Hi.

I couldn't afford or justify the cost of a Collins either in their 
day.  The difference is that there are a lot of fairly nice new radios in 
my price range nowadays, and in the days of Collins, I was buying mostly 
used gear, primarily Heathkit stuff.  And the budget radios of today are a 
world better than the budget radios of that time.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 11:40 AM 7/8/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Walt,
>
>Interesting.  In fact, we have just got used to ham radio equipment
>getting less expensive.
>
>Relative to average wages, think about the old gear such as collins,
>kw e.t.c.
>
>My ts-950sdx was getting close on =A33,000 when I got it when they
>first came out.  Taking inflation in to account, I suppose the ic7800
>is about the same.
>
>Just more budget rigs around now.
>
>
>
>On 6 Jul 2006 at 18:29, Walt Smith wrote:
>
> > That's peanuts compared to what some folks put into home theater speaker=
>
> > systems nowadays. I know one guy who has over fifty thousand dollars tie=
>d up
> > in speakers alone, not counting the electronics to drive them.
> >
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