[ETS/PARC List] FW: Tokyo Hy-Power Files for Bankruptcy

[Don WILSON]

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Subject: Fw: Tokyo Hy-Power Files for Bankruptcy
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:33:45 -0500









Subject: Tokyo Hy-Power Files for Bankruptcy


12/27/2013
Tokyo 
Hy-Power, a manufacturer of Amateur Radio amplifiers, antenna tuners, and other 
equipment, is in bankruptcy, and 
its plant, in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo, has been shuttered. 
Telephones at the company no longer are being answered, and its Japanese 
website has been taken down, although the company’s US website remains working. Company CEO/President 
Nobuki Wakabayashi, JA1DJW, founded Tokyo Hy-Power Labs in 1975. He blamed “the 
recent depression in the industrial RF power products area [which] has led to 
the very difficult financial position.”

Tokyo 
Hy-Power’s early products were HF antenna couplers, although within a couple of 
years it began manufacturing amplifiers for the Amateur Radio market, including 
solid-state mobile amplifiers. Among its early products was the HL-4000 linear 
amplifier, which the company claimed was “the first real HF band high-power 
linear of its kind in Japan.” It has been manufacturing RF products for the 
industrial market since 1984.
The 
company also once marketed the HT-750, a portable, low-power SSB/CW transceiver 
for 40, 15, and 6 meters in a hand-held transceiver form factor. At Dayton 
Hamvention® 2013, 
the company displayed a prototype of the XT-751, an advanced model it hoped to 
develop, covering 40 through 6 meters and with an internal antenna tuner. Among 
its latest products were solid-state HF amplifiers, as well as amplifiers for 6 
and 2 meters.