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So, a couple of people in the wildland arena were talking and it seems one of them stumbled upon an Australian company named Benelec, which, according to its website, has been a manufacturer for 45 years. Oddly, some of their products look virtually the same as BKs.

Anyone know the relationship between one and the other?
 
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It's not uncommon for radio manufactures to manufacture radios for other companies.
 
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It's not uncommon for radio manufactures to manufacture radios for other companies.
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Oh, I know, but it makes me wonder who makes what for whom. It also makes me wonder if a third party in another country actually makes these and these two just paste a label, change a few lines of code in the software where the name is, and rebrand them.
 
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BK/RELM does manufacture those similar "looking" radios, under their own name, in their Melbourne Florida factory.

That being said, There were THALES/RACAL 25's that were rebadged with BK labels and Datron had a radio with almost the same identical feature set and functions, although it was a completely different form factor, which used the same programming software as the THALES/RACAL 25.
 
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