I cannot say how much I appreciate Doug and his many videos on the FTdx10. It's what jump-started me when I bought this radio. So, thank you DOUG! And, thank you JASON for hosting Doug. I paid close attention to the entire video. KK5DON
Doug is a fantastic resource for FTDX-10 owners/operators and HAM radio in general. In fact, I do not even have my license and yet I have been binge watching his videos for the past few weeks. I figured that the Yaesu FTDX-10 would be the _perfect_ 'one and done' rig. It would also happen to be my only radio for the foreseeable future as I have no plans on setting up an entire shack. My wife and I merely want a corner of our new home to be designated for our radio(s). (Plural because we have the ubiquitous FT-60 HT's as well). Not to mention, it [FTDX-10] seems to be the _only_ newer radio that is currently in-stock at all the major retail outlets. I grow tired of waiting for the 7300 and/or the 991A. Like I have premised before and elsewhere. I like to explore these radios strictly on the RX end before I even consider taking my test(s). This often rubs people the wrong way who _insist_ that I acquire the proper licensing *before* purchasing any radios. I surmise these are the same people who do not believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or due process. We call them Fudds in the 2A community but I digress. My favorite analogical reply is simply - "You do not need a drivers license to build your own hot rod." Normally, I loathe collaborations regardless of which community we are referring too. However, I have to say (in this instance) that I truly appreciate this video. I can honestly say that there is not a single video that Doug (N4HNH) produces where I walk away without learning something. He is a great teacher and I hope he continues to reach more people. Stay classy my friends.
This video needs more views. N4HNH's explanations are nearly as good and clear as Rob Sherwood's. This should be plastered all over QRZ and force fed to the multitudes of ignorant elitists that propagate that site and don't understand adjusting receive audio, and that say that almost every radio ever made is 'noisy'. This video is so underrated. Please do a Receiver Deep Dive on the Icom 7300!
Thanks Jason was well worth a watch!!! Dougs videos have helped me loads setting up my ftdx10,ftdx101d,ftdx5000 and most recently my ft891:) his knowledge and videos are great 👍
Jason, thank you for hosting this celebrity presentation aboard HAM RADIO 2.0👏 My sincerest appreciation for Doug's N4HNH learned deep dives into the FTdx10 operation modes. I dare say that I would have never gleaned one-hundredth of the knowledge found in this video from the manual. 🎤🎧📻🗼🗺... 73 to all from a proud FTdx10 owner/operator/student, Rex KC5AGO, Stonewall, Central Texas Hill Country.
Great video. Doug also does an excellent job on how to adjust all the settings from attenuation and RF amps to shift, width, notch etc. I’ve learned a lot from him, so check out his channel. What he shares can be applied to any modern radio.
Love this video, Jason! I've watched it a few times already since you first published it. Doug is always chock-full of great information born of experience. I do hope you're planning to do a version on TX with Doug as well. Cheers!
I cannot believe that this is the ONLY tutorial on RUclips for the FTDX-10, especially as there is a million for the IC-7300 (Slight Exaggeration), Great Video, I just wish it was longer and more indepth, some bits were not in depth enough and a bit missed, please do a series of videos on every single option and button available.
Thanks Jason & Doug, this is great info. I have an ft-991a and this helped me with that (I will certainly go watch Doug's videos on it). I have now convinced myself that I want/need the FTDX-10, was at HRO last week and almost pulled the trigger but the YL was with and said no. Not sure yet how to convince her, lol.
@Spike S more like "begging" for forgiveness, LOL. My birthday is coming up soon, so I'm patiently waiting to see what happens. If I don't get one, then I'll probably pull the trigger.
IPO has been in Yaesu radios for years and it is very effective. Operators simply do not read their radio manuals fully before using them. You still see videos on youtube where people are showing their radios with s9 noise yet their radios are not showing their IPO on especially on frequencies below 14mhz.
it really helps to plan out videos and what you're gonna do. I have to think you can do this in like 1/2 the time. You get to a control and just spend way too much with descriptors. Look, I'm damn glad you're around to do there but I find my self fast forwarding everytime he says, "my personal preference is: xxx."
I'm waiting for a (hopeful) Memorial day Sale and going to get an FTDX10. My IC-7300 may become a POTA/Field Day box. Thanks for this video to help me get the most out of it quickly.
