John,

You comment often on Yaesu's failure rate and I wouldn't dispute your
experience with it.  But it doesn't mirror my own.  I've had limited
experience using yaesu gear but I know several hams in my region, some of
them blind, who not only use Yaesu gear like the ft1000 series but swear by
it.   The only rig I'm consistently hearing complaints about is that new
Yaesu rig and I can't recall the model number right off the top of my head.
I just thinnk we tend to paint with too broad a brush sometimes when it
comes to both accessibility and reliability.  Lou

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: ReModern Radios and Accessibility


> 1 of Yaesu's biggest problems as big if not bigger than the lack of
> accessibility is that about 75% of the people I know who've bought one in
> the last 5 or so years, had to send them back for repairs including 6
> FT-2000s in the last 4 months, 3 FT9000's among other HF radios and duel
> band mobiles, all under a year old, most under a month old. That many is a
> very serious issue to me. Few of the same model having the same symptoms
> though the bad ft-8800 or FT-8900, I'm not sure which those are, all did
> have the same problem but one. Their attitudes don't help things at all
and
> those are the reasons I'll probably never have another one here, nor will
I
> recommend them, but I will continue to actively campaigned against them.
I'd
> rather my TS-520 I bought to play around with before any modern yaesu, or
> any because I don't like to display that name if it might be seen in my
> station or something though my FT-51 does make a rare appearance still.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: ReModern Radios and Accessibility
>
>
> > Well said Colin; many of us have had radios that were, "in a perfect
> > world" inaccessible as can be, but we made do.  My maybe worst ever
> > from an accessibility standpoint handheld was a Yaesu 727
> > handheld.  But it was the first truly syntehsized, dual band handheld
> > in town and damn it, I wanted ont!!  Eventually and overall we became
> > friends!!  My current Kenwood is lots easier to work but I still had
> > fun with my old Yaesu.
> > Isn't always a perfect world.
> > Pat, K9JAU
>