[TenTec] Scale Of Eagle Production

[Scott Harwood]

Why is it folks on this forum set the Icom 7300 as the standard for excellence?  I compared it feature by feature to the Kenwood TS590SG to replace my Orion II, and selected the Kenwood.  It has an excellent receiver, truly fantastic filtering, transmit audio, etc. and I've never looked back or regretted my decision.  The 7300 is a great rig, but why not give the 590SG some praise also?

Also, I agree with a lot that was said about the Eagle.  I have one and use it a lot for portable operation due to it's size, weight, receiver performance and power output.  I think it does an outstanding job.  I also have an Argonaut VI with the 100 watt Ten-Tec amp that I use strictly for cw and QRP work without the amp. I am extremely happy with it.

I don't think anyone would regret purchasing either the Eagle or Argonaut VI, as long as they fully understand the rigs and their capabilities.

Just my two cents worth.

Scott K4VWK


-----Original Message-----
>From: terry foskey via TenTec <tentec at contesting.com>
>Sent: Feb 20, 2017 8:38 AM
>To: "tentec at contesting.com" <tentec at contesting.com>
>Cc: terry foskey <n5tf at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [TenTec] Scale Of Eagle Production
>
>Eagle numbers at $1600 per unit.  Thats a stoudt price point when comparing to an Icom 7300.
>How many units to produce meaningful funding for R&D expansion?
>Let's assume $300 or $500 profit per unit (thats after Overhead, Labor and Materials), 100 unit run, that's $30 to $50K in profit.  Probably optimistic numbers.
>
>Let's assume the R&D cost per engineering hour is $100 per hour, you are looking at 300 to 500 hours being produced from a 100 unit run.  What can be engineered from 300 to 500 hours of R&D funding?  Certainly not something which is far afield from existing products.
>This is my point,  is it better to somehow take this down time, take profit from other commercial products and use the profit on a quick R&D effort to revamp an existing product or use the time to produce a radio with limited demand? Then take more time (if the Eagle sells) to make something for next year.
>If you want to produce something now, make Alpha Wattmeters, Amplifiers, TenTec manual Tuners, accessories, etc....Figure out which products will sell with the largest profit margin and go for it.
>
>I applaud Mike's efforts and I will support TenTec but not via an Eagle purchase.  I don't believe the Eagle has the feature set being sought by customers.
>N5TF,Terry
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