RD>> hard-earned dollars on a radio or options for it then goes
 RD>> finger-poking into a perfectly working piece of gear. If it
 RD>> ain't broke DON'T F!@# WITH IT!
 RW> Well, the factory didn't design it right, so some ham has to stick his
 RW> fingers in there and fix it...:)
 If they didn't design it right why buy it?
 RD>> One poor fool paid $300 for a `mint' condition FT-101-E only to
 RD>> find that the 10 and 12m bands had crystals in them allowing
 RW> Right.  However, if the buyer were smart, he would get the name and 
hone
 RW> number of the seller.  He just might have those crystals laying around 
n
 RW> his desk some where.  I know I've got the 11mtr crystals for the 520 in 
my
 RW> rock collection.
 No such luck.
 The previous owner bought it that way and the guy he bought off of is an SK.
 RW>>> How many TV-502's have you found?  I've been looking for one of
 RD>> None.
 RD>> Rare as the transverters for the Yaesu FT-101 series for 2m and
 RW> Me either.  If there is one for sale, it's usually in a set and the 
seller
 RW> won't sell it unless he sells the rig with it.  Funny, I'd think he 
ould
 RW> sell the transverter in hopes of getting rid of the radio later.
 Same here. Most who have them won't part with them and those that want to 
sell want you to take the radio -and- any other transverter with it.
 And the prices asked are close to the -new- cost of the gear when bought.
 RD>> any radio for a VHF/UHF band I was going to be active on from
 RD>> the home had to be an all-mode one rather than FM only.
 RW> Since most of my operating is on UHF FM, I don't have any multimode 
radios
 RW> except for the 520.
 For FM I use a 732A mobile hooked to a dual-band groundplane.
 The multi-mode rigs rarely,if ewver,come onto FM,they are usually on 144.200 
and 50.125 on SSB listening for band openings.
 I use a 11m ssb rig to listen for possible 10m or 6m openings and as thunder
storm-watcher when I'm on FM.
 RD>> I may yet get a transverter for 220MHz and feed it with a 28MHz
 RD>> If from one of my 10m rigs as the 220 all-mode gear is dear and
 RD>> -very- pricey here.
 RW> I've got one radio that covers 220.  Since the FCC gave part of the band
 RW> away, I've noticed a big decline in the useage.
 220 FM only rigs are non-existant here.
 220 all-modes are dear in price and most who have them won't sell.
 Icom once made a complete suite of five all-mode rigs for 6m,2m,220,70cm and 
1.2Ghz,but those are even more rare to find a complete set of.
 And harder to get a deal on as many won't sell them.
 RD>> Have you tried any of the old Turner desk mics?
 RW> Yes, I didn't like them as well as the D-104...
 RW> My Astatic doesn't have a pre-amp, it's just a plain old crystal
 RW> microphone.  Fed into the 520's speech processor, it works exceptionally
 RW> well.
 Ok. Many of the D-104's I have heard on HF sound like the Silver-Eagle style 
of pre-amps. VERY loud and they pick up everything within 30 feet of the mic 
when you transmit.
 RD>> I may go as much as $50 CDN for the non-amplified MC-50 or -60
 RW> I'll keep my eyes open..
 Thanks Roy.
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