[South Florida DX Association] Yaesu's New FTDX-9000

[bmarx@bellsouth.net]

Thanks for the great information Adam...
-Bill W2CQ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Farson" <farson@shaw.ca>
To: "SFDXA Reflector" <sfdxa@mailman.qth.net>; <bmarx@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: [South Florida DX Association] Yaesu's New FTDX-9000


> Hi Bill,
> 
> From what I have been able to glean, the FTDX-9000 is still an analogue
> hybrid design, based on the FT-1000MP platform - crystal filters and
> post-AGC DSP. If so, it is decidedly no threat to the 7800. Again, it
> appears that Vertex-Standard just will not fund a 100% DSP-based HF program
> at Yaesu. That 500W PA may well be one-half of a Quadra. This will dictate a
> specialised (and rather costly) PSU as a "mandatory option" - analogous to
> the FP-29 PSU for the MkV, but larger.
> 
> I hope that I am wrong, and that Yaesu has finally entered the DSP Age.
> 
> Cheers for now, 73,
> Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ
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