This is a Yaesu FT-101ZD a friend wanted me to restore for him. It was an eBay purchase, I'm wondering how well it might have been described... Poorly packed for shipping, the case was bent, bottom feet broken and shoved up into it, broken switches, and a bent vfo shaft. To top it off, it looks to have been wet... a WHILE. People with toss a 50lb radio in a box with a few peanuts and call it "ready to ship". What a mess... I guess I'll start on the cosmetics, first...
While working on some repeater stuff, I pulled all of the old repeater construction notes together and put them in a book, before they were lost in the scramble of 50+ years of ham radio.
Much of this split-site repeater was built from bits and pieces of what I had, and I scratch built the rest. This was probably the most fun of any repeater I've ever worked with, working hams from the middle east in the morning hours, and out into the south pacific late in the day.
I plan to detail this a lot more in the coming days, as this 30+ year old system gets a face-lift.
