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<DIV>Good Morning to all,</DIV>
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<DIV>While keeping track of some of the worlds hamfests I spent some time
reading about the Tokyo Ham Fair. Here are some of the newsworthy
items.</DIV>
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<DIV>The Tokyo Ham Fair, Aug 23-24, 2014, brought out some new radios by the top
manufacturers. The Yaesu FT-897 has a replacement, the <SPAN
class=_Wz>Yaesu FT-991 HF/50/144/430 MHz transceiver. <A
title=http://qrznow.com/yaesu-ft-991/
href="http://qrznow.com/yaesu-ft-991/">http://qrznow.com/yaesu-ft-991/</A>
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<DIV><SPAN class=_Wz>There does not seem to be any replacement coming for the
FT-817. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=_Wz>Icom has also announced the IC-7850, HF/50 transceiver,
50th anniversary radio. <A
title=http://www.icomuk.co.uk/categoryRender.asp?r=rssFeed&categoryID=3508&cCID=18260
href="http://www.icomuk.co.uk/categoryRender.asp?r=rssFeed&categoryID=3508&cCID=18260">http://www.icomuk.co.uk/categoryRender.asp?r=rssFeed&categoryID=3508&cCID=18260</A> </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>AOR has a new arrival with the AOR AR-DV1 the new Digital Voice Receiver –
analog / digital full cover range 100kHz – 1300MHz, built in eight digital
receive demodulation mode . - Analog operating modes: SSB / CW / FM (WFM –
NFM – SFM) / AM (WAM – NAM) & Synchronous detection. <A
title=http://www.radiocronache.com/2014/08/ham-fair-2014-yeasu-ft-911-aor-ar-dv1/
href="http://www.radiocronache.com/2014/08/ham-fair-2014-yeasu-ft-911-aor-ar-dv1/">http://www.radiocronache.com/2014/08/ham-fair-2014-yeasu-ft-911-aor-ar-dv1/</A></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=_Wz>The US ham community does not have a bunch of English
material readily available for any items that Kenwood may have released. A
few articles in Japanese exist but the Google translate page was slow on the
uptake. My computer has been waiting for 15 minutes now for a Kenwood
article to translate. It appears that there is too much Flash presentation
going on for a successful translation. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=_Wz>Take the time to Google the Tokyo Ham Fair 2014 and see all
the new ‘Stuff” that the Ham Fair had to offer this year.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=_Wz>Hope to see you all at the LARC meeting, Monday evening, 1
Sep 2014</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=_Wz>Rich – N4ESS</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>