NEW Yaesu FTdx10 Hybrid SDR Ham Radio Review

Today we take a look at the interesting freatures on the Yaesu FTdx-10 and I give you my review. Also, I explain why the FTdx-10 is a Hybrid Software Defined Radio.

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[HamRadioCrashCourse]

Array, Array, Array. Sorry, miffed that accronym. FPGA: Field Programable Gate Array :D

[Kibwunga]

It made it to spot 3 on Sherwood. This is one of the best receivers available.

[rcaspilot]

Been off air for 18 years and I'm buying this with my stimulus money. A couple of my ham friends are happy that we will be hanging out on the air again like back in the day.

[docaliquot]

Owned one for 2 weeks now, and I'm still finding cool features! Receiver is hot as hell, Tx. audio processing and EQ are great additions.
Ordered the optional digital wiring harness, hooked up my Easy Digi, loaded Fldigi, and was making QSO's within 30 min.
Great engineering, Yaesu!

[mmlanger]

Thank you for actually getting to know the radio before posting a review. Nice job of presenting things we want to know!

[erintaylor]

Number 3 Sherwood baby! I sold my K3 and got this and am very happy. That’s high praise. The 7300 is great but can’t handle the signals this can. :)

[kingsqueak]

This rig has a lot of good wins going for it. The hybrid front end is awesome in strong signal conditions, you get the SDR/DSP benefits with the benefits of a superhet front end.

The rig (if the manual is correct) allows for 0-4kHz transmit width, and 3 band parametric EQ as well as three ways to feed audio, mic jack, RTTY/Data line level and USB for digital path. These are all great features for people who like to work on their audio.

The EQ has two settings per mode, so AM and SSB can have two separate audio setups each, you can set up one way for quiet conditions and another for DX/noisy conditions...easily toggled.

The receive audio appears to be good and wide as well, another big bonus for those who like ESSB.

The receiver itself seems to measure up very close to the 101 series which is very impressive at the price point. If Flex hadn't doped the evaluation with Sherwood, this would be the #2 rig on the list right now. Incredible value for the price.

The external monitor display connection is another differentiator for the price. Yaesu did a great job with this one.

[Howardsheppard]

I’m new to all things Ham and studying for my Tech exam. I can truly say I didn’t understand much of this review! 😁

[Paddy_Roche]

Well, thank you. Possibly the best Radio review I’ve ever watched. I appreciate you taking time over the filtering capabilities and teaching me things along the way. Great video Josh. Happy New Year to you and your family.

[wavfd]

This is the best demo of the 3DSS that I have seen anywhere on the interwebs. You make it look actually appealing.

[ToddRichmond]

Love my 101MP. I ran a 7300 for a year or so and it is a great bang-for-the-buck radio. But after using the 101 for a couple of months, I am a big believer in the hybrid approach, at least how it is implemented in the 101. If the 10 is anywhere near the same performance, it'll be my backup/portable choice for a 100W radio, ymmv. The audio on the 101 is non-fatiguing (contour control FTW) and the stock mic gets great audio reports. Agree that most modern radios are very good, but there are differences in both operating ergonomics and rx/tx performance.

[Raymond-nk]

Thanks Josh for the review, now several years later, is
very helpful and I just ordered
one as a step up from my FT
891, which now is in my car.😊

[paulherron]

All i can say is i love my Ftdx10. Its brought anew dimension to the hobby for me. Afterall i nearlly quit ham radio. But with Ft 1200 and Ftdx 10 am back with a bang. Cheers for videos. 73s

[aaxon]

3d spectrum: I can now admire my abysmal QTH noise in the time domain

[kjrx]

Oh man...just got this radio today. I have to admit, it is remarkably better than the 991. Dont get me wrong, love the 991, and it is in my lineup...but the noise reduction ability of the dx10 is unbelievable. My wife is not easily impressed, and she was blown away. She was impressed with the Heil PRAS on the 991, but the dx10 literally took a signal from white noise to nothing but the tx. Really impressive

[thomasmaughan]

The main problem with going straight from antenna to A/D conversion (Analog to Digital) is ALIASING. Suppose the sample rate is 1 million samples per second, and coming down the wire is a 1.1 megahertz signal. It's waves *almost* synchronize with the sample rate of the A/D converter, such that at each sampling, we are a bit farther along in the cycle of the signal. To the A/D converter, it is a 100 kilohertz signal absolutely indistinguishable from a real 100 kilohertz signal.

It is similar to a double-balanced mixer in a conventional receiver, but instead of sum and difference frequencies, you get only difference.

So you MUST have some sort of filter in front of the A/D converter to prevent aliasing. Because of potential for strong signal overload it helps to have bandpass filters, not just a lowpass filter. This is particularly true for high powered possibly nearby AM broadcast stations. To have them hit the A/D converter would be ungood for your desired signal.

[MrCowboybud]

I remember my dad taking a chance and buying a hybrid radio, and it was probably one of the best selling radios of all times. Yes it was another Yaesu radio in which I still have. I am talking about the Yaesu FT 101 series, which I have the E model. LOL I just actually bought the FTX 10, I am waiting for it to come in.

[LifeIsTooShortForQRP]

K3 killer, that's for sure. And I have to give Yaesu credit for having the guts to give this radio a performance that is VERY close to the FTdx101!

[Bdub]

Two years into ownership of this rig (thanks to Josh and N4HNH) and I couldn't be more pleased. Best radio money I've ever spent.

[edwarddoyle]

Thanks for the video. Good stuff here. I just got my hands on the FTdx10 today. So far I relly like it and found it fairly easy so far but I need to de a deep dive on the menus. I started my HF adventure with a Kenwood TS590SG which is a great radio but I wanted something with a scope and this is what I decided I wanted. Love it.