FT-817 speaker replacement

Before

Not that it was a need. But the speaker was offered at Sotabeams and if you apply for a newsletter you get a discount code. I never bought something at Sotabeams and actually I only heard from this nice amateurradio webshop when I did some experiments meeting the owner G3CWI Richard last year with FSQ on air in June/July 2017. So I decided to give it a try and order the speaker with discount, it was received very fast and well packed. And replacement looks simple enough to me.

After

The instructions VK3BQ wrote are very clear although to remove the foam rings from the oldspeaker I heated the metal with a heat gun in order to warm up the glue so it could be pulled off quite easily. After I was done I did a little test from my job at lunchbreak. Actually I wanted to test it from my car but forgot to bring the magnet mount with me. And so I got the magloop out of the bag. Propagation was not that good I think because I could barely hear stations on 20m. I was looking for a loud station so I could test if the speaker would be distorted at a higher volume (the original did) but so far it sounded pretty well. The video shows the only station I could hear on 20m at that time. The new speaker seems to be humidity resistant and that's always a good thing for a portable radio.