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From May 2008 QST © ARRL

Reviewed by H. Ward Silver, N

QST Contributing Editor

In February 2003, I had the opportunity to

review one of the just-introduced three element

SteppIR Yagi antennas.

For those of you who

SteppIR 40-30 Meter Upgrade Kit

Bottom Line

SteppIR’s upgraded driven

element provides rotatable dipole

performance on 40 and 30 meters

without compromising 20-10 meter

performance.

H.W. Silver, N

AX, “SteppIR Three Element

Yagi Antenna,” Product Review, QST, May

2003, pp 67-69.

are three VOX sensitivity settings available.

VOX seemed to work well with the cell

phone devices too.

With VOX you need to be careful about

your verbal reaction to the usual travel an-

noyances, such as an idiot cutting into your

lane on the highway.

Other Features



AF Dual. With this feature turned on,

you can monitor any covered amateur fre-

quency while listening to the built-in AM/FM

broadcast radio or an external MP3 player

connected to LINE IN. You can also choose

to listen to a programmed “Club Channel”

(see below) while monitoring another ama-

teur frequency. When signals appear on the

amateur frequency, the radio automatically

switches to it. While in AF Dual mode, the

display flashes between the two frequen-

cies being monitored. This feature probably

would be better called “RF Dual,” since it

monitors two radio frequencies while you

listen to the audio of one at a time.



Club Channel. This is an enhanced

call channel that can be programmed to any

frequency in the 2 meter or 70 cm bands.

When Club Channel Monitor is activated,

the preset club frequency is “watched” every

3 seconds. You can listen to broadcast radio,

an external audio device or another amateur

frequency while keeping an eye on the club

channel. You can set an option to remain on

the club channel after a signal is received

there, or to go back to watch mode.



Paging. The Enhanced Paging and

Coded Squelch (EPCS) feature uses two

stored CTCSS tones to open the receiver

squelch, and encodes two other tones that are

sent when you key the transmitter. When ac-

tivated, a ringing bell sounds when the tones

are received and the squelch is opened. EPCS

is intended to keep the receiver quiet unless

you’re called by someone transmitting the

correct tones, presumably a friend or fellow

club member. Each receiver in your group

could be programmed with its own unique

set of squelch tones, but doing so would

require you to maintain a list and manually

select those tones each time you paged an

individual. From a practical standpoint EPCS

might better be viewed as a group alerting/

calling system in which all members use the

same tones.

Note that if you are using a frequency

that is shared with other users who are not

part of your group, you could inadvertently

interfere with them when you transmit. If the

other users are not using your ECPS tones,

their signals won’t open your squelch and you

won’t know they are using the frequency.



Messaging. This feature allows you to

program and send text messages of up to 16

characters to a group of up to 20 members.

The received message scrolls across the

display on the receiving end. All members

must be using the same club frequency and

have the same group member list (IDs could

be names or call signs). Up to 20 messages

can be stored, and the same preprogrammed

messages must be in the same slots in all

of the group member radios. Messages are

not sent through a repeater, and messaging

cannot be activated when CTCSS, DCS or

Pager are activated.



Wireless Cloning. The FTM-10R can

transfer settings and data to other FTM-10Rs

so that they are all set up the same. This fea-

ture uses the Club Channel, which must be

set in the 70 cm band for this function



Weather band/weather alert. The

FTM-10R is factory programmed with the

10 NOAA weather channels. The severe

weather alert monitors for NOAA’s 1050 Hz

tone alert. After turning this feature on, there

is no indication of it on the LCD.



Intercom. With Bluetooth enabled,

riders and passengers can communicate

with each other using Bluetooth headsets.

This can be useful while wearing helmets

or while in environments with high levels of

ambient noise.



Public Address. Attach an external

speaker and select PA from the Smart Menu

and you have an 8 W public address system.

While in this mode, the PTT opens the mic

but does not key the transmitter.



WiRES. Yaesu’s Wide-Coverage Inter-

net Repeater Enhancement System is sup-

ported in the Sister Radio Group (SRG) and

Friends’ Radio Group (FRG) modes.



ARTS. This feature uses DCS (digital

coded squelch) signaling to alert users when

they are within simplex range of each other.

When activated, a subaudible DCS code is

transmitted for one second every 25 seconds,

or whenever the PTT is pushed. If another

radio with this feature activated is within

range, an audible beeper sounds (if enabled)

and the LCD reads IN.RANGE. Polling

signals continue until the ARTS feature is

deactivated. Three beeps sound if you go out

of range for more than one minute and OUT.

RANGE is displayed. I had only one FTM-

10R to test for this review, so was unable to

actually test the unique features that require

two or more radios — paging, messaging,

cloning and ARTS.

Final Thoughts

The User Manual was obviously writ-

ten in another language and translated into

English. I found some of the instructions

confusing and needed to contact Yaesu for

help. Customer service was responsive and

helped me through my questions. Some

errors we found have been corrected in the

downloadable manual available from the

Yaesu Web site. A newer version is said to

be provided with new radios.

There is no programming software or

computer interface available or planned. Once

I got used to the procedures, manipulating

features was fairly easy. With 500 memory

channels and so many special features, I think

that programming software would help with

keeping track of stored parameters and make

updating more efficient to implement.

It is clear that Yaesu had motorcycles,

boats, recreational vehicles and other non-

traditional mobile installations in mind when

they developed this rig. The receive audio

is powerful enough to be useful in noisy

environments. The addition of Bluetooth

and hands-free operation is something that I

think we will be seeing more of in mobile ra-

dios. Use of VOX on repeaters is questionable

in my opinion, but for on-the-road simplex

operation, along with Bluetooth headsets, it

should be a welcomed capability.

Manufacturer: Vertex Standard,

10900 Walker St, Cypress, CA 90630; tel

714-827-7600; www.yaesu.com.

aren’t familiar with the SteppIR technology,

the elements of this Yagi are adjustable in

length. A special beryllium-bronze perforated

tape is extended and retracted inside hollow

fiberglass tubes by stepper motors (thus the

name). There’s also an optional fixed element

(a director) near the center that’s used for

6 meter operation only.

In the shack, a microprocessor in the

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