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Was in the shack earlier this morning and got a call from a friend of mine.
Said he was just leaving the Maysville Hamfest and wanted to know if I was going to be home. Said he had something for me.

I work on a lot of his equipment.
When he got here he started showing me some of the gems he picked up.

A very mint SB201. This thing looks great!
A heath kit 3kw tuner that requires a little work
A Icom VHF all mode. (older don not remember model)
A few D104 mics
Frequency counter
Browning Mark 3
A clean looking 11 meter amp. Never seen one so dont know much about it but was told it was set up for 10 meters.
A Dak mark 9 LOL

And know the good stuff.
He pulled out 2 Yaesu FT-101's. One E and one F.
The F has a few knobs missing and he was told it was for parts.
He gave me both of them and said merry christmas.

I like to dropped. Been wanting one of these for quite some time now.
Of course I thanked him and he said have fun!.

The F model does recieve and puts out about 2 watts. The E comes on but no recieve of TX. They are not the cleanest rigs I have seen but also not the worste.

So now two more restore projects on the burners.

Me so happy.





I will post some soon.

Why am I thinking of the words "lucky" and "SOB" right now?

There were not too many of the "F" models made. They were the last in the 101 series and had all the latest and greatest upgrades available. I would put my time and effort into restoring the 101-F first.

As for the 2 watts from the F model, check the driver tube as well as the finals and make sure the grid switch is not turned OFF. That allows just the driver power out to the antenna to operate a transverter. (I think the 101 has that function.I know my Kenwood TS-820S does.)

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

That is because "lucky" and "SOB" goes together

You know I have not even thought about that. Now thats is a plus

I have to dig on that. You may be correct.
Oh, did I mention I have the user and service manuals that came with them also? How lucky is that?

Feel like I won the lottery

Now have to find that Yaesu paint code again.

OK. Enough of that. Now it's just plain rubbing it in.

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

Yes Master



Cant help myself.
Now if I can just get the time to work on them.

I need to get out in the shop and clean up. Make some room and re-arange the radio desks. Now I have to get my Hygain 6HDXX up and put up a few more dipoles.

To much to do.

Probably want even be able to sleep tonight.

Here is a couple of pics
As you can see there is 3 knobs missing on the F model (Right Side), they are the ones with the small hole. Af Gain, Mic Gain, Clarifier.

Are those tube radios or regulator trainsisters ?

Train,
These are the first of the Hybrid trancievers. That means they are solid state (transistor) but the final amplifier is tube. There is one driver and two finals. There were several buit like this arounf that era. The Kenwood 520 was another.

Radio Tec thats a first that i heard about hybrid radios . I know Tube radios and Transistor radios but this is a first to me but you learn stuff every day lol . You can call me CJ a Ham Tec .

CJ, there were a lot of hybrid radios made in the 70's and early 80's. Solidstate design was pretty much the answer to everything back then except an economical way to produce clean power levels in the 100 watt class range. The answer was to make the entire radio solidstate except for a low power tube driver stage and a high power tube final stage. Yaesu had many radios in the FT-101 series that had a 12BY7 tube driver stage and a pair of 6JS6 tubes in the finals while Kenwood had a number of radios in the TS-520,820,and 830 series that used a pair of 6146B's in the finals. They are some of the best radios either company ever made prior to the latest and greatest digital wonder radios. Actually in some cases they even outperform the basic functions of some of these radios. Here are some classic hybrids of which I would be proud to own any of them. I do own the TS-820s series.


RigPix Database - Kenwood/Trio - TS-520S

RigPix Database - Kenwood/Trio - TS-820

RigPix Database - Kenwood/Trio - TS-830S

RigPix Database - Yaesu - FT-101B

RigPix Database - Yaesu - FT-101ZD

RigPix Database - Yaesu - FT-102

RigPix Database - Yaesu - FT-902DM

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