{"id":1345,"date":"2021-11-10T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/11\/10\/right-to-repair-update\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:30","slug":"right-to-repair-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/11\/10\/right-to-repair-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to Repair Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Repairmanifesto_en_final.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"587\" data-original-width=\"415\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Repairmanifesto_en_final.jpg\" width=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Allan WA9IRS sent me this article. Thanks Allan. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalengineering247.com\/article\/right-to-repair-movement-attracting-attention?oly_enc_id=4802E9408878H3Y \"><b>https:\/\/www.digitalengineering247.com\/article\/right-to-repair-movement-attracting-attention?oly_enc_id=4802E9408878H3Y <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The French &#8220;repairability index&#8221; is an interesting concept. I wonder how modern ham radio &#8220;radios&#8221; would score. I think our homebrew rigs would max out the index. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Pete has commented on manufacturing processes that do (or don&#8217;t) factor in access for repair. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>One of the recent horror stories we&#8217;ve heard is about a certain manufacturer of mobile phones. It seems that they have designed the phones so that if you dare to replace a broken screen, the new screen won&#8217;t work unless you de-solder the associated chip, then re-solder in the SAME CHIP. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Previous blog posts on this: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/knackers-of-world-unite-you-have.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/knackers-of-world-unite-you-have.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/mending-vs-ending-fight-against-planned.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/mending-vs-ending-fight-against-planned.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allan WA9IRS sent me this article. Thanks Allan. https:\/\/www.digitalengineering247.com\/article\/right-to-repair-movement-attracting-attention?oly_enc_id=4802E9408878H3Y The French &#8220;repairability index&#8221; is an interesting concept. I wonder how modern ham radio &#8220;radios&#8221; would score. I think our homebrew rigs would max out the index. Pete has commented on manufacturing processes that do (or don&#8217;t) factor in access for repair. One of the recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/11\/10\/right-to-repair-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Right to Repair Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repair","category-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}