Comments on: ARLX007 Motorola buys Yaesu

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:00:08 +0000

I indeed doubt too that Motorola really wants to get into the amateur radio business. I’m one of those people who eagerly waited about whatâ€™s going to happen to Yaesuâ€™s amateur radio line.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:18:22 +0000

Motorola screws up most everything it touches these days. I hope they don’t do it again here.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:27:29 +0000

Good RF engineers are getting hard to find these days. I am not so sure that Motorola would sell off Yaesu rather than just redirecting their technical personnel and manufacturing infrastructure toward the RF stuff that they have traditionally done pretty well. At any rate, if you look at trends in amateur radio manufacturers, it seems to me that in a matter of time, Yeasu would have had to either go out of business or find another line of business to which they could transition. It isn’t a huge leap from amateur radio to land mobile so Motorola could use the convenience of buying Yaesu to: (a) get additional technical talent, (b) add to manufacturing capacity, (c) get Yeasu patents and knowledge, and (d) kill off a company that might just transform into a future competitor. Is it worth the immediate cost? I don’t know. Of course, I have no inside knowledge of what is really happening, but this seems logical to me.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:14:17 +0000

Yaesu makes a decent Vertex commerial series that now includes P25 VHF and UHF mobiles and handhelds. Competition elimination?