[aprssig] APRS needs...
Scott Miller
scott at opentrac.org
Mon May 26 18:03:52 EDT 2008
For a mobile, or a handheld? Kenwood could certainly do it in a mobile
(I think it'd wind up being a ham MDT), but with the D7 already at $350,
oversized, and short on battery life... I can't really see them coming
up with something having a slide-out keyboard and nice screen.
Scott
N1VG
Chuck Gooden wrote:
> Sorry Scott...I disagree.
>
> If Kenwood, or any other manufacture could build something like this, I
> believe it would be a big boost for amateur radio. Look at how the
> THD700 and HT has sold, and now we have the thd710. The market already
> exist!
>
> Let me know when your interface for the nuvi is ready, I'll buy one.
>
> Scott Miller wrote:
>> It's a nice thought, but it's not entirely true. Just building a
>> better product has never been enough to be commercially successful.
>>
>> Marketing issues aside, the potential market is only so big, and
>> developing anything like this as a completely custom product is
>> *expensive*.
>>
>> If we were just talking about the electronics, it wouldn't be so bad.
>> Component obsolescence is a constant problem of course, and getting
>> good prices on LCD screens usually means buying large numbers, but it
>> could be done. But with the design and tooling costs of a completely
>> custom solution like this... I just don't think it can be justified.
>>
>> Scott
>> N1VG
>>
>> Chuck Gooden wrote:
>>> Build it and they will come....
>>>
>>> Tom Hayward wrote:
>>>> The APRS market is too small to sell enough devices to pay for the
>>>> engineering required to produce such a device.
>>>>
>>>> Tom KD7LXL
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Ev Tupis <w2ev at yahoo.com
>>>> <mailto:w2ev at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ... a hand-held transceiver with a clamshell qwerty
>>>> keyboard, color LCD screen and an open OS.
>>>>
>>>> Ev, W2EV
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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