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John Smith wrote:

Dee:

That certainly brings things to perspecive--doesn't it?, there are roughly
33 million (and uncounted illegals) here in calif alone... (I think canada
is much less than Calif's population--so is australia)

The whole world of hams is only a small minority here in calif (more illegal
aliens here!!!!)

But, I see your point, there is much more of a market in most any other area
of communications, marine communications alone would be a larger market
share... police/ambulance/fire radios probably are a larger share!!!
Aircraft radios?

But, it would be better to market to gov't, industry, military, public
service, etc... your point is well taken...

Right... and this design approach might or might not be attractive to
them, given their specific needs.

You wrote earlier today of the new generation of youngsters, with
access to better equipment, at today's colleges. That might be a good
next place for you to consider floating this idea... you might find an
EE professor who would consider it to be an attractive design project
for a graduate-level (or high-undergrad) class in RF and electronic
design.

While you're there, you might also want to see if you could persuade
somebody in the business school tackle the other aspects of such a
venture... a market analysis, and a business-case justification.

For any such design to fly, it's going to have to make both technical
sense, and economic sense... as defined by the people you expect to
have buy/use it.

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