[TenTec] The next flagship

[Jim Lowman]

I don't know how many of you subscribe to Facebook or Google+ but if you 
look at the shack photos on the QRZ page, you won't see much 
American-made equipment other than the occasional Elecraft K3.
You can see the same thing in photos in CQ Magazine.
It's pretty much JA gear.  And these are the shacks that tend to cause 
me to have "shack envy," for lack of a better term.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 5/21/2014 8:21 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> Let's see Wayne, 1400 radios purchased out of 750,000 hams in the US... plus
> about 400,000 in Western Europe...
> Then how many hams in the rest of the world...
> Penetration rate is...  0.01% maybe.
>
> And then compare that number to the number of transceivers sold for under
> $1K.
> And again for the number sold for up to $1.5K .
>
> You can't just look at one statistic, and assess the business opportunity.
> You have to compare it to your other options.
>
> AND, the JA companies have good sales and sales channels around the world.
> Ten-Tec hardly makes a dent in European ham radio sales.
> I'm sure it's the same in the far East.
>
> If we want to consider TS-990 sales to assess the high end market for
> Ten-Tec, then it would be better to only consider sales in North America.
> That will give us a more accurate picture of the realistic opportunity for
> TT in this market.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
>
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