Why don't we ALL call HRO?
Mickey Baker, N4MB
Palm Beach Gardens
*“Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me,
and I will learn.” *Teton Lakota, American Indian Saying.
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Jim Miller <jim@jtmiller.com> wrote:
> Why doesn't someone just call HRO?
>
> jim ab3cv
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:13 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com> wrote:
>
> > You can get good or high quality stuff from China, you have to pay for
> > it. As long as we keep accepting poor to marginal stuff they will keep
> > getting orders for it.
> >
> > W0MU
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/2/2017 1:58 PM, Charles Farr wrote:
> >
> >> I ponder where the steel used by US Towers, and others comes from. It
> >> makes little sense to me that raw and scrap materials are shipped to
> China
> >> and other countries, made into materials and then reshipped to the US.
> >> Also, just as Japan became an economic power post WWII, and famous for
> >> inferior quality, but now, that is no longer an issue. China has had the
> >> same image, but on about the same schedule, has overcome it as did
> Japan. I
> >> own a Korean car. 10 years ago, I would not have been caught dead in
> one.
> >>
> >> The bottom line is that these materials now rival other world quality.
> We
> >> don't even realize where the steel, wood, or for that matter most of
> what
> >> we use came from. As the quality goes up so does the price. This will
> be an
> >> interesting year so say the least!
> >>
> >> Chuck, W6AJW
> >>
> >> On 01/02/2017 12:07 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
> >>
> >>> It could be that they are making a lot more money selling to commercial
> >>> and government agencies and we trying to give hams a break. US Tower
> used
> >>> to be owned by HRO, I believe they still are.
> >>>
> >>> Tripling the price of something seems crazy though, maybe K7JA had too
> >>> much eggnog of the holidays and corrupted the web database or
> something :).
> >>>
> >>> W0MU
> >>>
> >>> On 1/2/2017 12:38 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Great response, Jim. BUT -- the increase noted by the original poster
> >>>> was that the increase was overnight!
> >>>>
> >>>> Several possible reasons for this. One is that business operations for
> >>>> the ham market are often supported by higher volume and higher margin
> >>>> operations for other markets. When those other markets fall apart,
> they no
> >>>> longer support the ham market, or contribute to economies of scale
> that
> >>>> allow lower prices.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> TowerTalk mailing list
> >> TowerTalk@contesting.com
> >> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > TowerTalk mailing list
> > TowerTalk@contesting.com
> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
> >
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
>
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
|