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
>
>