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What a bummer!! You can't hardly get $250 out of a good working used
one. I have one left and it lives back in Kansas. I've got a couple
tmv0-71a radios, one in the car and one in the shack and those are a
much better radio. I'm on some KKenwood lists, and I gather some of the
71 radios have had if filter problems, but I've had no trouble with
mine.
73
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
open Node 3148
Las Vegas
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Phil Scovell wrote:
> I finally got a ham who works for Kenwood who knew what I was talking about
> to answer my question. Kenwood charges 75 dollars an hour to work on their
> radios for repairs. The face plate LCD that is a common problem cost about
> 163 dollars to replace, plus the hourly rate. I doubt more than an hour is
> needed. The entire radio has to be shipped to them. Since it is a common
> problem, you'd think they'd offer no labor in the repairs but no such luck.
> with shipping both ways, and everything else, and if it doesn't take more
> than that 75 dollars for one hour, you are still looking at 250 dollars,
> more than half of what I paid new for the radio. Rats.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
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