[Yaesu] Yaesu repair and Fed Ex

[paul glassman]

fed ex
dropped my icom ic-781. internal damage to the regulator. they paid the
claim. the 781 was shipped in the original factory box and styro with
three additional layers of cardboard between the factory box and outer
box. the outer box had the "box stamp certification" on it. i was persistent and called daily to the claims adjuster
handling the claim. fed ex sent an inspector to my home. my rig went to fed ex kinkos for shipping. did you
take your rig directly to fed ex or a non affiliated third party
shipper? if you took it to a third party shipper, chances are that you will not be paid, since fed ex will deal with the "third party shipper", not you.
                                                            paul w8jn
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--- On Tue, 5/11/10, Edward Swynar <gswynar at durham.net> wrote:

From: Edward Swynar <gswynar at durham.net>
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Yaesu repair and Fed Ex
To: "ED YEARY" <w4tey at bellsouth.net>, yaesu at mailman.qth.net
Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 7:55 AM

Hi Ed,

I had something similar to what you're now experiencing happen to me
recently with an Icom transceiver, & an "...expert" independent repairman on
the west coast...

I paid for TWO TRIPS getting the transceiver there & back: the first time it
returned to me with the main RF board on it only partially
re-assembled---but the tekky swore it was "...operating PERFECTLY when it
left the shop!" (yeah, right). The second time it came back the CW
 receive
frequency was off by some TWO KILOHERTZ---and again, "...it was operating
PERFECTLY when it left the shop!".

To add insult to injury, the rear sub-panel was caved-in by some 3/8" for a
third of its length, as if the rig was dropped from about waist height to a
concrete floor...but there was NO DAMAGE evident on the box.

The repair & shipping costs ALMOST approached what a decent used rig of this
marque would have cost me---but instead, I'm stuck here with a non-working
piece of junk.

So what'd I do...? I bought myself a good used set of tube-type DRAKE TWINS:
if ANYTHING "goes" on either one of those classics, I can fix it myself, and
avoid the hassles of both clumsy carriers and lying tekky "gurus"...I've
tried "appliance operating", and I did NOT like it!!!

Just my $0.02 worth...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