[WT-support] Revisiting the Yaesu FT-990

[Robert Pack]

I have tried the radio (I still have 2 of them, both with 1.3 rom) with 
version 4 with even worse results.  But for now I am not concerned about 
what it is doing with V4 (clicking on a 160 spot sent the radio to a 
different band...wow).
I have tried everything and whenever I click on a 160 spot (CW) the radio 
goes to the correct frequency but changes to LSB.  I even tried setting up 
the bandplan where it was 1800-2000 CW and nothing for SSB or RTTY.  That 
did not seems to do any good either.  Something is telling the radio to go 
to LSB in the case....but what?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Franta Bendl" <dj0zy at i--i.de>
To: <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [WT-support] Revisiting the Yaesu FT-990


> Hi Bob,
>
> I tried to connect FT990 to Wintest some years ago. There is a serious 
> problem
> because the older firmware of FT990 is not capable to do this job - the
> interface is blocked for more seconds because the FT990 sends a lot of
> redundant data to the Wintest. As far as I can remember the wrong firmware 
> is
> < 1.2 and the right 1.3. If you have the older one there is no hope.
>
> 73 de Franta/DJ0ZY
>
>
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 05:36:58 Robert Pack wrote:
>> First of all, I never did get a real fix for a 990 issue.  Although I 
>> have
>> V4 I have been using V3 since some of the computers I use are still the
>> older Win 98 machines and V4 will not work. Anyway, I am setting up for 
>> the
>> ARRL 160 contest this coming weekend and noticed that clicking on a spot
>> sends the radio into LSB.........every time.   I want to use the 990
>> because the receiver seems to be better than any of the other radios I 
>> have
>> here.
>>
>> The 990 has a din connector for the CAT interface so it is not a plug and
>> play type deal such as found on the 1000 series (and others). I may have
>> missed some discussion on this over the past year so if anyone has the
>> answer on this problem I certainly would appreciate some input.
>>
>> Thanks es 73,
>> Bob NX5M
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