Being an audio engineer and a broadcast engineer I must suggest a correction. The filtering in the audio section as shown is in fact a "CUT" not a "SHELF". If it was a shelf filter you would only have a DB adjustment as opposed to a DB per octave adjustment. He properly stated the filter "SKIRT" slope changed. A skirt and a shelf filter are mutually exclusive. I am personally lusting for a FTDX10.
Great video , I have a old ft 840 no IPO I believe the pre amp is always on , att helps , I would never run my ft 950 when on 40/80/160 with out the IPO selected , thanks again for video , im very tempted with a ftdx 10
The first thing you do is turn off that great high sensitivity reciever preamp... that you dream off being to use in an RFI free environment. Then turn down the RF gain to all but kill the noise. Its QRP 101. :)
So I feel like I did learn a lot, but I also feel like we spent 40min talking about how to make your radio as narrow as possible for CW purposes. Not how to set up your radio to sound good anywhere else.
Remember it's most likely if a rare DX is in the noise floor and you barely pick him out using noise canceling tools it's highly unlikely he will ever respond back as it does not improve your transmit quality. The antenna, amplifier and microphone is where you should invest in.
it is a bit wrong to say that sloping 6db/oct will help noise floor - what I think is better is if you use DNR is to leave entire range so the cleaning sounds better and not muffled - so no its not helping the noise floor directly but maybe as perception - Also it depends on the speakers response freq and other factors - I think default is better if you use Noise Reduction. But I understand what he was saying. I am considering this radio it is really good price for what it delivers.
Great video. Had my FTdx-10 about a month now and some of these tips will really help with my noise floor. Thanks!! I love this radio. Maybe see you in Huntsville? K5FIT
If someone is in the noise or way above it i would let them know just to give them an idea of a poor sounding signal or a very loud clear signal then they can make adjustments according.
Great video. I have a microphone question. Can you use and older mic. like a Yaesu MD-100 with FTdx10? I have one and was hoping it would be compatible. The pinout looks like it would or do you have any recommendations for a desk microphone for this transceiver. Thanks for doing all the FTdx10 videos. Very informative.
By "shelving" regarding high cut and low cut, these are actually low pass and high pass filters respectively with selectable slopes, either 6dB or 18dB per octave. There are not shelving filters.
IPO on is not quite the same as pre-amp off! On the FTdx-5000 there are 2 different IPO settings. The RF path into the receiver differs with IPO on from just not having a pre-amp on as can be seen on the 5000. Also IPO has been around for a long time, way before SDR radios.
Great video. I have a FT DX-10 and I did all the tweaks recommended BUT I can't tell much of a difference in how the receiver sounds or any change in the noise level. So maybe if you are an audio engineer, these settings are useful but for average ham, it's just some more gadgets that Yaesu has come up with for the marketing department to use. Yaesu it seems, makes a habit of making everything as complicated as possible. Having a parametric equalizer on a HF radio is over the top AND hard to set properly. I love the radio but I think a lot of the choices and settings are a waste for an appliance operator that just wants to work some DX and rag chew. Maybe if I ever become more technically competent, I will appreciate it more, but for the average ham its overkill.
I like Doug and he is smart, but his audio setting are horrible. I've done exactly as he says and literally people have asked me why I sounded so bad. When I opened up the band width and added a little bass the reports all came back that I was better understood.
Suggest Not using IPO amp 1 or 2 below 18mhz. rx is already hot,having ipo on = allot more rx noise.. 20 40 60 80 160m is usually noisey.and need some attenuation..
Nikdy jsem nemyslel, že DX10 je tak dobrá dokud jsem jí sám nevyzkoušel na stole proti svému Icom v náročných podmínkách rušení a slabém signálu. Icom neměl žádnou šanci slyšet ten signál srozumitelně. V případě Yaesu se mi povedlo po pár minutách díky spoustě nástrojům signál převést ve srozumitelnou podobu. Vážně uvažuji, že i přestože má Icom hezčí podání signálu na display o zakoupení Yaesu kde se display úplně nepovedl podle mě, nemá poměrování atd. 73! PEACE !!
