[Elecraft] K3 v. others

[Bruce Beford]

I don't believe Ten Tec has "outsourced" anything to China. They made an
agreement with YouKits to offer their products in this county under the Ten
Tec name. They did not design them nor request YouKits design them for Ten
Tec. They were available for quite a while before Ten Tec picked up the
agreement to market them in this country. In fact, they refused to market
the 3 band version of the HB1A, due to concerns about it being able to
reliably meet FCC TX purity specs. That is why they sell it as a 2 band
version. I actually built a 3 band YouKits HB1A from a "bag o' parts"
offered as a limited run kit back a few years. Mine worked fine, and was a
good value for what it offered (and it met FCC specs with margin to
spare)...
 
Bruce
N1RX
 
 
> I figured once they started outsourcing to China with their cheaper QRP
> radios that Eagle followed with the low price point. Usually once
> outsourcing starts there is no turning back only an increase to further
cut
> production costs. 
 
> Fred/N0AZZ