Comments about Meade Meade 6" (152mm) f/10 ETX-LS LightSwitch Telescope with Advanced Coma-Free Optical Tube Assembly and UHTC Coatings, Autostar III Handbox Controller:

I ordered and received a Meade ETX-LS6 before Christmas. Right out of the box it had a flash memory read error. I had to return it. Meade promised "a few days" turnaround. I finally received another scope on Jan 11. This scope would not find GPS satellites. I returned it with another promise of a few days turnaround. 11 days later I am still waiting.

I have found others that experienced the same GPS problem. One guy tried 3 different scopes last summer and none of them worked.

Note that Meade knows that they are shipping junk. They had a 1.2g software release that promised to fix GPS problems. Then they had a new ver 1.3 release that promised to fix GPS problems. Now when I call them they say my scope is delayed because they have yet another software fix for GPS problems.