Bad news or ? Yaesu FTDX 101D and FTDX 10 do not use SDR receiver for RX to speaker It have SDR receiver but it is only use for the display spectrum. It have IF on 9 Mhz SDR have no IF :) SDR receiver do not have roofing filter :) SDR receiver do not have VC-TUNE as there do not have IF :þ SDR receiver is direct sampling . FTDX 101D is not direct sampling receiver or Transmitter. Kenwood TS-890S is the same as FTDX 101D, it is hybrid . Kenwood told me there use the best from old and new time for there TS 890S Again FTDX 101D is not SDR receiver, but it have SDR receiver for the spectrum display Both Yaesu FTDX 101D and Kenwood TS 890S are Hybrid SDR I would learn more about the radio before I start give it a report.
The Down Conversion type receiver construction is similar to the FTDX5000. The first IF frequency is 9 MHz, and a low noise figure dual gate MOS FET, D-quad DBM (Double Balanced Mixer) with excellent intermodulation characteristics, is implemented in the mixer section. Narrow band SDR configuration makes it possible to use the narrow bandwidth crystal roofing filters that have the sharp shape factor. This achieves the amazing multi-signal receiving performance when confronted with the most challenging on-the-air interference situations.
"SDR receiver is direct sampling." No. :-) - Any radio is a Software Defined Radio if its modulation or demodulation is done by software (after an A/D conversion). - A Direct Conversion radio has really no IF, but it can be analog (synchrodyne radio, a nice adventure) or digital. - The SDR is a wider concept, it can be a hybrid with analog mixers but with A/D conversion and DSP at the opposite end to the antenna. - It would be better to call Direct Conversion radios to DDC/DUC, Digital Down Conversion/Digital Up Conversion radios here, but it is too long... Anyway, it is a subset of the SDR's. So an SDR just _can be_ a DDC/DUC radio. Providing a waterfall display also needs a DDC receiver as you say, but in these radios they are connected to the output of an IF stage of an analog or hybrid radio before the physical filters, therefore they work only on one band at a time (determined by the band pass filtering). Also, the first intermediate frequency of an analog superheterodyne receiver can be high, about 70 MHz or so, but another radios convert the signal down to 8-9 MHz first, or so (then further down), and sometimes they are flagged as down conversion, too... :-) Some radio can be switched what way to work - I don't remember now the details. Btw., TS-890 utilises an H-mode mixer for its first IF stage, it's a good question should we count it as digital or analog. :-) Also by the way: there are radios with superheterodyne stages before a full featured DDC receiver to be used as an IF receiver to squeeze out the last decibels of dynamics and selectivity on demand today. When it is not needed, DDC part of the receiver may work alone for the advantages of a DDC (and don't forget the transmitter, the possibility of pre-distortion). I don't know the name of the model, but Elecraft K4HD will do the same.
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I cannot say how much I appreciate Doug and his many videos on the FTdx10. It's what jump-started me when I bought this radio. So, thank you DOUG! And, thank you JASON for hosting Doug. I paid close attention to the entire video. KK5DON
Doug is a fantastic resource for FTDX-10 owners/operators and HAM radio in general.
In fact, I do not even have my license and yet I have been binge watching his videos for the past few weeks. I figured that the Yaesu FTDX-10 would be the _perfect_ 'one and done' rig. It would also happen to be my only radio for the foreseeable future as I have no plans on setting up an entire shack.
My wife and I merely want a corner of our new home to be designated for our radio(s). (Plural because we have the ubiquitous FT-60 HT's as well). Not to mention, it [FTDX-10] seems to be the _only_ newer radio that is currently in-stock at all the major retail outlets. I grow tired of waiting for the 7300 and/or the 991A.
Like I have premised before and elsewhere. I like to explore these radios strictly on the RX end before I even consider taking my test(s). This often rubs people the wrong way who _insist_ that I acquire the proper licensing *before* purchasing any radios. I surmise these are the same people who do not believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or due process. We call them Fudds in the 2A community but I digress.
My favorite analogical reply is simply - "You do not need a drivers license to build your own hot rod."
Normally, I loathe collaborations regardless of which community we are referring too. However, I have to say (in this instance) that I truly appreciate this video. I can honestly say that there is not a single video that Doug (N4HNH) produces where I walk away without learning something. He is a great teacher and I hope he continues to reach more people.
