[Yaesu] Re: 60 meters on new rigs

[Duane Grotophorst]

Actually all the current "flash ROM" based Ten Tec
models (Pegasus, Jupiter, 516, and Orion) are ready to
go on 60 meters with a simple and free firmware update
that was released late last week. These radios were
designed to accommodate 60 Meters with separate low
pass filtering for that region of the spectrum. So
they are not "cheating" by simply cutting a wire to
"open up" the TX with some unknown performance
ramifications between the ham bands. Many radio's TX
low pass filtering will not perform correctly across
all of the HF spectrum when simply "opened" up with a
wire or diode "snip" modification. They run the real
risk of transmitting poorly suppressed TX harmonics,
or excessive heat generation due to losses in the low
pass filters.

73,
Duane

CBoone wrote:

I doubt they will do anything for the 60 mtr channels
(its not
really a band or segment...just 5 specific
channels)...
Too much to worry about for them right now and I dont
think 60
is used overseas...with the tight requirements on freq
and 
audio response (no wideband SSB here folks! :) plus
the 50watt
ERP limit, I doubt many will be using it (well using
it 
correctly!!!) I predict a number of users will be
cited within
the 1st 6-12months of use because they are NOT on freq
correctly;
which actually requires amateur rigs to be tuned 1.5
kHz BELOW
the center freq listed, or they will run higher audio
bandwidth..

(I am not a fan of these so called HiFi SSB guys..they
try to
make their radio sound "better"...hmmm isnt that the
reason
behind SSB?? TO NARROW the bandwidth up so MORE can
use the bands?
besides, the radios arent made for HiFi....what a
bunch of......)

Its also VERY probable the QRO boys will get caught on
there..
but I think that will be a little harder to catch in
the
beginning for the FCC

Chris
WB5ITT

John Geiger wrote:
> 
> Now that the 60 meter band is going to be available
> for US use in a few days, has anyone heard from the
> equipment manufacturers whether 60 meters will be
> available on both RX and TX for rigs sold after that
> day?  It seems to me that most mods open up the
> transmit for all HF.  I wonder how the manufacturers
> are going to handle opening up TX for another small
> segment of HF.  I do know that the FT100D does have
> the Alaska emergency frequency as a menu item.





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