m II wrote:
Mark S. Holden wrote:

On the bright side, I think products like the Sat 800, and lower cost
chinese portables will help expand the

market for higher end radios.

I think the opposite. They will kill all the competitors with extremely
low pricing. Once the 'communist' Chinese target an industry, it's
doomed. Go to a store like Home Hardware and try to find a NON Chinese
light fixture.

The Chinese state factories are the biggest threat to a free market
place that there is. It's the human equivalent of the Borg's "You WILL
be assimilated"

The politicians here are too easily bought. They're handing over the
keys to the monopolists in return for a few under the table shekels.
You, the citizen can get screwed for all they care, because 'They got
theirs'.




mike

My guess is the mass market chinese radios will help bring more people
into the hobby.

Some of them will be happy with the low cost radios, but some will want
to upgrade to a better radio than they can buy from China. A certain
percentage will end up going for the best they can find.

You can still buy high quality light fixtures. You just need to go to a
specialty store.