Ramsey AR-1C vhf airband kit
"Joel Kolstad" wrote in message
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"Radiosrfun" wrote in message
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I built a couple of their kits - and they worked for what they were
intended to do. However - a friend of mine built a "receiver" kit - and
it really sucked. He called Ramsey to see about getting it "repaired".
They wanted like $75 to do so. He paid almost $50 for the kit. He didn't
feel like shelling out another wad of cash - so he junked it.
That's the problem with building some kits... to troubleshoot them
yourself, you may need equipment that many hobbyists aren't likely to have
(e.g., an RF signal generator in this case), yet a company probably really
does need to charge you at least $50/hour to have a tech sit down and
troubleshoot something that didn't work.
What your friend should do is sit down and spend, e.g., half an hour of
his own time going through and verifying all the components were inserted
correctly and all the solder joints look good. If that doesn't help, he
can probably still sell the kit on eBay for, say, $10 or more -- some
people enjoy the challenge of fixing dead boards.
I remember the days when those offering kits could only expect a kit
builder to have a multimeter and not even an oscilloscope -- some kits
included quite clever internal circuitry to help one align or fine tune
their settings.
---Joel
I don't think he has it anymore!
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