I had problems on 2 out of 4 switches. Actually, I must say that I sold the
fourth before opening package, which makes 2 out of 3.
Wont buy it again... Need to find something similar.
73,
Felipe - PY1NB
2010/3/29 mike stokes <mike9v@gmail.com>
> I have 4 of them and never have had any problems. I hope it stays that
> way.
>
> Mike
> KK9V
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Crew,
> >
> > I own five of these switches purchased over a period of sevral years from
> > various dealers, and have had at least two failures. In one, the #4
> > position simply didn't work. I opened it up to find that it could not
> > possibly work -- the wafer that was supposed to mate with the rotating
> part
> > was too short! I discovered a problem this weekend in a second switch
> this
> > weekend -- the #1 position doesn't make contact. When it was newer, I
> could
> > fiddle with it and get it to mate. Now even that doesn't work. I opened
> it
> > up and found no obvious problem, except that the two contacts didn't meet
> > parallel to each other. Other positions in both switches work fine.
> >
> > These switches come with labels over the rear chassis screws warning you
> > not to remove them, lest parts fly out and self destruct. And, of course,
> > doing so voids the warranty. But, I ask, what good is a warranty on a
> > product that costs a third of what you paid for it to ship back for
> repair,
> > and is void if you bother to carefully open it up to check for obvious
> > problems? After all, we are hams, not CBers. With both of the switches
> that
> > have problems, the labels were intact, indicating that they had not been
> > opened.
> >
> > Two failures out of five is pretty bad, especially for such a simple
> > product, and inexcusable when one of those failures HAD to have been
> found
> > in final test (if there WAS final test). When a group of us were using
> > switches like these on a California QSO Party county DXpedition to switch
> > antennas and filters, our host, N6RNO indicated that at least one of his
> > switches had a problem that he hadn't figured out yet. Is this isolated
> to
> > us? Anyone else seen these problems?
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Jim K9YC
> >
> >
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