icom and kenwood merging?

[Hamradiostuffing]

Icom Incorporated and Kenwood Corporation
Technical Research Alliance Demonstration of a
Very Narrowband Digital Communications Technology

April 6-8, 2005 - International Wireless Communications
Exposition and Convention, Las Vegas, NV.

Icom Incorporated (Parent company of Icom America) and Kenwood Corporation, market leaders in Land Mobile and Amateur radio communications worldwide announced on February 25, 2005, a joint business and technology alliance to develop state-of-the-art digital communications technology for the Business & Industry sector. Both companies will be making a simultaneous announcement and showing working prototype samples at IWCE. You are invited to visit the Icom America booth (#5001) to get a first hand look at this groundbreaking technological advance.

These engineering samples are the result of this technical collaboration, and will demonstrate a very narrowband 6.25kHz digital communications technology using an FDMA 4-level FSK modulation method. This technology meets the requirements of the FCC Emission Mask E, for spectral efficiency. Both companies are also directly involved in the formation of efficient digital radio technologies in Europe (ETSI Digital PMR 446/DMR) and Japan. Both companies have committed to jointly continue research and development for the benefit of Business & Industry users, as well as offer a solution for existing system operators to migrate to an efficient digital solution.

 

[SCPD]

thats great! now maybe the manufacturers can come up with at digital standard thats compatable with each other.the icom and alinco ham radios ib digital mode are not compatable.

two teams of engineers are better than one- cost is everything and with two teams working on this,maybe they can shave some time off the project.

bill simpson
n1jbs

 

[DaveNF2G]

I think you've got that backwards.

Two teams of engineers means twice as many salaries, twice as much outlay for benefits, and twice as many people thinking essentially the same thoughts separately. On any individual project, a single team would be more cost effective than multiple teams doing the same work.

 

[DaveH]

I also don't think that because two companies are collaborating,
that means they're "merging". Come on guys.

Dave

 

[SCPD]

merging companies mean merging technologies. 8 heads are better than four.

because icom has increased production line efficency 50 % in the past few years, i would think they could produce a product much faster than kenwood could.
on the other hand, the kenwood engineers i met in 1996, seemed to have it together. they were showing off the ts 570 at that time which was way ahead of its time.

in the mean time, lets see what they come up with.


bill simpson
n1jbs