Re: [chirp_devel] VX-7r: power levels for 1.25m band

I haven't applied it yet because I want to acquire a wattmeter so I'm not flying blind. Do you have any idea why Yaesu limited 1.25m to such low power?

Yeah, because there isn't a dedicated 220 PA in there, and so they're just driving the regular VHF PA real hard off to one side. The VX8 does the same thing, but defaults to letting you run more power. An optimist might say that the RF bits between the two radios are similar and thus it's okay on the VX7. However, it's already kinda working out of spec and driving it harder is asking for trouble, IMHO.