Donald Chester wrote:
From: "John (W5HG)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
... The 100D was really bad. I dream of finding a good tube type from
some little lady that has one stuck up in the attic... Geoff ,
thanks for time. I will copy these down you gave me. It will make
going to the Hamfest that much more fun. I'm kind of scared of Ebay
but that might be a way to go too. Is the old Yaesu ft101 or maybe
ft102 radios worth a try? I see a few of them here and there.
Isn't the FT-100D the same as the old Tempo One? Any of those old
vacuum-tube-on-circuit-board rigs are pure junk, particularly the
Tempo One and the old FTdx series. Same goes for the consumer junk
that was manufactured in that era. Almost inevitably becomes noisy
and intermittent after a few years use due to the heating-cooling
cycle of the hollow state technology.
Don, the FT-100D is a super-small, U/V/HF mobile transciever.
Otis/K5SWK would say it was 'no bigger'n a disease'. (less than 6 inches
across the face, around 2 maybe 2.5 inches tall, and about 1inch deep,
and that's only the face plate. The 'rig' is at the other end of the
cable, and in Yaesu's infinite wisdom (or lack thereof) the Mic plug is
on the rig, -not- the removeable (optional) faceplate.
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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
