My thoughts (semi-serious) were that should the Amateur products portion of Vertex include manufacturing and marketing it might be worth looking at. Internal access to the Japanese market and I would think that Elecraft could cherry pick for the capabilities they could use (like manufacturing). But you are right, even should Motorola be able to do a clean split of the amateur radio portion they would certainly expect the buyer to assume all warranty obligations and other repair, not a pleasant prospect.
But probably all of Yaesu amateur products are so inextricably tied to Vertex commercial and government gear that a clean separation will be impossible. Motorola is certainly not going to continue turning out Yaesu amateur radio products but the 20% left in the hands of the company's founder may do so in some form. Ironic, if Yaesu fades and Kenwood slowly withdraws, we may get back to the point where the big names in amateur gear are again American and (perhaps) European. I guess China could enter the market but I would expect that the Chinese business model does not include low volume endeavors like Ham Radio (unless, of course, Elecraft sells hundreds of thousands of K3's and the Chinese notice). :) Mike W5FTD > Ha ha ... someone hand Wayne the smelling salts ... > he likely passed out after reading that post (Elecraft acquires Yaesu). > Guess opportunity and problems come in bunches! > w9gb >> You know, this may be Elecraft's opportunity to make its first >> corporate acquisition: take Yaesu off Motorola's hands (this assuming >> that Yaesu has some manufacturing and marketing assets). Though >> probably Yaesu manufacturing is contracted out to China; perhaps not a >> net plus for Elecraft. > >> Mike W5FTD _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
