Yaesu Amateur Radio

Yes you have def been unlucky. But such users are annoying. And a harm to the ham community in general.

In all honesty the most common and best advice to avoid them. Has always been turn the dial. This is harder if you are linited to VHF. As that often means local repeaters are a huge part of the experience. These tend to foster communities with certain behaiviors. If you can find a local repeater with echo link that will provide a greater variety. Or the newer fusion (yaesu only) d-star or dmr.

But honnestly HF is best. Look into an end fed long wire/inverted L. With a tuner such antennas are very easy to hide. And can be used on most hf bands. Remote tunner is best. But others including a cheap manual work. Other then the tuner. These are easy and cheap to build /hide yourself. Basically 40m wire and a 9:1 bolan (can be relaced with a good remote tuner as I have done). Much shorter wire can be used. But the low bands like 160m and 80m will be hard to tune.

I have one at home. Plus one I can set up on the boat. Boat one consists of a 5m telescopic mast and kite reel with 40m wire. Litrally moor by a field and throw one end in a tree.

Home has a remote tunner on the washing line pole. A 40m wire heading up to the gutters. Then accross to the fence at the back of the garden. I have a large garden with no restrictions. But a 20m one would be easy and pretty much invisible most places. I even seen folks hide them in flats with no garden. (just takes some sneaky creativity. And new EMF rules would mean you need to limit the power. Depending on the location.)

They are not fantastic DX antennas but work great for interG. The inverted L has some dx ability. More so the high the HF band. But verticals are always the better dx antennas for HF. As they have lower take off angles. But are really hard to hide.

Given this is a yaesu group. Better advice on avoiding these reprobates. will be on the other 2 non rig specific groups available under all. As they are hosted on much larger/older instances. And appeal to a wider audiance. They already have many more members.

ATM I have no issue with less yaesu orientated questions here (its currently me and yourself after all). But long term once more yaesu fans find us. Such off topic chats are likly to be less wanted.