Just wondering...is the Palstar rig being made in the USA or is it an offshore
product??
73, Joe W2KJ
On Oct 28, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Paul Gentry wrote:
> What you stated is possibly one reason why it's not in production yet.
> This was a new product showcased at Dayton last year (2013) and was
> supposed to be out by August 2013! Here we are roughly at November 2014.
>
> Of course I could sight other products including RF Concepts tuner, and Ten
> Tec's Patriot. Manufacturing issues including sourcing parts, etc.
> sometimes leads to the products never coming into production. As you
> stated though, price is the leading factor to buyers and usually trumps
> everything else. Why buy the Palstar when you can buy an Eagle that
> arguably has more features, is in production, has the bugs worked out, and
> is cheaper? The TR30a definitely won't come in at under 1K as you wished.
> The QRPer blog listed a range of $1500-2000.
>
> Paul K4BWG
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Dave Edwards <kd2e@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I kind of like what I see in that Palstar.
>> It now all depends on the price. It simply has to come in significantly
>> less then other beginner rigs.
>>
>> ....Dave
>>
>>
>> On 10/28/14, 2:37 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>
>>> I don't suppose there is a big enough market to support Ten-Tec or anyone
>>>
>>>> else coming out with this kind of basic rig (other than in QRP versions).
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like Palstar may gamble that there is:
>>>> http://www.palstar.com/en/tr30a/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is an interesting rig, but I don't see it as being easy to service
>>> or easy to keep a stock of essential replacement parts for.
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