Insane amounts of power you guys run the other side of the pond

The power does all the work and not the antennas

Make a comment about something with what one perceives and you are now called names”fanboy”

A good friend of mine passed away, and I am helping the family settle the estate.

There is a 101D that asks for the Firmware SD card at boot.
Being that I am supposed to copy the firmware to an SD card that was formatted in the radio, I am at a bit of an wall.
I tried manually formatting the SD card in a PC and recreating the directory structure from images and notes in documentation. 
Upon inserting the card into the radio and pressing the screen, the radio will start to read the file and begins the update process (does not give the file not found error).
But within a couple seconds, and what looks about 10% on the status bar, it posts an error:  "Update error, system will reboot" "Ok". 
At this point if I touch the screen it will reboot and I'm back to square 1.

Ed had many radios, he collected them and put them on a shelf for display.  Most of them never touched an electric or antenna cord.  This radio was on his "staging" table.  Where radios are unboxed and waiting a place to be put.  None of the other radios on this table had ever been powered up.  The power cords were still sealed in the packages, and there is no power at the desk where these were setting.  So I have reason to assume this radio came from the factory like this.  But I have no way to confirm.  He would have told me or asked for help if he knew it was faulty.   Has anyone heard of such a failure from the factory?  Or could he have powered it up and lost power or pressed a wrong menu button?

There was a 101MP setting under the 101D.  I see that the two radios have enough similarities that they have some of the same documentation and drivers, but have unique firmware files.
Can I use the MP radio to format the SD card, copy the new firmware files to the SD card, and then insert into the D radio?
Or is there a risk in doing this?  

I have never called into Yaesu support before.  And I don't know if Ed registered the radios. But I do have the invoice from HRO showing that the radio is less than a year old.
The radios still technically belong to the original owner, but the lady has dementia and is not able to answer any questions.

Has anyone ever tried to make an image of a firmware SD card?  Would anyone be interested in trying to?
Has anyone seen this kind of error?
If you have any guidance I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you and 73,
Mike NU8LL

Are they listening??

I doubt it as Ham Radio companies do not read forums. When I first got my 101MP I did not like the fast spectrum scope. After several months I have got used to it and actually like it. Same thing with the 3D display, I first thought it was a joke until I "deciphered" what it was saying to me. Now I use the 3D display as yet another tool.

I do believe that the display averaging should be implemented as an option. Make the Icom/Kenwood/Flex Fanboys happy but letting other hams keep the fast display. Complaining in forums ain't gonna make it happen, email those in charge at Yaesu.

Stan K9IUQ

I agree Steve,
I've been beating the same drum for over a year. ADD AVERAGING TO THE SCOPE!!! Make it a menu option to enable scope averaging with variable averaging time. That will satisfy both camps. Some prefer the scope as is. Others prefer averaging. Why not offer both? Come on Yaesu, program that powerful DSP chip to enhance the scope to its full potential --You will sell more radios.
Frank - W6NEK

On Feb 15, 2020, at 3:25 PM, K7GQ@... wrote:

Minor success and failure - I clip-leaded from the WinKeyer USB output to stereo plug, plugged into the front CW jack and it works. I was using converter adapters from Radio Shack before.

However, using the rear CW connecter, the sidetone sounds beautiful but there is continuous carrier output (as original). This seems like a real issue to me. BOTH front and rear keyers are turned OFF.

Again, the computer feeds ASCII data to the WInKeyer USB and the unit itself creates CW. The output of the WinKeyer is a RCA jack and a cable brings that to a 1/4" mono plug. There is no N1MM in my shack.

I shall have to make an adapter and determine the reason for the rear CW jack not working properly.