[Boatanchors] FT-101

[Jim Brannigan]

I had a FT-101EE it was a real fun radio, CW, SSB, RTTY, portable, 
mobile.....
But....the receiver.....the worst!!!
I tried every modification to help the RX, but in the end realized that ya 
can't turn a sows ear into a silk purse.....and sold the radio

Jim

> Barrie, in my early ham days I ran lots of RTTY with a FT-101E, and after 
> many hours the tubes did go soft, whet from 100 watts out down to about 
> 60. So my thought is this, they can handle CW key down for some time. By 
> the way how can you own a Bird watt meter and not have a good dummy load? 
> A light bulb?
>
> Dave W9WRL
>
> Barrie Smith wrote:
>> I tested both of the newly aquired FT-101s over the weekend.  Into a 
>> dummy load, I got in about 120 watts, according to the Bird.  I think I 
>> could have gotten more, but I was using a 60 watt dummy load and I didn't 
>> want to burn it out.
>>
>> A couple of questions:  According to a set of tune-up instructions I 
>> found on the web, the bias is to be set at 60 ma.  On the FT-101 meter, I 
>> see on the top "60 db", the next line is .1, .2, .3 etc.  The third line 
>> down is ALC.  There is no line on the meter that reads ma.
>>
>> I think the second line down, and .6 would be 60 ma?
>>
>> I was going to sell both of these rigs (the FT-101E & EE), but now I'm 
>> thinking of keeping one of them as a VFO and driver for push-pull class C 
>> rigs (not linear amplifiers).
>>
>> I've never owned a sweep-tube until now, so I wonder how well these tubes 
>> would stand up producing 50 to 100 watts (in CW mode) continuously for 
>> several minutes?
>>
>> 73, Barrie, W7ALW
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>     Dave W9WRL
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