[1000mp] ROOFING FILTER

[Bob Main]

Those little coax connectors sure are a pain.  I think they get everybody at 
least once.

Bob
KB4CL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis at knology.net>
To: "All about Yaesu 1000mp" <1000mp at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [1000mp] ROOFING FILTER


> Dennis,
>
> Make sure the small coax connectors are fully seated. It's easy to get the 
> center pin misaligned and that keeps the thing from being fully mated. 
> Someone else recently had a similar issue and reseating the coax solved 
> the problem. Apparently, there's enough signal getting through to hear, 
> but the open center conductor is keeping the signal levels too low. Look 
> at some other coax connections in the radio to check how far into their 
> female sockets they are inserted, than compare with the ones you did on 
> the filter board. Good Luck!
>
> Chuck, N4NM
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "roofus" <roofus at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <1000mp at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:54 AM
> Subject: [1000mp] ROOFING FILTER
>
>
>>I received the INRAD Roofing Filter as a Christmas present and just now 
>>got
>> around to installing it in my MARK V (200W) and the difference it makes 
>> is
>> incredible.  What I have now though is no S-meter reading what so ever. 
>> I
>> had the IF mod in and when I did that I changed menu 9-1 from 13 to 9 and
>> the S-meter seemed to be pretty close to my ear, I have no test 
>> equipment.
>> Looking around the bands today I found someone on 17 meters giving me a 
>> S-5
>> on my IC-706 MIIG and the same S-5 on the MARK-V sub VFO but nothing on 
>> the
>> main VFO.  I moved 9-1 back to 13 but still nothing even after moving it 
>> up
>> to 31.  If I find a big signal 20 over 9 I can get the main VFO S-meter 
>> to
>> read a S-9 but nothing more than that.  The signal is booming and sounds
>> like a 20 over signal but the meter isn't corresponding.  This doesn't 
>> seem
>> normal, any comments?
>>
>> By the way, anyone interested in my INRAD IF mod let me know, $25.00 
>> postage
>> paid in US.
>>
>> Dennis KI8U
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