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Median sold price per month from 10 sold listings (Aug '25–Sep '26). Down ~14% over the period.
Based on classifieds listings marked SOLD — asking prices sellers marked as sold, not confirmed sale prices. Refreshed daily from our deal-scan comp checks.
| Date sold | Item | Price | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $375 | SOLD |
| Sep 2026 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $280 | SOLD |
| Sep 2026 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $259 | SOLD |
| Aug 2026 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $375 | SOLD |
| Aug 2026 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $285 | SOLD |
| Aug 2026 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $233 | SOLD |
| Aug 2026 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $325 | SOLD |
| Jan 2026 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $325 | SOLD |
| Nov 2025 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $335 | SOLD |
| Aug 2025 | Yaesu FT-8800R | $325 | SOLD |
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The Yaesu FT-8800R is a dual-band FM mobile from Yaesu's early-2000s analog era — 50 watts on 2 meters, 35 watts on 70 centimeters — and its calling card is true dual receive: two independent receivers running at once, each with its own Volume and Squelch knobs, so you can monitor V+V, U+U, or one of each like two radios in one box. Throw in over 1,000 memories, a wideband receiver that covers the aircraft and public-safety ranges, and built-in cross-band repeat, and you have the classic "handheld extender" — park the radio in the truck and let your HT reach repeaters it could never hit alone. Owners love it for the same reasons year after year: the receivers shrug off intermod in places that turn lesser radios into noise machines, the build takes mobile abuse, and plenty of them are still on the air after a decade or more of service. The flip side is well documented too. The front-panel buttons aren't backlit — the display is, but after dark you're working by feel and muscle memory. Hand programming a thousand memories through the front panel is a chore nobody recommends twice, so budget for programming software and a cable. The internal speaker is just okay; an external speaker is the cheap upgrade everyone makes. And treat cross-band repeat as an occasional tool, not a 24/7 repeater — the finals aren't built for continuous duty, and forum threads carry the cautionary tales. On the used market, ask about the separation kit and cable (the FT-8800R shares the YSK-8900 kit with its quad-band sibling, the FT-8900R — late-run units shipped with it included), confirm the faceplate powers up cleanly through its cable (a wrong 4-pin cable produces the infamous click-and-no-display fault), and ask directly whether the unit has been MARS/CAP-modified — an unmodified one won't transmit outside the ham bands, and you want to know which one you're buying.
Yes — as long as the VHF side is programmed with the repeater's offset and tone, it works. But read the caveats the same thread's owners flagged: while the repeater's carrier (or its hang time) is present, the 8800R is busy retransmitting it and can't take your incoming signal until the carrier drops. And the 8800R is not built for the continuous duty cycle a repeater can demand — extended cross-banding at full power can overheat and damage the finals. It's an occasional-use tool, not a full-time repeater.
No. The FT-8800R has no remote-control or DTMF-command function for changing frequencies from another radio — what you see is what you set before you walk away. A couple of owners in the thread describe one-way workarounds (like parking a handheld on a simplex link channel and listening to the repeater directly), but there is no supported remote programming path.
Yes, the cable matters — and this symptom is the tell. The FT-8800R uses a 6-pin straight-through modular cable for the faceplate (an ordinary 6-conductor telephone-style cable works, and owners confirm it). If a 4-pin cable got substituted, the radio behaves exactly as described: clicking/popping, no display, no power-up. Check the pin count on the cable, inspect both sockets' pins, and reseat both ends before assuming anything worse — several owners resolved it this way.
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