[Elecraft] LDG

[Don Nelson]

On 6/17/2010 8:40 PM, R. Kevin Stover wrote:
> Exactly.
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> I'd believe $100M in the amateur (HF and VHF/UHF), commercial, maritime,
> and aviation markets combined.
> I'd love to know how many HF rigs they sell per year.
>
> On 6/17/2010 4:04 PM, Brett Howard wrote:
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>> Actually the K3 can sell a LOT less than 100Million and be on par with
>> the number of IKY's sold.  While Elecraft is a Ham Radio only
>> organization IKY make a lot of money selling communications products
>> to completely unrelated sectors.
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>> ~Brett
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Hi all,

For those inquiring minds who really want to know and would be willing 
to do a little bit of work to find out, a web site could be set up where 
anyone with an IKY radio purchased new could enter the radio model, date 
of purchase and serial number. Accumulating enough of these data points 
would give a trend of how many radios were sold per unit time. Because 
the HROs and AESs would probably buy quantities of radios at one time 
and not sell them in serial number order, the data would have to be 
analyzed over longer periods of time. Having the origin of the purchase 
may be informative as well. The name and call sign is something said 
data base should NOT have for many reasons.

If I were a buyer, I would love to know how many units of a given radio 
had been sold. It might influence my purchase decision. If I were 
looking for a used unit, I would have a sense for the likelihood of 
finding a used radio of a given model.

My goodness this sounds like something a company in the HAM radio market 
might find useful for deciding what products might make sense and where 
there may be opportunities.

If someone like ARRL or eham were to collect this data, it would be 
valuable public information for everyone in the HAM radio market, buyer 
and seller.


Don, N0YE