[Milsurplus] Dead electronics

[aGEnuine Ham]

Speaking of dead end jobs.  Two-way radio.  Link, Bendix, Budelman and
others never made it to the 60s, RCA quit in the 70s.  Aerotron, Fairnon,
Hammarlund, many others tried and fell by the wayside.  GE and EF Johnson
bailed out back in the 90s.  Most everyone eventually saw the coming
penetration of cell phones displacing conventional dispatch radio. 
Motorola is still hanging in there, selling to large fleets, but the user
radios look more like cell phones every day.  And the major cell phone
manufacturers are Nokia and other non-US companies.  Sure, some are
manufactured here, BY ROBOTS!  Fortunately, the cell site equipment is
too costly (I guess) to ship overseas, and is still being made here.
Qualcomm, etc.

Here is a list of manufacturers of ham gear I have owned.  Where are they
now?  Still making ham gear in the US???  Why not?

Collins
Hammarlund
National
RME
Gonset
Morrow
Elmac
Meissner
Harvey-Wells
EF Johnson
Central Electronics
Heathkit
Galaxy

Couple of survivors:  Henry and ETO

And, finally, the only tower manufacturer who had any breadth of
selections, Rohn, now called Radian with an uncertain future.

The only thing the US is still holding leadership in is
vaporw---er---software.

73,
George
W5VPQ

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