[Yaesu] [Kenwood] Watch out for a scam by Alex Barski. VE3XAX

[Steve]

At 01:53 PM 6/18/2011, Ron Youvan wrote:
>Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
>
> > There have always been the occasional rogue ham, not quite honest in
> > dealing, sometimes intentional, sometimes accidental.
>
>    A fellow HAM told me:  "I bought something that was broken, a 
> HAM wouldn't sell me something that
>was broken would he"?
>    I told him: "What makes you think he was a HAM, just because we 
> were at a HAMfest"?

I've been zapped by a real ham before. At a hamfest a few years ago, 
I bought what looked like an almost-new Weller soldering station from 
a ham wearing a t-shirt and ball cap with his callsign, tailgating 
out of a pick up truck with plates showing his callsign, only after 
he repeatedly assured me the soldering station worked fine (there was 
no 120VAC around to test it). When I took it to work, of course it 
was dead. Looking inside, I found an IC on the ceramic "PC" board 
completely burned up, and some traces burned off the ceramic. Haven't 
found that particular model on e-Pay, either. Weller won't sell the 
control board by itself, they want me to send it in for repair. I 
don't remember exactly how much they wanted but it was over $100.

The soldering station wasn't even cheap at $65, which was why I kept 
badgering him whether it worked properly.

OTOH, at that same hamfest, I stumbled away with a 500 foot spool of 
brand new RG-11 coax, only a few years old, FREE for the 
taking   8-D  (Here's the Yaesu content) AND a CYC-221 digital 
display for my old FT-221R for only $10. Worked fine.

Steve, K0XP 



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