[Yaesu] Roofing filter

John Tait bravo at iol.ie
Thu Jul 20 16:27:43 EDT 2006



> Peter Sundberg <sm2cew at telia.com> wrote:
>
> At risk of being flamed, I feel that this obsession
> with having a roofing filter in the FT1000 is somewhat
>
> exaggerated. 
>
> How many times during normal use of the radio do you
> notice a vast improvement with the roofing filter in
> line? How may times has this helped you to complete a
> contact you never would have made without it?  
>   
     I notice it whenever I'm in a contest, or a big pileup...NO doubt 
about it !
   However, It'll do nothing for you when you're ragchewing on 17m.
  Having it in my MP and my 1000D, has completely put me off thinking of 
upgrading my rig..
 for now anyway.
      73
     John EI7BA  http://www.iol.ie/~bravo/
>
>   


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