Yaesu Heritage Year 2010 - GS2MP                         Updated 14th Dec 2009

Thanks for your interest in this event.  We are very grateful to Yaesu (UK) Ltd for sponsoring us with special QSL cards, small trophies and an overall prize at the end of the year.

Each calendar month in 2010, Chris GM3WOJ and Jim GM0NAI will be using a different model of vintage Yaesu radio, mostly on 40m and 20m CW and SSB, to give everyone world-wide the best chance of working GS2MP. 

Every QSO with the GS2MP vintage station, located near Inverness, Scotland, will earn points towards the award and you will earn extra points if you are also using a vintage Yaesu radio, but we will need a photo of you operating it !  More details later about how to claim the awards - please keep a careful note (on paper or in your electronic logfile) of the date, time, frequency and mode of your QSOs with GS2MP.

Working a pile-up with a 40-year old radio will be tough - be prepared for some frequency drift and we won't be able to work split with most of the radios (but the old separates will be fine, hi)  We might be using a hand microphone but hope to key the radios with our PCs rather than a hand-key. We intend to use linears and good antennas to make things easier for you.  These are the radios we will be using in the first half of 2010 :

  Neither Jim nor I have any commercial connection to Yaesu - we just have a bunch of vintage Yaesu radios that we want to use to work you !

73  Chris GM3WOJ / ZL1CT  (www.zk2v.com) 

Here are a couple of the radios we will be using - the original FT-dx-100  :

and the very popular FT-200 :

we also have :  FT-101B, FT-101E, FT-401B, FT-dx-401, FT-One, FT-102, FR100/FL100 etc..

Some interesting links :

http://www.portablemasts.com.au/yaesu/Yaesu2.htm

http://www.radiomuseum.org/m/yaesu_j_en_1.html

http://www.yaesu-museum.com/history.html

http://foxtango.org/foxtango001.htm