Soliloquy wrote:

starman wrote in :

Dear Mark and Starman, rather than neurose this link into infinity by
reasserting that the RS232 Standard was omitted since Yaesu had an
insidious plot to overthrow the economy by forcing people to buy the
adapter, why don't you offer evidence, in the form of URLs, to pages that
discuss the prevalence of RS232 ports on other similarly priced equipment
of the time?


Don't know why you're getting defensive.

I didn't imply a conspiracy, or that profit was a bad thing. I mentioned Lowe
made a similar decision.

If they couldn't make a profit, they'd have little incentive to make the radio.

My guess is they expected leaving the parts out of the radios for people who
didn't care about the port would do more for the bottom line than selling the
accessory for those who wanted the capability.

"Mark S. Holden" wrote in
:

I like the Yaesu FRG-100, or at least the possibility of a selection of
equipment (Palstar etc.). It seems that in the modern world, people are
selecting fewer items, since they read this or that about a specific brand
of equipment, and the focusing of sales is going to result in a limited
variety of designs available.

By the thread discussing the omission of the RS232 Jack on the FRG-100,
without demonstrating that other radios, in similar price categories,
designed and marketed in a similar era, were also lacking this Jack, seemed
to impugn the Yaesu itself. (As I originally said, Yaesu has dropped the
radio from their web page, it has been discontinued, I am sure that the
Icom R-75 has taken its place in terms of Table Top Radios).

People have a dwindling interest in SWL. After all you can get anything you
want off of the internet and cable (or Satellite). But can you really? The
U.S. Government has ordered an Iranian channel to be deleted from a
satellite providing coverage to the U.S., citing "Intellectual Terrorism".
So much for the convenience of the "digital age", the satellites are beyond
our control, someone else controls the switches.

http://www.counterpunch.org/moses12212004.html
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/articl...parentid=18855

Shortwave offers the ability to directly glean information from a variety
of sources, thereby giving you the possibility of making an "educated
decision". I would truly mourn its passing, as I rue the passing of the
FRG-100 as a current offering.

Soliloquy




Don't know why you're getting defensive.

I didn't imply a conspiracy, or that profit was a bad thing. I
mentioned Lowe made a similar decision.

If they couldn't make a profit, they'd have little incentive to make
the radio.

My guess is they expected leaving the parts out of the radios for
people who didn't care about the port would do more for the bottom
line than selling the accessory for those who wanted the capability.

"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

My guess is they expected leaving the parts out of the radios for people who
didn't care about the port would do more for the bottom line than selling the
accessory for those who wanted the capability.

It also should be noted that Yaesu's CAT adapter (or *one* of them if
they did multiple designs) was more than a level converter -- it had
optical isolation to avoid any ugliness with ground loops or the like.

--
Eric F. Richards

"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940