[Yaesu] Pin diode mod. FT-1000 Ron

Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:02:22 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Ogden" <[email protected]>
To: "Constantine Thomas" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Pin diode mod. FT-1000 Ron

> on 12/2/02 6:42 PM, Constantine Thomas at [email protected] wrote:
>
> >> Ask Yaesu to do all mods necessary to bring the radio current.  They'll
do
> >> all that is needed including upgrading the firmware, etc.
> >>
> >> I am concerned about your finals.  That may be expensive!  And it may
not
> > be
> >> possible to fix.  If I am not mistaken, I think the final transistors
in
> > the
> >> FT1000 may not be made any more.
> >
> > Waw what is this I hear ? Yaesu sold you a multiK$ radio and pulled the
> > parts????
> > Nice to know.
> > WA1WLA
>
> No, I believe Motorola stopped making the final transistors for the
> FT-1000D.  It wasn't Yaesu's doing.  Trust me.  Motorola is terrible at
> doing this.  They discontinue parts shortly after they release them!
> There's just nothing you can do about it once all the parts at all the
> distributors get used up.  It's kinda like tubes.  And since there's a
> "limited" supply, they may be expensive.  Someone told me that the final
> transistors are still available from the different parts outlets.  It may
> not be too much of a problem anyhow.  If there are several thousand parts
> still left at various outlets, it may take several years to eat that up
with
> repairs, etc.  No one is likely using the parts in any volume production
> these days.
>
> It is possible that another company is now making the transistors, but I
> don't think so.
>
> The FT-1000D is over 10 years old.  I doubt it is being produced any more
by
> Yaesu.  I think they did the final production run a couple years ago.
> Depending on the demand, they may do another run at some time in the
future,
> but I doubt it.  There's still plenty of stock in the pipeline, but look
at
> the cost of the rig.  The 1000D is now around $4000.  You can get a Mark V
> for about 2/3 of that.

I emailed the original to a friend of mine who owns an FT 1000 and I got an
answer saying that the
 MRF 422 is available from RF PARTS.
WA1WLA

>
> 73,
>
> Jon
> NA9D
>
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