[Yaesu] FT-1000 Serial Numbers

[Barry Johnson]

Actually, the easiest way to tell the decades apart is to look at the lot 
number.  The 1990 had a low lot number and the 2000 has a much higher lot 
number.
73,
Barry W4WB

At 08:15 PM 7/26/04, you wrote:
>Don,
>
>The following is the text of a post I made last November and should
>answer your question (see last paragraph).
>
>73, Jim K5QL
>
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>
>Here's the info on Yaesu serial number decoding.
>
>All characters in the s/n are numbers except for position 2 which is a
>letter, C through N.
>
>Position 1: Last digit of the year in which the radio was produced.
>
>Position 2: Determine the position of the letter in the alphabet (C=3,
>D=4,....., N=14) and then subtract 2. The result gives the month in
>which the radio was manufactured. Note: a straight vertical line in this
>position is a capital "i" (I), not the number one.
>
>Positions 3 & 4: The lot or run number.
>
>Positions 5 through 8: The manufacturing sequence number of the radio.
>
>Thus, a radio with a serial number of 5H123456 would have been
>manufactured in 1995 (5), during the month of June (H=8, 8-2=6, June is
>the 6th month), was part of lot 12, and was the 3,456th radio in that
>lot.
>
>One other thing I learned just recently...... The FT-1000/FT-1000D were
>produced over a 12 year (or so) period. Thus, a 2 as the first digit
>could mean that the radio was built in either 1992 or in 2002. To
>distinguish between the two years, the letter "A" is appended (with a
>rubber stamp) to the s/n sticker of the unit built in 2002 to indicate
>that it's the second use of that s/n.
>
>As far as I know, the serial number of the unit does not appear anywhere
>inside the radio.
>
>73, Jim, K5QL
>
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>
>Don Bozarth wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure this has been asked before.  Given that the Yaesu serial 
> numbers start with a digit indicating the year, continue with a letter 
> indicating the month, 2 digits for the lot, and 3 digits for the number 
> within the lot.  How can you differentiate between an FT-1000 
> manufactured in 1990 and one manufactured in 2000?
> >
> > Don B.
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