* On 2010 01 Apr 20:34 -0500, k8gt@mi.rr.com wrote:
> First, the TS850 that I bought used, had a serial number in the 50,000,000
> range and was produced near the end of the run, and had the CAR board with
> the new 66312 DDS chips, not the old 6631's that would fail (there are 4 of
> them).
That must be the reason I had two fail on separate occasions, the first
about a month after I bought it and the second about six months later.
No longer trusting it and thinking it to be a lemon I traded it for my
FT-920 alomst ten years ago. For those whp've not had the chips fail,
good luck and continued success. But even if the chips had not failed,
once I tested the receivers of the '850 and my FT-890 side by side, the
'850 was on its way out of the shack anyway.
73, de Nate >>
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