[1000mp] FTV-1000 problems.

[Mark Tetrault]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:41:49 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi Tom,
>
>A few months ago I posted a similar problem with my MARK-V and FTV-1000 both
>brand new out of the box.  Very low drive gives me all LED's on CW but the
>best I could do on SSB was a flickering 4 with the RF PWR set at about the
>11 o'clock position.  Increasing the drive did not help and I never tried it
>without the ALC.  I was getting good on air reports and replies to my post
>said this was normal.  Still not being sure I put a watt meter in line and
>sure enough it is peaking 200W+ on SSB
>
>I have not noticed any sensitivity problems but I am new to 6 meters and
>finding it to be a strange beast with stations that I would expect to be
>booming very light and others 20 over.
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>> friend is selling me his transverter, just purchased in March, which
>appears
>> to work fine with his Mark V.  I brought it to my house, and after hooking
>> it up, I had problems with the power output on SSB and the sensitivity on
>> receive.   On CW, all five power LEDs light with very little drive,
>> indicating full 200 watt power output, exactly as the manual indicates.
>> However, on SSB, even with the power knob turned fully Clockwise (full
>> power) and the mic gain up almost all the way, I get only two of the

I also have the FTV1000 and the lights act the same way. I can telll you
however that an in line wattmeter shows 200w easily to a dummy load on
peaks. When running in class A mode, it easily drives my Quadra to full
output.

As for sensitivity, there has been an on again off again discussion on
this for quite some time. Apparently some units tend to be deaf'er than
others. I can tell you that there is a ham closeby to me that is a "big
gun" on 6 and I hear what he hears. Now with a large antenna array and
he's higher than me, he hears better, but with my 5 el CCraft at 30 ft,
I still work the world and also enjoy "the magic band conditions" when
they present themselves. Keep in mind that 6m can be frustrating too.
There are times when I hear stuff that my friends don't and vise versa.
Location location location.......

Good luck with the Yaesu I love mine...