[ICOM] FW: Icom Prices

[ve4xt at mts.net]

If an affordable radio is what you seek, then drive business towards the 
IC-718, which covers all the HF amateur bands, has built-in AF DSP, 100 
memories, 100 watts, etc. for only $549. If manufacturers saw significant 
growth in the lower end of the market, they would build more radios to 
meet that demand.

ICOM doesn't build IC-7800s out of the goodness of their hearts. They 
build them because people are buying them. And while it may be hard to 
'fathom' (to use your words) there are enough buyers out there who are 
not going in to debt to buy them.

73, kelly
ve4xt


> From: ron <roncasa at verizon.net>
> Date: 2007/05/23 Wed AM 08:51:53 CDT
> To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] FW: Icom Prices
> 
>  
> >
> > Kelly Taylor wrote:
> >> What would happen? They'd stop producing amateur radios.
> >>
>  No they wouldn't, they would stop producing ridiculously high-priced 
> radios.
> 
> I cannot fathom how anyone would have money to buy these high-priced 
> radios except with "virtual money" (credit card).
> 
> More debt.
> 
> Please, continue to produce reasonably -priced radios - not those 
> requiring a mortgage!
> 
> Oh, on the old radios, they were NOT unreasonably priced even though 
> they were SOMEWHAT  higher than average.
> 
> Keep on hamming ....
> 
> Ron, wb1hga
> "elmer the inquisitive"
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