The Ballad Of Ken Wood

Many will remember The Grey Wars that raged during The Eighties.

Should an authorised dealer like Lowe Electronics support products that came into the country some other way? For us down in the workshop, it was pretty clear cut.

No support for so-called grey imported KENWOOD rigs. And that was final.

TRIO was the UK brand, anything marked KENWOOD was a food mixer, the only mixer with third-order products that stuck to a bowl.

Time has passed and so has Lowe's. Let the last word go to Bernie G4AOG and Brenda G4VXL, founders of Amateur Radio Exchange and their take on The Grey Wars.

It was so important back then.

Changing times and brands leave us wondering what all the fuss was about and, off the record, The Ballad Of Ken Wood is rather clever. We miss those days and all those little things we felt passionate about.

One last 73 to former customers of Bandit Bill and ARE. Thanks for everything. If you still keep a log, we'll see you further down.