3 - 30 MHz HF Band Scan with Yaesu FRG-7 receiver 

there is nothing like tuning the dial of an analogue receiver and hearing signals and voices from all over the world. Takes me back to my childhood in the 80s. top video!

NOTHING TO SEE HERE officer! Just a guy wheeling a bag....with a squid pole in hand . I absolutely love this old gear. All the stuff I salivated over as a teen in the 80's ...(when I wasn't staring at my Bo Derek calendar 😎). 73 and thanks for the video.

Great sounding receivers, and the best part is you can dust it off😅

Sitting on top of Arthur’s Seat (Vic) on a picnic table in late seventies with a bit of wire - great memories. I still use one as an RX for my AM TX.

That signal from GM4YXE @ 52:55 from the UK, shows the old box, remains a great receiver!

My FR(o)g7 is sitting on the shelf above my desk. It was my first receiver (other than tuning (?) my Uncle's radiogram a few years earlier). It was such a good start point and it led to me passing my RAE to get my B licnence and then I was hooked. Oh the technology of 40 years ago!

I love the FRoG, thanks for the Video

First I had a Halicrafter. then a FRG-7 a Kenwood SAT 450 now a Icom IC-746 PRO, I got my General about 20 years ago. I had a small transistor SW band radio that I could get Radio South Africa on!

I was gifted a FRG-7 last year and have just finished getting it going again. I got some LED replacement PCBs for the illumination and fitted an IEC mains input socket instead of the captive mains lead. It struggles a bit in an urban receiving environment but it performs quite well when taken into an area away from RF noise.

I have a 700 and 7700, both given to me, but yet to get my hands on a 7. Great receivers.

Good old Wadley loop. Only FM I've heard on 10M was a JA. My QTH is noisy.

Saw one of these sell on facebook in my area for $250 CDN but missed it. Rats!

Got mine at a garage sale some years ago. Noise level here is a pain but can hear SSTV on 40m at times

Keep it up pal. we are enjoying your videos

I love my "frog" a great receiver.

Thanks for the band-scan on your versatile FRG-7 aka the Frog. I see that CB brings out the idiots every where a transceiver can be found, just as in the states.😂! If you are up, check out the BBC on 25900 KHZ around 1600 UTC + as it is about the only 11M broadcast going these days. Too bad more stations don’t try it as the solar maximum is here…supposedly 😮! 73! Now you have made me want to haul out my old Sony 6800W for a go!

"Your a metho drinker!!" CB "Contains strong language...parental guidance is recommended!" 🥺....CB is usually so much more entertaining....Friday and Saturday nights I imagine it gets more lively.

You do know a back panel comes off and a D sized battery holder is inside? I took mine on a weekend hike into the high Sierras back in the late 1970's that way. Good rig. I still have it.

I should get my FROG out! Have never run it off a battery.

I have a 7700. Just need to put up an antenna for a more permanent setup..

owned one in 1990 to 1995 good in the day but lacking digital display and 3khz filter for ssb was its final downfall in retired status, sold it at hamfest club table

Have you picked up aviation pilots talking or ships communicating via shortwave?

Any particular reason why you took the old frg-7 outdoors into the field that day?

22.45 Stanag

is that aaan ordinary 12 volt battery your using and do all yeasu s use 12 v ??

Hi, sir. For the past 3 years I have been interested in amateur radio. I am unable to find answers to the following questions, as I fail to understand English articles written at academic or slightly advanced level. I hope you can help me. 1 - Is it possible to create a relatively powerful CW transmitter by combining several stable zinc negative resistance devices? 2 - Is it possible to create BFO with zinc negative resistance? An old and knowledgeable radio amateur told me that it is possible but did not give me any help on where to start. Basically, I know how BFO works. (An oscillation is created close to the listened frequency and a tone is obtained as the difference). However, I have difficulty understanding the IF stage. Since the zinc negative resistance devices do not work at very high frequencies (maximum 11 Mhz, with very low efficiency), I realized that I need to make a BFO circuit with an IF stage. My interest is to improve my ability to build radio transmitters with materials that I can obtain under any circumstances. For this reason, I deliberately avoid using vacuum tubes, transistors, etc. and try to find as simple solutions as possible.

Between 53 to 53 min in, i heard amateurs talking. Are you receiving them from overseas?

Good evening vk3ye!!! Can you interpret Morse code the moment you hear it?

Isn't the most portable 😂😂😂