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Monday
25Jan2010

The FTM-350R: Navigation Doesn't Work

Click for larger imageThis photo illustrates—you have to take my word for it until I can post a video—how my FTM-350R will not properly navigate to a “point” stored in the radio’s memory. In this case, I want to navigate to WY6E-11, which is ahead of me and off to the left.

However, the display clearly shows the destination “D” as being behind me and off to the right.

The error changes depending on the direction of travel.

Going north, the target error is to the right but north and south seem to be ahead and behind, where they should be.

Going west, a target that should be ahead displays as behind and vice versa. But, when when due south, appears properly in the display. Until you drive past, when the destination becomes ahead of you when it’s really behind. Not to worry, when the destination was in front, it displayed as behind.

I am talking to Yaesu about this.

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