[1000mp] FT1000MP Tx Audio Present in Speaker Audio

[Pete Smith]

At 04:17 PM 4/23/03 -0500, Billy Cox wrote:
>...
>There's an Yaesu factory bulletin from way back then, that had you
>improve some of the grounding between different stages to cure
>some RFI type of problems. Added some double sided tape and
>improved one or two other grounding point among other changes.
>
>Just a thought ...
>

Billy raises an interesting point.  How can one get an authoritative list 
of the factory bulletins issued on the 1000MP family of radios, much less 
the bulletins themselves?  Yaesu doesn't seem to make them available, which 
says something...  Now that a substantial secondary market is developing on 
1000MPs and even Mark 5s, it would certainly be nice to know the kind of 
thing that Kenwood routinely provided, which was a schedule of when 
production changes were applied and which serial numbers incorporated them.

I'm not aware of anyone authoritative at Yeasu who has addressed this 
subject, though individual technicians have told me on the phone that this 
information is "internal use only."  I've tried e-mailing Chip Margelli and 
never even got a "we're thinking about it" reply.  Maybe if a number of us 
raise the issue with Chip at Dayton we can get something done.

73, Pete N4ZR
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