And the plug came from a person who the manager of Yaesu's Engineering/ R&D Dept. Amateur Division.
I wasn't sure if Chip was still with Yaesu. I used to run into him at Dayton back in the early 80's and we communicated often by phone, when I ran the service dep't of a commercial two-way radio firm that also did warranty work for Yaesu. I wouldn't have recognised him on the TV show, but, alas, that was over 20 years ago.
Speaking of CW and Yaesu, those who are members of Topband Reflector are aware of the issues cw ops have been having with Yaesu regarding transmitted key clicks from some of their newest top of the line transceivers. Information on how to fix the problem can be found on the W8JI website. It would cost Yaesu at most only a few dollars per rig to install the mods in the production line.