Topband: ? Key-clicks FT1000MK-V field ?

[Barry N1EU]

>From: Bill Tippett <btippett at alum.mit.edu>
>         This is what is so difficult for me to understand.  What is the
>cost of  a production change, which at the worst might be a new board
>layout and probably a few cents worth of components?


One thing that might make it more problematic for Yaesu is that I suspect 
they manufacture current rigs (MkV Field etc) in very infrequent but huge 
batches.  I was shopping for one a year or two back and found that every 
single radio on U.S. dealer's shelves had identical manufacturing date 
codes, which were 13 months old at the time.  I queried and not a single 
Field owner at that time replied with a more recent radio.

I think the proof of Yaesu's intentions will be in the FTDX-9000 and whether 
that comes off the production line without key clicks.  They certainly know 
by now what the FT-1000X series keying is like.

73,
Barry N1EU