Stay classy my friends.
This video needs more views. N4HNH's explanations are nearly as good and clear as Rob Sherwood's. This should be plastered all over QRZ and force fed to the multitudes of ignorant elitists that propagate that site and don't understand adjusting receive audio, and that say that almost every radio ever made is 'noisy'. This video is so underrated. Please do a Receiver Deep Dive on the Icom 7300!
7300 is next on the list
@@HamRadio2 Thank you!
Just bought a ftdx10. I’ll probably be referring to this video quite a bit as I learn to set it. Thanks for such a great teaching experience.
Great choice
Same, picked it up a few days ago, haven't powered it up yet
Thanks Jason was well worth a watch!!! Dougs videos have helped me loads setting up my ftdx10,ftdx101d,ftdx5000 and most recently my ft891:) his knowledge and videos are great 👍
Thanks!
No problem!
Jason, thank you for hosting this celebrity presentation aboard HAM RADIO 2.0👏
My sincerest appreciation for Doug's N4HNH learned deep dives into the FTdx10 operation modes. I dare say that I would have never gleaned one-hundredth of the knowledge found in this video from the manual. 🎤🎧📻🗼🗺...
73 to all from a proud FTdx10 owner/operator/student,
Rex KC5AGO,
Stonewall, Central Texas Hill Country.
Thanks for watching
I got the Yaesu FTDX-10 and I had it for a month now and I really like this radio a lot.
Great video just got my ftdx-10 looking forward to setting it up based on this video.
Great video. Doug also does an excellent job on how to adjust all the settings from attenuation and RF amps to shift, width, notch etc. I’ve learned a lot from him, so check out his channel. What he shares can be applied to any modern radio.
Love this video, Jason! I've watched it a few times already since you first published it. Doug is always chock-full of great information born of experience. I do hope you're planning to do a version on TX with Doug as well. Cheers!
Great video! I have watched several of Doug’s videos to learn from someone with a lot of experience.
Glad it was helpful!
A wealth of information! I can't wait to get one. Thank you for this video!
Thanks, guys. Just got one of these as my first HF rig. Very nice!
I cannot believe that this is the ONLY tutorial on RUclips for the FTDX-10, especially as there is a million for the IC-7300 (Slight Exaggeration), Great Video, I just wish it was longer and more indepth, some bits were not in depth enough and a bit missed, please do a series of videos on every single option and button available.
A great video, Yourself and Doug has help a lot keep them coming.
Thanks 👍
TX audio settings would be nice to see as well for using Heil Pro7 headset.
Thanks Jason & Doug, this is great info. I have an ft-991a and this helped me with that (I will certainly go watch Doug's videos on it). I have now convinced myself that I want/need the FTDX-10, was at HRO last week and almost pulled the trigger but the YL was with and said no. Not sure yet how to convince her, lol.
LOL
@Spike S more like "begging" for forgiveness, LOL. My birthday is coming up soon, so I'm patiently waiting to see what happens. If I don't get one, then I'll probably pull the trigger.
IPO has been in Yaesu radios for years and it is very effective. Operators simply do not read their radio manuals fully before using them. You still see videos on youtube where people are showing their radios with s9 noise yet their radios are not showing their IPO on especially on frequencies below 14mhz.
Turning ipo on to turn the pre-amp off is counterintuitive
it really helps to plan out videos and what you're gonna do. I have to think you can do this in like 1/2 the time. You get to a control and just spend way too much with descriptors. Look, I'm damn glad you're around to do there but I find my self fast forwarding everytime he says, "my personal preference is: xxx."
Lovely worth shared and your great man... Thanks much. My rig will cone anytime soon.
Excellent, THANK YOU ! 👍
Welcome!
Love the FT-DX10
I'm waiting for a (hopeful) Memorial day Sale and going to get an FTDX10. My IC-7300 may become a POTA/Field Day box.
Thanks for this video to help me get the most out of it quickly.
This guy is awesome. Next level.
He is!
Please do the transmit settings video.
Great presentation. Thanks. Do you have the transmission setting video yet?
Not yet
Great video. Its going to help me a lot!
Glad to hear it!
Doug is why I am called an Amateur.
LOL
great video, thanks a lot :)
Glad it helped!
