#279

[@johncundiss9098]

Well first. Advise customer to R.T.F.M. Yea it is a thick book but they will learn a lot. Second is I sent my 3000 in twice under warranty and they still not fix the issue. I looked at the unit myself finally. The screws for the voltage regulators were loose. I have never had a problem since. And last but definitely not least. THANK YOU for the peek inside such a beautiful radio.

[@TRXLab]

lol RTFM

[@dougrea8260]

I thought that it might be something simple from the beginning. I suppose the lesson to be learned is that overlooking the simple stuff can baffle the best of us and usually does. Your thorough approach to the problem leaves little to nothing to be overlooked. A connector jarred loose in shipping or a hungover assembly tech could have been responsible for the headphone problem. And menu driven radios can be daunting. Another commenter said R.T.F.M. That's always true, but that is also a lot to retain. I love watching you work.

[@krahwinkel9503]

Transceivers get more and more complex - for the operators, not switching on the keyer and for the manufacturer not connecting the connectors correctly. Good job!

[@silvanomoreno6950]

Congrats Peter for this new video, this time was very easy to solve two little problems, 73 I1WSM

[@pixeluser175]

Welcome to TRX Bench. Well, this time, we do it very different. On the bench, we have a client and a quality control manager!

[@TRXLab]

lol

[@chevyguy1128]

Nice work atleast it was something simple good job figuring it out you are very smart when it comes to repairing hf radios I enjoy watching your videos.

[@W4JDY]

From day one, Yaesu took care of me with the first no-cost repair due to a cabling connector known issue and installation of all of the extra filters. The FTdx-1001Mp is simply awesome. The only problems is that few software packages support it HRD being one of the few that does. Also, if you do not read the manual, good luck.

[@wolfhawg]

I have this radio has me scratching my head at times. Thanks Peter. 73s

[@charliem.9998]

no construction site is too difficult for Peter ,,, hats of fellas ... 73s de DL6RDE / AA1KD, Charlie

[@peterpfisterer7153]

Easy fix for the speaker, aaaaand RTFM for the keyer issue ;) Good and fast job Peter :)

[@morseoneuk]

Good result Peter

[@W4BTK]

Peter that's a beautiful rig. I just bought the FT-710 and have not yet taken it out of the box. My FT-891 will rest on vacation for awhile. Thank you for such great videos. I'm sure your customer is quite happy now.🎉

[@TRXLab]

And even the FT-710 has a far better receiver than most of the much more expensive radios..Good choice!

[@dosgos]

Yaesu has some incredible radios!

[@arthurgumbus3969]

Great job.... thanks for this wonderful video and your expertise.

[@TRXLab]

Thank you

[@jimmy8653]

Nice work Peter

[@TRXLab]

Thank you

[@jimwolsiffer4397]

Good repair, sometimes Murphy is asleep! Glad it was rather simple. Regardless of brand all things suffer from occasional manufacturing defects, oversights or goofs. Jeeo upbrhe great vids Peter! 73, Jim

[@Beretta96Dan]

You are "Still the Man!"

[@TKomoski]

The old man has got to have a lot of money to have one of those Peter *Cheers* *73*

[@TRXLab]

Yeah, it is not the cheapest radio on the market.

[@JxH]

They're available much cheaper if you buy a slightly used one that has 'defects', such as an apparently-defective internal keyer and a seemingly-broken headphone socket. 🙂

[@bblod4896]

Beautiful radio. So many features, however, I prefer something much simpler. On the sad side, poor quality control, someone/something never checked headphones switching. Peter, thanks for the look inside the newest technology. 🍻

[@tlrptg]

quality control should be a lot stricter nowadays.

[@JxH]

"QNB 147 23" is a Q-Code that means (in this example): "My Radio has 147 knobs and buttons, and I know what 23 of them do. 🙂

[@pasqualeiw0hex95]

Thanks for sharing this video with Yaesu FT101MP guest. Nice to see it inside. Very simple to fix but very nice video. Thanks my dear friend, 73s Pasquale IW0HEX

[@TRXLab]

Thanks for feed back my dear friend!

[@adamap2796]

FTDX101MP Peter, FTDX10 in the video title 😊 nice easy repair

[@TRXLab]

You are right! Thank you

[@adamap2796]

@@TRXLab 👍😀

[@heinerrambold8889]

Yaesu could improve a lot in this rig. Especially the decoder for the various modes is only implemented half-heartedly. Had to find out this keyer thing myself. And using the rig with FT-8 was also not too easy. Thanks Peter for the instructive video!

