile, and it was much easier to deal with in a mobile setting. In my opinion, the menu system is too cumbersome for mobile ops. While I think it is a good value for under $600, it is not an ideal mobile radio. Yaesu’s recent history with firmware updates makes me hesitant to do any mod that is not well documented. It’s been a while since I saw the inside of his radio, so I don’t remember what exactly was different (may have been no shorted pads from the factory ?), but due to Yaesu changing something in there, I did not do the mod as I didn’t know what the outcome would be (especially when dealing with someone else’s radio). I have a friend who bought an 891 in 2019 and when I went to do the mod, the arrangement of shorted pads from the factory was different from the photos online. I had bought my 891 within a year of the radio being released (and got hosed by Yaesu when they dropped the price, as they always do).
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