[TowerTalk] Ham businesses, quads & IP

[Jim Lux]

At 02:28 PM 1/4/2006, Jim Jarvis wrote:

>Dear TT:
>
>I have to wade in on this one.
>
>
>Structurally, THAT is why amateur radio is in danger of losing its source
>of radios.  If you had to invest your retirement nestegg in it...would YOU
>finance development of another YaeKenCom?  Only reason THEY do is that the
>amateur population has been more pervasive in JA's technical community.

And, they can leverage their designs into other markets.  Lots of Icom 
marine radios out there, for instance.  Vertex Standard sells nice ALE HF 
manpack rigs too.




>I think we're near a tipping point.
>
>n2ea
>jimjarvis at ieee.org
>jimjarvis at verizon.net
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