[TowerTalk] moto-yaesu

[Jeff Carter]

It's possible, as you say, but historically haven't some of the Motorola 
engineers been hams?  I always thought this was the reason that so many ways 
to move Motorola gear to the ham bands were released so quickly.

In a perfect world, it'd be nice to get a boost from something like that, with  
hams inside Motorola designing straight-out ham gear.  I'd like to see what 
they could come up with.

Jeff
KD4RBG

On Monday 05 November 2007 22:56, Vic wrote:
> Regarding Moto - Yaesu --- Not so much a tower subject but nonetheless
> topical --  Motherolla is into commercial radio,  not VFO controlled ham
> gear -- my guess is they will let it die out --  I doubt Motorola will see
> hamradio as profitable venture .. unless the FCC channelizes amateur radio
> & then what will we have -- mmmm -- are we going full circle ??
>
> Not to many months back Kenwood announced it is combining the radio
> division with it's home entertainment division .. apparently Kenwood sees
> the home entertainment sector as a profitable venture compared to amateur
> radio, or perhaps the board of directors sees Amateur Radio as home
> entertainment  .. Kenwood tried for several years to compete with
> Motherolla in the public service sector ..but ... the marketing techniques
> I observed used by Motorola was enough to convince many PS users they
> should not try Kenwood ... even though the radios were probably as good as
> if not better than the trunking Motracs ..
>
> Looks like ICOM may be the last man standing .. r we headed back to the
> days of kit building ?? Green was good :-))
>
> Good that I recently got a Yeasu hat -- and Mr. Hasegawa, I WILL NOT sell
> it on eBay as a collectors item, I will keep the hat to remind me of a
> happy time in a land not long ago  --- now back to the calculations of
> stacking dissimilar yagis on the same pole ..
>
> Cheers de Vic//
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