Greetings Telamon..

Regarding:
"You are referring to manufactures of HAM equipment not a
consumer radio. Hammies are supposed to be a technical sort that
can fix their equipment and the general public is not expected to
do that."

Negative, I'm not referring to amateur transceivers as you
probably meant. Those manufactures also put out shortwave
receivers. Consider looking at the lines both in the past and
current offerings..

I have no idea what you mean as "Hammies." The service is the
amateur radio service. Once licensed, one becomes a radio
amateur. "Ham Radio" is a term used to identify the radio
amateurs operation as 'hamming it up' on the air. Regardless, you
won't see it defined as such at the federal level. In fact, this
is the first time I've come across the term "Hammies" in over 33
years of being licensed. I'm laughing at that as I write this..

The point was to consider a receiver where schematics are made
available to the public at large. Instead of potentially, at a
later time, having no reference resources to affect repair,
consider this up front. Would you purchase a new car where you
could not buy parts over the counter now or ever in the future?
Effectively, your only resource was to take it to the dealer for
repair. While some may sure, others would like to know such
things up front prior to making a decision - simple as that.

Cheers,
Mr. Mentor



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| In article ,
| "dBc" wrote:
|
| Greetings Hacienda de Ville..
|
| As perceived, the Satellit 750 is considered more of a
tabletop
| model than a portable. Consider that many of the portables
have
| become sophisticated enough now days to include many all the
| features of the tabletop models. However, in the end, it will
be
| up to you to decide which of those features are important to
you.
| Another source to consider for a review is Passport to
Worldband
| Radio. Check out your local library first to see if they've
got a
| recent copy before purchasing. They have a section where they
| critically review most major lines of shortwave radios,
tabletop
| and portables.
|
| While this is a Chinese design imported by Eton for the
American
| market, DO be aware that detailed schematics or especially a
| service manual will not be made available to the public for
this
| radio. In order to get any service you will have to send this
| radio in to Eton for repair. After your warranty period, that
| could be rather expensive for a relatively simple item.
|
| Why mention this? Other larger manufacturers, especially out
of
| Japan such as ICOM, Kenwood, Yaesu compose service manuals
that
| have schematics, alignment procedures and parts listings.
This
| allows the owner to simply call and order the exact OEM part
in
| the event that anything becomes defective, especially over
time.
| While this is usually not needed initially, if the radio is
kept
| for a long period of time, it's a very nice piece of
| documentation to have.
|
| SNIP
|
| You are referring to manufactures of HAM equipment not a
consumer radio.
| Hammies are supposed to be a technical sort that can fix their
equipment
| and the general public is not expected to do that.
|
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| Telamon
| Ventura, California