[TenTec] The Next Flagship

[geoffrey mendelson]

On 5/21/2014 11:02 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu, - ALL are daughter companies of large enterprises in
> many other business areas.
> They won't go out of business if a particular ham radio flops.

Not true. Kenwood and ICOM are large communications companies. Kenwood, 
not to be confused with the company whose name they "borrowed" that 
makes kitchen appliances, is still very large in consumer electronics, 
LMR radio, etc. Yaesu is not.

Yaesu is a small private company that only sells ham radios. They were 
bought by Motorola for their Vertex LMR radio brand. When Motorola sold 
off their cell phone business to Google, they sold the Yaesu ham radio 
business to a group of investors (the management of it when it was part 
of Motorola). Motorola kept the Vertex line. Yaesu can only sell ham radios.



Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.