[TowerTalk] Best tuner value? (I think that was the topic)

[Jim Lux]

At 01:46 PM 12/2/2003 -0800, Jeff Stai WK6I wrote:

>hi Jim and group - I finally got an answer back on pricing for that ACOM
>03AT tuner - and I quote:
>
>Hello Jeff, thank you for your request.
>...
>The 03AT is $ 9950.00
>...
>
>I guess I now know why there were no reviews on eham...! - jeff wk6i
>
Or in QST...

Whoa baby....

Looks like my 5x mfr cost wasn't far off the mark.

If anyone's interested, I might be willing to design and/or build something 
like this, and it probably wouldn't set you back $10K.


>At 09:39 AM 11/29/2003, Jim Lux wrote:
> >
> >That makes your "out the door" cost around (300+600+150+100+50+200) = $1400,
> >before you add profit,shipping, development and design costs, etc.  As a
> >rule of thumb, we used to figure that the "undiscounted retail price" of a
> >product would need to be 5-10 times the parts cost, depending on the level
> >of integration.  In this case, the undiscounted retail price might be only
> >3x...(allowing for discounting to retail sales folks, etc.)
> >
> >Is anyone really willing to pay $3000 for a state of the art remote antenna
> >tuner? (other than a broadcast installation, where they DO pay this kind of
> >money)
> >