[Yaesu] Best $600 contest rig

[Jack/NA7RF]

A couple of years ago my first CW contest from this location was run 
with a '301D. K7AO came up with his 600-watts about 3 miles from my 
location and I was done on that band (40M in this case)...the amount of 
garbage generated in the receiver made it impossible to continue. Based 
on later operations with other gear I know it was a problem in the '301 
and nothing originating from Ken's station.

Jack, NA7RF

Steve Harrison wrote:
> At 11:34 AM 9/24/2006 -0700, Jack/NA7RF wrote:
>> There *are* some surprisingly bad rigs out there like.....
>> .....the FT-301S/D, among others!
> 
> That's surprising, to me. I had one of the first 301S's in the States (in
> fact, it was bought in Japan by an airline pilot friend and brought back
> here, just for me) and thought it was just as good or better than my
> modified SB300 in terms of intermod and overload.