Being an audio engineer and a broadcast engineer I must suggest a correction. The filtering in the audio section as shown is in fact a "CUT" not a "SHELF". If it was a shelf filter you would only have a DB adjustment as opposed to a DB per octave adjustment. He properly stated the filter "SKIRT" slope changed. A skirt and a shelf filter are mutually exclusive. I am personally lusting for a FTDX10.
Great video , I have a old ft 840 no IPO I believe the pre amp is always on , att helps , I would never run my ft 950 when on 40/80/160 with out the IPO selected , thanks again for video , im very tempted with a ftdx 10
Will there be a follow up on transmit settings like Doug mentioned?
The first thing you do is turn off that great high sensitivity reciever preamp... that you dream off being to use in an RFI free environment. Then turn down the RF gain to all but kill the noise.
Its QRP 101. :)
Nice VFO
So I feel like I did learn a lot, but I also feel like we spent 40min talking about how to make your radio as narrow as possible for CW purposes. Not how to set up your radio to sound good anywhere else.
Remember it's most likely if a rare DX is in the noise floor and you barely pick him out using noise canceling tools it's highly unlikely he will ever respond back as it does not improve your transmit quality. The antenna, amplifier and microphone is where you should invest in.
Doug is a great fella. I wish he ran yaesu’s tech department.
it is a bit wrong to say that sloping 6db/oct will help noise floor - what I think is better is if you use DNR is to leave entire range so the cleaning sounds better and not muffled - so no its not helping the noise floor directly but maybe as perception - Also it depends on the speakers response freq and other factors - I think default is better if you use Noise Reduction. But I understand what he was saying. I am considering this radio it is really good price for what it delivers.
Great video. Had my FTdx-10 about a month now and some of these tips will really help with my noise floor. Thanks!! I love this radio. Maybe see you in Huntsville? K5FIT
Please have Doug do one on Transmit Audio chain... with the Heil 781 please...
If someone is in the noise or way above it i would let them know just to give them an idea of a poor sounding signal or a very loud clear signal then they can make adjustments according.
Great video. I have a microphone question. Can you use and older mic. like a Yaesu MD-100 with FTdx10? I have one and was hoping it would be compatible. The pinout looks like it would or do you have any recommendations for a desk microphone for this transceiver. Thanks for doing all the FTdx10 videos. Very informative.
MD100 is listed as an accessory for it on Yaesu'sv site, so, that one for sure can
Great stuff 👍👍
The FT1000MP series rigs had IPO
Nice video tnx Ham Radio 2.0
Thanks Alex
@@HamRadio2 ok brother i am ready waiting for your e.mail any time you want
By "shelving" regarding high cut and low cut, these are actually low pass and high pass filters respectively with selectable slopes, either 6dB or 18dB per octave. There are not shelving filters.
IPO on is not quite the same as pre-amp off! On the FTdx-5000 there are 2 different IPO settings. The RF path into the receiver differs with IPO on from just not having a pre-amp on as can be seen on the 5000. Also IPO has been around for a long time, way before SDR radios.
This isn't an FTDX-5000 radio so it's possible that it isn't the same for the FTDX-10
Great video.
I have a FT DX-10 and I did all the tweaks recommended BUT I can't tell much of a difference in how the receiver sounds or any change in the noise level.
So maybe if you are an audio engineer, these settings are useful but for average ham, it's just some more gadgets that Yaesu has come up with for the marketing department to use.
Yaesu it seems, makes a habit of making everything as complicated as possible. Having a parametric equalizer on a HF radio is over the top AND hard to set properly.
I love the radio but I think a lot of the choices and settings are a waste for an appliance operator that just wants to work some DX and rag chew.
Maybe if I ever become more technically competent, I will appreciate it more, but for the average ham its overkill.
Have they fixed all the software bugs and the display that flexes when you press one of the corners?
I'm not aware of this issue. Mine doesn't do that.
@@HamRadio2 Ask your buddy Ham Radio Dude, He had the video mentioning screen flex 6 months ago.
@@forgetyourlife that was 6 months ago. As stated, mine doesn't do that.
Doug is a Great guy Loved the Vid ....KB5VDO
I've messed with all of these settings and in the end the DNR does just as good the rest is all marketing.
