Don wrote:
> I just wonder how many of the chargers I have seen at the Hamfest Not
> Working if this was the Problem, But Hey wait a Minuit is this Some
> Big Secret that no one wanted to share because the Motorola Shops,
> Dealers Just Sell the Customer a New One after all the Case dos not
> come apart, Oh well it is a Good day as We get older to actually learn
> something an Fix it, I guess that is why they call it Amateur Radio
>
> 73 De Don KA9QJG
Don, I can give you another viewpoint to this perplexing question. I
spent 18 years working in LMR, and when I first started, I asked the
same question. It seemed that we were throwing away a lot of good
useable stuff in favor of selling a new one. Once it was explained to me
that in a commercial radio environment, with bench labor fees being what
they were (at the time I left the biz in 2002, it was >$100/hr) it
simply did not make sense for a tech to get his dremel tool out, saw the
wall wart in half to replace a .50 fuse, then glue it back together. It
was cheaper to sell the customer a new $30 supply.
Of course, just the opposite is true in amateur radio. What makes
absolutely no sense in commercial radio because of the money involved,
makes perfect sense in amateur radio. That is because most of us try to
not spend any more money on our hobby than we absolutely have to, and we
enjoy dinking around with stuff as part of our hobby. So what if it
takes all afternoon to replace the fuse and glue the wall wart back
together? It costs us nothing except the glue and the fuse.
This was difficult for me to understand at first, but eventually it
became easy to figure out.. Contrary to popular belief, no one was
getting ripped off for selling a new one instead of replacing the old
one, it really did make better sense in the long run. Mike KA4MKG
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