Hi Sylvester,
I don't know about "statistically" more like "statically" blowing the SAW filter, which as far as I'm aware affected all the earlier Boxes, my serial no. is 101XX, 03/12/2009 Engineers Comments on mine "front end SAW filter replaced tested all working ok", and 11/01/2010 Engineers Comments "board replaced usb replaced tested ok" and been erfect ever since, just some antenna problems. HTH