Problem

Audio distortion

CW/DSP

Lot

Sympthom
Audio distortion when running 50 watts or less has
been reported by several ops.

12 In high speed CW with DSP on keying clips. At 30

WPM, the clipping gets so bad that only random dits
come through.

Fix avail
No

Yes

DSP toggle

When pressing DSP button the DSP menu is activated. Yes

When pressing a second time, the menu does not
toggle back to the previous.

FP-30 Noise

Receiving SSB on lower bands (>40 meters) using the

FP- 30 power supply causes noise and heterodynes
that are not present when operating from an external
13.8V power source.

MH-59A8J DTMF Mic

compability
Power output failure
in the car
Program Memory
Scan

Firmware update to make the FT-897 compatible with

this microphone.
6 Intermittent power failure in the car when engine is
running
PMS does not work in certain Amateur frequency
ranges--for example, 17M (18.110-18.168) and 12M
(24.930- 24.990)

Yes

Yes
Yes

Warranty
?

Notes
W4CNG offers this solution: The audio distortion issue
only occurs on SSB Mode (any band) if you do not have
the RF Speech processor turned on with a minimum
setting of 10 on the menu. Make sure that you have
proc on and a minimum setting of 10.

Yes

Some reports indicate that this problem also affects CAT

(intercommand time expands) When DSP is on. The fix
includes replacing the CPU wich also takes care of the
DSP toggle and remote control microphone issues.

Lot 11 (3C11XXXX) seems not to have this problem. It is

not clear if this problem alone will be fixed by warranty.
Sending the unit back for the CW/DSP problem will get
this fixed too.

Yes

No
Yes

Fixed when firmware is updated for other warranty

items. See "CW/DSP"
Yeasu acknowledges that this is problem with earlier
units, it is caused by generator noise triggering SWR
protection. Two capacitors need to be replaced.