Johnson Outdoors owns a number of outdoors and recreational sports companies. One that comes to mind is Ocean Kayak. Both good and bad come from being a part of a larger company. Creativity can be stifled but deeper pockets allow weathering of bad times. My point is that it is not always a bad thing and many if not most companies are part of some larger organization nowadays. And manufacturing junk in China and slapping a sticker on it does not count even as being a manufacturer of anything. I suspect that the problem with the transmitters, like so many devices, excellent design, execution however fails as the parts specified are substituted in the manufacturing process in China with lower specification parts, like the hover boards, the Samsung phones, the dog food, the tainted flooring etc. N