Your 757 should continue to work and give you years of good service for many years yet

to come! However when and if the rig does take a dive here are a few of the more common problems that I can tell you about from recent experience in two 757GX transceivers. First off one of the reoccurring problems I'm seeing now is a warble effect on Upper and or Lower side band operation. It can be heard in the audio and has almost an FM ~ effect. This is caused by the USB oscillator Xtal or the Lower side band crystal and associated trimmers gong out of tolerance. The rigs will sound real bad on one side band or the other, possibly both but unlikely both would have the problem at the same time. The fix is the order crystals and new trimmers install them and line up the rig. USB Xtal p/n H0102555A Xtal HC-18/U 6.7834 Mhz $6.08 ea. LSB Xtal p/n H0102556A Xtal HC-18/U 6.7866 Mhz $6.08 ea. 30pf cap p/n K91000262 Trimmer capacitor (2ea) 0.67 cents ea. Associated trimmer caps one each for Upper & Lower Xtals. Master Osc. p/n H0102552B Xtal HC-49U 15.00 Mhz ($9.0 ???) 10pf cap p/n K91000261 Trimmer Cap for master Osc. 0.67 ea. If you really want to do a good alignment on the rig, doing it up right where the frequency display reads exactly I'd recommend for one to replace all three rocks and trimmers capacitors. It's not that hard of a job, it your going to do one you may as well do them all. Yaesu change both USB/ LSB rocks at the same time if you send a rig in for service even if only one of the rocks are out of tolerance. If you don't have the test equipment to line up the oscillators, you can usually beat them against a known good transceiver and pretty much talk yourself on to the carrier point. It's crude but it works. You will need to pull the top and bottom covers. The front panel of the FT-757 & FT-757GXII has two Phillips screws on each side. You have to remove these screws and then the front panel will slide forward. If you don't do this, you will have a hell of a time trying to get the boards out. If you are unsure as to where the cables and wires go, label them with the jack numbers and plug numbers for the smaller gray coaxial cables. The next reoccurring problem you will see in the FT-757 and FT-767 is diode failure on the RF board. This has been a know problem and well documented for many years. Keep in mine the FT-757 has nearly four hundred and fifty semiconductors devices in the FT-757GX, so just one diode out of whack and you can have strange problems. Diode failure symptoms are all of, or one of the following.... noisy receive, UNEQUAL transmit power output in CW from band to band, (Can be only one band), audio feedback in receiver while microphone is placed near the speaker, and loss of Fm audio. Any one or more of fourteen (14) diodes may have failed. The diodes should be changed to a 1SS83. Yaesu Part number G2090340 (1SS83 .23 cents each) The diodes are located on the RF board and are D104, D105, D107 through D116, D119 and D120. Again when you send your rig to Yaesu for service (If you should by chance do so) they will replace ALL THE DIODES. Basically POT LUCK SERVICING!! But it works, there are just too many diodes in the rig and these are known to be a problem area, so they just change them all. I've seen other service facilities do the same thing and I have made it a habit to do so when servicing this rig. At .23 cents apiece it's just not a big deal. Again you have to remove the covers and pull out the front panel to gain access to the board as noted above. Finally two other areas of problems. The keyer in early models transceivers I have found more often then not to be inoperative. Later I saw on some rigs modifications that involved rewiring the keyer circuit. I won't get into it here as this is getting long enough. But in a nut shell there was an orange wire going to the keyer that ran through the RF deck past the steroidal transformers into the PA area. Later modes I've seen had this wire removed and the keyer was rewired I have found no documentation as to why they modified

the later rigs making them different from the early FT-757. I'm thinking this was done to prevent RF from getting into the keyer circuit and destroying it. As it wouldn't take much RF to knock out an I.C. such as the keyer. Im sure this was remedied in the FT-757GXII Keyer part number Yaesu G1090531 IC TMS1751NLC (M47003) $11.80 Next and mostly self-explanatory is the LITHIUM battery. Yaesu Part number G9000719 Currently cost 7.88 each. If the battery is bad your rig will revert to 7 Mhz each time it's shut off. While your changing the crystals do the battery at the same time regardless weather or not you need one. Catastrophic failure of your CPU.... you are SOL!! I just repaired a rig that had this problem. The rig will go completely haywire if the CPU fails. The CPU does many things including switching the bands and associated relays in the RF deck. If the CPU fails the dial will jump from band to band very erratic and the rig for all practical purposes is useless. I just fixed a rig that had this problem. I had to spend $200 for a junked rig from another ham and I kept the rest of the rig for parts. I pulled the CPU from his set, I knew it was OK because he was using it as a receiver (the rig had other problems) I basically took the better of the two rigs and made one. This is about the only way to do it anymore. Yaesu does not have the chip for replacement. Even if they did have the chip, "they have no way to program it as I was told on the telephone last December 2003. So there you have it, I'm sure we could think of many more problems to discuss but these were the most recent cases of failures I've seen in this series transceiver. One last thing, you want to be very careful, check the rig over if you buy a new one, as the CB'ers will crank up everything! The Rig runs comfortably at or near 25 watts on AM mode, slightly higher on FM keeping in mind that both modes are continuous duty on AM and FM. On Am your peak power will be considerably higher then 25 watts. I just can't seem to get in into the CB'ers head how AM works. So they go into these rigs, crank up everything and try to run 100 watts on AM mode, they usually burn up the rigs (Even circuit traces & Voltage regulators I've seen) and I wind up inheriting another FT-757 getting it off CB. My advice here is get the technical supplement if you plan to do any work on the rig. Set up your bias on the rig, turn down the power on AM and turn down everything to the specifications in the manual and then more then likely the rig will last for years to come and more then likely will still be running long after we are gone. That's it for now. I hope this is of some help to you. Best Regards Carol L. Maher W4CLM PSS: Vertex Standard is still YAESU and Yaesu is Vertex Standard. It's just that the name Vertex Standard was used on their commercial line of equipment for some time. To the best of my knowledge It's all still the same company. CLM Certified Electronics Fox Tango International Http://www.foxtango.org

--- In FoxTango@yahoogroups.com, "wa6ppg" <cferree@i...> wrote: > Folks, > > I have an FT-757GX2 that I bought new in 1990. It is a great radio and > I have had absolutly NO trouble with it. However, I have heard lately > that there are no parts available for these radios since Vertex took

> over Yaesu. Is this this true?? Mabye I should have gotten some of > the proprietary chips, etc. as spares when I could. I had owned > several older Icom radios in the past that basically had to be > scrapped when such things as CPU IC's etc went bad and were no longer > available. hopefully with the interest shown by members of this club > in all things Yaesu, parts can be ob tained in the future. > > Carl Ferree > WA6PPG > San Diego, CA.

October 28, 2006 Part Numbers Local Unit Master Osc. 15MHZ H01025552 $ 6.42 USB 6.7834 H0102555A $ 6.08 LSB 6.7866 H0102556A $ 6.08 Trimmer 30pf K91000262 $ 0.42 Cap 10pf K91000261 $ 0.42 Keyer Chip G1090531 $11.80

I would guaranty you the crystals above need replacement along with their associated trimmer capacitors and your problems should go away! 73 Carol W4CLM