I don’t recall. I think the 2’ was in the neighborhood of $300. From: Mathew Howard Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 4:39 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] survey results
out of curiosity, what did those beasts sell for? On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: That was one of the stronger selling points. From: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 4:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] survey results There was a company called MTC that offered such a beast.... But not any more. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: I kind of do wish there was a dish on the market that could be put up as 5ghz and be easily converted to 11ghz on the tower... it could be especially useful now that there are cheap 11ghz radios out there. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:35 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: I would ask, "Who are your customers?" I buy your products because you sell them and you support our industry. In the past, when you were selling licensed dishes, I would reach out to a coordinator and tell them I would want to use your dish and a certain radio. If I was told I needed to use another manufacture's antenna, I would ask why. If I was told your 2ft wouldn't work, I would ask if your 3ft would. Who is buying from McCown that would prefer a competitor's product? On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: One of you posted the following: Well I was kind of annoyed that we bought some of the big 3ft dishes a few years ago with intent to be able to upgrade to 11ghz and now they are discontinued. I'm curious why you killed that product line. I can always build the feedhorns to convert them. I will support them. I can’t say too much without breaking an ... Hypothetically, just a thought experiment, let’s just say if a newcomer hits the market, and the competitors get tweaked, they may have one of their larger distributors buy up almost all the newcomer stock, then sit on it for a year, not market it, not push it, actually turn away qualified leads and funnel them to the competitor and then return it all to the manufacturer one day before the return privilege expires. It could happen, right... Multiverse theory allows many possibilities, right... But that is just a thought experiment. Such a thing never happened...
