New Yaesu Radio: FTdx5000MP

It’s here, the new FTdx5000MP rig, spotted as an advertisement in QST this morning in the USA.

This author will be very interested to see the specs and look at the costings. Clearly, it’ll be fitting in betwen the FT2000 and the FT9000 series, but exactly where is anyone’s guess. 4 antenna jacks and a Class A button mean it’s probably got proper diversity reception potential as well as a 200W PA. I hope there’s a 100W version since I work amplified and don’t need the extra power of a 200W radio.

What will be funny, is to find out that the advert was accidentally launched to QST and that it should have gone out at the end of Q1 next year! However it’s unlikely.

A Yahoo group has already been formed. A copy of the advert is there.