[1000mp] Carrier on 50.110 +/-

[Duncan Clark]

Historians believe that in newspost 
<5B954561F4F744A68CE5ADE2B272F282 at acer> on Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Tech 
<sg4 at aapt.net.au> penned the following literary masterpiece:
>Does anyone have any info from the days that the first 1000MPs came 
>out?

Mine must be about 10 years old.

>Surely Yaesu did not let this radio out into production with such a 
>huge internal signal.
>My friend VK3AKK says his is in the top of the 12M band.
>And will drift up in harmonics to put a signal on top of the beacons at 
>the low end of 6M.
> 

I sent the first one back and had the supplier go through their stock 
and find me one that sits at around 24.97-24.98 and didn't drift into 
6m.

I would look at padding the oscillator a little to force the harmonic 
below 50.000 always assuming one can get at the board.

Duncan
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Duncan Clark (G4ELJ)