Splash why would you wait that long for any repair, there are a lot of other good shops that work faster than that, try DTB Radio in Carlisle PA, Dave is great and I get usually a week or so turn around time, heck evern Chris Holland in Ontairo California is 3 to 4 weeks at the most. If more people quit going to Bob's maybe he might get the hint that and he can have all those truckers off of route 80 and the truck stop guys and not us hobby radio operators. I've also had great repair from Mountain View Electronics in Tennessee. With the flat rate USPS boxes these days a good radio shop is only 14 dollars away