Hi All,
I thought I might put my oar in on this; New products need a market is
true and trying to second guess it is another story.
How would I go about developing a new product? I believe that we need to
see a gap in the market since we are not going to create a new market
like texting. The size of the addressable customer base needs to be
large enough to support the development cost. One thing that many people
see as improvement is the touch screen, while I support development in
this area it is not core functionality to our hobby (can I see the flack
coming on that?). The KX2 and K-POD are good examples of pushing the new
product while building on current development ( no I dont have an inside
view of the products but it stands to reason). Who was it that said
there are many Japanese VHF txcvrs? The latest trend is into the digital
coms so something in that area maybe the next thing but I would
recommend an open source approach to the digital coms to get others
helping with the future development of repeater type multi channel things.
I would personally be more interested in an integrated larger HF amp or
even a combiner to use say three KPA500 to achieve the higher output.
If my fantasy radio was developed it would be quantum based system that
would allow you call through other dimensions over vast distances with
out any propagation delay. Maybe in a few thousand years :-)
73 de Tony G6GLP
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