[ARC5] ARC5 Digest,

[Tim]

True - Obsolete LSI and ASIC part failures are bad enough (sometimes you
can design something around them) but real show-stoppers are those custom
LCD/Plasma type displays.  Wheel chock.

Tim
N6CC

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:05 AM, Peter Gottlieb <kb2vtl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> > To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 2:30 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC5 Digest,
> >
> >
> >> 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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