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Tracy Crook wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>  
> Was he (P.L.) accurate, when he stated that everyone who has used the 
> EC2 has had problems?
>  
>  
> Other builder results are all over the map from "fired it up and it 
> ran perfect" to " I almost gave up before it finally ran right".   In 
> a world populated by mere mortals, this is perfectly normal. 
>  
> To summarize, YMMV.
>  
> Tracy

To emphasize what Tracy is saying:

 I built an RST-Engineering panel mount intercom.  It's one of Jim 
Weir's kit build projects.  Went off without a hitch, and just worked.


I installed...not built, just INSTALLED...my ICOM radio, and spent three 
days trying to make it work.  You know ICOM.  The simplest radio 
available, whose installation should be braindead simple for the guy 
that just soldered an entire intercom together.  None of the problems 
with the installation could in any way be blamed on ICOM.  In fact, I 
credit ICOM with building a radio robust enough to survive my bumbling.

Saying something along the lines of "builders have had problems" is a 
stupid statement in a casual conversation, and nothing short of 
irresponsible in a forum without investigating each problem to see if it 
was the product or the color blind illiterate that connects the green 
and red wire reversed.  We're not doing rocket science here, but it is 
measurably more complicated than the typical consumer electronics.