Absolutely!  After all, you can't take that money with you, so might 
as welll enjoy it - to the max!!!--Matt, N1IBB.

At 11:27 AM 4/21/2015 -0700, you wrote:
>Colin, you are absolutely correct here.  My friend Stan that begins
>construction on his super station in Florida in July, receives emails from
>goofballs complaining that he is spending several hundred grand on his ham
>station, instead of on something else.  They apparently think that their
>preference of spending money is more right than his.  Stan has told me
>several times that he has dreamed of having a super station all of his life,
>and now that he is retired and can afford it, he is going to have it.  I say
>more power to him.
>
>Alan - N7MIT
>
>
>Alan R. Downing
>Phoenix, AZ
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
>Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:32 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?
>
>Alan is right.
>However, one can make the analogy with cars:
>you can own a perfectly serviceable car, maybe a few years old, but runs
>well and gets you from point A to B in comfort and without too much
>maintenance.  You may spend a few thousand on this car as an initial outlay
>of money.
>
>Or, you can own a ferari, lamborgini or other high performance sports car
>which will do precisely the same as your 4000 dollar car, that is, get you
>from point A to B in comfort...
>
>Except, with the family sedan you won't have the bragging rights, or the
>sheer power and performance offered by the other high end cars.
>The same is true with ham radio.
>If you want the super high performance, you pay for it, and if you are
>satisfied with the sedan, no problem.  They'll both get you on the air and
>making contacts...but one will help you make thousands, perhaps hundreds of
>thousands of contacts, and the other will be good for a couple hundred a
>year.  It's perspective and one isn't any more right or wrong than the
>other.
>Those who can afford it, have the right to have it.  Those who can't afford
>it must be satisfied with what they can have.  Simple.
>
>73
>Colin, V A6BKX
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan R. Downing
>Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:20 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?
>
>If you get a SteppIr, you will love it.  The two SteppIrs that I have owned
>have been the best antennas I have had in my 50 plus years of being a ham.
>Ham radio is an expensive hobby, all things considered.  If your goal is to
>have a high performance world class station, it will definitely cost you.
>
>Alan - N7MIT
>
>
>
>Alan R. Downing
>Phoenix, AZ
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of Chuck Lester
>Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 9:08 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?
>
>Hey gang,
>
>I'm making plans to own a Stepir.  This will mean playing bingo, five nights
>
>a week, for the next three years.  Multiple cards, each game.  (smiles).
>Chuck wa8vmo
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:09 AM
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?
>
> > Believe me, $500 to $700 for a yagi is way cheap.  Decent monoband yagis
> > these days cost well over $4,000, and many are as much as $10,000.  The
> > SteppIr DB36 and DB42 are cheap when you consider that they cover 80 thru
> > 6
> > meters in a single yagi.  Stan just bought 3 80 meter yagis for his
> > Florida
> > station that begins construction in July.  Each of them cost him $10,000.
> > Each of his 4 20 meter yagis cost him $4700, and they gave him a
> > multi-antenna discount.
> > Cheap is of course relative, but anything under a grand in the grand
> > scheme
> > of things is dirt cheap.
> >
> > Alan - N7MIT
> >
> >
> > Alan R. Downing
> > Phoenix, AZ
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of Jim Shaffer
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:53 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?
> >
> > I'd like one of those Steppir DB36 beams.  They only cost around $5,000.
> > Of
> >
> > course then I'd want a 40 meter tower to put it on.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Duke, K5XU
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 7:46 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Hex Beams, cheap?
> >
> > The ones I have seen range in price from right around $500 to above $700.
> >
> > In other words, they are priced right up there with the other
> > triditional 2 and 3 element tri band yagis.
> >
> > There hasn't been a cheap Yagi since the Gonthom. Anyone who admits to
> > remembering those knows the real meaning of "cheap junk."
> >
> > --
> > Mike Duke, K5XU
> >
> >
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