[Heathkit] OT - Imitating other designs..Microphone type found

[Carl]

There is a huge difference between copying certain small features in a 
car and outright ripping off a complete product and cheapening the 
quality.

As far as safety, the Germans copied US designs from show cars and 
prototype engineering, leaked to magazines, that never went into 
production. Im sure they and the Japs also had a full blown industrial 
espionage program in operation.

Carl
KM1H




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Berry" <dennisberry at worldnet.att.net>
To: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:53 PM
Subject: [Heathkit] OT - Imitating other designs..Microphone type found


> Now Carl, I understand what your saying.  And I know you have a love 
> of
> auto's.
>
> Didn't the US 'copy' some of the safety designs of the 'foreign' built
> German cars
> back in the 70's and 80's?  When the US manufacturers saw that safety 
> sells,
> they went for it.
>
> I wouldn't be too hard on our Japanese friends for copying an 
> aesthetic
> design.
> It's been going on worldwide for centuries.
>
> I think it was cost, innovation and supply and demand that was the 
> beginning
> of the end of American Radio.
> The market wasn't there to support Amateurs.  As long as there was
> similarity to Military built radios, there was a market.
> But when mil radios began advancing and the market could not bear 
> similar
> cost for amateur radios, those lines went away.
> My guess is Heathkit's loss was just due to later generations not 
> wanting to
> hand craft something, they just wanted it 'now'.
>
> Not totally disagreeing with you, just a different point of view.
>
> dennis, nu8s
>
>> From: "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Microphone type found
>>
>> You wouldnt expect the Japs to create their own design when it was
>> easier to steal a respected one?
>>
>> That was the beginning of the end of American radio.
>>
>> Carl
>> KM1H
>>
>
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