Columbus Hamfest Treasures / FT-101E

I heard that the Columbus hamfest was fairly small, but what it lacked in size it made up in treasure!

Here’s the list:

1 owner Yaesu FT-101E (late sn) with the factory faceplate plastic still intact. No modifications or alterations! w/ CW filter, manuals on disk, Turner 257 desk mic and original Yaesu hand mic.  WOW.

Motorola Handie-Talkie FM Radiophone

3 pocket watch style volt meters

6 pilot lamps

3 misc parts bags, one full of silver 70s era knobs and linear pot caps.

leather carving tools

There was a great core memory board, unfortunately the $50 price tag was way too much!

Info on the FT-101E


  • 160-10 meters
  • Solid State
  • Adjustable VOX
  • Speech Processor
  • Sealed Solid-state VFO
  • Semi Break-in CW
  • Calibrator 25/100 kHz.
  • Noise Blanker
  • WWV/JJY Receive
  • 6JS6C x 2 Finals

The Yaesu FT-101E is a solid-state (except finals) transceiver covering 160 through 10 meters in USB, LSB, CW and AM modes. The analog display provides 2 kHz accuracy. An eight-pole SSB filter reduces QRM. Input power is a beefy 260 watts PEP on SSB, 180 watts on CW (50% duty cycle) and 80 watts AM (lower on 160 and 10 meters). It operates from 12 VDC 20 amps or 100-234 VAC. There is also an AUX range crystal position for any 500 kHz segment from 14.5-28 MHz.


The 1975 Ft-101E 160-10m band transceiver with RF speech processor was brought out in 3 subtypes: 

early (sn < 15000) with (PB1494) Processor board
mid  (sn 15001-20500) with (PB1534) Processor board 
late (sn >20501) with (PB1534A) processor, (PB1547A) regulator, (PB1183C) IF, (PB1315B) audio and (PB1582) blanker boards.

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