[Premium-Rx] Discontinued SW Receivers

[Cecil Acuff]

I don't know what's up....this is very discouraging.  I can't imagine it's 
sales.  The R-75 has been selling well from what I can tell.  Not a lot of 
profit in it though.  I was hoping Drake would do a "C" model with 
improvements.

I know guys that are buying Icom 756 Pro II's and III's that will never use 
the transmitter because they are not licensed.  They wanted a top notch 
receiver using the latest DSP technology.  If Icom would deliver a loaded 
receiver with the 32 bit DSP technology based on the 756 in the just under 
2K price range I think it would sell.  I thought that was what they were 
going to do when they announced the demise of the R-8500.

Oh well....up side...lots of good used stuff out there....

Cecil....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Reed" <ka5qep at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Premium RX" <premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:48 PM
Subject: [Premium-Rx] Discontinued SW Receivers


Over the past two days I learned that ICOM is discontinuing the IC-R75 
receiver, and Drake is discontinuing the R8A.  As far as I know no new 
models will replace these two.  Is the NRD-545 next?

John Reed


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