Used Avionics

John_F wrote:
: I used to have an aircraft with a TKM radio in it. It quit receiving
: and I took it to an avionics shop. TKM would not provide any
: documentation to the repair shop and said that the radio must be sent
: to TKM. TKM did not fix it the first time nor the second time but
: finally after three tries with me paying the shipping and three months
: down time it FINALLY came back from TKM working. It was not
: intermittent it was dead. This is my experience yours may be
: different.

My buddy had a similar experience, only a bit worse. Basically, bought a
mostly-working MX-170 off ebay. It had some issues with the front panel brightness
and a weak receive audio IIRC. Sent it to them. After getting the run-around for
many weeks, and repair estimates that kept getting higher, they basically quoted him
an estimate to repair equal to buying a refurbished unit (1.5 AMU). He said no
thanks, but he'd still have to pay a substantial amount of troubleshooting labor to
get it back. They kept the radio.


-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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