Well stated. It's ridiculous to believe that with all of the components in a transceiver, one will not fail or that a design could not improvement once hundreds+ of the product are being used daily by various customers.
John KK9A Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: If you are looking for a radio which won't fail, I suggest one keep your money in the bank. All new radios, all brands, have a known failure rate, out if the box, at one year, and two years. That is the reason companies offer a warranty. They expect some number but of units to fail during the warranty period. Nothing unusual about this fact. As to personally repairing one of the modern radios, unless one has capability to handle remove and replace surface mount components, as well as rather extensive test equipment and advanced knowledge of electronics, one is relying on board or modular exchange. This does involve the factory an leaves one with a nonworking product for a period of time. For a period of years I repaired many ham radio products for others. In probably a majority of cases I had to not only find and repair the original fault, but.....I had to correct the attempted repairs of others. Like many other products, we are moving more and more to a toss and replace commodity. Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On May 26, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Drew AF2Z <pubx1 at af2z.net> wrote: > > I've done a couple of repairs on my old K3: blown pin diodes on the transverter board, and the corroded 12 vdc connector pins on the KPA3 amp. Have also done several component-level mod kits supplied by Elecraft. > > I think Elecraft will supply all K3 parts that are still in production and, if I'm not mistaken, they stockpile end-of-life components for future repairs. But you can't expect parts to be available forever. > > FWIW, I recently managed to find a ceramic filter for my Argonaut V that is out of production. I ordered directly from TenTec. Amazingly they still had a few in stock. > > 73, > Drew > AF2Z ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
