Yaesu FT-101

FT-101

FT-101E

I didn't have to do much to this. I ran it up slowly on a variac over a couple of days with no problems.

All the switches needed cleaning and the pots as well.

To my surprise it is very sensitive and has great sounding audio.

On trying it on transmit into a dummy load, I found there were no heaters on the finals.

Traced this to the link being cut in the accessory socket! Restored it and got transmit. After reading up in the instructions how to "tune it" I was quite pleased to get just over 140 watts tone into a dummy load. The manual quotes CW 180 Watts, so not too disappointing for an old bit of kit. The two rf amp valves look as if they are original.