[NLRS] Fake Icom Products

[Zack Widup]

I find that very interesting too. I know there have been reports of
counterfeit Minicircuits ERA-series MMIC's. I'm hoping that the bunch
of ERA-2's I bought on eBay recently are the real thing. I guess I'll
know when I try to use them on 10 GHz!

73 & HNY, Zack W9SZ


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM,  <w0zq at aol.com> wrote:
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> Very interesting.  Given the size of the market it seems unlikely that someone would actually invest the cost and time of actually reverse engineering all the production mold tooling, etc, etc, etc,.  It may mean that the pirated Icom manufacturer is working with Icom suppliers (molded case, etc), or maybe they are actually an OEM manufacturer that made these for Icom (at one time?) and have gone rouge?   It would be interesting to know who is making these and how they are able to produce essentially fully equivalent (looking?) radios, etc.
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> 73, Jon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rex Greenwell <k0kp.rex at gmail.com>
> To: NLRS at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 7:47 am
> Subject: [NLRS] Fake Icom Products
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> YI - Fake Icom products are showing up
> http://www.icom.co.jp/world/notice/index.html
> 73 Rex K0KP
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