It won't be easy, and never has been.
If you are in the business, you have to regard the appearance of $39 dual
band h/t's with disquietude, because once you start seeing $100 h/f
transceivers, it won't be good. Those will be pretty lousy radios, even
for so-called "entry level" but like the Japanese radios and cars, they
keep on getting better, and eventually they will be decent radios. How
long "eventually" turns out to be is anybody's guess.
In spite of that, those who have never owned a business would be dismayed
to realize all the ways to go wrong. Decisions made, and not made,
countless in number, every day will mean the difference between failure and
survival and success. Who you hire, who you fire, where you locate, how
you size up to produce your product, how much advertizing, which hamfests
you go to and how many staffers renting how many cars and hotel rooms and
hats, and trinkets, how much you spend on quality control, or not, and a
lot mores besides. Decisions you must make today may turn out shrewdly or
badly depending on what happens tomorrow or next week, or next year. Your
godless competitors are going to make things even more tricky! You are
probably like Yogi Berra who claimed "[his] forecasting was none too good,
especially when it pertained to the future." It's a tricky business!
73 de W6OGC Jim Allen
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Brian Carling <bcarling@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Yes
>
> And when we buy they prosper and stay in business...
>
> 700,000 new "amateurs" are apparently not interested in HF rigs, sad to
> say.
>
> Best regards - Bry Carling
>
>
>
> > On May 12, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Douglas via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I doubt that it is good news for Ten-Tec enthusiasts.
> >
> > Companies that are doing well financially are rarely for sale and/or its
> owners are rarely willing to merge.
> > As a both past and currently self employed businessman, I speak from
> experience.
> >
> > Also RF Concepts has gone through several owners in the last decade or
> so. Founded as Ehrhorn Technological Operations, it's gone through a lot of
> instability. Its relatively new owner is probably trying to create a big
> enough asset/customer base to survive. Several other Amateur Radio linear
> amp makers have left the market.
> > Just a few months ago Tokyo-Hypower declared bankruptcy, etc.
> >
> > About 5 years ago Ten-Tec was booming with a huge military contract.
> Those contracts have ended with the winding down of the Iraqi/Afghan wars.
> When they began to greatly reduce their QST advertising, etc, I suspected
> that their business was slowing.
> >
> > Merging two companies that are financially weak rarely creates a
> stronger unit. Look up Studebaker - Packard merger, Nash - Hudson Merger,
> etc.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Doug/WA1TUT
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ..
> > Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:13:16 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw@verizon.net>
> > To: tentec@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] Alpha Amplifiers and TEN-TEC Merge
> > Message-ID:
> > <19619403.1437535.1399907596164.JavaMail.root@vms170025>
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> >
> > Knowing the quality and reputation of Alpha amps over the
> > years, while I admit I didn't see this one coming... I think
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