[1000mp] Comparison Mark V and ProII

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:05:41 +0100

The cascade filtering is one of the great things on the MP. After nine years
FT-990 I
owned the MP for a few year. I regret that we lost this feature on the Mk V
and hope Yaesu will bring it back on the successor.

I think the reason why Yaesu changed it, was that (due to competition) they
wanted to make the new rig more DSP-innovated. I wonder if they did a good
market research on that; do we want more DSP or do we want flexible analog
filter combinations?

Apart from that the Mk V has very nice features that the MP has not. Some of
the members have already mentioned these features.

I think that the perfect rig still has to be invented... However; what is
perfect??

73!
Hans Remeeus PA1HR.

e-mail: [email protected]
site: www.remeeus.nl
Ham Radio call: PA1HR

>
> Exactly Bob!!  That is the one reason I will never get a MkV.  In a CW
> contest I love the various filter combinations that you can achieve from
> the front panel, like a 250/500 combo during fairly busy periods, or a
> 2.0/500 combo during quiet periods.  It's just soooooo much more
> flexible.
>
> I'll not be changing my (Nov 1995) MP unless something catastrophic
> happens it, and even then I'd look for a clean MP instead of a MkV.
>
> It seems interesting that Yaesu seem to be returning to the old formula
> with the 'MkV Field' by making a 100W MkV with built in PSU!!  But it
> still doesn't have the filter flexibility......
>
> Andrew Williamson GI0NWG / AC6WI
> Homepage = http://www.gi0nwg.freeserve.co.uk/
>
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