On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 12:30 -0700, J. Moen wrote: > > Longer term, Kenwood's business model is to focus on products with a > reasonable margin, and they are not interested in entering a new > market and seeing a price war that would reduce traditional margins. > > So in the meantime, Kenwood is willing to let ICOM do the heavy > lifting to get DStar into the mainstream. There's no way of telling > if, in future years, Kenwood, Yaesu and others will decide to jump > in. >
The one thing I hate is using memories to do everything. Go to a new area and you've got to program new memories. Ever see one of Mark's , KJ4VO, files? He has everything in there. I get confused just looking at one. If Open D-Star could use the data portion to send linking commands and Kenwood would implement an ability like that then I think they could retain some reasonable margins. For Kenwood to do something better they have to differentiate their product. Obviously US hams do something totally different than Japanese hams so many the ticket is to focus on US hams and create a radio and/or repeater that fits what we want to do. How about 220. That would be an answer to the coordination problem we face here and to the problem of being secondary users on 70cm.
