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Need help.. trying to figure out how to operate my Yaesu FT-227R


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I bought this CB Radio back about 3 years ago for $20. It was from a buddy that had it in his wrecker but sold the wrecker and so on. I also got a magnetic antenna with it. It has rode around in the trunk of my car for the past 3 years and I have never even tried it. I decided tonight I would hook it up to my battery and see if it works. I hooked it up and didnt realize what kind of radio I had. I turned it on and everything lit up and came on. My issue is I have no idea how to use this radio. I checked the back of the radio and the tag has it labeled as a Yaesu FT-227R Memorizer. I looked it up on google and it looks like this radio was discontinued. Also it says it has 800 channels?? The last little cobra I had only had 19 channels so it was easy to get together with my buddies on the same channel but how do I get to the regular channels on this bad boy with 800 channels? I also have no idea what the smaller knobs are on the top left of the CB. The last one I had 8-9 years ago was a cheap cobra I bought from Walmart that only had a volume and a channel knob on it. There is also a burst on and off switch on the back with another high and low switch. Any ideas? Lastly I am putting this in my b2 and I am trying to figure out how to run the antenna into the cab from the roof. Any ideas there? I don't know about running it through the door because it will cause water to leak into the cab. Also I don't think my cable that is attached to the antenna is long enough to go too far. I know this is a lot in one thread but thanks for any help!

 


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That is a 2-meter ham radio, not a CB (requires a license to transmit on it).
 

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PM me if your interested in selling it
have Amateur extra class license

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I have two of them. I used one when I was first licensed before buying a newer 2 meter transceiver to access the repeaters with tones. The second one was a throw-away and I don't know if it works, but it has an external tone board. Some day I'll see if it all works.

They are good radios and were very popular from the 70s through the 80s. Most of the repeaters require a CTCSS tone to access them now, so few people use these radios unless they use simplex or have a tone board. You can still buy tone boards if you want to use them on repeaters. The output is about 10 watts on high power, 1 watt on low.

I think this is a good reason to get a technician class license.

http://www.foxtango.org/ft-library/FT-Library/Eighties/Eighties.htm

CTCSS is simply a squelch system that requires a sub-audible tone to open the squelch.

http://www.onfreq.com/syntorx/ctcss.html


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Yep. That's not a cb. That's a 2m amateur radio transceiver. Gotta have a licence.
 

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