[1000mp] Full Dual Multi Band Receive Mod for FT-1000MP - Any Interest Anyone?

[WD8ARZ]

Would any of you be interested in supporting Inrad in a modification that 
would provide true full dual receive in your MP/MkV/Field? Operate on 10M 
main receiver, and listening on 160M on the sub receiver??

Back in 1998, and several times in the years following, emails have been 
posted to the various incarnations of the MP reflector about a full dual 
receive mod for the MP.

This email is an effort to bring up this topic and generate renewed interest 
in a possible Inrad Mod Kit to do this.

The following email started this thread (the jehosophat reflector know 
longer exists):

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WD8ARZ" <wd8arz at null.net>
To: <n9avg at jehosophat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 2:36 PM
Subject: FT-1000MP External Bandpass Filter .......

> Hello Jeff, hope this message finds you and yours doing well..... bet your
> INRAD mod pcb is winging its way to you by now...... I have posted my
> results.......
>
> Today I received a air mail via Japan from Masayuki Uchida JO2AJT/WH2O ex
> JL7CLE. He graciously sent me a copy of the English and Japanese text 
> about
> the conversion of a FT-1000MP. Interesting information and confirms it can
> be done.... but, Yaesu will not accept requests for this from outside 
> Japan,
> and without the eeprom, this information is incomplete.
>
> Do you have any connections that would let us do some sort of bulk order 
> for
> those that want to do the mod instead of Yaesu? About all Yaesu would sell
> us would be the eeprom, pcb and the bpf1 unit. We would have to acquire 
> the
> rest of the parts ourselves, do the build and make internal modifications 
> to
> the MP. More detail might be needed to clarify some of the internal 
> changes.
>
> There is also a ham out west that later this year will have a pre 
> converted
> MP brought state side for his evaluation. The person bringing it is even
> willing to swap with him a MP for a MP so it can stay state side..... I 
> will
> follow that event and forward more info to you as it becomes 
> available......
>
> At this point I suspect it will be some time before one of us makes this
> mod.... hi hi
>
> 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ

Since the above, several emails of this type were posted in each of the MP 
reflectors that followed, including the current one. After receiving a email 
from WB8SRS asking about this topic, and knowing how busy George W2VJN is so 
that he may have missed those earlier emails on this topic, I figured 
sending it directly to him and posting on the Inrad and 1000MP email 
reflectors might help to gauge what interest there really is.


The original web site in Japan still exists at:
http://www.vxstd.com/jp/experts/4108.htm

Using Alta Vista online translation for the above site, a translated copy 
was provided to the VA3CR web site and is at:
http://www.va3cr.net/main/dual%20receive%20mod.htm

Overseas interest in a US version of this mod died out. Last I heard the 
main hold up for us in the States, was to get the ROM code needed in this 
project.

Three things are needed to do the mod:
1) A BPF-1 band pass filter module from the FT-1000 (FT-1000 does have true 
full receive).
2) Circuit Control Module done in Japan (recreated in the states?)
3) Rom code for the control module

Thanks for your interest, and as I have stated before in this area, I am 
willing and able to pursue this modification and testing on my MP .... hi hi

73 from Bill - WD8ARZ