{"id":287,"date":"2025-02-10T14:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/?p=287"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:07:51","slug":"atu-yaesu-fc-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"ATU Yaesu FC 20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst I had a nice radio in the shack, I looked at the schematics of the FTDX10 and FC 20. Looking at the data cable pin out\/in, I noticed that they were the same. I made a control cable of 15Ft as I had placed the FC 20 at the other end of the workshop to where my vertical was fitted outside by the door. Using an 49:1 unun to my end fed aerial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Setting the FTDX10 to use the EXT Tuner, when I tried to tune up on the band, I could hear the FC 20 trying to match. I found that the radio found it was hard to get the SWR low. (I know the FC 20 was used with my FT847!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had to revert to my MFJ-971 Portable Tuner to allow me to use the new radio in the short term on the bands. This had a deep null when tuning and made setting up each band awkward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did try to use the FTDX10 internal tuner but again could not get SWR low enough for the EFHW Multi-band Inverted L<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More to come&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst I had a nice radio in the shack, I looked at the schematics of the FTDX10 and FC 20. Looking at the data cable pin out\/in, I noticed that they were the same. I made a control cable of 15Ft as I had placed the FC 20 at the other end of the workshop &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/?p=287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ATU Yaesu FC 20.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.g1sqb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}