I noticed Texas Towers removed the listing for the Yaesu Mark V
Field from their web page, and HRO only has demo units available. Is
the Mark V Field discontinued or just temporarily sold out?

-Curious

Discontinued! It is to be replaced by FT2000.


"Meta Morph" wrote in message
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I noticed Texas Towers removed the listing for the Yaesu Mark V
Field from their web page, and HRO only has demo units available. Is
the Mark V Field discontinued or just temporarily sold out?

-Curious

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:48:46 -0500, "W4LM"
wrote:

Discontinued! It is to be replaced by FT2000.


"Meta Morph" wrote in message
news

I noticed Texas Towers removed the listing for the Yaesu Mark V
Field from their web page, and HRO only has demo units available. Is
the Mark V Field discontinued or just temporarily sold out?

-Curious



Well lets hope the new model will be more reliable than the Mark V.
I did not buy one because of all the complaints of both the 100 watt
version and expecially the 200 watt version blowing up and requiring
multiple trips to Yaesu repair.
I looked at the Kenwood TS-2000, but it is just too ugly. Multiple
eham.net reports also suggest that it is deaf. As far as the Icom's,
I look at an LCD screen on my computer all day at work. I really
don't want to look at another computer screen when I come home from
work and turn on my ham radio.

-Curious

In article ,
Meta Morph wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:48:46 -0500, "W4LM"
wrote:

Discontinued! It is to be replaced by FT2000.


"Meta Morph" wrote in message
news

I noticed Texas Towers removed the listing for the Yaesu Mark V
Field from their web page, and HRO only has demo units available. Is
the Mark V Field discontinued or just temporarily sold out?

-Curious



Well lets hope the new model will be more reliable than the Mark V.
I did not buy one because of all the complaints of both the 100 watt
version and expecially the 200 watt version blowing up and requiring
multiple trips to Yaesu repair.
I looked at the Kenwood TS-2000, but it is just too ugly. Multiple
eham.net reports also suggest that it is deaf. As far as the Icom's,
I look at an LCD screen on my computer all day at work. I really
don't want to look at another computer screen when I come home from
work and turn on my ham radio.

-Curious

The ads for the Kenwood TS2000 were not the best. I thought the same,
ugly. I bought one anyway because of all the stuff it will do and when
I got it and on the desk it's not all that bad looking. The pictures
aren't very good. It is quite a radio.

As for the MKV, I had one and it's got many on hours, hundreds in fact
and I never had any problem with mine, but that does not speak for
everybody, just me. Having said that, I did not find the MKV to be much
better than the MP. I like my 775 better.

Alleged specs of the not-yet-available FT-2000 are he

http://www.rys.nl/ft2000.htm

Perce


On 01/27/06 09:48 am W4LM wrote:

Discontinued! It is to be replaced by FT2000.

Field from their web page, and HRO only has demo units available. Is
the Mark V Field discontinued or just temporarily sold out?

Meta Morph wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:48:46 -0500, "W4LM"
wrote:


Discontinued! It is to be replaced by FT2000.


"Meta Morph" wrote in message
news
I noticed Texas Towers removed the listing for the Yaesu Mark V
Field from their web page, and HRO only has demo units available. Is
the Mark V Field discontinued or just temporarily sold out?

-Curious



Well lets hope the new model will be more reliable than the Mark V.
I did not buy one because of all the complaints of both the 100 watt
version and expecially the 200 watt version blowing up and requiring
multiple trips to Yaesu repair.

No tears shed over that loss, eh? I've used a club MV Field a number of
times, and it just didn't impress me. doing simple things required
diving into the manual, heaven help a person if they lose the manual. My
pet peeve was the brightness of the display. It wasn't bright enough, so
I looked in the manual, and after 5 minutes found the menu item to
change the level. Go to it, and find out it is already at the brightest
setting. Really, if they want to design an inadequate display, why offer
the option of making it even dimmer.

But that is just one of many issues. Using that variable speed tuning
doodad in back of the dial was either too slow, or waaaaayyyy too fast.
Did I mention way too many menu items?

The auto tuner seemed to have less range than other radios. It wouldn't
tune an 80 meter dipole across the band while an old IC-765 (now that's
a radio) would easily tune it. Tuning seemed a bit slow in all cases.

Did have a good notch filter, though. Audio filters were okay. I found
myself using only one or two though.

But all in all, it just wasn't much fun to operate. Perhaps all parts
of the reason it has been discontinued


I looked at the Kenwood TS-2000, but it is just too ugly. Multiple
eham.net reports also suggest that it is deaf.

Hard to say. The bad reports weren't too frequent. But you are right -
the radio IS ugly....

As far as the Icom's,
I look at an LCD screen on my computer all day at work. I really
don't want to look at another computer screen when I come home from
work and turn on my ham radio.

Ahhh, but what screens that are! 8^)

73 de Mike KB3EIA -

I think that you are always going to find something that you do not
like from a rig, but because of that i can't say that it is a bad rig.
When we talk about of the FT-1000MP MRK V we are talking about one of
the few HF rigs that really work. Just look into the biggest DXers,
Most Wanted and DX Peditions, and see what they are using. When you
add the R.FILTERS to the MRK V the selectivity is great and when the
band is crowded on contest weekends you would appreciate having a MRK V
fully loaded. Sometimes you need to go into a bad situation of
crowded bands and other details that affect communication to see what
this piece of equipment is able to do. In good band conditions these
features sometime becomes useless and unnoticeable based there is no
need to apply them.


73 Leandro KD5WPL