[1000mp] MARS Mod 1000MP Mark-V Field

[Thomas Giella KN4LF]

Sean et all,
  I did the MARS mod to my FT-1000MP Mark V Field. Besides the menu setting changes, the mod requires desoldering an SMT resistor and resoldering it to another circuit board pad.
  You need a very small soldering iron, tweezers, good eyesight and a steady hand. I left the comments about the mod on the .DK mod website.

http://www.mods.dk/view.php?ArticleId=2605

Today I made the 60 Meter/MARS transmit mod. on my FT-1000 MP Mark V Field, posted on http://www.mods.dk/view.php?ArticleId=2605 by W6AAV. The mod. requires good eyes and a steady hand but I have neither, so I used a fixed magnifying glass, tweezers, a jewelers screwdriver, desoldering wick braid and a 15 watt soldering iron to desolder and resolder the chip resistor.

I had already gone into the 9-9 menu when I first bought the rig months ago and changed it to "GEN", not realizing at the time that the 60 meter/MARS mod. on the Mark V Field was more complicated then the Mark V. I left it on "GEN" even though it didn't work. In any event today I did not have to do the master reset of CPU as described on the mods.dk site by W6AAV, repeated below:

4. Reset the CPU by holding down the "SUB" + "29" + "ENT" buttons while you power on the radio.

All I did was close up the rig and fired it up and now have all band transmit with 125 watts from 1500 kc to 30000 kc and did not lose my customized menu settings or my auto tuner memories or 100 frequency memories. 

73,
Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Plant City, FL, USA
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sean Fleming K8KHZ 
  To: 1000mp at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:44 PM
  Subject: [1000mp] MARS Mod 1000MP Mark-V Field


  Has anyone done this mod to the 1000MP Mark-V Field and was it really hard.

  Sean
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