[Dx4Win] Yaesu FT-1000MP

[Radivoj KAR]

Hi,

I'd like to know if the FT1000MP Mark V or Field owners have the same
problem as identified in FT1000MP:

Pushbutton band change follows correctly the user preselected ANT A/B per
each band, but the CAT interface does not support it (same with any logging
program, not only DX4WIN). Wonder if Yaesu has taken care of this issue in
the current new generations of FT1000MP variants.

Below is the message sent by Paul to Yaesu back in 1998, which seems never
received any response from them.

73,
Radi F6GNZ


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Paul van der Eijk [COMPUSERVE:INTERNET:pvander at erols.com]
Sent:	Monday, January 19, 1998 5:06 PM
To:	[unknown]
Subject:	[Dx4Win] Yaesu FT-1000MP

Reply-To: Paul van der Eijk <pvander at erols.com>

Hi,

I was about to send this to Yaesu, but I wonder if anyone on 'OUR'
reflector has any insight. Meanwhile, be aware of this problem!

Dear Madam / Sir,

I'm the author of DX4WIN, a Windows logging program which supports many of
your radios. Some of our users encountered the following problem with the
FT-1000MP:

The users sets all bands for Antenna1 except for the 160M band which uses
Antenna2. When the radio is using Antenna1 and my program sets a new
frequency in the 160M band, the radio will not switch to Antenna2
automatically. This can lead to a substantial impedance mismatch, resulting
in damaged equipment etc if the user does notice this in time.

So I wonder if there is a way that the radio selects the correct antenna
when setting a new frequency programmatically. Hopefully this can be
accomplished with a setting on the radio rather then programming very
specific code for this model.

Looking forward to your reply,

73 de Paul, KK4HD