[Yaesu] FT-1000D Tuning Upgrader

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:59:08 +0100

Hello Roger,

Thanks for your explanation about the packet tones. Can you tell me on which
page of the manual this is being explained?

About the step in the wrong direction: IMHO it sounds a little bit weird
when you 'turn around a station' in the CW mode with the 250 Hz filter
switched on, you turn in a direction and expect the tone to go up (or down)
but you hear the tone go in the wrong direction then expected. When you
blank the 10 Hz digit, you don't see it but still hear it. On this subject
we have different opinions/experiences, which is no problem of course.

I worked for about 18 years at a maritime coastal station as W/T operator.
We spend hours in the calling band searching for vessels who were calling
our station. Perhaps I am a little bit critical.

The slower tuning is pleasurable indeed.

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

Communication is about people, the rest is technology.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger D. Johnson" <[email protected]>
To: "paul" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] FT-1000D Tuning Upgrader

> I have tuning upgraders installed on both the main and auxillary
> receiver VFOs and wouldn't be without them.
>
>  Some of the quirks reported by PA1HR appear to be unrelated to the
> upgrader installation. For instance, the -2.21 he refers to upon
> power-up and pressing the PACKET button is the mid frequency between
> the packet tones selected by the DIP switches on the top of the
> radio. This is not well documented in the manual so I can see where
> this might be confusing. As for the refusal to go into RTTY mode, I
> cannot duplicate this on my rig.
>
>  My installation does have some quirks. As stated earlier, the tuning
> sometimes takes a step in the wrong direction upon first turning the
> knob. The cause of this has been stated in earlier posts. Also, on
> power-up, my main tuning sometimes tunes in 100 Hz steps. I simply
> tweak the sub VFO and it reverts to 10 HZ steps. I don't know what
> causes this behavior but it only occurs on startup so it's not much
> of a problem. My opinion is that this is the price we pay for a simple
> plug-in modification. To avoid this problem would probably require major
> surgery or redesign of the synthesizer to fully integrate the upgrader
> into the Yaesu tuning scheme.
>
>  In summary, I like the tuning upgrader very much. The slower tuning
> rate makes operating much more pleasurable. In practice, the 10 HZ
> step in the wrong direction is unnoticeable and would never be detected
> unless you were watching the frequency display closely.
>
> 73, Roger