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The Yaesu FTX-1 is the radio the SOTA and POTA crowd spent twenty years asking for -- a true modern successor to the beloved FT-817/818, built on current SDR tech instead of 2001's. It comes as a system: the FTX-1 Field is the 6-watt QRP head with a big internal battery for summits and parks, and the FTX-1 Optima docks that same head onto a 100-watt amplifier base for the home shack. One radio, two lives -- that is the pitch, and it is a good one. The honest part: launch-era firmware was rough. Early adopters documented a greatest-hits list of bugs -- flaky APRS, vanishing CW memories, PTT dropouts, even a 2-meter low-power bug in one 2026 update that Yaesu fixed three days later. First-year buyers were, fairly or not, beta testers. The other sticker shock is philosophical: Bluetooth, GPS, and WiFi are optional add-on modules rather than built in, so price it the way you would actually configure it -- and against the Icom IC-705, which includes them. Used, these are young enough that you are really buying lightly used new: verify the firmware is current, test 2-meter transmit power, and confirm the battery holds a full portable session. Once the firmware settled, this became the field radio to beat.
The head is the same radio in both -- the difference is the dock. Field gets you the QRP head plus battery for portable work; Optima adds the 100-watt amplifier base with a built-in (limited-range) tuner for home use. If you will mostly operate portable, do not pay the Optima premium for a base you will never dock into. The amplifier module is also sold separately, so you can start Field and grow later.
They are the two modern field radios, and the choice is philosophical. The IC-705 has Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS built in and does full-duplex satellite; the FTX-1 counters with dual receive, a bigger screen, and the 100-watt Optima dock option. The 705 is complete out of the box while the FTX-1 is a la carte -- configure both the way you would actually use them before deciding. Against the old FT-818 it replaced, the FTX-1 is night-and-day better in receiver, display, and battery life, at two to three times the price.
Most were firmware, and firmware is fixable -- just confirm it has actually been fixed. Check the firmware version against Yaesu's latest, verify full power on 2 meters (one 2026 update broke it, the follow-up repaired it), and test APRS behavior and the CW sidetone, which were early problem children. A used FTX-1 on current firmware is a different radio than the one the launch reviews complained about.
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