<div>From: "Tim Smith" <<A href="http://us.f353.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=rt_smith@yahoo.com&YY=35863&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b"><FONT color=#003399>rt_smith@yahoo.com</FONT></A>><BR>Subject: RE: [aprssig] To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <<A href="http://us.f353.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=aprssig@lists.tapr.org&YY=35863&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b"><FONT color=#003399>aprssig@lists.tapr.org</FONT></A>><BR><BR><BR>After owning just about every HT made, I keep coming back to Yaesu for<BR>rugged constuction and reliability. Drop a VX series, dust it off and <BR>keep using it. Drop a D7, F6, or IC (IC really means "I crack")...and <BR>you'll probably end up sending it back to the factory.<BR><BR>73, Tim<BR></div> <div>Drifting OT...but</div> <div>I don't know Tim. Thought I would be dead in the water, but I've dropped my F6 three times with enough height to pop
the battery off and I can't even find the impact points. Another time when it skidded across the pavement, face down, did do some scratching....(:-( but I'm sure they all would.</div> <div>73, Steve, K9DCI</div><p>
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