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...

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

"Dee Flint" wrote in message
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| "John Smith" wrote in message
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| I don't think the "apple boys" had ever designed a complete computer
before
| they did--indeed, don't remember anyone else (or team of engineers,
techs,
| scientists, etc...) doing a desktop before then...
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| You mean, China, Russia, India, USA, Canada, So. American, Mexico,
| etc--and
| every gov't, business, private individual, ham and cb'er... is not a big
| enough market... these things would be manufactured in China yanno!!!
|
|
| Nope the entire world wide population of hams is NOT enough. The US has
| just under 700,000. Japan has somewhere around 1 million (there numbers
are
| hard to determine due to their licensing system). The remainder of the
| world combined has right around the same total of the US. This gives a
| worldwide ham population of under 2.5 million. So starting from that
| rough estimate, let's look at some figures. Very, very few people buy a
new
| HF rig annually. Just using the people I know, it's more like every 5 to
10
| years. So let's use an average of 7.5 years. That means a total of
333,000
| new radios (rounding off the answer) sold in any given year. Now split
that
| between 3 makers, yielding 111,000 units per maker. That's pretty low
| volume to undertake radical development. We're probably lucky that we get
| any new features.
|
| Dee D. Flint, N8UZE
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