inputs.text: good replacehement radio yaesu ft8500 dies - good replacement radio yaesu ft8500 dies tempramental cheap heat thief gets not thousand dollars lost one thing hate scanning squelch opens full volume 1 second makes god aweful loud noise settling volume receive audio one peeve withthe separation kit mic plugs remote head yaesu still run mic radio mount remote display rearview mirror besides realy yaesu ft8800 copy dsp chinese decent fnunctional wouldnt get real attached like icoms kenwoods stay side inthe cool air conditioning expensive equipment supposed power advertized close old yaesu ft8500 dropping 10w max amp sections deteriorated get programming cable dont cheap takes 4 hours program set alpha tags 20 repeaters accidentally rest radio start plus free tyt software store edit profile easily ft8500 side memory bands partitioned 5 groupd 800 channels available side rig nothing skip flag scanning scanning dedicating one band per side memory bands not going happen scan one side sscan 800 channels minus skip channels no banks organize memory ugh