The new Yaesu FT-1000D was designed sparing no effort or expense for optimum performance and operability. The FT-1000 is the fruit of over 25,000 man-hours of intensive research and development by Yaesu's top design engineers. Instead of merely offering incremental improvements on existing designs or adding bells and whistles to an old model, the FT-1000 project involves a wholly new approach to the application of the latest digital and RF technologies to today's most demanding needs of the HF bands.

Extensive surface-mount component technology allowed six microprocessors and five Direct Digital Synthesizers to be harmoniously integrated with a simple operator interface into a highly reliable full-featured HF application. The quad conversion (triple for FM) receiver covers 100 kHz to 30 MHz. With MH-1C8 hand mic.

The basic FT-1000 does not have the following options included in the FT-1000D model: BFP1, TCXO1, XF-B, XF-C, XF-D, XF-E.