[Yaesu] re production date of FT-1000D

Wed Aug 8 00:43:08 EDT 2007

When the serial numbers ends with the letter A, than the 1000D is from 1999.
For example:
Serial number 1 K 170 031.
The 1 refers to the digit of the hardware year of manufacturing, in this 
case 1= 1991.
If the serial number would be 1K170031A (ending with an A), then the 
manufacturing year is 2001.
The K refers to the month of manufacturing (counting January as C, 
February as D, etc.), so K= September.
The 170 is the batch number, so 170= Batch 170.
The 031 is the actual serial number, so 031= Serial number 031 (within 
batch 170).
73,
Hans Remeeus (PA1HR)
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Nate Bargmann schreef:
> * Fern Rivard <crc at cyberlink.bc.ca> [2007 Aug 07 18:30 -0500]:
>>>>>> What is the production date of a FT-1000D with vin # starting with 9M ? Thanks
>> I suppose it would be 1999 as 1989 seems way too early for the D model.
> By my count M would be November as I read recently that January starts
> with C.
>