[Milsurplus] Way OT -- Rice Boxes

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Bob,

The displays are just not as reliable as the one on my RAK-7 that still 
works at 70+ years.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 01/25/2018 12:15 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote:
> Hi
>
> In some cases it’s simply a reflection on a world that does not try to
> repair things.
> It can be something as simple as a loose connector. It all can be a
> lighting strike
> victim with no economical way to repair. One would *guess* that the
> loose connector
> variants get fixed by somebody in the chain. The lighting victims just
> keep getting
> re-sold again and again and again.
>
> What will eventually get most of these rigs are the displays. No matter
> what the
> technology, they simply do not last forever. Once they wear out *and*
> the supply
> of replacements gets used up …. end of the road. Indeed somebody *might*
> come
> up with some sort of kit for this or that radio. You *could* be one of
> the luck ones.
> For most of them, it’s lights out. Is that a 20 year sort of thing or a
> 50 year issue?
> I’d bet we’ll find out ….
>
> Bob
>

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