I concur with Mal. For 17 years, my faithful TS-950D has resided on
Ascension Island. More than its share of contest No. 1's and world records.
Simply a very outstanding and reliable radio.
THEN I took the first of two MP MK V's to Ascension, replete with INRAD's
finest CW filters, roofing filters, etc. What amazing radios they are, and
I fear my faithful 950 has been relegated to the ashpile of backup radios.
Next subject??
73
Jim Neiger N6TJ / ZD8Z
----- Original Message -----
From: "N7MAL" <N7MAL@CITLINK.NET>
To: <jmaass@columbus.rr.com>; "'AD5VJ Bob'" <rtnmi@sbcglobal.net>; "CQ
Contest" <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Rig
> HUH..??.. I'm confused.. I'm sitting in front of a MKV and in the upper
> right hand corner are 3 little push button switches used to select
> filters. I'm only a CW contester and have no SSB filters but do have CW
> filters. I use those switches regularly during contests. Yes when you
> originally install the filters you need to activate them from the menu,
> but that's only once.
> To answer the original posting I wouldn't trade the MKV for anything. I've
> been contesting for approx 50 years and have used everything from S-lines
> to C-lines to Icoms and Kenwoods. This MKV blows all those radio's away
> hands down. For CW contesting and really big CW pile-ups I especially like
> the front panel audio filters. A mandatory filter is a narrow CW filter
> for the sub-receiver.
> 73
>
>
>
>
> MAL
> N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
> http://geocities.com/n7mal/
> Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
> It's already tomorrow in Australia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Maass
> To: 'AD5VJ Bob' ; CQ Contest
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 22:08
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Rig
>
>
>
> Bob:
>
> Yaesu screwed with the filter switching from the
> front panel with the MkV and Field. On the original
> MP you can select any combination of 2nd and 3rd IF
> filters from the panel. In the MkV and Field, you
> have to access the menu system (uggh).
>
> There are other issues as well.
>
> There was an article in NCJ soon after the MkV came
> out which listed the reasons that the MP beat out the
> MkV as a contest rig. I can't tell you the issue, but
> a Google should find it.
>
> 73,
>
> Jeff Maass K8ND
>
> Station Manager PJ2T,
> Caribbean Contesting Consortium
>
> CCC Web Site: http://www.pj2t.org
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> > [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of AD5VJ Bob
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:51 AM
> > To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contest Rig
> >
> > A while back there was some discussion on Contest rigs. The
> > following rigs were considered as contest worthy radios:
> > FT-1000D, FT-1000MP, FT-1000MP MkV, FTdx9000D TS-850S,
> > TS-850SAT, TS-930S, TS-950SDX IC-765, IC-7400, IC-756PROIII,
> > IC-7800 Ten-Tec Orion Elecraft K2
> >
> > Two questions:
> > Nothing was mentioned about the SDR-1000. What about that
> > radio, anybody using it?
> >
> > The fact of getting the "Original" FT-1000MP was brought out
> > over and over. Making me think something is wrong with the
> > FT-1000MPMKV. Is there?
> >
> > TNX, BOB AD5VJ
> >
> >
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