[Yaesu] FT767 questions/opinions

[Gerry Pement]

John AA5JG wrote:
> I have a chance to pick up a Yaesu FT767 which has been recently aligned and checked out, so it should be good to go.  From those who have used them, I have a couple of questions:
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> 1. How is the receiver overall?  I realize it probably has some phase noise being an older synthesized rig, but does it have pretty good strong signal handling capabilities-like contests and such?
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> 2. What is the NB like in it?  Does it take out line noise and things like that?
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> 3. How does the autotuner do?  Is it like many of the 80s and early 90s autotuners that will load up about anything, or more like the late 90s to present autotuners that are pretty crappy and won't load up much of anything?
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> 4. Anything else I should know, good or bad, about the 767? It doesn't have any modules with it and I probably won't get any either.
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> 73s John AA5JG 
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Hello John

I have a FT-767GX and its little brother the original FT-757GX in my 
shack along side with Icoms IC-751A. All 3 are really good old radios. 
On your question on the Noise Blanker I think that the FT-767 has the 
best noise blanker of those 3 rigs. The FT-767's noise blanker is really 
great with power line noise.I have olny tried the Auto Tuner when I got 
my FT-767GX and it was working great but had limited range it would not 
tune my Loop Skywire at the high end of 75 meters near 4 mhz. I found 
the receive in contest situtions to be good the only time I used the 
FT-767 for contesting was on a couple of RTTY Contests and it handled 
Contesting well. I use my FT-757 for a lot of CW contesting I really 
like the smooth QSK on the 757GX. You are part of the pile up in a DX 
contest and I was amazed a few times when the hot station came back to 
me. I have had a lot of contesting experience on CW with my IC-751A and 
that little FT-757 compares very well. My FT-767 has the 2 meter module 
installed in it and works very well on 2. I hope that helps John I like 
my FT-767GX it is a nice Base station.
73 Gerry VE7BGP