FT-991 Review RX & TX All Tests

FT-991 HF, 50, 144, 430 MHz All Mode – Yaesu USA Update the Firmware MAIN Ver. 02.02 – DSP Ver. 01.04 and TFT Ver. 02.01 of 24/07/2015 – VA7OJ’ FT-991 Complete Tests Report – See …news and link below




The complete FT-991 test report is now available on the website by VA7OJ’ Adam – (Receiver Tests & Trasmitter Tests) rx: MDS – RMRD – DR3 – DR2 – FM IMD rejection – NPR – Image & 1st IF rejection – AGC impulse response – DNR SINAD // tx: Power Output -CW keing envelope and sidebands – ALC compression test – Trasmitted 2 tone IMD – Tramitted Composite noise HF 50 144 & 430 MHz (22 pag.)

Link to: Download the Complete Tests rx-tx of 25/7/2015

Receiver performance evaluation using notched noise, tune DUT (FT-991) such that the IF passband is centred in the notch. Calculate NPR using Equation: NPR = Ptot – BWR – MDS. – All the NPR

measurements, by VA7OJ, Adam are performed in SSB mode, at 2.4 kHz bandwidth. The bottom of the notch in the noise generator (a Wandel & Goltermann RS-50 White Noise Generator ) bandstop filter is 3 kHz wide. Adam uses the 3 kHz roofing filter in the DUT (automatically selected in SSB mode in the FT-991 Transceiver)

Link to: Download the FT-991 RX NPR Test of 18/7/2015

A typical NPR test case emulates 1200 contiguous SSB signals, each at S9 + 30 dB. The higher the NPR figure obtained in the test, the better the DUT will be able to survive such extreme conditions. – The NPR test is also useful for identifying IMD choke points in a receiver front end, e.g. in RF steering diodes, and also passive IMD (PIM) in crystal filters, inductor cores and even some capacitor dielectrics.

I would categorise NPR ranges as follows: Measurement limit: ~ 95 dB (notch depth) / 85 dB and up: Excellent / 80-85 dB: Very good to excellent / 75-80 dB: Very good / 70-75 dB: Good / 65-70 dB: Acceptable to good (source by Adam)



Yaesu USA Update the FT-991′ Firmware: MAIN Ver. 02.02 – DSP Ver. 01.04 and TFT Ver. 02.01 of 24/07/2015 –

[Note]: Please read the Yaesu Firmware Upgrade Manual before proceding to the Yaesu multiple software installations and employees by different types of transfer software .exe!-



[Note] the MAIN software should be installed first! Caution: it does wipe all the settings including the memory channels. Update features: • The WIRES-X (VoIP network) function is added • Improved and optimized. (read more…)

Link to: Yaesu USA FT-991 Firmware Information 07/24/15



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