Thank you STH for the kind words
They are
very heart warming.
I think it’s important for people, especially anyone looking to buy a new jammer, to start reading the writing on the wall and to start looking toward the
future before they settle on this or that jammer.
Another way to look at this is to look at the auto industry. Who here, when you think about buying a car, thinks
first about buying an
Oldsmobile? Probably no one, because they no longer exist, and the company wouldn’t give you a warranty worth anything even if you did buy one. In some cases you wouldn’t even be able to find parts for one if they ever broke down. So buying an Oldsmobile right now wouldn’t be the most prudent decision if you wanted to buy a car. Don’t get me wrong, they were nice cars
when they were around, but that was then, not now.
How does this apply to jammers? Well simple, one company owns the patents to producing jammers, so they (Blinder) could at any given notice (if they haven’t already) snap their fingers and all of the other jammer companies would go buh-bye, not because Blinder necessarily wants them to, but because the
legal system wants them to.
A patent does not give the patent holder the right to do whatever they wish, BUT IT DOES give them the right from
excluding others from making, selling or even using products covered by their patent. When that happens IMO LPP, LI and all the other jammer companies that don’t hold the patent will evaporate from the states faster than a snowball in the hot desert sun. I think it’s fair to say that most people have at least $450.00 invested in their jammer, and that’s if they just have one jammer.
Ask yourself how much is that $450.00 or more investment going to be worth a year from now when no one wants to buy it from you -
because the company doesn’t exist any longer...
Ask yourself who is going to write the updates for the software when they need to be updated -
if the company is no longer around...
Ask yourself who is going to honor that so-called “warranty” -
if the company is just a vacant warehouse...
Now look at the other side of the coin, put yourself in these other jammer company shoes for a moment. They have warehouses stocked to the brim that they need to sell to “someone” or they are going to lose a LOT of money. No one likes to lose money, especially a
lot of it. These jammer companies that don’t hold the patent are no different. They see the writing on the wall, and they full well know that without those patents that no one in their right mind will want to buy their product, so what do they do?
What would
you do if you were in their position?
You use an old sleight of hand trick - and you get people to not focus on the big
patent issue, but on
other issues instead.
Their salesmen will go on forums just like this one and try to get people to look at how good their jammer is, and they may be a good jammer, but that’s
beside the point right now if you’re going to be making an
investment by buying a jammer. The big picture isn’t what can this or that jammer do today, it’s what can and will it do for you
tomorrow. Plain and simple, IMO they can’t promise you tomorrow
unless they hold the patents. If they do try and promise you a bright tomorrow with their product, then that’s a big ‘ol red flag for them shilling their product on you.
LPP is in an even worse predicament, as they now also have the bad reputation for not making updates even when the company was around. How can they afford to buy patent rights if they can’t even afford to hire one single software tech to make a TruSpeed update? As an investor I don’t like to see people waste their money. The future of jammers is clearly written on the wall. It has been there for many months now, drying in that hot desert sun. Hopefully people will make the right decision and buy a product that they know they can have some confidence in and will be around in the
future, and if they don’t make the right decision, well then they have only themselves to blame. I do hope that at least one other company buys the patent rights, hopefully Bel/Escort since they have been in this industry from the beginning, and they seem to respect the countermeasure community more than some of these other companies that have their shills bickering every day on
other forums. If Blinder became a monopoly then that could hurt them, and accordingly, hurt the entire community, so I hope they play their cards right. Time will tell. I hope it works out in the best interest of the countermeasures community which we all love.
If LI has, or is about to, go belly up, then I need to sell my quad now to protect that investment. 
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