SS-9000 has reappeared

[Bob And Bettina Groh]

Just as a footnote to the comment about the price on the SS-9000. Yes, 
it was high but that was a product of the very low anticipated volume 
and the fact that we (Heathkit) could not kit it due to the complexity. 
Although I was not directly involved in the management/marketing end of 
the project (being way too tied up in just trying to get it out the 
door!), I do know the price was a major disappointment for everyone. Low 
volume hurts you all along the line and then having to build it adds in 
a big cost factor. Our competition was (mostly) the Japanese radios 
which had huge volumes and a much lower price structure. Still I think 
the SS-9000 was a nice radio that was conservatively designed, easy to 
operate and with good technical specifications. I know I spent many, 
many hours doing spur checks and working to resolve the spurs I did 
find. A lot of work by really a fairly small staff of maybe 5 engineers, 
a couple of technicians, the folks in QC and, of course, the production 
and manual people.

73 de WA2CKY
Bob

Doug Shields wrote:

>Hello all,
>    The SS-9000 has reappeared on Ebay.  Look for # 9704373412.  There
>really was an error in the previous listing.  My apologies to the seller for
>questioning his motives for removing the prior auction.
>    You don't see the SS-9000 very often.  It is hard to imagine that Heath
>got nearly $3000 for those radios.  I guess that would make it similar to
>today's Icom IC-756 Pro 3.  It was a lot of radio for the time.
>
>Doug  W4DAS
>
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