In the old days, most hams had the skill & tools to make most repairs. Over the last 20 or so years, technology has changed. To repair most modern equipment, you need expensive desoldering tools, soldering equipment, air soldering units, etc, just to remove the part for testing or replacement. Most of this equipment is out of reach for most hams. I am in the electronics repair business and with replacements so cheap, it is hard to recoup the cost I have invested in repair equipment. Also the skill that is needed to use it, most hams would not do enough repairs to gain that skill. Now you also have to have the test equipment, signal generators, scopes, frequency counters, etc. Hard to justify for a hobby investment. If you a new ham and invest in old, tube type equipment, there are dangerous & deadly high voltages in older equipment. I grew up working with this type of gear, but most current hams & many current electronic repair people have not. This requires a much greater respect when servicing this equipment. Long time hams, over their years have accumulated much of this gear and skills to do repairs. Over the last 20-30 years, schools have remove classroom training in this skills, electronics, metal shop. wood shop, etc. favoring the arts, and computer programming. There are people that will read this that can write a program for a Arduino or Raspberry PI but could not assemble a power supply for one. Robert
From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> On Behalf Of David Hold via BVARC Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 9:02 AM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <bvarc@bvarc.org> Cc: David Hold <davidh...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [BVARC] Radio Repair I wish hams would learn to fix their own stuff like the ham radio of old… that is why they include electronics on the test….. maybe they should remove those questions and replace them with where do I mail my radio for repair On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 8:58 AM Jerry LaVoie via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org <mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org> > wrote: Good morning all, I need your help. Being new to the area I have no idea where to look. I have an old Yaesu FT-757GXII. It needs to beto be realigned and the internal battery needs replacement. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to have this service done? I appreciate your responses and help. Thank You Jerry WX7MRI ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list BVARC@bvarc.org <mailto:BVARC@bvarc.org> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ -- David Hold david.h...@gmail.com <mailto:david.h...@gmail.com>
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