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@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@mac.com>
> > Subject: [Yaesu] FT1000 (D) or FT2000?
> > To: yaesu@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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