[ARC5] ARC5 Digest,

[Peter Gottlieb]

Many times the manufacturers outsource the PCB assembly and so even they don’t stock replacement parts!  The best you can hope for is a replacement board and the cost usually makes it uneconomical. This is especially true of programmed parts. 

I have repaired a number of such radios. Sometimes you get lucky and it’s a cracked connection or standard part, other times your best bet is to find a junker you can scavenge the board from. 


Peter

> On Jun 19, 2018, at 1:17 AM, K5MYJ <macklinbob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> And a lot of modern solid state stuff uses custom made silicon. You have no documentation on it and no way to get a replacement.
> 
> If it dies just trash it!
> 
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <w8au at sssnet.com>
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> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC5 Digest,
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> 
>> At 05:11 PM 6/18/2018, jbrannig wrote:
>>> Unless you use tube gear for CW contesting......
>> 
>> And tube gear can be repaired for a long time to come since standard parts are used.
>> Try to fix a solid state rig containing IC's produced for a specific production or time frame
>> and you are out of luck.
>> 
>>> .................................................................................
>>> Mark D.  WW2RDO wrote:
>>> Bet you don't find a lot of vacuum tube gear still being used. If vacuum tube stuff were easy to keep operating, everybody could do it.? The latest, greatest wiz bag gear is easy to get and use if you have the money to do it.? Where's the fun in that?? I feel sorry for the guys who don't use the old gear.?
>>> Keep 'em glowing
>> 
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