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VK6BE > FT817 08.10.06 03:21l 37 Lines 1635 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Read: GUEST VE7HFY
Subj: Re: Realising a walkabout shack ?
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From: VK6BE@VK6JY.#ALY.#WA.AUS.OC
To : FT817@WW
I was very interested in what you said Andy. I bought an FT817 about 2
years ago and have given it practically no use so far. I bought it when my
expensive ICOM IC736 broke down for the second time and I had to sent it
2000 miles to get it fixed. It gave me 50 meg coverage while the ICOM was
out of action.
It seems your Kenwood service is par for the course with that brand. My
Kenwood TR751A broke down and it also had to go to Sydney for repairs.
They were not all that keen to fix it and told me it would take up to 3
months to repair. That was over two months ago and I have heard nothing
further yet. Fortunately I have an ancient but very good FT221R in use
while it is away. I have had a number of Yaesu rigs from the FT200 on with
the FT817 and an FT747 at present and I have had not repairs needed. I had
an FT220 manyyears ago which caused some trouble but it was easy to work
on and I repaired it myself. I would hate to dive into the modern rigs.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
>
> Regretfully at least here in the UK both Yaesu and Kenwood have no proper
> repair facilites, and as such your left to the mercy of anyone who decides to take on the repair
:-(
>
> In the UK this is where Icom score lots of extra points, as not only do they import the rigs, but
they have a full on site repair facility. That's why I prefer Icom rigs.
>
> I've found Castle Electronics (here in the UK) to be the place to send Yaesu's and Kenwoods for
replair.
>
> So has anyone got anything useful to add about getting the best out of the FT817
> when pedestrian mobile ?
>
> - Andy -
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