At dayton, here is what I heard... they can no longer get about a handful of parts. The radio has been in production for 10 years! Of the handful of parts, they have come up with some substitutes for all but one of them. There is still one tiny chip transistor that has no substitutes and impossible to find. Unless they can solve that problem, they are stuck...
That is MOST unfortunate! It is important to operate in full-duplex in Mode J-FM, and with the demise of the Icom IC-W32A, the Kenwood TH-D7AG was the only HT available which had that capability. Every other multi-band HT available commercially tries to be a scanner from DC-to-daylight, and that is inherently incompatable with full- duplex operation. I believe that the number of people who can't hear their own downlink has alot to do with the amount of chaos on the FM satellites.
Please, please, PLEASE!! AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-*, lobby the amateur radio manufacturers to make another satellite-friendly HT! This is important to the future of amateur radio.
-- KD6PAG (Networking Old-Timer, Satellite QRPer)