[TowerTalk] US Tower price increase

[Chuck Gooden]

My thought also...but it is a holiday and they may be closed today.  I 
am planning on making a trip there tomorrow and I will ask them.

Chuck Gooden


On 1/2/2017 3:27 PM, Jim Miller wrote:
> Why doesn't someone just call HRO?
>
> jim ab3cv
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> 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.
>>
>> W0MU
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/2/2017 1:58 PM, Charles Farr wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> On 01/02/2017 12:07 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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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