Setup for the Yaesu FT-1000MP

 Yaesu FT-1000MP

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Setup for the Yaesu FT1000MP

After you have selected what equipment you are going to have in your audio chain, as I have described in other parts of this web page, you must design how you are going to interface the radio to the chain. There are at least two fine FT1000MP web sites that will provide you with a wealth of information on the Yaesu radio and it's use in normal applications.  One of the sites that I got pointed to by my Yaesu users group was VA3CR's fine 1000MP reference page. There you will find all kinds of information on setting up the parameters on the 1000MP menu's.  Another great site is N1EU's site. Barry has collected many tips and links that I found very valuable in setting up the MP and understanding how it works. Give them both a try before going on with setting the radio up for HI FI audio. After reviewing these pages and making sure you have a good knowledge of how the MP works, come back and set the radio up for HI FI. This is what this page is about. The radio must have the correct menu settings specific for HI FI audio, if you are going to expect to get it to sound correct for audio work. Pay especial close attention to menu selection 4-4. The factory setting for this parameter is OFF. You may have changed it when you got your radio as many of the suggestions on the internet indicate either a setting of 3 or 4 depending on your voice. BUT if you are going to use the FT1000MP for audio work and plan on putting your audio through an external equalizer as I do, you must have this parameter set to off or much of the work you do in the EQ will be defeated by the radio. Menu 5-9 must be set to 6.0. Menu 7-7 must be set so that the radio transmits and receives from 100HZ to 3100HZ. The default again is off and you will not get broadband great audio without changing this menu. Always run the MP with the EDSP on when you want to use it for HI FI audio.

On the 1000MP, I access the radio almost exclusively via the rear panel. That is to say, I don't even run the audio input via the microphone jack on the front of the radio. I use the PATCH jack that was intended for the phone patch input to the radio. This port seems to work just fine and is at microphone level. That is why you must use the Murf-Box in front of the port. Most of the cables for radio hook-up can be purchased at your local Radio Shack. In this case you will need a cable with a 1/8 inch jack on one end and a 1/4 inch jack on the other. Be sure and buy the shielded cables. RFI will always be your enemy, so anything you can do to protect yourself, you must do. I plugged my foot switch to the PTT port. I bought a special splitter cable at RS that has a TRS (Tip Ring Shield) 1/8" plug on one end and RCA plugs on the other. I ran this cable from my external SP-8 speaker to my stereo amplifier and plugged the RCA jacks into the Tape/MD  input port. That way I can listen to received audio in excellent audio, not the pinched off sound that comes out of the regular speaker. My audio amplifier has a remote control, so I can even select between audio of the radio or switch over to music from the CD player I have online, when the bands get boring. You can not  have anything else plugged into the microphone jack on the front of the radio. That would cause problems with the audio quality and would not work well at all. If you want to switch over to your DX setup, you can just shut the audio rack down and then plug your DX microphone in the front and go for it. When running the audio gear and setup, NEVER put the radio processor on, never ever. If you want to use it in the DX setup, that is up to you. Also, remember to ALWAYS listen to your audio via the monitor circuit in your radio. An even better method is to listen to it in another radio all together. 

The are a number of less publicized menu settings in the MP that do effect how the radio presents and receives audio. Most notably is the menu selection of 9-0. The menu selections in this section are the more course settings and menu selection 8-9 then can be used to fine tune the "carrier set adjustments". You enter this menu and all other menus after 8-9, by pressing the FAST and LOCK buttons while pressing the power button. Just after you do that press the FAST and ENT buttons to get to the menu selections. Turn the MEM/VFO CH knob until you see menu 9-0. If you don't get to that menu, then start over again with power on as described earlier. When you have accessed the 9-0 menu as you turn the sub vfo you can now cycle through the sub-settings of menu 9-0. You will be presented with the following screen displays: Main VFO window will read: Sel-bd-il
Sub VFO window will read: car-Set
· Move the sub vfo dial until the sub vfo screen reads: r-Lsbcar (Lower Side Band Carrier) The main vfo window should now show a factory set number designation. I.e. "F-0. 030" or something similar to this number. By increasing or decreasing this number you will hear incoming audio fidelity changes. Highs and Low's are changed in direct proportion to the increase or decrease of this setting.
· The same effect is had when adjusting the other sub-settings in Menu 9-0.
· You should cycle through and alter the number settings for all the sub-settings under menu 9-0 for both receive and transmit audio. The sub-settings are titled as follows: And all display either positive or negative readings.
· R-Lsbcar = Receive - Lower Sideband Carrier My new settings are F -0.150
· T-Lsbcar = Transmit - Lower Sideband Carrier My new settings are F -0.320
· Proc-LSb = Processor - Lower Sideband My new settings are F 0.150
· r-usbcar = Receive - Upper Sideband Carrier My new settings are F -0.150
· t-usbcar = Transmit - Upper Sideband Carrier My new settings are F -0.320
· Proc-uSb = Processor - Upper Sideband My new settings are F 0.150

After your done hit the "ENT" button on the face of your rig and your out of
the menu mode. You can now go to 8-9 and fine tune these settings to your taste.
Remember to first record your Factory settings so you can reset them if needed. For quite awhile the effectiveness of these settings was doubted by many audiophiles on 14.178, but recently they have been verified by most MP users and have contributed to the improvement of the transmitted audio.

You may have to make changes after you first get this one going. Again remember, this EQ is for me and you may sound bad using it. I give it here as a starting point and you may want to play with it to make your audio sound the way you want. This table was last updated on 3/21/04. You may want to reduce the gain on the lower end. Items marked in red and **** represent fairly significant changes. 

I am used a Heil gold line pro with this EQ. This is a starting point for the FT1000MP and you will have to work with it to match your voice and other equipment.  This table is used in the Behringer Feedback Destroyer. I did not have a good EQ for the DEQ 2496. You can use this one as a base to build one for the 2496. Use these filters in combination in the PEQ and GEQ.

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