[@TRXLab]

Always look for the latest firmware. Yaesu is doing a lot

[@heinerrambold8889]

Hi Peter, yes, not long ago I upgraded to the latest firmware. However, not even after this can the Yaesu write down audio to the sd card. The Icom 7300 can.

[@notfallmed]

Top, Tnx Peter, best 73 😉

[@TRXLab]

Thank you!

[@OctavMandru]

A good one, Peter! I would have jumped on the opportunity to clean the connector first, but I am lazy. To be honest, the lack of any slack in cables will create such issues. It is unpardonable in my opinion. I mean, the whole bundle is routed on top of the connector, ffs. Nobody paid any interest in routing logically, in an engineering fashion. Make it fit seems to be the name of the game. With a 5000+Euro device you pay a premium and expect perfection. Not the case here

[@stargazer7644]

Why would you need to clean the connector on a brand new radio?

[@OctavMandru]

Why not? Dirt doesn't care how new an equipment is.

[@stargazer7644]

@@OctavMandru Actually, yes it does. That would be why new equipment is always clean inside.

[@izzzzzz6]

happy days

[@dr.tomgio6694]

It looks like someone was asleep on the assembly line. Thank the Lord it wasn't something more serious.

[@TRXLab]

lol yes

[@super-8]

What a big one .. omg :-)

[@TRXLab]

Absolutely and one of the best receiver on the market.

[@rlwoodlief]

Where is Peter located? Wondering if it would be cost effective to ship my radio to him for repair.

[@brianumbrell4049]

You are on VFO B which in sideband.

[@misterkrispy8010]

Ein Gruß aus Südafrika. 73 DE ZS1DX

[@TRXLab]

Beste Grüße nach Südafrika!

[@chevyguy1128]

It's a nice radio but too complicated for me I like the ham radio hobby don't get me wrong but I would never spend 4k on a radio my little ft-891 does a good job for me.

[@g0fvt]

Very happy with my FTDX101MP, though I did kill it on the first day! Fortunately VRF150s are relatively inexpensive and very easy to obtain. I put it down to finger trouble on my part (too high audio level on FT8) but did find the FETs were not screwed down firmly. A great performing radio but of course a lot of settings to play with. I took the opportunity to fit all of the optional filters, hopefully I will not be seeing the inside of the radio again for a very long time. In defence of Yaesu, the rig you are working on has some accessory filters fitted, the 101MP is normally shipped with 3 vacant filter slots. It is possible that a dealer fitting the 1200Hz filters to this radio disturbed the connector. 73

[@johnratcliffe6438]

Filters are not dealer fitted for the FTDX101, they are factory fitted.

[@g0fvt]

@@johnratcliffe6438 the 1200Hz filters are available readily in the UK, I fitted mine and the narrow CW filter for the sub-receiver myself. The situation in the USA is apparently different as they claim the filters need to be factory fitted. That is not the policy in the UK.

[@johnratcliffe6438]

@@g0fvt Martin Lynch say they have to be factory fitted. But that's for a new order, not retrospective.

[@g0fvt]

@@johnratcliffe6438 my rig came from another UK dealer, I bought the 3 filters and fitted them myself. It is a fiddly job getting the receiver boards out and disconnecting a large number of tiny coaxial connectors. If I was retailing them I would not want to do many!

[@zbyszekpodchmielony2642]

👏👏👏👏👍👍🙂

[@KX2U]

I am confused, Does this brand new radio have a warranty? or do you do Yaesu warranty work?

[@DeltaXray444]

I was thinking the same, if it's a brand new radio it should come with a warranty/guarantee and the Yasue tech should sort out any issues that arise with the radio.

[@TRXLab]

Yes Yaesu has warranty and they are very accommodating

[@KX2U]

Then again, why are you fixing it? I of course know you are more than capable but with a warranty why?@@TRXLab

[@stargazer7644]

@@KX2UPerhaps the owner didn't want to wait months for it to go back to the factory.

[@jamesseaman2950]

I've always preferred Yaesu's menu structure compared to Icom. Icom has multiple layers and is very confusing while I find Yaesu's approach to be more logical.

