In the spirit of experimentation, I wanted to find out exactly how much power my QRP radios consume. I\u2019ve had a Yaesu FT-818ND for several years now. It\u2019s built like a tank but fragile at the same time. I bought a set of rails for it a while back to protect the knobs and the face from breakage should the radio be dropped or bounced around in a bag. I recently bought an Icom IC-705. It has a plastic case and is just as fragile.. I do not yet have a cage for it. I like both radios but wanted to find out how much power they use. Initial settings are max power for each rig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These radios sip power. When on the 2 meter band in FM with the squelched closed the 705 uses less power. The 705 pulls .25amps while the 818 pulls .33amps. Just listening you can go 4 hours to 3 on 1aH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FT-818ND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Idle FM 2M Squelched: .33<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT FM 2M 6w: 2.01<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT SSB 2M 6w: 1.75<\/p>\n\n\n\n Idle SSB 40M: .37<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT SSB 40M 6w: 1.43<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT 6M FM 6w: 1.88<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT 6M SSB 6w: 1.89<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n IC-705<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Powered off Charging nearly full: .15<\/p>\n\n\n\n Idle FM 2M Squelched charging: .43<\/p>\n\n\n\n Idle FM Squelched: .26<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT 2M FM 10W: 2.48<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT 2M SSB 10W: 1.31<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT 40m 10w: 1.05<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT 6M FM 10w: 1.88<\/p>\n\n\n\n XMIT 6M SSB 10w: .93<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the spirit of experimentation, I wanted to find out exactly how much power my QRP radios consume. I\u2019ve had a Yaesu FT-818ND for several years now. It\u2019s built like a tank but fragile at the same time. I bought a set of rails for it a while back to protect the knobs and the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2xu.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}