G'day, There is much to be said in favour of reworked boards. At least they've had a good burn in to get rid of infant mortality. I recall reading many years ago that general aviation folks often preferred avionics that had been once through the repair shop.
Inevitably something has to be done with the returned boards and rework to revision D status seems likely otherwise there wouldn't be the difference in price between new and swap-out. I doubt that Elecraft would release a butchered board, their reputation would suffer. Personally I couldn't care less if my "D" was a "B">"C">"D" as long as it did the same as a pure "D". I can confirm that installing the new board is a relatively trivial job and I had to remove all the Sub RX hardware from mine as well as install a new DVR module. The results are a none quantifiable pleasing. Regards, Mike VP8NO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Naumann" <w...@w5ov.com> To: "'Brett Howard'" <br...@livecomputers.com> Cc: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>; <d...@w3fpr.com> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DIY DSP Rev D > Who said they "might even be reworked boards"? > > On what do you base this claim? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Howard [mailto:br...@livecomputers.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 4:53 PM > To: Bob Naumann > Cc: d...@w3fpr.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: RE: [Elecraft] DIY DSP Rev D > > See its not angst... Some of us like to open the radio up and melt > a > little solder inside. I've alredy done most of the mods I believe > to > bring my board up to Rev. D. I've already placed an order for a > Rev. D > board but if the mods aren't much more than what I've already done > I'd > rather bring it up to snuff myself. > >>From what I've read the Rev. D boards might even be reworked >>boards > anyway... If they're not complete production boards and they are > shipping a reworked board then I'd much rather just be able to do > it > myself so that I know what the differences are from the schematics > that > the radio shipped with. > > ~Brett (KC7OTG) ______________________________________________________________ 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
