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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