[Yaesu] Request for opinions-Yaesu Repair

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:41:30 -0600

No, I think Mort is dead on.  The most noise gets the attention.  Mort, if
you find out who, post it here - I, for one, will follow up with my letter /
email.

I remember, way back when, when Yaesu was at the low end of the totem pole,
and they asked us hams to give them info on what they wanted in a ham
transciever.  At that time, they were competing against the likes of Drake,
Collins, and Swan and then this little group called Kenwood.  Icom ? who
were they ? They were into commercial and aeronautical. Now the Spot button
which, at that time we insisted on, is arely used - but still there ( All
Drake's have a spot, you see).  You see, I think a simple reminder at who
butters their bread might just get their attention.

Jamie
WB4YDL

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Gary Johnston
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 7:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Request for opinions-Yaesu Repair

Well I think Mort, KB6BSN is getting carried away as both Icom and Kenwood
suffers the same problems and in some cases worse.

Try to buy parts from Icom for older radios, in many cases they are not
available.  Since Kenwood out sources their service under their name, the
techs never knew what ham radio was until they got a job fixing them.

I had two Icom 706's ..one original and one mark and the noise blanker on
both of them was terrible for HF Mobile.
Saw and played with the FT-100 in Tokyo on a business trip, came home and
sold my 706 and waited for the FT-100.
I made sure 2m/440 worked but use separate radio.

Bottom line is the grass is not greener on the other side!

Gary-K5QFB
Ponder, TX

_______________________________________________
Yaesu mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/yaesu