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Review Summary For : Land Air Communications LTD
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Hal Guretzky (SK) serviced ICOM,KENWOOD,COLLINS,and Yeasu radios and other brands also. And also commercial radio equipment! He was located in Richmond Hills, NY.
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KC2URM Rating: 2010-03-13
what a great guy! Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
hi how are you all i gave hal my friends icom 746 about a week ago it was on a thursday and hal called me on friday and told me it was fixed i had hal fix my TS-440 also about 3 months ago and let me tell you this guy is the most nicest guy i have met he for sure knows his stuff and is extremely smart. i recommend him highly to anyone that needs to repair there ham gear. he is also very reasonable when it comes to the price. i give land air communications a "10" out of 10 he is the best and hal my friend is more then happy and thanks you so much. hal from your friend wayne KC2URM i want to thanks you again i will see you again 73s.
K4HSM Rating: 2010-03-08
Quality repairman Time Owned: more than 12 months.
For some reason my FT100D smoked when I keyed up the mic. First person I called was Hal at Land Air. He previously fixed my Kenwood 742 tribander that's been rock-solid ever since.

Sent the radio, he had it fixed after a couple of days. He knows his stuff! Highly recommended
W3AE Rating: 2010-02-08
FT-1000D & 4CX1000 AMP REPAIR Time Owned: N.A.
MY NAME IS HORACE/W3AE FROM PHILADELPHIA,PA. I FOUND OUT ABOUT LAND AIR COMMUNICATIONS 27 JAN.2010. MY FT-1000D HAD NO POWER OUTPUT & I HAVE A HOMEBREW 4CX1000A LEFT TO ME BY MY ELMER WHEN HE BECAME A SILENT KEY. YAESU SAID MY RIG WAS TOO OLD TO FIX. NO ONE COULD HELP ME IN GETTING THE 4CX1000A UP & RUNNING. WHEN I CALLED HAL FROM LAND AIR COMMUNICATIONS HE SAID BRING BOTH ITEMS UP TO HIM. I TOOK THE 2 ITEMS TO HAL ON THE 29 JAN.2010 AND HE CALLED ON THE 3 FEB. 2010 AND SAID TO ME BOTH PIECES OF EQUIPTMENT WERE UP AND RUNNING PERFECTLY. I WENT BACK THE 5 FEB.2010 AND TOOK BOTH PIECES OF EQUIPTMENT UP AFTER HAL PUT THEM ON THE AIR AND SAID TO ME THAT LAND AIR COMMUNICATIONS STANDS BEHIND ALL THEIR REPAIRS. IF YOU HAVE AMATEUR EQUIPTMENT HARD TO FIX OR FINDING PARTS FOR IT, GIVE HAL A CALL. HE IS ONE OF THE BEST REPAIR ENGINEERS FOR FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPTMENT THAT I HAVE MEET IN 40 YEARS AS A AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR.
THANKS HAL/K6PDZ YOU ARE A GREAT PERSON TO TALK TO. I LOVE THE WAY YOU ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS PUT TO YOU ABOUT ANY ELECTRONIC EQUIPTMENT.
73 HORACE/W3AE
W2YP Rating: 2010-02-02
Land air com. simply the best...hal is an excellent engineer... Time Owned: N.A.
Having problems with with any piece of yaesu gear,need fast reliable service with in the tristate area ny.nj.conn.. or even europe? hal is your man! last week i turned on my 20 year old
Ft-1000d which alway performed flawlesly to find that the auto tuner would not tune into my 50 ohm
dummyload/and antenna. the hi swr led would come on and shut down the transmitter... no output...
bypassed the tuner and it would operate for a half hour and shut down..... I called yaesu in california, spoke to a tech.manager.and was told that yaesu nolonger services the Ft-1000d...i was referded to hal for his high tech attrabutes
and complete knowledge of all yaesu radios... i come to find out yaseu speaks highly of hal.and his repairs. he his very resonable with repair costs and fast repair turnaround.drop off the radio thursday night pick it up sunday morning at his shop fully realigned an repaired to factory specs...the ft-1000 operating like new.
MAKE LAND AIR COMMUNICATIONS YOUR FIRST STOP FOR
ALL RADIO REPAIRS........
TNX, HAL. FOR THE WONDERFUL SERVICE...

