[Yaesu] Contesting on the FT920

[Mike Brown]

John,
The club has a 920 and it was used in Field Day and the receiver was not up 
to par with the Kenwood 850. It seems to be a nice rig, but it didn't seem 
to handle the qrm very well. Inrad has a mod that puts a crystal filter in 
the 920. That may help the problem. I would not call the 920 a bad rig at 
all, but it is not a 1000 MP. I can't comment on the 2000 MP as I have yet 
to use one. For contesting, I still prefer a rig with at least some crystal 
filters in it. Just my opinion though.

73, Mike K9MI


---- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <aa5jg at lcisp.com>
To: <YaesuFT920 at yahoogroups.com>; <Yaesu at contesting.com>; 
<yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 23:35
Subject: [Yaesu] Contesting on the FT920


> Interested in the experiences of those who have used their FT920 in a
> contest.  How does it do?  Is it usable or is the receiver just not up to
> speed for contesting?  Now I am not a hard core stacked monoband 
> contester,
> but more of a casual one with smaller antennas.  I do like the rig so far.
>
> 73s John AA5JG
> (ex: W5TD, NE0P)
> 6M WAS #1275, 6m VUCC #1260
> 2m VUCC #615, Satellite VUCC #129
>
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