Don: The FT-100D: http://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/ft100d.htm
A little different than the Tempo One. Pete, wa2cwa On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:48:14 +0000 "Donald Chester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. > > Actually, the FT-101 series isn't half bad as a transmitter, except > that it > generates spurs on 160. They can be modified to produce good audio, > and I > have seen a few of those rigs with the capability of modulating in > the > vicinity of 150% positive. But the receiver section has very poor > dynamic > range. It is full of intermod and goes belly up in the presence of > strong > signals, even at the other end of the band. I would recommend using > a > separate receiver. > > One thing though, the FT-101ZD is not one of the original FT-101 > series. > Those rigs have AM capability, but the receiver, while much better > than the > original FT-101, has no provision for an AM filter, although one > could > probably be shoehorned in. The ZD is a stripped down version of the > FT-901, > which was a fairly good rig, but the AM on it sucked, and those rigs > had a > very high failure rate. I used to do the warranty work for Yaesu > amateur > and commercial 2-way equipment back in the early 80's. > > Don k4kyv
