I once had a Swan HF rig. I needed a serive manual
and contacted the factoruy. I mentioned to the engineer
I was talking with that I no longer asaw any Swan ham gear,
he told me that getting out of the ham business was the only
thing that saved the company. That by and large hams were
less then skilled, and wanted top drwaer service for rock bottom
prices. I suspect that the Bat Wing(look at the big M on their log)
new that ham radio was way too small a market, requiring too
much support and wiselystayed out.
As for scanners, when you make 90% of the public service
2 way gear, you would not want to risk that lucrative market
by making radios to "eavsdrop" on the PS people. By and
large LEO hate scanners and would like to see scanner vanish.
I base this on conversations with LEO, their bosses and the number
of hassles I have seen hams have in the last 30 years with 2mtr FM
gear.
Terry