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Eton is not a radio company in the sense that I knew the big companies
to be. From National to Kenwood to Yaesu to Panasonic you could count
on parts and manuals to be available for some period of time. Eton
impresses me as a company whose focus is that of a marketer and
distributor of radios, with little interest in providing long term
support for older products. And given the price of most of their new
radios it is hard to argue too much. They are for the most part
complex radios to be thrown away when something breaks.