[CQ-Contest] FT-1000MP

Sun Jul 17 23:46:46 EDT 2005

I have been following this thread with interest. I had a 751A and won several contest certificates while using the 751A. That being said the 751A was probably the worst radio ever designed by any manufacturer anywhere in the world. Yes you could put good filters in the radio and it would be a formidable radio for contesting especially on CW. But it also had a battery in it and anyone who was ever a 751A owner knows exactly what I'm referring to. Either you sent the radio back to Icom or you were at the mercy of the 'after-market' memory board manufacturers when the battery died. (Been there done that)
I now own a 1000MP MKV. Yes changing the RF Amp to tuned from flat increases signal but, and this is a big but, it also increases the noise floor giving the impression it's improving the front end. If you didn't hear a signal before you turned on TUNED then you still not going to hear it. I guess some guys get a 'warm-n-fuzzy' comfort feeling hearing more background noise. The 1000MP has a very good rcvr on 10 meters it's just a very quiet rcvr.

P.S. Dave please stay in California this year so the rest of the guys in Arizona will have a chance..hihi...:-)

MAL               N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
http://geocities.com/n7mal/
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David O Hachadorian 
  To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
  Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 1:05
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] FT-1000MP

  On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:56:39 +0600 "Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc at r66.ru> writes:

  >  1000MP is no good for quiet locations
  > because there is not enough sensitivity on 15 and 10 meters.

  This is true if you use the default "FLAT" RF amplifier menu setting.
  Changing this setting to "TUNED"
  solves the problem.

  Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
  Big Bear Lake, CA

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