Dave:

I am at loggerheads with admin. and my department head as I type...

There are many reasons that may not happen... the college knows them ALL...
if you think anyone suggesting something new is "shark-food" here, you
should see the entrenched lines of thought there...

....no one likes change--except a wet baby...

Warmest regards,
John
--
Sit down the six-pack!!! STEP AWAY!!! ...and go do something...

"Dave Platt" wrote in message
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| In article ,
| 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.
|
| --
| Dave Platt AE6EO
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