[AMRadio] Parts

[CL in NC]

Did China buy a billion of everything when things came out, just waiting for production to cease so they would be the only supplier?  I have struggled in repairing an Icom 718 and 765 for friends, not the troubleshooting, but procuring parts.  Transistors that are only available on Epay, affordable with inexpensive shipping, but nobody in the US has them.  The 718 is still in inventory, and being sold, but Icom does not support it, components I needed were only in China, and Icom America has not received a crystal filter shipment from Japan since 2018, so if you have an Icom you would like to put a filter in, and all the commercial vendors say out of stock, that is the reason.

If there are any ARRL members on the list left besides me, did anyone else get miffed at the 'Second Century' op-ed piece?  When she said it wasn't the ARRL, it was us when it came to changes,  my memory quickly went back to the ARRL big wig that hated AM and actively pursued getting the FCC to ban it as a ham mode.

Charlie W4MEC in NC