[Yaesu] comments on buying a used HF rig

Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:38:39 +0100

Hello John,

I did not use any mod to crank up the power. It just has this high power on
some bands. I will make an overview of the output power on the several
bands.

For the measurements I use a Bird 43P with 250 Watt head (250H).

73, Hans Remeeus.
Ham Radio: PA1HR
www.remeeus.nl

Communication is about people, the rest is technology.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Ogden" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] comments on buying a used HF rig

>
> How did you do that?  Did you follow the mod to crank up the power on the
> finals?  It's not a good mod to do.  Yes, you get more power, but you also
> increase the strain on the transistors and shorten their lifetime.  And in
> addition, you also probably are no longer making the transmit IMD
> specification.
>