Indeed Nate, Reads like my love-hate relationship with Spectrum. The power supplies in their repeaters were not so well designed and their transmitters had some known issues with the wrong type of non-rf rated caps in the final section.
But I do like Spectrum RF strips and use them when ever the can be had cheap, repaired and updated. And of course because of their horrible customer service... I believe Spectrum is now out of business. Dead horses normally get a single beating.. cheers, s. > Nate Duehr <n...@...> wrote: > Our club's Kendecom has also been "controller by-passed" > since before I was involved with the organization. The RF > decks seem to continue to work, and two years ago an audio > board lost a capacitor. Otherwise, the thing does just > sit there and operate. > > Frequency accuracy isn't something that's high on the > Kendecom list of "quality features" either. Setting > their crappy pot on the TX (another buck and they'd have > had a nice multi-turn pot in there), is touchy as hell. > > I wouldn't recommend one to anyone. But ours keeps > working, so we generally just ignore it unless it's > causing problems... > Nate Duehr, WY0X
