Well John, that is the question, isn't it?
Consider:
-- How much does it cost to re-engineer classic equipment for currently
available components?
-- What's a minimum run to break even? To make a decent profit?
-- How much do you potentially lose by scheduling the equipment run, when you
could be making something else that's (more) profitable?
-- What's the market? (ie, who's going to actually buy it)?
Those last two are very important to any manufacturer. Let's face it, if you
only stand to make $X on a small run of a speciality item, and stand to make
$XXX on a run of a different item, the different item will tend to go first
almost every time. And a relatively small company can't afford to warehouse
hundreds and hundreds of radios (or whatever) in the hopes that they'll
eventually sell; they may wait until they have enough orders on hand to justify
a production run, and build a few extra to cover demos, last minute purchases &
warranty issues, but that's going to be about that.
It's more than just the development costs.
73, ron w3wn
From: "John T. Fleming" <W3GQJ@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Jul 06 13:55:22 CDT 2006
To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ham Radio
I see we have some die hard CW folk here. I think TT would like to sell
enough rigs to recoup their development costs! :-]
73, John W3GQJ
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Now you're talking Barry. Leave the mic connector off--- or at most--- just
enough audio circuit to use only in emergiences. Ole CW guys already sound
"purty enuff" without all that EQ & stuff !
73, John WA4TT
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