Well you all! I had nothing better to do tonight so I went and modified my FT-100D as per the suggested way ie.
By removing the first two jumpers and doing the acrobatic 3 switch power up and all that.
Seems to work on HF. On VHF and UHF power seems quite low out of band, but that's not a big deal for now. Just for testing purposes I programmed in the FRS/GMRS frequencies (462.5625 etc) so I could listen to the activity on that band. I can hear them quite well, so far, so good.
Problem comes when I try transmitting. I cut back the power by setting menu 24 to 0 or 1 which is plenty of power for testing. The transmit signal is about 8 khz higher than the displayed (receive) frequency.
I thought it must be the walkie/talkie, so I got another one I have, same thing. WOW!!! I'm not very happy, I'm not at home right now and don't have the equipment to explore this further. I just hope that this transmit/receive offsett is just a localized phenomena and has not offset the whole range of the radio.
Anyone out there care to check this particular frequency range out on their modified radio. One thing that happened when I was powering up the radio for the first time, I didn't see the the "r ON" appear. I did see the "HF ON" and "vU ON" though but not the first one. Anyone has something to say, I'm all ears.
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