The Yaesu FT-290R and FT-690R portable multimode radios from the early 1980s. Released around 1982, the FT-290R gave hams a small, carry-around radio that worked in four modes: FM, USB, LSB, and CW. A couple of years later, Yaesu released the FT-690R, which worked on the 50 MHz âmagic band.â
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