[@conorturton]

Yaesus makes no sense. I have both an Icom 7300 and FTDx10. On the Icom if I want to change band I touch the MHz on the screen and the band options come up. On the Yaesu if I press the MHz I can only use the rotary dial to change the MHz by 1MHz increments which is of no use at all outside of the 10m band and pointless. Why can't it bring up onscreen buttons with the bands on like Icom?

[@TRXLab]

The menu structure of Yaesu has improved a lot with the new range..

[@OctavMandru]

But the quality control seems to be the same as always, Peter 😢

[@jamesseaman2950]

@@conorturton I think you are mixing up menus and operational controls. The older Yaesu menu system was numbered 1 - nnn and organized into functional groups. Most menu items are set once and forgotten about. The Yaesu menu system developed for the new FTdx line is still organized into groups, but they are under the function pop-up and accessed by buttons on the touchscreen. I have no problem with either method. Yaesu's menus are a mile wide, but an inch deep. Icom's method, with layers of icons, drives me nuts.

[@jamesseaman2950]

@@conorturton On my FTdx-101D, when I touch the Hz portion of the freq display, it brings up a direct entry keypad. I think I recall the FTdx10 brings up the band selector.

[@StormsSilence]

What would cause an Icom 756Pro3 to churn out a heap of noise and have almost no reception, even of local AM.

[@TRXLab]

A few things can cause it, but most of the time a problem in the frontend..

[@jblo6822]

Where is the quality control? Should have caught that.

[@TRXLab]

Quality control as known in the past is not present nowadays. At least for consumer electronics. Nobody want to pay for it these days..

[@stargazer7644]

Someone added filters to this radio. This might not be Yaesu's fault.

[@GeorgeChristofi]

New radio... return under warranty and get something with better build quality.

[@TRXLab]

all radios have their pros and cons as any other consumer electronics on the market too...

[@GeorgeChristofi]

certainly, however, in recent years Yaesu build quality has become much cheaper and less of a quality feel to it. I remember Yaesu being a solid brand with sturdy rugged controls and almost no issues except operator ones right up until the ft450 came out which was the first low quality set from them.@@TRXLab

[@Gorantp]

The build quality of Yaesu's FTDX series is superb. It is a question of assembling. It might be Yaesu's fault, but also a mishap while, say, installing filters by third parties.

[@GeorgeChristofi]

@@Gorantp Fair enough though looking at the thickness of the chassis it looks like they have cheapened out compared to the chassis of their own 80's sets and earlier. The ft450 was the first to have the soulless lightweigh plastic tuning knob. I havent felt the ftdx in person so I cannot tell if it 'feels' nice.

[@Gorantp]

@@GeorgeChristofi the feeling of the tuning knob is, trust me, spectacular. Solid aluminum...

[@paulmitchell4421]

yaesu user interface, boy oh boy....

[@TRXLab]

Have to admit that I hate the old menu structure but love the new menu structure, even over Icom

[@paulmitchell4421]

@@TRXLab the ft-1000D I still have has No menu structure making the experience grossly enjoyable! (despite 10hz tuning) and (!) the noise blanker works on FM (!) despite the commonly held belief that it's not possible. it is actually effective too :) The 991a menus are trecherous thought...

[@Ei2iP]

Had 101d, sold it after two months, over rated radio... Went full SDR instead, no regrets 😊

[@TRXLab]

The SDR radio is not even in the TOP 10 Sherwood list whereby the FTDX101 MP is on the first palce..

[@Wassup-Doc]

@@TRXLab More to a radio than a Sherwood list

[@TheHoss4145]

Try to replace "the old man" with just "customer"...

[@hagei406]

RTFM ! more and more Hams are relying on others knowledge..

[@jochenkrebs9685]

The Manual say´s, read the Manual first LoL Oder wer lesen kann ist im Vorteil ....

[@conorturton]

Yaesu radio ergonomics are beyond strange. Whoever they get to design how you interact with the radio controls needs to be fired and they need to hire someone from Icom or Kenwood. Nobody would ever think of having to press in that knob to enable the keyer, they would assume if it was selected and enabled in the CW setting menu it would just normally work just like on any other make of radio.

[@TRXLab]

Everyone has to find their own way.

[@stargazer7644]

ICOM isn't any different. Just putting it in CW mode and hitting the key won't make it transmit. You have to select one of the break-in modes to get it on the air.