jimg wrote:
jimg wrote:

hmmm..i bought one the other day and am still waiting for it to
arrive. that's why i was talking to craig at kiwa...we were picking
out some of his r75 mods...craig seems to think highly of the radio as
you do, though there's alot of opinions when i asked for some guidance
before the purchase.

and we spent too much time talking about how to rig up a 500' beverage
antenna on a boxkite at the beach without blowing out the front end
from static...

but i really can't figure out the prices of the tabletop sw radios,
like the tentec 350d...it's 4 chips, a board, and an lcd display with
a fancy plastic case. yes, there's a fair amount of nre costs, but
still...i'd love to know what the volume/yr is one some of these radio
models...anyone have any idea...is it thousands, tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands worldwide? maybe there aren't very many swlers?


jmg:
Those DSP devices can be expensive. That display is expensive. The main
reason Ten-Tec was able to sell the RX-320 for $300 was because they didn't
have to supply a display or the the controller to run that display. That's
typically about 60% or more of a receiver's cost.

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Brian Denley
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