You have seen the photos of the Foxcom factory in China - here is where the radio Xiegu X5105 OUTDOOR VERSION is made. Impressive, eh?
Yes, and no. Yes, because I am never failed to be amazed how much can be accomplished by a few motivated people that know what they are doing and it seems that especially people in that part of the world (Asians) are able to consistently accomplish twice as much with less than half the resources Americans would need. No, because it resembles no modern 21st Century electronics factory, more like a garage type operation turning out individual units one at a time...
Most of the Chinese radio come from 'garage' assembly plants. I note the boards are made in job lots by concierge manufacturer - usually by the lowest bidder. The HS-1B is sold as a semi-kit in China for their market - price? 680 yuan = $103.74 and as semi-kit
They are running on JIT suppliers. Not a bad thing, they look geared for it. It would be interesting to know what sort of production rate they can achieve. Also interesting, there were two languages, English and Russian, and (I think) two dialects of Chinese. Stumbling now and then, but they managed to communicate. There seems something of a markup -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0751BXG65/?tag=survivalmonke-20 I don't know if this is the outdoor ver. but carries the same designation for some reason.
