[SFDXA] Tokyo Hy-Power Files for Bankruptcy

[Bill Dzurilla]

This is unfortunate, THP made some good products.  I had an issue with my THP HF amp one summer in Slovakia.  I sent an email, Nobuki-san answered personally within the hour, and in 3 days a replacement module was at my door, shipped via FedEx from Tokyo to Bratislava.

Hope the company can somehow get back on its feet.

73 and Happy New Year, Bill NZ5N




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 From: Bill <bmarx at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 10:29 PM
Subject: [SFDXA] Tokyo Hy-Power Files for Bankruptcy
 

Tokyo Hy-Power Files for Bankruptcy
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> Tokyo Hy-Power, a manufacturer of Amateur Radio amplifiers, antenna tuners, and other equipment, is in bankruptcy, and its plant, in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo, has been shuttered. Telephones at the company no longer are being answered, and its Japanese website has been taken down, although the    company’s US website remains working. Company CEO/President Nobuki Wakabayashi, JA1DJW, founded Tokyo Hy-Power Labs in 1975. He blamed “the recent depression in the industrial RF power products area [which] has led to the very difficult financial position.”
> Tokyo Hy-Power’s early products were HF antenna couplers, although within a couple of years it began manufacturing amplifiers for the Amateur Radio market, including solid-state mobile amplifiers. Among its early products was the HL-4000 linear amplifier, which the company claimed was “the first real HF band high-power linear of its kind in Japan.” It has been manufacturing RF products for the industrial market since 1984.
> The company also once marketed the HT-750, a portable, low-power SSB/CW transceiver for 40, 15, and 6 meters in a hand-held transceiver form factor. At Dayton Hamvention® 2013, the company displayed a prototype of the XT-751, an advanced model it hoped to develop, covering 40 through 6 meters and with an internal antenna tuner. Among its latest products were solid-state HF amplifiers, as well as amplifiers for 6 and 2 meters.
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