Alan Dye ) writes:
Hello All,

First Yaesu discontinued the FRG-100
Then Icom discontinued the IC-r75
Then Drake discontinued the R-8B

All within the last two years.

Two questions:

If a person wanted a decent tabletop in the $500-900 range and didn't
want the Grundig boom-box model what would he get?

Secondly, why are they all being discontinued?

Alan


You're probably asking the wrong question.

THose receivers have been around for some time. One thing that came
up with the R8 was that getting parts for it had become problematic, or
was about to be so. If they can't get the parts, they can't make the radio.

So it's not that those receivers have been discontinued. Your question
would be better phrased "why don't these manufacturers make replacements
for the discontinued receivers".

Michael