4/15/2006 UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
Paypal now wants proof that this piece of shit is really a piece of shit.
I took it to Delta Communications. Ronny took a look at it. He declared it a total loss.
Here is the estimate paperwork in PDF format
On 3/21/2006 I won an auction for a 19" Standard rack mount UHF repeater. The seller:
User ID: vw415
Name: Harold V Walls
Company:
City: Owasso
State: OK
Country: United States
Phone: (405) 503-6487
Registered Since: Wednesday, Aug 22, 2001 09:39:34 PST
I received the repeater about 1 week later in 2 boxes. One box held the repeater and the other box held what appears to be a community tone panel of some sort.
Here is a link to the auction (now completed)
Here is THE PICTURE he used in the auction. In the auction he claims that the repeater is working and was just taken of the air. Please examine the next series of pictures. These are pictures of what I got.. Comments are below each picture.
This is box number 1. The repeater was packed in this boz with junk and other garbage thrown in for good measure.
This was box# 2. This is the backside of the tone panel.
Front of the tone panel
better more high res picture as seen on my tech bench. the rpt LED is missing
OK! Now we get to the interesting part. Notice all the RUST from rat piss. All the turds have already fallen out.
Every wire in the whole top side of this repeater has been chewed bare. I need a teatnus shot for just looking at this
piece of shit.
A close up of the bare wires and rusted out NON-FUCNTIONAL relays. Just taken of the air---RIGHT!
More rat piss rust.
This is a picture of the wiring to the power regulators. The whole damn mess is shorted out. This was some hungry
rats lunch.
The piss rolled out of the top of the repeater and into the bottom. I like the rigged up wire nuts..Can you say FIRE HAZZARD?
Another shot of the bottom. I don't see how this shitpile was on the air. The antenna lines are not even hooked up.
I really liked the power cord that was cludged in, I bet ole Harold got that from a blender or something.
The power switch was so corroded by the rat piss, they had to use a wire nut to keep this thing powered.
This is where the rat piss rat through the side. YUK!
Anyway. It looks like ole Harold is into ripping people off. I just noticed somebody else left him some nice raging
NEGATIVE feedback. Some other details, he does not answer his phone. He does not return calls. He uses some lame ass hotmail account
that keeps getting caught in my spam filter setup because hotmail is such a spamfarm.
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Harold, You suck. I will get satisfaction.