"xpyttl" wrote in message
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Another angle you might pursue is using AmQRP to market the things. AmQRP
is having trouble keeping up with the demand for their stuff. They really
do seem to have figured out what sells and what the price point is. What
they haven't figured out is how to assemble the kits in the sorts of
volume
they are seeing. I don't know how comfortable they would be with that sort
of model, but given your production capability, and their access to the
market, it seems to make sense.

A very well-reasoned reply. AmQRP has been the victim of its own success.
Based on the number of sales, I'm surprised no commercial vendor has offered
to PIC up the job. The prices would go up, of course, but there is still a
large demand, and many QRPers (not this one!) seem to have deep pockets.
Analog has been pretty well beaten to death in the QRP domain, and there
will be a growing market for products that are closer to the
state-of-the-art.

More and more new rigs are coming with VHF/UHF weak-signal capability as
standard. While not directly DDS-related, I think there may be a nascent
market in inexpensive narrow-band VHF/UHF transverters and transceivers,
too. What's available now is excellent, but priced accordingly. We have to
get more activity going on those bands or we're going to lose them.

73,

"PM"