[INRAD] Full Dual Multi Band Receive Mod for FT-1000MP - AnyInterest Anyone?

[Dean St. Hill]

There would be interest here.


Dean - 8P6SH / 8P2K


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WD8ARZ" <wd8arz at ix.netcom.com>
To: <list at inrad.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:50 AM
Subject: [INRAD] Full Dual Multi Band Receive Mod for FT-1000MP - 
AnyInterest Anyone?


> Would any of you be interested in supporting Inrad in a modification that 
> would provide true full dual receive in your MP/MkV/Field? Operate on 10M 
> main receiver, and listening on 160M on the sub receiver??
>
> Back in 1998, and several times in the years following, emails have been 
> posted to the various incarnations of the MP reflector about a full dual 
> receive mod for the MP.
>
> This email is an effort to bring up this topic and generate renewed 
> interest in a possible Inrad Mod Kit to do this.
>
> The following email started this thread (the jehosophat reflector know 
> longer exists):
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "WD8ARZ" <wd8arz at null.net>
> To: <n9avg at jehosophat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 2:36 PM
> Subject: FT-1000MP External Bandpass Filter .......
>
>> Hello Jeff, hope this message finds you and yours doing well..... bet 
>> your
>> INRAD mod pcb is winging its way to you by now...... I have posted my
>> results.......
>>
>> Today I received a air mail via Japan from Masayuki Uchida JO2AJT/WH2O ex
>> JL7CLE. He graciously sent me a copy of the English and Japanese text 
>> about
>> the conversion of a FT-1000MP. Interesting information and confirms it 
>> can
>> be done.... but, Yaesu will not accept requests for this from outside 
>> Japan,
>> and without the eeprom, this information is incomplete.
>>
>> Do you have any connections that would let us do some sort of bulk order 
>> for
>> those that want to do the mod instead of Yaesu? About all Yaesu would 
>> sell
>> us would be the eeprom, pcb and the bpf1 unit. We would have to acquire 
>> the
>> rest of the parts ourselves, do the build and make internal modifications 
>> to
>> the MP. More detail might be needed to clarify some of the internal 
>> changes.
>>
>> There is also a ham out west that later this year will have a pre 
>> converted
>> MP brought state side for his evaluation. The person bringing it is even
>> willing to swap with him a MP for a MP so it can stay state side..... I 
>> will
>> follow that event and forward more info to you as it becomes 
>> available......
>>
>> At this point I suspect it will be some time before one of us makes this
>> mod.... hi hi
>>
>> 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ
>
> Since the above, several emails of this type were posted in each of the MP 
> reflectors that followed, including the current one. After receiving a 
> email from WB8SRS asking about this topic, and knowing how busy George 
> W2VJN is so that he may have missed those earlier emails on this topic, I 
> figured sending it directly to him and posting on the Inrad and 1000MP 
> email reflectors might help to gauge what interest there really is.
>
>
> The original web site in Japan still exists at:
> http://www.vxstd.com/jp/experts/4108.htm
>
> Using Alta Vista online translation for the above site, a translated copy 
> was provided to the VA3CR web site and is at:
> http://www.va3cr.net/main/dual%20receive%20mod.htm
>
> Overseas interest in a US version of this mod died out. Last I heard the 
> main hold up for us in the States, was to get the ROM code needed in this 
> project.
>
> Three things are needed to do the mod:
> 1) A BPF-1 band pass filter module from the FT-1000 (FT-1000 does have 
> true full receive).
> 2) Circuit Control Module done in Japan (recreated in the states?)
> 3) Rom code for the control module
>
> Thanks for your interest, and as I have stated before in this area, I am 
> willing and able to pursue this modification and testing on my MP .... hi 
> hi
>
> 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ
>
>
>
>
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