On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:17:25 +0000
"Rob Sherwood" <rob@...> wrote:
For instance the DR-7 board of the TR-7 could have been simplified to a few chips. Why didn¡¯t the RV-75 ever show up in a TR-7 or R-7?
I thinks some of that was happening in the TR8 prototypes. Of which samples are known to still exist. By that point the handwriting was on the wall. The Japanese could produce fancy radios faster and cheaper. Money talks. I am sure your remember when the Yaesu FT-101xx hit the market. They were cheap and flew off the shelves. Better than a TR7? No, not by a long shot. I lusted after the TR7 when I was a broke teenage ham but I lobbied my parents for a FT-101. They said no. I guess they thought my HW-101 was good enough (which it actually was). To this day I have never owned a FT-101 and I probably never will for good reasons. :) A decade later I had my first TR7. I still have that radio and have put a lot of hours on it.
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-Jim
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Jim Shorney