Internal Layout of the Yaesu FT-818
Some casual poking around the internet didn't yield any decent pictures of the inside of Yaesu's FT-818nd. I had the silly idea to try converting the rear port to Type-N like M0UKD did on an IC-7100 . After some thinking, the sensible thing to do is, of course, use the 818's front BNC for VHF+ work. Before I reached that point, I decided to do a teardown to see; here are some reference pictures for the guts of the thing.