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
...
|
| "John Smith" wrote in message
| ...
| 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...
|
| 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
|
|

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
Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

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
...
| 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
| Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
| I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
| boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!