[Yaesu] need service on FT-1000D

[Wilson Caselli]

Hi Dale,

Yesterday I sent you a note about repairs using my cell phone.  Today I was 
able to search the internet for the "guy" who used to do the repairs on the 
high-end Yaesu radios, and he is Byron Campbell, WA4GEG.  His website is at: 
http://www.hamradiobug.com/repairfacts.html  I now notice that he is 
limiting himself to only working on the FT-1000MP series of radios, but your 
problem seems to be a simple one not requiring display and other front panel 
changes, so, If you email him and discuss your problem with him he then may 
decide to fix it for you.  wa4geg at HAMRadioBug.com is his email address.

I own a FT-990AT radio, the baby brother of your radio, and I recently 
purchased an FT-3000D which I am in love with.  Several years ago my FT-990 
sat in my Ham Radio Barn for a few years without my attending to its needs, 
then I tried to transmit with the radio and only could muster 25 watts of 
output power.  Well the fellow above would not touch a lowly FT-990, so I 
ended up sending it to a repair service guy in the Chicago area.  That 
fellow is: Jack (WA9FVP) at Willco Electronics web page: 
http://www.willcoele.com/radio_repair/index.html  Well jack managed to get 
the radio working again for me but upon its return the "S" Meter no longer 
functioned.  For some reason he added a diode in the radio's circuit, which 
may have messed-up the AGC.  Then... I rationalized myself into thinking 
that I had my 100 Watts back, and it was driving my amplifier okay, and that 
599 was all we give out when making DX contacts, and, in the early days we 
never has S-meters....  So, I never complained to him about this small 
problem.  All in all it cost me over $300.00 for the repair with the cost of 
shipping the radio via UPS being around $75.00 each way.

BTY: I too will be 73 in June, and I understand the problems.

Wilson Caselli, K1MIJ

-----Original Message----- 
From: wt4t at reagan.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:41 AM
To: yaesu at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Yaesu] need service on ft-1000d

Can any one recommend someone that will work on my ft-1000d. I have lost the 
notch circuit in my rig. at 73 the old fat fingers are no longer a match for 
the little parts in the 1000.
thanks
dale wt4t

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