Thanks a lot.  Maybe I will consider one some time.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan B Dyer Jr,/Danny" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: portable battery pack for ft817nd


> Hi Jerry, as a matter of fact, there is! a little indirect though it may 
> be.
> Simplest way is using a current model Millenium QSYer, you order it with, 
> or
> if you already have one, which it seems to me you may, to use with an Icom
> rig you have? don't you?  Anyway, John ships the qsyers with choice of a
> yaesu, Icom, and or, I think a cord to work with some Kenwood radios.  The
> qsyer gives you, with the 817, direct read out of frequency, and mode. 
> (the
> qsyer uses a 9volt battery, but with its' being plugged into the same port
> into which you'd plug a computer,
> it powers itself from the rig, since any time any cord is plugged into the
> port, a little power is used.
>
> *another way you can use, is to program the freqs you most use, into
> memories/there are 200 plus the already programmed sixty meter 
> channels,/the
> channel 3 can be updated using a program called chirp, (not sure whether
> Yaesu will change the freq in the new models, but they haven't yet. 
> Anyhow,
> set up your mems with FM, AM, SW broadcast station, or birdy markers, then
> block the A B and C buttons, and if you have the radio like you want it, 
> the
> function button as well, and away you go.  Actually, the british keypad
> equivalent to the qsyer, allows you to store and call up, I think it is
> forty memories from the keypad itself, although you don't have cw read out
> with that keypad.  There is, I understand, an Italian fellow, who kits, 
> and
> I believe will construct one for those who don't want to build, a keypad
> which gives both CW read out, and memory management.  (The qsyers are $50 
> or
> so for a blind hams' first one, the brit keypad's about $140, and I'm not
> sure how Paulo gets for his, although he's onh the ft817 Reflector, and I
> can find out if you like.  (never had any of them but the qsyer, but that
> has pretty much sufficed.  If you want to talk further by phone, I'm more
> than willing to, but I gotta run for now.  Work 7A-4P tomorrow, and I've 
> got
> some more to do before then.  *******As always, Yaesu's not very 
> accessible
> so far, but _Nobody else makes a rig that little that covers that much, 
> will
> fit in a suit coat pocket if desired, and will do as much as well for as
> little cost as the 817.  *Not perfect, but pretty cottonpickin neat if you
> can work with the workarounds---and I'm not selling them, it was a 
> love-hate
> relationship for me until I got someone to make a guard to keep the AB&C
> buttons and the func button away from inadvertent pushes/went through four
> or five of them before finally getting and keeping one/bought this one in
> late 2007, and for what it is, I really like it! HTH, Danny. inal
> Message ----- 
> From: "Gerry Leary" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: portable battery pack for ft817nd
>
>
>> is there any way that you can read the frequency?
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Dan B Dyer Jr,/Danny" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: portable battery pack for ft817nd
>>
>>
>>> Hi Richard, don't have a direct answer to your question, but congrats on
>>> the
>>> ft817ND, I've had several, and am more than willing to share possible
>>> work
>>> arounds and solutions. I live in GA,/Eastern Daylight/or standard time
>>> zone,
>>> and if you wish, we can talk by phone.  Email me off list, and we can go
>>> from there.  Sincerely, Danny Dyer, Wb4idu.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "richard watson" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:24 PM
>>> Subject: portable battery pack for ft817nd
>>>
>>>
>>>> Good afternoon,
>>>> I just purchased an ft817nd. does anyone have any good suggestions for
>>>> a portable battery pack. I will be using this as my base station. for
>>>> now I am going to use a miracle ducker tl as soon as it arrives due to
>>>> antenna restrictions.
>>>> I would like a battery that has descent connectors maybe a cigarette
>>>> liter
>>>> plug.
>>>> thanks and 73 - n3gms