[Yaesu] FT1000 (D) or FT2000?

[Keith Dutson]

I find plenty of negative stuff on eHam.net.  I consider it to be non-useful
(mostly just complaining) for the most part.

Actually, the FT2000 blows away the FT1000.  It does this primarily by
employing DSP in the first IF and allowing selection of 3 different roofing
filters for each mode.  Also, I understand the BP filters in the 2000 do a
great job of eliminating out-of-band interference.

Keith NM5G

-----Original Message-----
From: yaesu-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:yaesu-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 1:24 PM
To: Dave Maley; yaesu at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] FT1000 (D) or FT2000?

Several of the reviews for the FT2000 on eham.net have been less than
spectactular.  Unless you have no other way to get on 6m (my favorite band)
I would think that the FT1000D would blow away the FT2000.

73s  John AA5JG

--- Dave Maley <dgmaley at commspeed.net> wrote:

> Chris;
> You have posed an interesting question.  I also have been looking at 
> the FT-2000, but still have a '1000D on my desk.  This one is an older 
> unit, built in 1991, I've gone through it and added the Inrad roofing 
> filter and the cooling system mod so that it's quiet.
> The issue with the FT-2000 is its front end, so I found a place where 
> I could download the FT-2000 service manual to compare against the 
> '1000D.
> Now while the FT-2000 is a nice radio, it's not really in the same 
> class as the '1000D.  I suspect if Yaesu were still trying to build a 
> FT-1000D, the selling price would be around $5K.  Yaesu stopped 
> building the '1000D because they couldn't get some components, not 
> because they couldn't sell them.
> I put the front-end schematics side by side. 
> Decided that Yaesu still
> likes using a million tiny relays.  Why they decided, on the FT-2000, 
> to put some of the bandpass filters on the large main board and some 
> on a daughter board is beyond me.  The FT-2000 roofing filters are 
> just single pole monolithic filters.  The original '1000D had two 
> filters cascaded.
> I think you get the idea.  I've decided to keep my '1000D, at this 
> point and wait for the 'Digital Cat Wisker" radio to show up.  Good 
> luck with your decision.
> Dave
> WA0ZZG
> 
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:05:43 +1300
> > From: Chris Parnell <cparnell1001 at mac.com>
> > Subject: [Yaesu] FT1000 (D) or FT2000?
> > To: yaesu at contesting.com
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> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am considering selling my beautiful FT-990
> (which depresses me
> > greatly!) in order to pay for a trip overseas and
> then save for either
> > a second hand FT1000 / 1000D or FT2000.
> >
> > Just wanted to put the question out there to get
> some thoughts. I used
> > to own a 1000D some time back and realise how good
> it is, but haven't
> > tried the 2000 but have seen some in-different
> reviews on the FT2000
> > but would like to get some feedback from users of
> both.
> >
> > Hope you can help.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chris Parnell - ZL1CDP
> >
> >
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