mclewis1
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Meade has announced to it’s dealers substantial changes to the ongoing availability of many of the current telescope products. The changes range from nothing (business as usual), to delays in new production until 2008 and in some cases the outright cessation of ongoing production of some products.
Details about these changes are available only from your authorized Meade dealer.
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Mark
C11, C6, APM/TMB115, and AT80ED
Tandem mount CGE and CG-5A, WO EZ-Touch and AT Voyager
25x100s, 8x56s, T-Mount Light, and Mark 1 eyeballs
Modded 350D, SPC900, Mallincam
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NeoDinian
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And this is why the stock market crashes...
Insider speculation. No official word has been released yet.
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10" LX200-GPS/SMT UHTC "Draco"
 Rockford, Il.
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imjeffp
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I have a post on my blog with more information.
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blandp11
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Go to Astromart and look at the front page of the classifieds. The one with the crying child.
Philip
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Insider speculation. No official word has been released yet.
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mclewis1
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Insider speculation. No official word has been released yet.
No speculation and totally official, just not made public by Meade.
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Mark
C11, C6, APM/TMB115, and AT80ED
Tandem mount CGE and CG-5A, WO EZ-Touch and AT Voyager
25x100s, 8x56s, T-Mount Light, and Mark 1 eyeballs
Modded 350D, SPC900, Mallincam
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Joseph Gillman
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So they lied on their conference call that RCX would resume production in "multiple weeks"? Maybe not, if by multiple they meant hundreds.....but that might have been a misleading statement.
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Jaxdialation
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I'm thinking this over. I don't think a disclosure to shareholders would be required with the SEC.
What "official" word would we (the Amatuer Astronomy community) expect? We are a bit down in the pecking order from their shareholders.
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And this is why the stock market crashes...
Insider speculation. No official word has been released yet.
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John
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Rick Woods
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What "official" word would we (the Amatuer Astronomy community) expect? We are a bit down in the pecking order from their shareholders.
I don't know, I'd think we were rather important to the shareholders...
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Jaxdialation
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And the shareholders would probably prefer that customers and prospective customers not be told anything that might give them a reason not to buy Meade products.
It could be that by virtue of their silence they are serving their shareholders.
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John
Someone please make sure that when I die, my wife doesn't sell my astro gear for what I told her I paid for it. SST/Tak/RCOS/SBIG/CCDWare
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Pess
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So they lied on their conference call that RCX would resume production in "multiple weeks"? Maybe not, if by multiple they meant hundreds.....but that might have been a misleading statement.
Ah, the quarterly conference call. I must have listened to thousands over the last thirty years.
One thing is always consistent--Top brass of any company is upbeat, the future is rosy and nothing is never, ever wrong (even as a repo agent carts the drapes away behind them!)
Pesse (They make the Ministry of Propaganda in Iraq look like George Washington!) Mist
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WILLIAM OPTICS 110mm APO ZENITH STAR refractor
Custom Wyorock focuser for refractor
Douglas Schwan DC
Befuddled observer, bewildered student, bemused teacher.
Purveyor of cognitive dissonance.
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wky46
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I knew I should have sent my lx50 in and had the optics upgraded to UHTC when I had a chance!
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Phil
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20x80 Garrett Gemini LW Binoculars
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Frankv
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Looking on the bright side,:D
Does this mean that I can start posting about my RCX in the Classic Telescope section of CN? 
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Frank V.
RCX400 10 w/ ETX125 guide scope
SV Nighthawk II, SV80S, Vixen ED115S
Takahashi EM-200
Other stuff I don't know how to use (either).
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mclewis1
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Mark
C11, C6, APM/TMB115, and AT80ED
Tandem mount CGE and CG-5A, WO EZ-Touch and AT Voyager
25x100s, 8x56s, T-Mount Light, and Mark 1 eyeballs
Modded 350D, SPC900, Mallincam
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jonnyastro
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All RCX models are to be discontinued for fact. As per speculation, Meade will be relocating its main facility overseas.
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Glassthrower
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Meade is simply implementing a change in how it manufactures and distributes some of it's hardware. I would think this recent development will not effect their servicing, warranties, or other aspects of their business not intimately related to manufacturing.
Regards and clear skies,
MikeG
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wrather1
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All RCX models are to be discontinued for fact. As per speculation, Meade will be relocating its main facility overseas.
I have been employed in the manufacturing sector long enough to know that "production suspended indefinitely" does not necessarily mean "discontinued" and furthermore since Meade owns a facility in Mexico it is also not a fact that they will be moving overseas. We can take bets on the outcome in the meantime, but nothing is certain until it actually happens.
DW
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Meade RCX400-12 on JMI trolley "Ursa Major"
TMB 130SS on EQ6 PRO "Ursus Polaris"
Orion ED80 "Ursa Minor", WO ZS66ED "grab-'n'-go"
Canon EOS 30D (Hutech), Meade DSI, Philips ToUcam Pro
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jonnyastro
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DW, you are right, i should have read more carefully before i posted. My apologies to everyone.
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Rick Woods
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... nothing is certain until it actually happens.
Didn't Yogi Berra say that?
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14" LX200GPS
8" Meade 826C
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wrather1
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I think what he said was, "It isn't over 'till it's over."
Maybe the same thing! 
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"Don't worry about what telescope you own, or its quality. Just get out under the night sky, and enjoy God's wondrous universe." - T. M. Back
Meade RCX400-12 on JMI trolley "Ursa Major"
TMB 130SS on EQ6 PRO "Ursus Polaris"
Orion ED80 "Ursa Minor", WO ZS66ED "grab-'n'-go"
Canon EOS 30D (Hutech), Meade DSI, Philips ToUcam Pro
North Texas Clear Sky Chart
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Jaxdialation
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