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 <pu...@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 > > > >> On 05/26/18 11:12, Gerald Capodieci wrote: >> Thanks Paul: >> You have some wonderful luck. I bought a Tentec Eagle and Omni 7 and both >> failed within 2 years. I opened both to look for problems. though both were >> labeled ‘Made in USA’ most components were labeled ‘Made in China’ and are >> no longer available. For both repairs they need to be shipped back to >> Tennessee to their shop now employing a part time repair person. Reading the >> forums, reliable repairs are questionable. So I’m about ready to give up on >> the hobby. >> Sent from my iPhone >>> On May 25, 2018, at 11:15 PM, n...@zianet.com wrote: >>> >>> Gerald Capodieci writes: >>> >>>> I'm looking to buy a radio that does not need to be sent back to the >>>> manufacturer for basic repairs. >>> >>> Gerald, >>> >>> Repair implies a failure has occurred. Most radios these days, and >>> certainly Elecraft, are highly reliable rigs short of receiving some sort >>> of abuse. Sure, failures do sometime occur, but fairly rare. There are >>> countless thousands of Elecraft and other radios on the air after years of >>> use with no problems. Many being carried to mountain tops (SOTA) and back >>> frequently. I bought a TenTec Triton IV in 1978 (?) when they first came >>> out - the first solid state full CW QSK rig ... and quite a few rigs since. >>> Haven't had one failure on any of them in those 40 years. I don't think >>> you have much to worry about. >>> >>> 72, Paul NA5N >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to pu...@af2z.net > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to rmcg...@blomand.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
