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Nice radios . Back when he had a ham outing with Generals and Extras there and hear them on 7 mhz and it was amazing what you could do on 7 mhz and go from Florida to Texas .

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I was thinking about this today.
I have not had any time to work on these.
But last night I looked in the back to be sure the Acc plug was in the rig. The 101 does not have a switch on the back other than the front panel heater switch. If the plug is not in it will not produce power.
I do remember seeing a RCA jack hanging out the back of the plug. So going to check that out tonignt.

Last night I pulled the ACC plug off the F and put another one on.
Sure enough I got full out put on 40 and 80 meters. Less thn 20 watts on all other bands. The S-meters works but not in PO, IC or ALC. So got to trouble shoot the reason power is down on other bands and the meter circuit.

Sounds like it's on the road to recovery already. I wasn't sure about the Yeasu's having the grid cut-off switch like the Kenwoods do but it was worth a look.It's always nice when a "broken" radio is easily repaired. When I bought my TS-820S it came with the external vfo VFO-820 as well. The seller told me up front that the external VFO did not work and he thought that he blew a transistor in it when he unplugged the interface cord with the power on and saw a small spark.The radio worked great with the internal VFO but needed the interface cable plugged in to work unless I jumpered the jack on the back. I got the radio home and opened up the VFO and while I was poking around I found a bad connection inside the cable where it connects to the jack. He must have broken the tiny coax cable that carries the VFO signal back to the radio.It was a pain to solder as it was so tight but after a couple minutes I had a fully operational external VFO allowing me to work split.

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Front/back ratio comes from the antenna. Forward gain comes from the wall socket.

Now thats pretty good. Strange that things will break and folks will sell it . Most today lack the know how when it comes to this stuff.
Glad that one worked out for you.

I got on 80 meters and was tuning around and heard a couple of guys chatting. After they finished I threw my call out using the F. One came back to me and said I had good audio and wanted to know what I was talking on. He was in Texas.

If it sounds good now I wonder how it is going to sound when I get it fixed. Not sure how much bias I have but I did turn it way down.

Not going to get much done this week end. I have to work in the morning and repairs Saturday. I am suspose to be on a week lay off next week but a guy wanted to switch with me. We are required to take a week of lay off a month untill the end of the year. But one line is running and they work a lot of OT. So I will be working. Oh well.
So much to do so little time.

Well, yesterday I had a chance to play arounf with the E model. Took it apart and cleaned the heck out of it. Soldered up a few joints. This radio would come on, the meter and dail lights would light up, but the VFO light was out. Also it had no TX or RX.

After the clean up the rig transmits full power on all bands. It also receives on all bands but the RX is down a bit. Most likely a proble with the FET.
I want to find the original 11 meter crystal and put back in the 11 meter slot. There is a 12 meter crystal in there now. I am going to take that out and put in the F.