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I glanced at your pics ¨C beautiful work!

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Mine does indeed have the option voice processor, though how effective it is in practice I have yet to determine.? I spend 95% of my air time on CW, so I give less consideration to the voice.

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I did notice an issue that I am not sure is the aging filters or a quirk of the radio.? On 40 meters, the LSB filter sounds as though it has the same bandwidth as the CW filter.? On 80 and 20 (not that I use it there), the bandwidth of the LSB filter sounds much broader.? I¡¯m guessing that it is time to replace the filters. I¡¯ll have to check INRAD¡¯s, though I¡¯m guessing that they may cost more than I paid for the radio.

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Seventy-Three,

Nick (N1CCK)

FN31RS ¨C CT

SOC# 1258 | FISTS# 19779

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Randy W7CPA
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:41 AM
To: [email protected]; n1cck@...
Subject: Re: [yaesuft301d] Hello

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Hello,

I just finish making one good FT-301D from 2 junkers and learned a lot about the beast. See my photos. I strongly recommend you install the Elcon VFO stabilizer in yours. They drift 400-500 annoying Hz. Does yours have the optional Speech Processor? The biggest problem is the aging SSB filters. INRAD has expensive replacements but for not much longer. The crystals in these old filter change a little bit over time.

Cheers,

Randy

On 2/18/2020 5:28 PM, Nick (N1CCK) via Groups.Io wrote:

I am the new owner of an FT-301 (not the D version), and have been searching for a little hideaway among people that recognize such a boat anchor. They certainly are quirky radios, but I enjoy it very much.

Hopefully my lack of a digital display doesn't get me summarily dismissed.

73,
Nick (N1CCK)

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