The Chinese have already made good inroads with the Wouxun handy talkies. 100 dollars for a full featured dual band hand held is hard to beat. I have one and it is built very well. I have suspected that many of the Japanese radios were being built in China or Taiwan.
Mike W0MU W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net On 4/13/2012 10:38 AM, Lu Romero wrote: > > From the looks of this rig, it seems to be from the same > source as the Chinese KX1 "competitor" that is now also > being sold and imported by TenTec. > > Look for more Chinese sourced HF gear in the future as their > ham population ramps up. I was in Singapore in 2010 and saw > a Chinese made rig at one of the backwater stores there that > was a twin brother to the Yaesu FT450 at the Singapore > Electronics "Tower" downtown. A dead ringer except for the > color of the cabinet (gray instead of black), the knobs and > the display layout. > > Loved the cardboard box it came in, too! Had that Far > Eastern cardboard feel to it :). They wanted $875 USD for > it. The panel labels were in English, but in that serif font > that Far East people are so fond of. I didnt have a camera > with me (my phone didnt have a camera in those days), would > have loved to have a photo of it. > > The store looked like one of those droid stores you see in > the Mos Eisley spaceport on Tatooine from Star Wars, > complete with a pot of some kind of exotic smelling soup > simmering behind the counter in the back. > > -lu-w4lt- > K3-P3-K1 > Using the AL-K-Line > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:50:15 +0100 > From: Thomas Horsten<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [QRP-L] The Chinese KX3 > To: James Rodenkirch<[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], QRP-L<[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Message-ID: > > <CAPaRxgQouRvmd7xry3uuew99uG4KG5jE0vo=vt+_fnworny...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > The only way they will come anywhere close to the KX3 > performance is by > pirating large portions of the KX3 hardware design and > firmware. If that's > the case I hope they don't succeed. > > Besides, if they try to add all the same kinds of features > that the KX3 has > it will probably be full of bugs and I am sure you won't get > the same kind > of support that you do from Elecraft, where the developers > actually listen > to the users. At best, it will be a pale imitation of the > real thing and at > worst it will be an epic nightmare of bugs and trying to > deal with sporadic > support announcements in Chinese with Google Translate as > your only friend > when trying to figure out what's going on. > > But to be honest, looks like a spoof to me. A well made > spoof, but still a > spoof. > > 73, Thomas M0TRN > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
