Yup, buy it at scrap price and if it works when you get it home, you
made out! What happened to the old days when hams would tell you this
and that didn't work? I suspect it was about the same time that radio
gear went to microproccesor control and things got to tiny for hams to
see, let alone WORK on it! There's not too many Heathkits that an
average ham couldn't fix, but nowadays it takes an engineer, a
technician, a magifying glass, a tweezers and a cold to work on anything
(the cold is so you can sneeze while unsoldering components and blow
them off the board and out of the radio. Just worked on my Yaesu 857
tonight to modify for full coverage transmit to use with my
transverters. They use jumpers that are about the size of a large piece
of pepper...

Scott
N0EDV

Tim Wescott wrote:

basfm6 wrote:

Anytime you buy something worth a pretty penny at a hamfest, get the
seller's callsign and contact phone number. Don't know how many times
I've had to contact hamfest sellers after the sale about broken items
that were well advertised as "working perfectly". Many times you come
across some insane deals, but you'd be surprised how much lying and
deception occurs at hamfests especially with stuff that works, but has
tons of little problems you don't realize until after you get home.

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I bought an ALinco DR 590 dual band amature radio at a hamfest.




I go to hamfests to buy clapped-out radios for parts.

To date I have not had one work worse than I expected.