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

[Marc Wullaert (ON4MA)]

intrested !! sure

marc on4ma

----- Original Message -----
From: "WD8ARZ" <wd8arz at ix.netcom.com>
To: <1000mp at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 9:50 AM
Subject: [1000mp] Full Dual Multi Band Receive Mod for FT-1000MP -
AnyInterest Anyone?


> 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
>
>
>
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