[Yaesu] FS: Yaesu FT100D-inexpensive

[Jim Hargrave]

John,

If I were you, I would remove the lock washers. Perhaps one of your lock
washers was too large and has shorted out a land that was printed close to
one of the mounting pad.

* 73's Jim W5IFP *

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: yaesu-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>  [mailto:yaesu-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of John Geiger
>  Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:14 PM
>  To: forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net; Yaesu at contesting.com;
>  yaesu at mailman.qth.net; FT100 at yahoogroups.com; vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu;
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>  Subject: [Yaesu] FS: Yaesu FT100D-inexpensive
>
>
>  I have for sale a Yaesu FT100D in very good physical condition, with the
>  mic, manual, mobile bracket, power cord, and original box.  Now
>  here is the
>  deal.  It was working fine, other than showing the self
>  oscillation problem
>  on 70cm.  I opened it up to add some lock washers to the circuit board
>  screws, and after putting it back together and turning it on,
>  the receiver
>  is very low on SSB/CW.  It is putting out full power on transmit, and the
>  receive is OK on FM (but with no S meter reading).  You can hear a few
>  signals on CW/SSB, but it is very reduced from what it should be.
>
>  Might be an easy fix, I don't know, but I am asking $250 shipped
>  for this,
>  or will trade for an HF or HF/6 rig to keep me on the air.
>
>  73s John AA5JG
>  (ex: W5TD, NE0P)
>  6M WAS #1275, 6m VUCC #1260
>  2m VUCC #615, Satellite VUCC #129
>