What have done towards your prep?

[Lightspeed]

So much for waiting until my nights next week to get to know my new transceiver , been fiddling all morning , I can operate it now after a fashion , still has loads of functions I fear I don't really understand and may never use , spent the morning monitoring a private fire and rescue service running a couple of exercises , thought it was the Airfield/Aviation factory about 4 miles away at first until they exited the site and name checked a road on air and I realised it was at the bnfl facility about 7 miles away , quite impressed with the range on the stock aerial , I'm wondering now if I've wasted my money on the upgrade(not arrived yet , suppose the proof will be in the tx ing)

If time permits I'll download the manual for your radio to see what programming options you have. I'll let you know which functions are worth learning and why.

Stock antenna will be quite good on a Yaesu, but we don't know how much power and what antennas were being used by the folk you were listening to. ( BTW what frequency were they on ?)

What upgrade antenna did you purchase?

questions questions questions!