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hello and welcome to ham radio comm some IDI and when you HF and today I'm going to go over the initial settings on this radio the FT 891 Yaesu that I want to set up all the initial parameters first I think it's a really good idea to set certain things up for comfort and operating the radio and to reduce the power so you don't make a mistake when you're hooking up the antenna for their first time if the SWR is incorrect so a few things like that I think are necessary I think it's a really good idea to go through for the and change the initial settings so we're gonna go through that right now I'm not going to go through every menu settings that would take hours for all the different settings but just the initial setup that you want to do when you get the FD 891 or for that matter any similar radio it would be the same very similar procedure on setting things up sorry let's get right to it we're going to start at the very beginning the menu is set up with 0 1 0 1 is the first one and as you see there's going to be different I call them chapters and pages I know another youtuber calls them books and chapters and I like chapters and pages chapter 1 page 1 for instance and then so this is the select knob here and here you would move up and down as you turn this knob right here which is below the volume knob and then all you do is just push it in to highlight it and then you can turn it and change the settings all right so the AGC I'm not going to touch right now but the first thing is the LCD contrast so you want to make this comfortable to view so you push it in and as you can see it's changing the contrast from white out all the way to too dark I like to do it where the background starts to turn dark and it gives it a nice contrast so it's usually for me 7 or 8 so what do you wait for now and there's the dimmer backlit it's really supposed to be backlight you know and this is the all the the lights that's on the buttons so if you look at the buttons below the display you'll see them getting brighter and darker so if you're always in a dark environment you make it lighter if you're in a light environment off and you make it the brighter and so I don't want to use a lot of battery power it's gonna be for portable so I'm gonna put it right in the middle right around 8 push it in to deselect it and move on dimmer LCD so this is just the brightness of the actual one itself and again it depends on your operating environment so I'm gonna put it right around 7 the dimmer seems a bit busy that's this light right here that comes on when you're receiving or transmitting so that one there you'll see right now it's gonna you can't see it unfortunately right now this is going to turn brighter and lighter so we'll do that's for the transmitted we'll do 7 right in the middle like they had it let me keep going until I find stuff that makes sense as you can see up here it's chapter 4 page 3 beacon interview that's so the beacon is this radio will act as a beacon so if you were gonna become part of the beacon network for 28 megahertz or 50 megahertz which is you know 10 and 6 meters and you want to have a permanent beacon set up you don't have to be around this will send off beacons and you could do that I'm not going to do that now CW operator you can come back and do those noise playing carry the beep level is something most of these things are going to be organ amah canned and ease-of-use things and safety issues so you want to do right away so the beep level as you can hear it goes up to 100 and I don't like loud beep so I turn it right down to 5 just so I know I'm hitting the button but not enough to bother me and there it is very soft and here it is at 40 you know you go over 200 pretty loud yeah maybe 10 yeah that's good I get to hear that and here's the RF and squelch choices and there's the so if you had squelch and there is the indicator by the way if you had squelch gonna use that if you can use repeaters a lot so if you're going to be on this will do repeater so for 28 megahertz and 50 megahertz 6 and 10 meters you can do repeaters there's not many of those around anymore but if you were going to use those you you're better off keeping it on squelch it'll be quiet until you hear a signal otherwise for HF you really want to do RF cat rate that's our beacon to use it to control thing you know you're gonna control the radio of other things you want to use the cat rate but we're gonna skip that for now a lot of these you're gonna go back in once you're setting up some kind of equipment with it we're not going to do that right now here we go transmit timeout timer let's say that you're sitting on your microphone in the car is something like that you could be transmitting not even know it so you wanted you really wanted to shut off automatically after a certain amount of time you're not gonna talk that long so I usually turn this on and it can go up to let's see how far goes 30 minutes that's a lot of transmit non-stop isn't it you could burn out your radio that way why you should do five minutes I'm not going to talk more in five minutes straight and if I'm sitting on the microphone or somehow reason is transmitting it'll shut off automatically so we'll do that five minutes this is very similar automatic power off if you forget your radios on you walk away it could be on portable power it could be in your car and the car is not running you don't want to drain your battery so it's good to have the radio show it off after a while why have it the cooking there if you're not gonna be using it if you're gonna be walking around the house you want it on that's fine but I still what I do is I turn it it goes up to 12 hours I usually put it on I don't know to four hours something like that I'm gonna do four hours in the four hours it will shut off being controlled normal or a contest if you're gonna do contests with with this radio then the fan well I think the fan is running all the time but we're gonna we're gonna do normal it comes on when you're transmitting once you get into like AM cuts that's when you're really getting to the radio later on after you use it for a while you're gonna play with those things but for now the initial again we're going to do just the things that we need let's see what else we should do here the FM mic select an FM out level doesn't that's all not power out those are levels for the mic on and so forth and you want to change us once you're doing other things [Music] same issue oh here we go this one's really cool the single sideband transmit bandwidth this is really cool you could change the transmit bandwidth I like that about the 857 897 uses as well except you have to buy separate filters and not only do those filters work on they see but a lot of people don't realize you could change settings in those radios in this radio as well to change the bandwidth that you're transmitting to make your voice sound better if