Hi All. Re: I reasnly got a partly working Yeasu FT-101-ES. I got it asis from a pawn shop. The Pawn shop got the 101 in an estate sale. The 101 came Complete expect for no A/C or DC power cord. I got an A/C power cord from eBay. The A/C
cord arrived about a week ago. the 101 powers up BUT there is very little
sound, just a tinny bit of static and when I turn on my FT-890 HF rig (It works great) to 3.980mhz and turned the antenna switch to the
FT-101-ES and turned the mod on the 101 to tune and moved the ptt
switch to MOX I got a very loud tone out of the transmit on the 101 and about 30 watts power reading on my MFJ-941E tuner with the 101 preselect, plate and load tuned right. I can hear my own voice on the FT-890 when I speak in the mic on the 101. All 3 tube filaments light up. So that tells me that the TX is working up to the
driver tube and probably the finals are putting some power out.? It also tells me that the 3 ganged tuned IF cans haven't been messed with (thank God for that). It has been many years since I last worked on any FT-101 anything. I am going to need some guidance on fixing this rig. All I have for test gear is an old Echo tube driven RF GEN and a Ideal 61-340 digital VOM. I sold my portable tube checker a few years back.
BTW When I tried to TX on the FT-890 I heard NOTHING on the FT-101-ES
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From the desk of the Amateur radio station of?KC7BYP
1/24/2024