MIKE. W2YP
KB3HOG Rating: 2009-12-31
SILTRONIX 1011D REPAIR Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
HAL AT LAND AIR COMMUNICATIONS IS A GREAT PERSON TO DEAL WITH. HAL REPAIRED FOR ME AN OLD SILTRONIX 1011D THAT WAS IN BAD CONDITION NOW IT WORKS LIKE BRAND NEW. VERY VERY FAST TURNOVER. I WOULD HIGHLY SUGGEST ANY
AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR WHO NEEDS ANY TYPE OF REPAIR TO CONTACT HAL AT LAND AIR COMMUNICATIONS. YOU CAN NOT GO WRONG. SINCERELY KB3HOG 73'S AND 88'S TO HAL AT LAND AIR COMMUNICATIONS
WB4L Rating: 2009-11-19
recent business Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
had the opportunity to do business with Hal, K6DPZ, the Mr. Wizard fix anything man!He took an old rig and made it work flawlessly!
KC6LXR Rating: 2009-11-16
Great JRC repairman! Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
I had a JRC-135 HP transceiver that was distorting
quite badly on transmit.Currently JRC is out of the amateur equipment business.Even when JRC was active in the amateur radio business there were very few places that sold their transceivers.If all this wasn't enough,my JRC 135HP is about twenty years old.
The only place that would even look at my JRC was Universal Radio, the place where I bought it originally.They were unable to fix it, but spent quite a bit of time on it. Universal was really nice to me and didn't charge me any thing. At this point I thought that my JRC was toast. Then
I found out about Hal and talked with him on the phone.He had no problem with JRC stuff and I sent my radio to him. Hal troubleshoots down to the component level and he found a bad cap in the PA section of and the radio and replaced it. Hal is great to deal with and he called me several times
on the phone to update me on his progress. He even called me after I got the radio back to see if it arrived safely and to make sure it was still working OK. I can't recommend Hal highly enough.He really knows what he is doing and his charges are quite reasonable. So if you have a JRC or any other radio for that matter,give Hal a call. I think you will be very pleased with his service
W4GSA Rating: 2009-10-25
Fixing any radio Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
I have to say weither it was my Hammarlund HQ170A VHF or Something just out of a box from a Dealer!I have NEVER been disapointed by Hal's abilities to do the impossible!
I gave Hal a a old reciever HQ-170A which was a Tech's electrical nightmare and it NOW has beautiful audio and phenoninal sentitivity!
There is other gear in the future, I will be sending because he has proved his WORTH!
K9SLQ Rating: 2009-10-14
TOP SERVICE Time Owned: N.A.
Dear All,

I would like to share my appreciation for a good job working with me recently when my "baby" KWM-2 developed transmit problems. I was lucky to locate others but Hal was the first to respond to my email request for help to fix it.

Thanks Hal for a good job if you see this message. I have copied and pasted information from Hal's web-site
http://www.landaircom.com/ in case you ever need service work on Collins equipment.

K9SLQ Wayne Grove
Bluffton, IN

Hal K6DPZ

Consulting-Engineering-Sales-Service
95-15 108 Street Richmond Hill, New York 11419
Hours Mon-Fri
9am to 12pm, 1pm to 5pm, eastern time
by appointment only
Phone 718-847-3090 Fax 718-849-8279
KA1RLA Rating: 2009-09-17
Good Service and work Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I recently sent my KWM-2 to Hal along with the PM-2 power supply for tune up and repair any issues. I found Hal friendly and easy to work with. The turn around time on the radio was excellent - and packing was great for the radio. The radio operates much better than before and is now in good alignment so the work done on it was top shelf.

Now during this time I decided to buy the 516F Power Supply from Land Air. He suggested it was a more robust PS and I'd be better served with it - which it seems to be. My only small complaint was I had to replace a tube socket that was cracked - either during transit or during packing. However Hal was very quick to provide me with any parts needed to return the supply to operational condition. We did this again when a cap shorted - mostly due to my negligence with the bias on the supply improperly set. Again Hal provided me with the replacement part free of charge and some instructions and advice on how to use the supply.

While we had some glitches due to operator error and old parts - you have to expect that with devices 35 years or more old. So far the supply seems to respond well as the does the radio. I also feel that should problems arise in the future Hal will be there to help me trouble shoot and fix the problem. And so I give him good marks and its been a good experience for me.