[1000mp] Mark V Warranty Repair

Pete Smith [email protected]
Wed, 14 May 2003 07:56:00 -0400


At 07:43 AM 5/14/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I developed some problems with the receiver and tuner boards on my 4 month 
>old Mark V that required some warranty work at the Service Center. Decided 
>to send it back to the distributor, Burghardt Amateur Center and was 
>happily surprised at the one (1) day turn around and what I would consider 
>excellent customer communication by their tech. also.
>My problem was no received signals on any band.
>They replaced D6456 and RL6451 on the tuner main unit and D1055 and D1056 
>on the RF unit. Sure wish I knew how or what caused the problem to occur 
>to avoid it happening again, as rig was working fine on 20 meters and went 
>"west" when I switched to 30 meters. Anyone have a clue?


Does anyone know if Burghardt will service radios (in or out of warranty) 
that they did not sell?

73, Pete N4ZR
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