[Yaesu] More Yaesu garbage....

[KD7JYK DM09]

A couple weeks ago I ordered a Yaesu FT-60 and desktop charger VAC-370.

The radio is fine.

The charger, however was an electrically malfunctioning and RFI generating 
piece of garbage.

A call to Yaesu resulted in a response to the effect of "that's really 
really bad, something is wrong with that charger, it's obviously defective".

I returned the defective item a few days ago, you should have it as well as 
recordings and spectrogram screen captures of the RFI.  I may or may not 
have included a description of the charging malfunction.

I expected, as both described by the charger documentation as well as 
experience with several other chargers of the same model in the past, plug 
it in, no light, drop a radio in, red light, battery charged, green light.

What I got was an apparent dead charger, but wait, after a while a flashing 
red light comes on, then maybe eventually it will go steady red, or maybe 
flashing green, or maybe steady green, it was truly random and made no 
sense.

The charger was returned to "Nick Scotto".  He shipped a replacement last 
Friday.  It just arrived.

This one is a randomly malfunctioning POS too!

Two Yeasu FT-60's, both had the same use throughout the day were used to 
test the new replacement charger.

Placed in the older chargers, red light, indicating they need a charge.

Placed in the new charger that just arrived, got flashing green light after 
about a ten second delay.  What the heck is this supposed to mean?  Why 
would one get a green light on a battery with about 5V in it?  Why would the 
light flash?  Is this charger going to detonate or what?  Same result, two 
radios, similar battery condition, same garbage new Yaesu charger.

Placed the same radios into two different older chargers, steady red, charge 
done, steady green.  As expected, and as explained in the manual.

What the hell is Yaesu doing cranking out this garbage???

What I am left with for this new radio is an overnight charge at best, I can 
forget about a quick charge when I really need it.

Please ask Yaesu to start by recalling this junk, then get their s**t 
together and limit themselves to only supplying the old chargers that 
worked.  This is the second unit in two weeks that has had different 
problems.  They should be ashamed of themselves.

I'll be sending this junker desktop charger back by Friday for a refund. 
I'll see if I can find something used that works.  I'm debating if I should 
even bother checking out how much RFI this one spews.

Kurt