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In Reply to: RE: My take (tube electronics) posted by pictureguy on November 29, 2014 at 09:37:52:
I think you're talking about the Drake R8. I had the Swan 500cx transceiver and although it's 'build quality' appeared to be good, it was easily outperformed by most Drake, Collins, and later by Kenwood, Yaesu, Icom. Those three Japanese companies pretty much wiped out all the American brands at least in the HAM Radio market.
My friend had the Kenwood TS-520 which pretty much single handedly lead the charge toward the extinction of most American HAM Radio products. Yaesu had the FT-101 series about that time. I think Tempo was a rebranded even cheaper Yaesu made radio.
Competition is now coming from S.Korea and China but I believe the Japanes Kenwood, Yaesu, and Icom are still the most popular. Ten-Tec is still around with some good equipment.
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