On 6/17/2010 8:40 PM, R. Kevin Stover wrote: > Exactly. > > I'd believe $100M in the amateur (HF and VHF/UHF), commercial, maritime, > and aviation markets combined. > I'd love to know how many HF rigs they sell per year. > > On 6/17/2010 4:04 PM, Brett Howard wrote: > >> Actually the K3 can sell a LOT less than 100Million and be on par with >> the number of IKY's sold. While Elecraft is a Ham Radio only >> organization IKY make a lot of money selling communications products >> to completely unrelated sectors. >> >> ~Brett >> >> > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2944 - Release Date: 06/17/10 > 11:33:00 > >
Hi all, For those inquiring minds who really want to know and would be willing to do a little bit of work to find out, a web site could be set up where anyone with an IKY radio purchased new could enter the radio model, date of purchase and serial number. Accumulating enough of these data points would give a trend of how many radios were sold per unit time. Because the HROs and AESs would probably buy quantities of radios at one time and not sell them in serial number order, the data would have to be analyzed over longer periods of time. Having the origin of the purchase may be informative as well. The name and call sign is something said data base should NOT have for many reasons. If I were a buyer, I would love to know how many units of a given radio had been sold. It might influence my purchase decision. If I were looking for a used unit, I would have a sense for the likelihood of finding a used radio of a given model. My goodness this sounds like something a company in the HAM radio market might find useful for deciding what products might make sense and where there may be opportunities. If someone like ARRL or eham were to collect this data, it would be valuable public information for everyone in the HAM radio market, buyer and seller. Don, N0YE ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
