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Review Summary For : N4ATS Radio & Amplifier Repair
Reviews: 266MSRP: 65.00 per hour/ rated
Description:
Radio and amplifier repair. Specializing in Yaesu FL-7000 Amplifier Repair and/or Modifications
Product is in production
More Info: http://n4ats.com/
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N2VII Rating: 2020-09-16
ICOM 756 PRO III Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Honest, fair and fast! A great technician and all around nice guy who cares. I will use Bill for all my avionics repair going forward. It's rare to find someone of his caliber.
K4KJC Rating: 2020-08-13
Outstanding service and communications. Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Bill repaired a Ten Tec Omni VII for me this week which had lost all receive capability. Repair time was fast, communications were excellent, and the Omni is now as good as new. I highly recommend Bill Grassa N4ATS as a rare example of what customer service can be. Completely satisfied with my dealings with Bill.
NF4Z Rating: 2020-08-08
Yaesu FT-857D Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Bill N4ATS is the kind of Techician we all would want to be like. He has repaired my Yaesu FT-857D and could not be any more fair to me. Honesty goes a long way today and he has some of the best "people skills" I have seen in the Repair Community of Ham Radio. Thanks Bill for all you do each and every day for the Ham Radio Community.
W9NWY Rating: 2020-07-13
Fixed TS590SG after lightning strike Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
Took lightning strike on 29 May 2020. Contacted Bill and sent to him June 4th. He determined the problem as ACC2 was blown out and needed repairs. His delay in repairing was waiting on parts from Kenwood. He contacted me to explain delay.
Returned radio works like new
If I need repairs or hams in are need repair we know where to go
KM4CZU Rating: 2020-05-26
Excellent work, fast turnaround time Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Bill was quick to respond to my questions about the QRRS mod for the IC-7200. I shipped him the radio on a Monday and it was back to me by end of day Saturday the same week! All of my radios will be going to Bill for any future work. His prices are more than fair, attention to detail is superb and he's a pleasure to work with.
AI4GK Rating: 2020-05-19
Good Work; Quick Turnaround! Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I dropped my Icom 706MKIIG at Bill's two days ago. It wouldn't power on. I need it to work because I'm sending my Kenwood TS-2000 to him to fix. Well, he had the Icom done and ready the same day. It works like it did on Day One! And, it was a very reasonable price. (He had to clean some corrosion out.) He now has my TS-2000 that's acting up.

UPDATE! The TS-2000 is back in the shack. It took a while to find an end-of-life, difficult-to-source board. Once located, Bill got it installed almost immediately. He adjusted and tuned up the radio, and did the white LED display upgrade for me. This radio screams! I'm getting superb signal and audio reports. For me, Bill is the go-to guy for repairs. The added benefit: he's only an hour's drive away.
KK4ANE Rating: 2020-04-26
Like Brand New, maybe better! Time Owned: more than 12 months.
AL-1500 Repair.

I bought this about a year ago. It had lots of little problems. I took it to Bill and he put it back into working conditions. His service was fast, fair and I was very satisfied with his work. But over the last year, the amp started acting up, blowing fuses and acting very oddly. I called Bill and took the amp up to him for repair. I had read reviews on the AL-1500 that suggested that the amp has some issues with the 8 cap configuration of the original design. So, I bought the 10 cap. board from W7RY to have Bill install it at the same time he repaired the amp. My sloppy soldering on that board left a splash on one of the cap traces and so when he installed it, it ended up exploding. Bill graciously re-did all of the 10 cap board and reinstalled it only to find that it also took out the transformer. I ordered a new Peter W Dahl transformer from Hammond and had it drop shipped to Bill. Bill installed it and found that a cascading effect had taken place during the transformer short and wiped out a number of things on the amp. Bill went through the entire amp replacing anything and everything that was problematic and basically rebuild everything on it. His knowledge and expertise of the Ameritron AL1500 is amazing. But more over, his diligence, integrity and honesty are seldom found today. The amp is home. It works perfectly. In fact, I would say it probably works better than it did the day it was built. If I could, I would give Bill a million star rating. He went above and beyond to repair and perfect this amp. There is no one I would trust more than N4ATS to repair my equipment. Thank you Bill for the quality and humanity you spread with every repair. 73 KK4ANE

K4JC Rating: 2020-04-15
The absolute BEST! Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Over the years I have taken many pieces of gear to Bill for repairs, including a Yaesu FT-7800, a Yaesu FT-920, an Ameritron AL-80A amplifier, a Yaesu FTdx5000 (for the dreaded OLED replacement) and, most recently, a Ten Tec Omni VI Plus that hadn't worked in years. In every case, Bill has been able to quickly diagnose and fix whatever the issue was. If he thought it couldn't be repaired he was very straightforward about it, but I've seen him pull a rabbit out of his hat more than once! His rates are more than reasonable and he has many times come in under his quote. I've used other repair services before, but these days N4ATS is the only person I trust to work on my amateur radio gear.
KB8WUL Rating: 2020-01-11
Bill is fantastic! Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Bill just recently repaired an FTDX3000 and an FT847 for me. Both had been packed away for years because I didn't know of a reliable place to send them for repair.

After seeing so many 5 star reviews for Bill over the years here on eham, I finally reached out to him about getting these radios back in service and I'm really glad I did. There's a reason why Bill gets all those 5 star reviews!!!

Within 2 1/2 hours after the FTDX3000 had been delivered, Bill had put it on the bench, diagnosed the issue and emailed me an estimate to repair, along with pictures showing some parts that had burned out. He had to order parts from Yaesu, but even with that delay (including holiday closings), I still had the radio back in 11 days after he received it, fully repaired and good as new!

I sent him the FT 847 next and he rebuilt the PLL board by hand and had it back to me in 9 days after he received it.

I highly recommend Bill, N4ATS, for any service needs you have. He's fast, accurate, fair and demonstrates excellent customer service. That's definitely a rare combination, so Bill is now my "go to" for radio repair!
K5XS Rating: 2020-01-05
Fixed my amp when others couldn't Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I am absolutely delighted. Super fast, thorough, great communications, fair price.

My Ten-Tec Titan III amp was blowing fuses. I'm pretty handy, but for the life of me I was unable to find the problem.

I shipped to a different highly regarded service tech. He had it several weeks but also was unable fix it and returned it unrepaired.

Bill N4ATS was amazing. From my first email to return was SUPER FAST. He communicated very well via email and text, and had the problem fixed in no time.

I am very glad to have done business with him.