A Funny Thing....

This blog keeps getting a steady trickle of traffic to the Yaesu FT-857d and FT-817nd ham radio reviews.  Looking over at some of the search engines, these pop up on the second and occasionally first pages.  That's a surprise.  It's not like they're great reviews or anything, they're more of one user's impressions and comments under real-world conditions (for some limited values of real-world).  But evidently they're getting read, and getting some traffic, and I'm glad to think maybe somebody's getting useful information here.  Maybe the biggest take-aways from both reviews are (a) the menus are deep, but not as bad as some people claim, (b) the receivers are not great by today's standards but are perfectly good for most uses, especially in the field, and (c) they're both a lot of fun to operate, again, especially in the field.  Is there anything more to want from a relatively inexpensive portable radio?