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Technical Information on Equipment by and ![]() Compiled by Mike Morris WA6ILQ Click on any of the images above to go to the corporate web sites |
Best we can figure out from the Yaesu web site, the name "Yaesu" has been relegated to the amateur radio division, the name "Vertex / Standard" is the new name for the commercial radio division (replacing "Vertex"), and the marine division is now "Standard / Horizon". Of course, things may change next week.
The equipment branded as "Standard" that was made by Standard Radio Communications Co. / Standard Radio Co. is on the "Standard" page at this web site. Only the information that is applicable to equipment manufactured after the merger of Yaesu/Vertex with Standard is on this page.
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Yaesu USA 10900 Walker Street Cypress, CA 90630 USA Voice Tel: 714-827-7600 Fax: 714-827-8100 Email: customerservice -at- vxstdusa -dot- com |
http://www.yaesu.com http://www.vertexstandard.com http://www.standardhorizon.com |
Manuals and parts are available from the company, contact them at the above phone number. Pricing on manuals is usually less than half the cost of copying a manual, since there are usually a number of fold-out schematics in color. Go to http://www.vertexstandard.com for more information.
Repeater-Builder is looking for articles and information on the older Standard RP-series (for the "Standard" page), the older Yaesu FTR-series repeaters, the current VXR series, and other Yaesu / Vertex / Standard / Horizon land mobile equipment as there isn't much "out there" on using Yaesu/Vertex/Standard commercial equipment in the amateur radio world...
The information we have below is here for one of three reasons: (1) We needed it for a personal project, went looking for it, found it, and decided to stash it here. (2) It can't be found elsewhere, or (3) it's interesting enough that it's worth including below.
Yaesu provides "Operators Manuals" and calls a service manual a "Technical Supplement". An "Instruction Manual" is both.
Amateur Radio:
If you need help on a Yaesu amateur product, well as of May 2005 (the time of this writing), there are over 100 "Yaesu" groups on Yahoo Groups alone, plus there are a number of other web sites that cater to the Yaesu enthusiast.
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FT-23R Technical Supplement Donated by A. Nony Mous 2.5 MB PDF file Here are some notes and comments on the FT-23R. The speaker/microphone is a model MH-12A2B. Here's the speaker-mic pinout. |
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FT-60R Operating
Manual Donated by A. Nony Mous 2.35 MB PDF file The PA-38 drop in charger (the standard one for the FT60) is an RF noisy pest, especially between 25 and 50 MHz, with harmonics audible as far as 500 MHz. I seriously wonder how it got approved by the FCC. |
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FT-227-R Memorizer Instruction Manual 2.27 MB PDF |
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FT-817 Technical Supplement 19.7 MB PDF |
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FT-2800M Technical Supplement 2.9 MB PDF |
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FT-8900R Operators Manual 1.4 MB |
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FT-857 and FT-857D Technical Supplement Donated by A. Nony Mous 14 MB PDF file |
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A home-made boom microphone headset for the FT-897 A well-engineered modification and a well-done writeup from Martin Ehrenfried G8JNJ |
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VX-7R Technical Supplement Donated by A. Nony Mous 8.17 MB PDF file |
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VX-10 Operators Manual Donated by A. Nony Mous 371 KB PDF file |
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VX-60R Operators Manual Donated by A. Nony Mous 2.35 MB PDF file |
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VX-150 Operators Manual Donated by A. Nony Mous 450 KB PDF file |
Yaesu FT-1500 2m 50w single-band mobile:
This radio is popular with the Packet / APRS community due to price and durability.
The 6 pin data connector used on the rear is the same connector as an S-video cable. You
can pick up a 3 foot S-video cable and cut one end off, add a more common connector to
the stub, and use it to interface your TNC to the FT-1500.
To enable out-of-ham-band receive (such as NOAA weather) just turn the radio off and then
press and hold down the D / MR button down while you turn the radio on.
One disadvantage is the microphone is specific to this model. It's part number MH-48A6J, and is both DTMF and backlit.
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The original catalog brochure 503 KB PDF file |
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A zip file of six files that make up the FT-1500 2m mobile schematic set 5.4 MB ZIP file |
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A 4-page PDF of the FT-1500 2m mobile schematic set 1.2 MB PDF file |
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FT-1500 2m mobile Users manual 2.8 MB PDF file |
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Anybody have the FT-1500 service manual? |
Land Mobile Radio (commercial 2-way):
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Instruction manual for the FTR-710A, FTR-2410 and FTR-5410A repeaters 128 pages, 27MB PDF file donated by A. Nony Mous This manual also covers the FL-750, FL-2450and FL-5450 Power Amplifiers. |
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VX2000 Accessory Connector and interfacing to a CAT300DXL controller Provided by Dave Wood KB8SCR |
The VXR series is Yaesu's current commercial (LMR) repeater product line.
