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BDK wrote:

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What do you mean "non-consumer radio"?
Universal Radio sold these:
http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...r/nrd302a.html
The receivers target was the Maritime Mobile Service.

You answered your own question. They were basically made for use onboard
ships, and were insanely expensive. Part of the high cost is for JRC
stocking spare parts for far longer than they do for the consumer
radios.

Part of it is just companies seem to pay big bucks without blinking. I
worked for one company that bought over 800 high end surge protectors
for the full list price of nearly $200 each plus they stupidly had them
overnighted 3 MONTHS before they needed them at the new building! I
could buy them in single quantity for $84 and some odd cents, with free
UPS shipping. If I would have bought 800, I could have gotten them for a
little over $70 each. They did that kind of stuff over and over again. I
had a truckbed full of the nearly new surge protectors they dumped in
the trash when they bought the new ones. I sold them at a computer show,
$50 for the really nice ones, and $40 for the "okay" ones, and $30 for
the rough looking ones. I was sold out in an hour, and had a huge chunk
of cash in my pocket.

I was seriously thinking about going to the big boss one morning and
showing them how much I could save them a year by just buying smart, but
never did, and they went bankrupt soon after that anyway. I just took
the stuff I knew they bought all the time, office supplies, etc, and it
was easily into the $100,000+ range an hour after I started adding up
the savings. I bet it would have been an easy half mill company wide.

Universal did sell a few of the high end JRC receivers, but they sold
vastly higher numbers of JRC's consumer radios, the NRD-515, and later
525, 535, and 545, probably the last model they will make, sadly.

The 515 is built like a tank compared to almost any other receiver,
except for the commercial and military ones. Mine is almost 25 years
old, and still going strong.

Do you remember the 505?

dxAce
Michigan
USA




Yeah, but they are rare and $$$$ even now. I'd like to have one though.
There's an oddball that looks like a restyled 515 and 505 cross too, I
think it's the 63, I saw one at a hamfest once a long time ago. Looks
like the "daddy" of the 515. I wish I had grabbed it up, but 1000 bucks
was out of the question.

BDK