[1000mp] Stupid questions

[Walter J. Slazyk]

Good Morning,

I have been lurking around here off and on, since acquiring my Mark V in
February. If I understand the previous message of this string, Mike-AJ9C had
commented about the VRF not operating on 21mhz and believes that this may be
a problem. I researched the manual and on page 44, it says that by design,
the VRF feature is designed only to work on bands 160-20 with the engineered
purpose of this "feature" to allow Front-end selectivity control when using
the radio in a contesting environment in the proximity of other strong
transmitting stations. I guess the Yaesu engineers didn't think that folks
contest on frequencies above the 14Mhz band. Anyway, Mike, it doesn't sound
like your rig is broke.

SWR Meter question: Not sure if this proper protocol here but I have a
question while typing this reply: My MarkV reads a very low and broadbanded
SWR across all most of the bands of my quad until I look at my MFJ-986 tuner
that I run through "bypass" to monitor SWR. This darned meter reads off the
wall and significantly different than the MarkV. I also tested with my other
radios, TS-450SAT and TS-940S with similar results, so I can't totally blame
the MarkV but it still reads the most optimistic of all. Anyone else run
into this one?

P.S. Apologies for saying something OFF TOPIC, but just in case any of you
that I worked from my September-October KH2/KF2XN Guam or KH0/KF2XN Saipan
operations, that are waiting for QSL's...the cards recently arrived from
UX5UO and they are nice. My manager W2GR is working on sending them out as
we speak. I hope it was okay to make this announcement.


"...if it ain't broke, don't fix it..."

Walt
KF2XN