Hi Don: 

I purchased the set from HRO in the states. I also had to purchase a USB to serial adapter plus two audio cable from radio shack.  Your right about Yaesu panel not bring removable, so I had to connect my mic, paddles,and speaker to one of the remote rig boxes at the apartment.  I simply used HRD To announce the Freq, S9 mode, and direct freq access.  This made 0 beating no issue.  Simply tapping the up or down arrow allowed fine tuning.  I'm not sure how HRO's tech support team will help as I dealt with the remote rig team directly through e-mail and their forum.  Again, they were very helpful and responded promptly to my questions.  If your running a Kenwood TS 480 or other rig that has a separation kit, you can simply connect this kit to the controlling remote rig box and you will get complete radio access.  

My dream transceiver is the Yaesu ft102 the daddy of the FT1000D.  This was yaseu's top of the line rig in 1983.  
HTH and 73: 
Mike VO1AX


> On Mar 6, 2014, at 7:48 AM, "Don Breda" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Did you buy the setup directly from their wesite or did you find a
> dealer?  I ask in case I would need some telephone tech support.
> 
> How did you find  tuning the radio on sideband, could you really
> zerobeat so to speak and was it easy?
> 
> I never found hrd to be very accessible or easy to use and the newer
> versions I don't know about because they are paid versions now.
> 
> I guess because the front panel of the yaesu was not removable like the
> ts480 that you used hrd to control it but plugged your mic in to the
> actual remote rig box using it to handle the audio instead of the pc.
> 
> I asume their pc client merely handles the digital protocols but has
> nothing in the way of a front panel radio interface.
> 
> Can you comment?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Oh and P.S. can't help but ask, what was your dream transceiver?
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Don Breda <[log in to unmask]>