Yeasu down, but not out...

[KD6VXI]

For any that are fans of the Yeasu radios, I just heard that Yeasu Fukushima has shut down.

Needless to say, I'm sure... 

The plant has been damaged, but Jun says they should be back and operational soon...  Nothing was 'devastating'...  Except maybe the fact all new Yeasu radios will glow in the dark as a feature???

Good luck to all the people in .ja  Truly devastating.  Haven't heard about Icom or Kenwood...  Not sure where their factories are.


--Shane
KD6VXI

[KD6VXI]

Wouldn't let me modify.

Kenwood and Icom supposedly are A-OK, as far as personnel and the factories go.

Yeasu was 20 km or so from the nuke plant that's having so much problems.

All 3 did state that they anticipate 'supply' problems

--Shane
KD6VXI

[flintstone mop]

I work in a Kenwood two-way shop and they will be having some supply problems for a while as they recover from the quake/tsunami.

We're slowly making progress to pull people away from the $$$$ Motorola batwing radios, as budgets are tightening and health and safety realize that they can almost buy TWO Kenwood hand helds for the price of one Motorola.