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N4NYY

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Kenwood still in the ham business?
« on: November 17, 2021, 01:51:33 PM »

Any news from them? No one seems tp have any of their radios. They have been on backorder for what seems to be forever. News from the retailers is, "when we know something, we'll let you know". One person even went as far as to say that the new head of Kenwood is not a "ham" guy, and would rather focus on the   hi-fi business. But even he could not confirm is that was true. All this because I was looking at the TS-890 back in the spring, and have been keeping eye on the prices. That turned into no one ever having them in stock. I can't blame the worldwide materials shortage, as the other 2 manufacturers seems to be dishing them out in numbers. I went to HRO a couple weeks ago, and they had piles of Icoms and Yaesus.

Anyone know anything?
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N6MST

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2021, 02:19:21 PM »

I see four of the six radios HRO sells as being in stock...
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GRUMPY2021

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2021, 02:34:02 PM »

Kind of surprised this is even a question.   Well no not really.   Let's see there's been a factory fire at a major chip making plant, government restrictions over a virus and now a supply chain break on damn near everything.   
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VK3LZ

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2021, 03:20:41 PM »

They are certainly no longer in the Ham business in Australia, are no longer offering new radios for sale and many hams are saying that they are not to be servicing ham radios they have sold in the past at any Australian service center.
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N4NYY

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2021, 03:26:22 PM »

Kind of surprised this is even a question.   Well no not really.   Let's see there's been a factory fire at a major chip making plant, government restrictions over a virus and now a supply chain break on damn near everything.   

Then why are the other 2 companies seemingly not effected?
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N4NYY

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2021, 03:27:27 PM »

https://www.gigaparts.com/kenwood-ts-890s.html

Both stores out of stock. Distribution centers have stock. Whatever they hell that means.
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N4NYY

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2021, 03:32:12 PM »

I see four of the six radios HRO sells as being in stock...

They have good stock on the vhf and uhf rigs. Of the hf rigs, they have one store with TS-590SG stock (Phoenix), and nothing else.
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N6MST

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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2021, 03:52:38 PM »

I see four of the six radios HRO sells as being in stock...

They have good stock on the vhf and uhf rigs. Of the hf rigs, they have one store with TS-590SG stock (Phoenix), and nothing else.

Right. So... Exactly what I said.
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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2021, 03:56:48 PM »

Kind of surprised this is even a question.   Well no not really.   Let's see there's been a factory fire at a major chip making plant, government restrictions over a virus and now a supply chain break on damn near everything.   

It's a legitimate question. How many new transceivers have they released in the last decade?
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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2021, 04:10:28 PM »

I just checked Gigaparts and DX Engineering and both listed the TS-890S as being in stock.
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N6MST

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2021, 04:27:50 PM »

Kind of surprised this is even a question.   Well no not really.   Let's see there's been a factory fire at a major chip making plant, government restrictions over a virus and now a supply chain break on damn near everything.   

It's a legitimate question. How many new transceivers have they released in the last decade?

More than you.
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K6SDW

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2021, 05:02:01 PM »

A couple weeks ago at Pacificon in San Ramon, Elecraft and ICOM showed up in full force.....Yaesu and Kenwood no-shows. I know, Pacificon not a major event for ham manufacturers but Yaesu and Kenwood used to attend in past shows.



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GRUMPY2021

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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2021, 05:40:46 PM »

Just keep buying your Zei-goop garbage because "it's good enough for the price" and you won't have to ask about Kenwood Icom or Yaesu anymore.  How many rigs has Kenwood put out in 10 years?   What the 570DG (late model), 590s, 590sg, 990 and 890...  Kenwood has been known for doing it right and then not trying to reinvent the wheel.   A contact is a contact so I'm not sure how much new stuff you really need.  Maybe you need a better antenna.
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Re: Kenwood still in the ham business?
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2021, 06:31:43 PM »

They appear to be active in Land-Mobile radio. JVKenwood now after merger. EFJ,Tait,Zetron,and Helper Instruments, were among their communications holdings.
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