if wonder if Eton didn't like the poor construction quality of the 800 and
jumped ship to another manufacturer



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Hmmm, so according to Passport to World Band Radio, the E1 was
manufactured at Bharat Electronics in Bangalore.

Bharat Electronics website:
http://www.bel-india.com/Website/Asp/HomePage.htm

FAS profile on Bharat Electronics:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/contractor/bel.htm

Jai Hind.

junius

mike maghakian wrote:

if wonder if Eton didn't like the poor construction quality of the 800 and
jumped ship to another manufacturer


They probably didn't want to take a chance people would associate the
new radio with the with the old factory.

That and the fact that they've shown they WILL use another manufacturer
if needed puts them in a much better bargaining position when
negotiating the next pricing round.

Hopefully the Indian sets are so noticeably better that they will become
long term partners. It's always nicer buying stuff made in a
democratic country than made in a totalitarian fascist State.

China stopped being communist when the government adopted the Corporate
State.system of commerce.It's still a police state, but the politicos
are getting very wealthy.







mike

Yeah, well, what was kind of interesting in the Federation of American
Scientist profile was the first paragraph:

"Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL) was established in 1954 to meet the
Defence needs of the Government of India. Three units of BEL, located
in Bangalore, Hyderabad & Ghaziabad, were included on the list of
Indian entities that were subjected to US sanctions announced after the
May 1998 nuclear tests. Added to the US sanctions, these units are also
faced with passive sanctions from some European countries."


In any case, the U.S. sanctions against BEL were subsequently removed.

Business profile: http://in.biz.yahoo.com/p/b/baje.bo.html

In article ,
mike maghakian wrote:
if wonder if Eton didn't like the poor construction quality of the 800 and
jumped ship to another manufacturer

Eton is probably like all the other US "import 'em and sell 'em"
consumer electronics "Brand"s. Every product in their line may
be made by a different factory.

And the reverse, every similar unit in a store may be made
by the same factory, despite what company's name is on the box.

One example I know of was the Koss CD/Cassette Boombox I had. The
same unit was available from Radio Shack, RCA, and several other
labels. Lurking in sci.electronics.repair a couple of years ago,
just about everybody's VCR from Sony down to Walmart trash was the
same Funai unit with a bit different packaging.

One check is to look at the FCC ID number that anything that has
a microcomputer in it has to have to show that it was tested for
radio interference. Often the importer won't bother to have their
own check done and will just leave the unit with the factory's
registry number.

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