[Elecraft] LDG

[Rick Prather]

The more I think about the silly response that you got from LDG I begin to realize why they don't have much regard for Elecraft as a market for their products.

When you realize that most "off-shore" rigs have built-in tuners that will rarely handle more than 3:1 SWR they are a good market for them.  But, the built in Elecraft tuners will usually handle up to at least 10:1 and in fact, in my experience, a higher mis-match than an LDG tuner it makes Elecraft users a pretty poor pool of perspective customers.

Consequently, looking at their sales over the years they probably wind up with a pretty distorted view of the market share.

Rick
K6LE



On 6/16/2010, at 12:20 , Phil LaMarche wrote:

> This was LDG's response to my email:  Short sighted!
> 
> The Elecraft market is very small compared to the rest of the HF market.
> Yes, it is big for the kit market, but still very little in caparison to the
> entire HF radio market.
> 
> Most of the big manufacturers sell more of one radio model than all of the
> Elecraft radios ever sold (combining all models).
> 
> Dwayne Kincaid
> LDG
> 
> 
> Philip LaMarche