you're trying to reach DX stations it's better to have a little bit narrower a bandwidth so for instance let's see like 300 to 2700 that's a little bit more narrow that's a 2400 bandwidth that's perfect for a little more punch to get longer distance but if you're gonna do rag choose on 40 meter nuts or something like that you're gonna do and vis 3 400 miles I like to do a bigger bandwidth so let's see what we have here 103 thousand that's a 2900 bandwidth so something like that maybe this one here 2800 here's a 2600 bandwidth I'm gonna leave that right there 26 that's a nice compromise between the two for having a good bandwidth but yet reaching out so that's one of the ones I do right away am dial step I'm gonna change that for myself it gives the idea the kind of things if you know you want right away and this is one of them I like listening to long distance am broadcast stations at night on one of my long wire antennas I moved from a location that a 150 foot long wire man I really picked up I was up on the hill too and I really picked up some really good AM stations and I halfway across the country I'm on the East Coast and I'm picking up from Chicago Baltimore everywhere and then it's just a lot of fun I like it Walker I know I'm working around the house I listen to am late at night sometimes and you see it's amazing how far you can get a medium wave except it takes forever spinning the dial to get to the different stations so I'm going to change us right now to the max which is 100 100 dial step and this way it's easier to get through the get through the stations equalizes will play with another time and here we go here's the power outputs you really want to change these if your portable especially but when you first get a radio and you're hooking up different antennas if you're not sure what the SWR is you'll want to be pumping full hundred watts into like a nine to one or some or even worse antenna alright if you have a open you don't want to stress your your finals so each of single sideband power i like to knock it down right to twenty five for safety and i could change that once i'm all set up with the antennas and stuff again this is the initial setup so let's do 25 and that's good for porn about be running at 25 watts reportable I'll be going out this summer am power is twenty haight that's the max AM is the mag so again that's too high so I'm gonna backed out down to ten an HF power and that's gonna be the power out on other than single sideband or am so CW and our TTY other digital modes and so forth so HF power we're gonna knock that down to twenty five as well for now beginning digital you don't want to run 100 watts anyway they have a separate power up a settings for the 15 meter 6 meter band and this is especially dangerous because you're looking at especially like on the digital modes and CW you're looking at a hundred watts of power out on an FM for instance which is a a full duty mode at 100 watts is 6 meters which is a VHF that's not good for your finals to talk long and then a hundred watts so we're gonna knock that right down the 25 just you really want to do this I highly recommend it on any radio a.m. power again this is on the max let's knock that down the time pick whatever setting then the single sideband 50 meters that's gonna be an opening that's gonna be really rare so I'm gonna knock that down right to 25 we could always change that later very easy right single side in my cane I'll leave it at the default but this is something going to be changing right away as well because you want to use the ALC talk into a microphone normally and you want to set the the mic gain so that the ALC is at the proper location we can't do that now we're not set up with our dummy load and things like that so that is gonna stay until we look at the ALC and talking to the radio same thing with the am mic gain FM I can all the same issue you want to use the ALC same with the rest all of these the daily gain is when you use if you're gonna use a data mode you're gonna be setting those tuners left I'm hooking up a tuna to this right away it's gonna be z11 pro 2 and that's gonna be my tuner and that one so we're gonna set that up now I'll have to go back in in a few minutes my hook everything together off external external is gonna be an external tuner whether it's the FC 50 that you can buy for this or any other aftermarket ones but they have to be FC 40ft C 50 compatible I think FC 30 doesn't work on this radio most of the newer ldg generic or other tuners are going to be FC 40 compatible and the same with MFJ tuners which are very fast very nice if you if you find a good one doesn't have a problem they work really well so that's for the external going through the accessory the actually the din port and the a test is the a pass system that HD makes automatic tuners that work at the dare they work at the antenna location not in the shack layup is when I'm putting it on it says lamp but it really stands for linear amplifier and that's gonna go through a different jack in the back when I show the video on hooking up the tuner you'll see that the the jack that that uses for the Amplatz the same switching output in the back for using an amplifier so if you have if you're gonna use a linear amp or something it would also be lamp you can use Vox you do that if you have a Vox microphone you're using right away then you would be changing that while you're in here Risa I always doing a reset when I first get the radio I just did that that's why I'm doing all the settings right now so the factory has factory reset and you could do different versions with all the memories or not while you're in here you want to write these down the main version this is the firmware version of the radio you have the main version of the SP version an LCD version different firmware updates for the different parts of the radio we have 0 1 - 0 7 and for the DSP you can see those settings as well and those are going to be checked and those are the most recent versions of the software and that's it we're at the end so all you do is hit the F key to get back into the main part of the radio and that's it so that's um that's what I like to change they're very beginning to make the radio safe and easy to use and then you're going to be going in to make changes for the frequency steps when you turn the dial and all those things you just saw in there know that's going to be for another time if I do a video on now but probably not they're just so much on all the different ones you would just look in the manual and see what settings you should use I'm gonna wrap up the video there thanks so much for watching ham radio comms please like and subscribe I'm making videos all the time on my hammer ideo adventures I just did moon bounce this year so I'll be doing more of that which is really exciting but stay tuned next time and I hope you come back and we'll see you soon 73 is from n1 UHF and ham radio comms take care