I like Doug and he is smart, but his audio setting are horrible. I've done exactly as he says and literally people have asked me why I sounded so bad.
When I opened up the band width and added a little bass the reports all came back that I was better understood.
Suggest Not using IPO amp 1 or 2 below 18mhz. rx is already hot,having ipo on = allot more rx noise..
20 40 60 80 160m is usually noisey.and need some attenuation..
Nikdy jsem nemyslel, že DX10 je tak dobrá dokud jsem jí sám nevyzkoušel na stole proti svému Icom v náročných podmínkách rušení a slabém signálu. Icom neměl žádnou šanci slyšet ten signál srozumitelně. V případě Yaesu se mi povedlo po pár minutách díky spoustě nástrojům signál převést ve srozumitelnou podobu. Vážně uvažuji, že i přestože má Icom hezčí podání signálu na display o zakoupení Yaesu kde se display úplně nepovedl podle mě, nemá poměrování atd. 73! PEACE !!
IPO= "pre-amp" off
Bad news or ?
Yaesu FTDX 101D and FTDX 10 do not use SDR receiver for RX to speaker
It have SDR receiver but it is only use for the display spectrum.
It have IF on 9 Mhz SDR have no IF :)
SDR receiver do not have roofing filter :)
SDR receiver do not have VC-TUNE as there do not have IF :þ
SDR receiver is direct sampling . FTDX 101D is not direct sampling receiver or Transmitter.
Kenwood TS-890S is the same as FTDX 101D, it is hybrid .
Kenwood told me there use the best from old and new time for there TS 890S
Again FTDX 101D is not SDR receiver, but it have SDR receiver for the spectrum display
Both Yaesu FTDX 101D and Kenwood TS 890S are Hybrid SDR
I would learn more about the radio before I start give it a report.
The Down Conversion type receiver construction is similar to the FTDX5000. The first IF frequency is 9 MHz, and a low noise figure dual gate MOS FET, D-quad DBM (Double Balanced Mixer) with excellent intermodulation characteristics, is implemented in the mixer section. Narrow band SDR configuration makes it possible to use the narrow bandwidth crystal roofing filters that have the sharp shape factor. This achieves the amazing multi-signal receiving performance when confronted with the most challenging on-the-air interference situations.
ICOM IC-7300 is 100% SDR receiver transmitter.
"SDR receiver is direct sampling."
No. :-)
- Any radio is a Software Defined Radio if its modulation or demodulation is done by software (after an A/D conversion).
- A Direct Conversion radio has really no IF, but it can be analog (synchrodyne radio, a nice adventure) or digital.
- The SDR is a wider concept, it can be a hybrid with analog mixers but with A/D conversion and DSP at the opposite end to the antenna.
- It would be better to call Direct Conversion radios to DDC/DUC, Digital Down Conversion/Digital Up Conversion radios here, but it is too long... Anyway, it is a subset of the SDR's.
So an SDR just _can be_ a DDC/DUC radio.
Providing a waterfall display also needs a DDC receiver as you say, but in these radios they are connected to the output of an IF stage of an analog or hybrid radio before the physical filters, therefore they work only on one band at a time (determined by the band pass filtering).
Also, the first intermediate frequency of an analog superheterodyne receiver can be high, about 70 MHz or so, but another radios convert the signal down to 8-9 MHz first, or so (then further down), and sometimes they are flagged as down conversion, too... :-) Some radio can be switched what way to work - I don't remember now the details.
Btw., TS-890 utilises an H-mode mixer for its first IF stage, it's a good question should we count it as digital or analog. :-)
Also by the way: there are radios with superheterodyne stages before a full featured DDC receiver to be used as an IF receiver to squeeze out the last decibels of dynamics and selectivity on demand today. When it is not needed, DDC part of the receiver may work alone for the advantages of a DDC (and don't forget the transmitter, the possibility of pre-distortion). I don't know the name of the model, but Elecraft K4HD will do the same.
Receiver will make your ears bleed… and the prepper bs please the last place you would go is ham radio get a grip
IDK what you're smoking, but you need an upgrade
Typical Yeasu, confusing right from the start what it wrong with these companies????
What's confusing?
Overall a very useful video
thank you boys 73 Rob G3RCE
Thanks
Great video! de W2CSI
Thanks!