[CW] Made in USA

Sun Aug 24 14:49:22 EDT 2008

Havent heard anything about it.  I know there is a Kenwood East, and a
Kenwood west, but those are repair facilities.  Dont even know if they have
sales departments attached to them.

Danny Douglas
N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB
All 2 years or more (except Novice)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Zond" <k3miy at csonline.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: [CW] Made in USA

> Hi Danny and others
>
> Didn't Kenwood build a plant in California some years ago?
> Maybe it's no longer in the states.
>
> Ron
> K3MIY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On
> Behalf Of Danny Douglas
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 9:52 AM
> To: joe at dk7vw.de; CW Reflector
> Subject: Re: [CW] Made in USA
>
>
> One of the problems that we in the west are having is that much of our
> manafacturing has gone "overseas"  to places where the hourly wages and
> support costs are much cheaper than our own countries.  Yes, parts come
from
> every place, as do raw products themselves.  Yes- many manafacturers have
> facilities in many other countries, General Motors and Ford, for instance.
> Now the Japanese companies have several plants here in the USA - to
provide
> stateside built automobiles for stateside sales.  Part of this is because
> they want to be able to say they have done so.  But I dont know of a
> Japanese (for instance) ham manafacturer who builds and puts together any
> ham gear in the states - thus our entire costs (less sales costs) go
> overseas.  Its well and good to say prices are cheaper - because of their
> building units by the thousands- but how many jobs have been lost locally
to
> such operations?  No jobs - no pay checks to turn around and by the
> products.  We simply need to balance  payments between countries.  Its the
> same with oil.  Can you imagine what the USA or Germany, etc. would be
able
> to do with their finances, if we could just keep what we earned, in our
own
> countries?  I cant go into a Walmart today, without thinking about my hard
> earned cash going to China or Mexico and NOT supporting some poor American
> worker, so he can afford the same product I am buying.
>
>
> Danny Douglas
> N7DC
> ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
> SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB
> All 2 years or more (except Novice)
> Pls QSL direct, buro, or LOTW preferred,
> I Do not use, but as a courtesy do upload to eQSL for
> those who do.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Werner 'Joe' Jochem DK7VW" <joe at dk7vw.de>
> To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [CW] Made in USA
>
>
> > Ken Brown wrote:
> >
> > > I agree that buying from USA manufacturers is a good idea for the sake
> > > of our economy. Even so, if you buy a "made in the USA" rig chances
are
> > > there are a lot of parts in it that were made in Asia and Mexico. The
> > > label "assembled in USA" is a lot more accurate and more common these
> > > days than "made in USA".
> > >
> > > DE N6KB
> >
> > With all respect Ken, this is a crude idea.
> >
> > Are you aware of the fact that Motorola (a US company) took over Vertex
> > Standard (YAESU) an that Ten-Tec is probably using more third party
> > parts inside their equipment than you can imagine?
> >
> > GM sell their cars as 'Opel' in Germany and as 'Vauxhall' in the UK.
> > Fortunately the US people buy lots of Porsches and the ML model of
> > Mercedes is manufactured in the US.
> >
> > Do you really believe that such a "buy British" attitude fits into our
> > modern world? To me the crucial items when buying a radio are quality
> > and price. It really doesn't matter where it comes from.
> >
> > 73 Joe DK7VW
> >
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