[Kenwood] KW's future

Mon May 23 16:21:38 EDT 2005

I asked Kenwood about it at Dayton. They admitted that most of the R&D is
 focused right now on their land/mobile business. But it's easy to transfer
 R&D from the one area to the other, and it's easy to assign engineers to
 amateur radio projects when they need a new product.
 They pointed out their amateur radio sales were up significantly last year,
 and are doing great so far this year. Good sales and profits mean Kenwood
 will not be walking away from the amateur radio market.
 Jim - K0ZXU
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cyrus Turner" <w5dxe at hotmail.com>
> To: <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 1:39 PM
> Subject: [Kenwood] KW's future
>>> Say it isn't so!
>> I have heard from several hams leaving the convention that KW is getting 
>> out of the amateur business all together. Does anyone have anything 
>> concrete on this or is it just a rumor?
>> W5DXE