You guys whining about doing mods to your Bitx radios amaze me.? When I
bought my Collins (KWS-1 & 74A-4 and still have them) the manuals came
with all the mods the factory said should be done and that the original
owner did, just like most of the other owners did.? Collins had mods,
and you think a Bitx kit radio shouldn't??? I'd say more but I'd
probably get a nasty note from Arv.

Vince.



On 06/20/2018 03:12 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't believe HFSignals is responsible for the post office's shoddy
> handling of packages entrusted to them. So lets just submit the proper
> insurance claim to the post office and get on with our lives. The
> package I received was a package inside a package inside a package. I
> almost had to get out my power saw just to open it. Comments about your
> postal people redacted.
>
> I made a neat little steel box for my ubitx V3 to live in. It lives
> there and I am using it as delivered. I will probably wade into a
> software update to get a couple of features I might like that are not in
> the stock software. Costs nothing. If I don't like it I can revert back
> to the original.
>
> Once again..I am using the ubitx V3 as delivered. No butchering. No
> modifications required. I am *using* it. As-is. No mods required. No
> mods desired. No butchering. No bodges. That is what is advertised,
> "Works out of the box". Modifications? The mods I see other hams doing
> are things they *wanted* to do. Not things they have to do. If you
> wanted some other radio then you should have bought some other radio to
> start with. And to think you could have bought a *real* radio for only
> $5000 and been disappointed with that! Owners of those radios have
> little complaints too. Read the messages on their lists:)
>
> The only sympathy I can muster for you is your incredible bad luck with
> your postal service.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Bill? KU8H
>
> On 06/20/2018 09:57 AM, Ray Koster via Groups.Io wrote:
>> I think that Andy is correct in thinking why he should have to do all
>> these mods to this kit!! I also have purchased and built several kits in
>> the past and have never had to do the scale of modifications that are
>> now required to get this kit to work correctly. It was never disclosed
>> on the HF signals website that it will be required by the builder to
>> almost replace every component to make the rig work and be legal on
>> the air.
>>
>> Why are you Guy's sticking up for Farhan, when he does not come forward
>> and hold his hands up and say that the kit should have never gone to
>> market.If this was UK produced ,then Trading Standards would have closed
>> HF Signals down long ago!!!
>>
>> No one can expect a builder to rip out components and bodge the pcb to
>> get it to work. This is not a user friendly board as it is all surface
>> mounted and if you dont have good eye sight and the correct equipment
>> then it will end up as a bin job!!
>>
>> Also most builders do not have the correct test equipment to make tests
>> to insure that after all these mod's, they are legal when on the air
>> with this kit
>>
>> My biggest beef about all this is that HF Signals cannot deliver a kit
>> to me that is not damaged in the post and please dont tell me I have
>> pissed of the postman, My postman is a nice guy and so are the staff at
>> the sorting office and India to the UK is a very long way
>>
>> I paid good money for a Bitx 40 and a Ubitx V3 and both were received
>> damaged, a replacement Bitx was sent and that was also received damaged.
>>
>> When I pay good money, I expect to receive the goods in a usable state
>> and then I do not expect to have to then remove and replace most of the
>> components at my expense, and probably have to wait weeks for these new
>> components to come in, just to get it to work correctly
>>
>> Firmware updates are acceptable as the nature of the code can led to
>> bugs creeping in and this is a very easy thing to do and does not
>> require butchery of the pcb
>>
>> Ray Koster G7BHQ
>>
>

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