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You won't need a 1200 if you have a 847 unless you have plans for to put one away for a Spair.

No , I have no rig at the moment.. looking to buy one .. wanted advice on both these rigs . I believe you have a 1200 ? Any advice would be great 😉

Yeah nice radio,screen very informative and the filters are cool also a fue options for it also which make operating cw easy and the voice board helps for contest work. Personally the 847 dosent do it for me but that's just my opinion. Good luck in your quest for a radio .

Thanks , my head is bursting with all the info on these sets , I like the option of the FFT board for CW

Yeah I have it good luck .

Thanks

Billy, I just sold my FT847. Bought a Kenwood TS590SG in its place. 847 is a decent enough rig for providing all bands/all modes up to 70cm, but it's not a great HF radio. I had an additional SSB filter and even with that in line it still wasn't great. There is a roofing filter mod that really brings it up to spec, but it's expensive and not easy to install. In the end I just left it and went for a good spec HF radio, as I have enough other gear to get me on VHF anyway. The Yaesu ft1200 is a newer rig. Never used one but spec wise it appears decent. It's little brother - the FT450 - was used by T31C. They were standby rigs as the shipping container failed to turn up in time for their expedition. And they still managed to smash the world record for qso's made by a dx-pedition. Happy hunting.