The FT-4XR uses the same RDA1849S "transceiver on a chip" that is used by many of the cheap Chinese HTs, along with the RDA5802 chip for the broadcast FM receiver. Yaesu didn't simply rebadge Baofengs, but the FT-4XR could be characterized as what a Baofeng radio could have been, if the UV-5R types had been made better. The Chinese radio industry appears to have thousands of male SMA PCB-mount connectors in the pipeline and it might have cost Yaesu a few pennies more to specify a female SMA connector.Īgreed. My assumption is that Yaesu is sub-contracting the production of the FT-65 and FT-4X to a Chinese manufacturer (not just re-badging an existing Chinese radio). Yaesu's engineers and production planners were influenced by the preponderance of male SMA PCB-mount connectors on radios made in China. As has been noted above, the recent trend in commercial radios is to have a male SMA in the body of the radio. Yaesu's engineers and designers were influenced by the knowledge they gained while Yaesu was owned by Motorola Solutions. My assumption is that two factors may be at work: 1. It's noteworthy that the Anytone AT-3208UV, also a "cheap Chinese radio", doesn't have the spurious emissions that the Baofengs I've tested have. It does not program like a Baofeng and it does not have the transmitter spurious emissions that a Baofeng UV-5R, UV-5X3, or BF-8HP have. Click to expand.I cannot speak to the Yaesu FT-65 which the OP is comparing to, but I own and have tested a Yaesu FT-4XR.
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