[TowerTalk] US Tower price increase

[Jim Miller]

Why doesn't someone just call HRO?

jim ab3cv

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:13 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:

> You can get good or high quality stuff from China, you have to pay for
> it.  As long as we keep accepting poor to marginal stuff they will keep
> getting orders for it.
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> W0MU
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> On 1/2/2017 1:58 PM, Charles Farr wrote:
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>> I ponder where the steel used by US Towers, and others comes from. It
>> makes little sense to me that raw and scrap materials are shipped to China
>> and other countries, made into materials and then reshipped to the US.
>> Also, just as Japan became an economic power post WWII, and famous for
>> inferior quality, but now, that is no longer an issue. China has had the
>> same image, but on about the same schedule, has overcome it as did Japan. I
>> own a Korean car. 10 years ago, I would not have been caught dead in one.
>>
>> The bottom line is that these materials now rival other world quality. We
>> don't even realize where the steel, wood, or for that matter most of what
>> we use came from. As the quality goes up so does the price. This will be an
>> interesting year so say the least!
>>
>> Chuck, W6AJW
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>> On 01/02/2017 12:07 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
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>>> It could be that they are making a lot more money selling to commercial
>>> and government agencies and we trying to give hams a break.  US Tower used
>>> to be owned by HRO, I believe they still are.
>>>
>>> Tripling the price of something seems crazy though, maybe K7JA had too
>>> much eggnog of the holidays and corrupted the web database or something :).
>>>
>>> W0MU
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>>> On 1/2/2017 12:38 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Great response, Jim. BUT -- the increase noted by the original poster
>>>> was that the increase was overnight!
>>>>
>>>> Several possible reasons for this. One is that business operations for
>>>> the ham market are often supported by higher volume and higher margin
>>>> operations for other markets. When those other markets fall apart, they no
>>>> longer support the ham market, or contribute to economies of scale that
>>>> allow lower prices.
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