-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:26:25 -0500, Don and Diana Cunningham wrote:
>I'm far more worried about getting parts for my "new" Icom/Yaesu rigs in a >few years than repairs for my 7 Line nearly 30 years later!! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sterling Garwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'll second that. 'Modern' rigs tend to use a lot of proprietary silicon that may be unobtanium in a few years. It's happened. Not to mention the fact that they are not very easily repairable by the 'average' ham (defined here as someone who can fix all but the most severe problems with a Drake, with or without advice from this list). I don't expect any of my Yaecomwoods to be functional on 30 years. Keep it. They'll have to pry my TR7 from my cold, dead hands.... - -- Jim Shorney -->.<--Put complaints in this box jshorney (at) inebraska.com nu0c (at) amsat.org Ham Radio NU0C Lincoln, NE, USA EN10ps http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jshorney/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBPyn0RUCBN4ScxcExAQGzcgP/T660cgyPEOQHuJsStEgVMMV/EEk11TMh lFaZEfI3AOQG+WT/sa/vt2/dy788IzSNghDm7DE1OrBAJFXMkDfWNEbqM4MGbWxG maW9TK6SV1F1NFtdPSNBTMioHhlgNw/rxN1H/L8tecKkMSpqUdq5YFI3vmEJi8xu PwrfMGzR8oI= =pl9H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - subscribe drakelist in body Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
