[TenTec] The next flagship

[Jim Allen]

That's not too surprising.  When a new ham gets his ticket, and heads off
to the LRS to get gear, probably at an HRO, or AES and similar, what does
he see?  All the JA gear.  There is nothing else, and hasn't been in
decades at the big stores.  How many pages of YIK ads are in QST every
month, and how many ads for the stores which sell them.

It may be that the guys who work in those stores have Drake gear or TenTec
at home but their job is to sell YIKs.  Whatever the latest and greatest
is, that's what the latest and greatest they are going to talk up.

How long has it been since there was another US manufacturer in radio
stores?  30-35 years or more?

73 de W6OGC  Jim Allen


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Jim Lowman <jmlowman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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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