That's a nice radio. It has memory banks, which are essential for managing the 1000 channels it holds. For some reason, Yaesu stopped putting memory banks in their newer radios. The US version is tri band, which is nice if you have any 1.25m repeaters nearby. The batteries are a bit expensive though.
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That's a good signal for an HT. Were you using a directional antenna?
Make sure auto slant is checked in QSSTV. It will help with the skewing.
You can have separate banks for each city. That way you can scan just the repeaters for the city you are in. I have a radio with 1000 channels and no memory banks. I have to hook it up to the computer and reprogram it whenever I go to a different area.
On the Yaesu radios that support memory banks, you don't have to use them. You can put the same channel in multiple banks or put every channel in one bank.