There is a Yahoogroup for the VXR-5000 series at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VertexVX5000.
Note that there are two versions of the VXR-5000. The older versions do not have the 3 LED's on the back of the unit and do not hve the PL encode\decoder built-in. Those require the FTS-22 tone squelch unit inside the repeater. If you are buying a used VXR5000 and it does not have the 3 LEDs on the back make sure the FTS22 board is there. The newer version has 3 LED's located on the rear panel of the repeater unit and have the PL functions included inside the control unit.
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VXR-5000 Repeater Mods Courtesy Southeast Iowa Technical Society (SEITS) |
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VXR-5000 UHF Repeater Service Manual (the chapters marked with a "U" are UHF-specific,
the chapters marked "C" are common to the UHF and VHF). The UHF manual is no longer available from Vertex. The VHF Service Manual is in stock at Vertex-Standard Parts Department, at about $20 plus tax and shipping. Its part number E04091003. Chapter 1, General Information U 1.4 MB Chapter 2, Description U 380 KB Chapter 3, Programming C 1.9 MB Chapter 4, Alignment U 404 kB Chapter 5, Chip Repair C 113 kB Chapter 6, Block Diagrams U 202 kB Chapter 7A, CNTL 1 Unit C 2.8 MB Chapter 7B, CNTL 2 Unit C 3.1 MB Chapter 7C, TX Unit U 2.3 MB Chapter 7D, RX Unit U 2.8 MB Chapter 7E, TX VCO Unit U 227 kB Chapter 7F, RX VCO Unit U 249 kB Chapter 7G, PA Unit U 1.5 MB Chapter 7H, REG Unit C 1.9 MB Chapter 7I, DSUB Unit C 132 kB Chapter 7J, MOD Jack Unit C 160 kB Chapter 7K, CAPA Unit C 672 kB Chapter 8, Mechanical C 134 kB All of the above 18 files as one ZIP file 18.4 MB After the download is finished you will need to create a new, empty directory and then unzip the file into it. |
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VXR-7000 Repeater Brochure Donated by A. Nony Mous 1.24 MB PDF file |
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VXR-7000 Repeater Information By Dave Fortenberry NA6DF (offsite link) |
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VXR-7000 Repeater Operating Manual Donated by A. Nony Mous 1 MB PDF file |
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VXR-7000 VHF Repeater Service Manual Donated by A. Nony Mous 10 MB PDF file |
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VXR-7000 UHF Repeater Service Manual Donated by A. Nony Mous 10 MB PDF file |
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VXR-7000 Repeater Programming Adapter By Matt Krick K3MK 23 KB GIF |
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VXR-7000 CE27 EEPROM Programming Software Reference Manual 258 KB PDF |
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Computer Automation Technology ("CAT") makes some good repeater controllers. This link goes to the "Interfacing a Vertx 7000 Repeater to an external repeater controller" interfacing note in their library on their server. This link is a local copy at repeater-builder in case their library goes away. Note that the writeup is for a carrier squelch repeater. If anyone would like to do another article on switchable mode repeater please consider this to be an invitation. |
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VXR-9000 Brochure / Specifications Sheet 604 KB PDF |
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VXR-9000 Operators Manual 460 KB PDF dated 2004 |
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VXR-9000 VHF Repeater Service Manual By A. Nony Mous 5.7 MB PDF |
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VXR-9000 UHF Repeater Service Manual By A. Nony Mous 5.6 MB PDF |
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Yaesu YC-355D Frequency Counter Instruction
Manual 5.5 MB PDF Donated by A. Nony Mous At one point Yaesu made a few pieces of test equipment. This is an older Nixie™ display based TTL frequency counter. Note from WA6ILQ: I still have a YC-355D - it was the first really useful counter that I had that wasn't full of tubes... I had built a counter that used RTL logic, but it couldn't even get up to 1500kHz. I traded a Moto all-tube dynamotor mobile for the YC-355D... I think I got the better deal. |
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VX-1700 HF mobile users manual 858 KB PDF file |
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