you are exactly correct. this opportunities don't exist for many like they used to. I know I will get my station back up and running, and it is nice to have a ts-2000. when i got it it was a dream come true, but it is now a quite old radio I bough fused and it is showing it's age and in need of repair. in fact I am considering if the repair bill will be more than the radio is worth to repair . I need a replacement sub band receiver pot, a replacement multi channel encoder because that oe is erratic and unpredictable half the time, and i think I have a bad relay as the sub receiver doesn't work anymore. it is totally deaf and only receives my ht when it is in the same room with the radio. across the house it is noisy, and in the same room i am lucky to get over s4 or 5., also on vhf uhf the preamp is stuck in the on position. strangely enough satellite mode does work just fine
anwya some stuff to consider since shipping and an estimate of repair ail run me over $120 with no repairs being done, and who nows if the parts are even available
On Jun 26, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I sure understand your situation based upon my own personal experiences of
> hamming in these last 47 years. I started out with a 15 dollar transmitter
> and 40 dollar receiver and both had to be repaired before I could even put
> them on the air. I was 14 then. After passing my general 6 months later,
> my mom purchased me a bran new Drake TR4 for a Christmas present and it cost
> 495 dollars; the first new radio I own after many years had passed. When I
> was working full time, with my income tax return, I hope the IRS isn't
> reading my mail, I purchased a bran new, and very popular, FT101B and was in
> hog heaven since I had to sell my Drake TR4 when I got married for money to
> pay bills with. From then on, I ran nothing but used gear, including a 1
> watt HW7 CW triple band radio, which I used for 18 months. I paid 40
> dollars for it and worked over 600 stations with my 1 watter rig. I had
> super fun like I never thought possible running QRP like that. About 4
> years ago, I was able to buy a whole new stations through money that came to
> my wife and I that we didn't know about. She told me, "Why don't you buy a
> whole new station with the money?" I had nothing but a 30 year old radio at
> the time. The ham radio creed used to be, buy the least expensive radio and
> just get on the air no matter what. The hobby has become something totally
> different and hams to help has changed to a big zero factor here in Denver
> compared to what it was back in Omaha but that was 40 years ago so it has
> probably diminished, too. Still, there is used gear, or even gear that is
> borrowed from another ham, if the word is put out. I went for several years
> off air when I first got married but a friend I made in Denver loaned me his
> HW100 and I had a blast playing with it. He rarely used it. Unfortunately,
> there aren't many of those hams around these days so I sure know your
> feelings. It sometimes helps to be on 2 meters because you can meet more
> guys who might, that is a big, if, might help in some way. There are
> organizations that help hams get their own station, too. Is Handy Hams
> still doing that or not?
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Thurman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: The Sin of Omission: A Re buttal of Goodwill's Policy Statement
> on Subminimum Wage Payments to Workers with Disabilities
>
>
>> how about the ability to not get fed over by multi millionaires, and be =
>> able to actually afford to live let alone buy ham radio stuff? if you =
>> can't afford to put food on the table or liv independently, it would be =
>> rather hard to have radios wouldn't it? To be honest I am surprised at =
>> how many seemingly well to do blind hams there are on this list. =
>> constantly talking about getting new radios, towers ext, and i am going =
>> to assume you are one of those who have and always have had plenty of =
>> money. I know what it is like to not have food on the table to pay rent =
>> and wonder if you will be abe to have a place to live by the time you =
>> get money to pay the rent. There are a lot of disabled people with =
>> nothing who depend on sometimes unsafe unsanitary disgusting government =
>> housing. You can't put up antennas in government housing. so What does =
>> this have to do with ham radio? a great deal.
>> If you can't have antennas and can't live somewhere decent, and have to =
>> struggle to just exist, ham radio isn't exactly easy, as it is not a =
>> cheap hobby. I am currently off the air because I have to wait to get =
>> money to fix up my antennas in fact, and I am lucky enough to live in a =
>> home with my girlfriend
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