Apart from the DX-patrol offering diplayed at Friedrichshafen, I am unaware of any complete turnkey solutions to operating on Oscar 100.
In particular not one of the Japanese manufacturers has offered anything. To me, this speaks volumes, literally. They cannot see volumes and hence profits.
If DX-patrol can do it for €650 surely the Japanese will have considered it. There is no home market or market in the USA, so they are not interested.
In my view the Japanese amateur manufacturers will be looking hard at the amateur radio market and asking if the effort is worth it in the coming years.
I think the Japanese companies are not offering an equivalent to the DX Patrol because of the limited market. The footprint of QO-100 doesn’t cover Japan or North America which would be two of their biggest customers bases.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the DX Patrol transverter may have been available for a while, but not heavily advertised. I found a couple of YouTube videos about it which seem to have been posted a while ago.
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Keith G0RQQ