Eagle numbers at $1600 per unit. Thats a stoudt price point when comparing to
an Icom 7300.
How many units to produce meaningful funding for R&D expansion?
Let's assume $300 or $500 profit per unit (thats after Overhead, Labor and
Materials), 100 unit run, that's $30 to $50K in profit. Probably optimistic
numbers.
Let's assume the R&D cost per engineering hour is $100 per hour, you are
looking at 300 to 500 hours being produced from a 100 unit run. What can be
engineered from 300 to 500 hours of R&D funding? Certainly not something which
is far afield from existing products.
This is my point, is it better to somehow take this down time, take profit
from other commercial products and use the profit on a quick R&D effort to
revamp an existing product or use the time to produce a radio with limited
demand? Then take more time (if the Eagle sells) to make something for next
year.
If you want to produce something now, make Alpha Wattmeters, Amplifiers, TenTec
manual Tuners, accessories, etc....Figure out which products will sell with the
largest profit margin and go for it.
I applaud Mike's efforts and I will support TenTec but not via an Eagle
purchase. I don't believe the Eagle has the feature set being sought by
customers.
N5TF,Terry
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