My Dad (W5JHJ SK) had one. I operated it a few times and talked him
into getting it completely overhauled by NC4L (Mal Eiselman) who is a
bit of a legend with these rigs. My Dad's suffered from relay
problems as well as another odd-ball issue. After NC4L was done with
it, it was better than new -- by quite a bit. Mal isn't cheap, but he
is meticulous and does superb work.
As I recall, Mal explained to me that the rx in the '102 is nearly
identical in design to the original FT-1000. I don't know if that's
completely accurate or not, but I recall the radio as being silky
smooth and having a very nice receiver. I did listen to AM on it some
and it sounded good, though I never operated the rig in AM mode. It
makes a fair bit of smoke, too, with the 3 x 6146B set up. Loading it
on 10 m is a bit tricky as the PA seems to have a lot of stray
capacitance, so getting the load capacitance small enough can be
challenging if the load isn't perfectly resistive and 50 ohms. In
fact, I do recall that the PA tuning is pretty narrow: it isn't happy
with an output load much different from 50 ohms resistive.
Kim Elmore, N5OP
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