[1000mp] Another MP with Inrad Key-Click Mod.
Jaime P.Ullívarri
[email protected]
Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:14:21 -0000
Well I have finished updating my FT1000MP with the "Inrad Key-Click Mod" and
has improved a lot, before the mod
I compared with an IC-756ProII with the CW rise time on 8ms, listening on
an outside receiver and was far better the 756,
after the Inrad mod they are more or less the same at my ears, and in a
scope the key shape has a more gentle slope.
The worst part of the mod was to find one of the little capacitors that
jumped from my pliers to the floor.
Apart I had bad soldering in the RX Antenna RCA connectors, for this
intermittent fails I missed TI9 on 160m last year,
if you do the mod when working on the RF board have a look with a magnifying
glass and better with sun light at this connectors,
I did find several cracks on the soldering, it looks like did not got the
proper temperature or cold soldering.
73, Jaime, EA6NB.