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, D Peter Maus wrote: Telamon wrote: In article , D Peter Maus wrote: wrote: This is probably nothing, but I noticed that Universal has deleted the message that once used to be on its R-75 ad, stating that the R-75 is discontinued. I then went to the Icom America website, and noticed that the R-75 is there, even though I seem to recall its having been removed at one point. Is there more to this than I think? Steve That's a good question. And one that bears investigating. In the last few years, a number of the major manufacturers of desktops have exited, or threatened to exit, the market. At least in North America. AOR withdrew 7030 and its variants from the US market. Icom announced the discontinuation of R-75. Drake appears to have left the building. Yeasu had announced that it had gigged the Frog. And yet, FRG-100B appears to be alive and well. AOR returned 7030+ to North America, and R-75's demise appears to be on hold. It may be that with declining competition, some manufacturers are rethinking their product life cycles. In the case of Icom, they're still in production with a wide range of radio gear, some popular HF ham gear included. With the appropriate economies of scale, production of R-75 in a competition reduced market could remain profitable. Has anyone contacted Bellevue for a definitive position on R-75? Maybe they did one last production run. That's a good thought. And it's possible that Japan hasn't really been clear with Retail. If you'll recall when R-75 was released, I mentioned here a conversation with an ICOM rep I'd had at a ham show in which the rep said that complaints as echoed here about R-75's sync detector had been heard loud and clear in the hallowed halls. And that there were, indeed, revisions coming. And that the case clearly contained space for future hardware developments. Additional conversations with other ICOM reps repeated these details. But no such revisions have been forthcoming, to date. Conversations I've had with Bellevue, over the years, have indicated that they really don't know what the hell Japan is doing. So, your thought is as good as any. Oh! So they might actually fix it. That is good news. If it get fixed right I might buy one. It would have to be offered with some filter options good SWBC listening for me to consider it. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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