Tech talk on YAESU CAT & audio

[Marijan.Miletic at IJS.si]

Hi Contesters,

While reading recent discussions on Heil & CAT problems with YAESU,
I got a feeling that nobody reads electrical diagrams any longer!

FT-1000 dual audio output for headphones is generated by pair of transistors
with 1 KOhm in emiter, supplied from +9V via 100 Ohm & 100 uF and biased by 
100 kOhm .  Assuming optimal colector current of 4 mA, such a stage gives 
maximum of 16 mW output power in linear class A but to the 1 kOhm load.  
This is about 100 times less (- 20 dB) than available from final audio 2 W 
amplifiers.  They use 1 uF coupling capacitors which makes nice 10 kHz 
high-pass filter with standard 16 Ohms headphones and greatly rejects hum!

Yaesu CAT electrical interface consists of + 5 V emiter follower TX and
10 kOhm pull-up with diode in series for RX.  Interfacing with RS-232 
computer serial port can be done by directly connecting CAT TX output to 
RS-232 RX input.  Additional 3.3 kOhm resistor to the ground is recommended.  
RS-232 TX output can be connected to CAT RX input via 3.3 kOhm serial resistor.  
CAT input should be protected from RS-232 negative voltage by small diode of
1N4148 type with anode connected to the ground. 

ICOM & Kenwood use inverted RS-232 levels and therefore need MAX-232!

I wish you a very good luck with Yaesu CAT protocols as they take ages to 
service the simple computer request of radio frequency.  FT-1000 is supposed 
to do that fast with ROM version 6.  Unfortunatelly, I am not able to get this 
free of charge item in 6 month via K7JA!

73 de Mario, S56A, S57MM, N1YU, ex YU3EA, YU1PCF.

email: Marijan.Miletic at IJS.SI

>From Bruce Herrick <bdh at mixcom.mixcom.com>  Wed Apr 20 14:39:46 1994
From: Bruce Herrick <bdh at mixcom.mixcom.com> (Bruce Herrick)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 8:39:46 CDT
Subject: Dayton!
Message-ID: <199404201339.IAA19778 at mixcom.mixcom.com>

The Society of Midwest Contesters would like to welcome all amateurs to our
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Thanks, and see you all there!

73, Bruce WW1M & Gary W9XT
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