[Premium-Rx] Discontinued SW Receivers

[wglevy]

I think the big issue is sales. Its not just that swl broadcasting is going
the way of the dinosaurs its that the religious god botherer's are taking
over the spectrum. All of that could be interesting if it was Bhuddism but
its our own local crowd of "send us your money and we will save your soul"
types.

WEll TenTec is bringing out a DC to 4 gig receiver so if you can't stand the
SW there is always the Cops and Robbers.

73, N2WL  Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>
To: "John Reed" <jreed at alum.mit.edu>; "Premium RX"
<premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Discontinued SW Receivers


> 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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