[Yaesu] FT990 spares ROM v1.3 :)

[Mike Brown]

And here I sit wondering what my 990 will have. I bought one off of qth.com 
and forgot to ask the owner  what version of firmware it had. He said they 
he had not tried to run it with rig control. Anyway, I'm hoping it has 1.3.0 
as I have a 3rd party interface still in the package. I had bought it 
because I was going to buy the 990 from a local SK estate and it had 1.3.0 
on it. The radio worked fine, but somehow it was pretty beat up. It would be 
nice if it was just a case where you could get the correct eprom and burn 
it. I'm sitting here with my fingers crossed....

73, Mike K9MI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv at subich.com>
To: <ws7i at ewarg.org>; <yaesu at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 22:21
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] FT990 spares ROM v1.3 :)


>
>> You mean to tell me that the controller does not have a 27265
>> EPROM just like the FT-1000D?
>
> That's the information I had.  I no longer have a FT-990 manual
> set to be able to independently confirm it but everyone that I
> know of who upgraded the FT-990 had to ship them to California
> for the upgrade.
>
> Yes, I was surprised by that since I upgraded a couple early
> FT-1000s by burning a new 27C265.
>
> 73,
>
>   ... Joe, W4TV