i still think that considerign that all of the tmv7a rigs had the same problem oviously a defect fromthe factory kenwood shoudl hav ebeen foreced to repair them for free and should hav ejust admitted oto it ad ficed them  makes you woder alittle about theo ther  rigs they selltoo the ts2000 also ha a bad run of lick  so ifyoug etone buy new not used!

On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Phil Scovell wrote:

> Speaking of which, I think I mentioned I finally got an answer from Ken 
> More, not to be confused with Yamaha,  and by a ham, no less, who knew what 
> he was talking about concerning repairing the display of the older TMV7A 
> dual bander.  $75 an hour bench time, $162.50 for parts, plus shipping 
> coming and going.  So I figure, for a $400 dual band radio, that's what I 
> paid for it new anyhow just before they stopped making it, $250 to get it 
> repaired is pretty expensive for a common program most V7A radios have.  I 
> have a friend with the computer link cable and two working displays.  He is 
> either bringing his display over to program up all my channels I want to use 
> or he will take the radio and plug it into his computer and program it that 
> way.  I never thought of programming it via computer before but that's a way 
> around the 250 dollar repair bill since a blind guy doesn't need the display 
> in the first place.  I mean, not for 250 dollars to be repaired for 
> something you won't be using.
> 
> Phil.
> K0NX