[RTTY] Yaesu

[Jerry Flanders]

I studied that question quite a bit a couple of years ago before I bought a 
Quadra, and decided the Yaesu's 500 watt rating was for continuous 
"broadcast" RTTY, whereas the ICOM's KW rating was for the usual ham 50/50 
duty cycle. As I recall, the transistors are the same, and the Yaesu's PS 
actually has a slightly higher power capacity rating. I concluded 
Yaesu=ICOM as far as PO on RTTY is concerned.

An aside: I also wondered why the amp's 6M rating was only 500 watts. Turns 
out that 500 W is the max legal power in JA-land, where these things were 
designed and built ! I think I remember seeing that the transistors have no 
such artificial power limit on 6. I don't operate 6, but would crank it up 
to full KW in the USA if I did. I would check for spurs first time, of 
course, but wouldn't expect to find any.

Jerry W4UK

At 21:27 11/4/03, WA9ALS - John wrote:
>But these are the RTTY and N1MM reflectors...
>
>And the Yaesu products are only rated half-power on RTTY...
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jerry Flanders" <jeflanders at comcast.net>
>To: "N6OJ" <n6oj at sbcglobal.net>; <rtty at contesting.com>;
><N1MMLogger at yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 4:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] Yaesu
>
>
> > Good experience here also - in its 35th month, my Quadra's PS developed a
> > problem. They had voluntarily extended the warranty from 1 year to 3, then
> > even covered the second owner (me) at no cost. They even paid return
> > shipping to me to SC after they fixed it. This about a year ago. I think
> > this was in WA state.
> >
> > PS - anybody wanting full control of their Quadra or FL-7000 amp with
> > non-Yaesu exciters should check out:
> > http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rwilliams309/QUADRA_interface.html
> > or: http://www.qsl.net/ab4oj/quadra/w4uk.html
> >
> > Jerry W4UK
> >
> > At 18:34 11/4/03, N6OJ wrote:
> > >Hi All
> > >
> > >After reading comments about service from some of the major companies I
> > >felt compelled to
> > >write this note.
> > >My FT-1000 quit working on the 22nd of October which is when I sent it to
> > >Yaesu in Cypress Ca.
> > >for service.
> > >I talked to the service dept in regards to the problem and what was the
> > >turn around time he said about 2 weeks
> > >
> > >Yesterday 11-03-03 the rig arrived  at my door repaired and ready to go.
> > >I think the service department is to be commended for a job well done
> > >and in a speedy fashion.
> > >
> > >
> > >Chuck
> > >N6OJ
> >