"Jim" wrote in message
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Granted only few % of population want to listen to scanner.
Still, $$$$ (average $500) for a electronic device is a bit too much.
Don't you think?

I can buy a nice PC for $500!!!

Yes but remember when that PC was $1500 and how many they had to sell before
that price came down? I believe the scanner and Ham radio markets are very
close in that there will never be as big of a market to make a Pro-96 or an
Elecraft K2 much cheaper than they are. This is easy to figure out in the
Ham community. Look at the FCC stats on licensed hams, there are simply not
enough buyers out there to make a large market.

If this stuff was like HDTV's it would catch on over a few years and
everyone could buy 3 cheap later.