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by W9JPB on October 27, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Hello. I have acquired an old Yaesu FTdx 100 as of a while back. Since then, I've had it tested and aligned and it works great. I have also the original manual. Just a week ago, I got my general ticket and am looking ti jump on the HF bands, but don't know if this can be something I can use. My question is do these bring in any money and if so how much? This is not a want ad, I'm just curious to see if these could help me get on my way to the HF bands.

RE: FTdx 100	Reply
by AD4U on October 28, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I have lots of old Yaesu "FTDX" rigs (FTDX-401, FTDX-560, and FTDX-570) in my boat anchor collection. I have never heard of an FTDX-100. Not knowing what it is, I would guess that its greatest value would be to a collector. But like I said in the beginning, I don't even know what it is. Dick AD4U

RE: FTdx 100	Reply
by AD4U on October 28, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
PS: I just looked up the FTDX-100 on google. From the front panel cosmetics and lay-out, it appears to be the fore runner of the FT-101 series of transceivers that were imported into the US starting in the early 1970's. I have never seen one, and I am not aware that it was ever imported into the USA. What you have is rare, but like anything of that vintage, it is worth what some collector will give you for it. Dick AD4U

RE: FTdx 100	Reply
by WA6HDZ on November 5, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
As I recall, this is a hybrid tube finals+ driver/transistor everything else rig from the late 1960's. A lot of these came back from Japan with US servicemen; the yen was 360 to a dollar and shopping for techie stuff in akihabara was (still is!) fun. That's how I got my FTdx500! BAMA has a manual, but Yaesu made minor design changes often back then and yours may be slightly different than the manual on BAMA. Should be a good rig to start with, it may have some front end overload on receive if the guy a block away runs a kW during a contest or on CB. Enjoy!

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