What a piece of junk. I just bought this years model,
the Zeleron4200B Advanced Professional version. It has the same
atomic thermopile used in Voyagers 1 and 2 so you never have to
recharge it. The lead shielding around it does make it a bit
bulky but it does all that the Zeleron4000 does plus it contains
a NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) cap that one can fit on one's
head to control the rig via the detection of oxygen uptake by
the various subsystems of the brain. Yes, you just think it and
the rig does it. It's "the Think System" made famous in the
"music Man." Oh wait, that's not a ham band.
	The 4200 can even retrieve all the radio signals that
ever left the Earth by focusing on reflections of those signals
off of other planets and galaxies.
	I almost forgot, it will receive NOAA Weather broadcasts
and all the CB channels
making it worth the $25,999.99 I paid for it.
	The Z4200AV is quite a rig. I'll probably pile all the
rest of my ham junk out on the curb for the garbage men
tomorrow.

Martin
"Dr. Ronald E. Milliman" writes:
> Allan, I really much prefer the Zelaron 4000 over all those other 
> commercial
> radios to which you referred. My Zelaron 4000 cost me $12,449.95 plus
> shipping, but it has built-in speech and speaks all functions, every 
> button,
> every menu, every position of every control. In addition, it is fully
> self-programmable. It completely programs itself. Because of the Zeleron
> advanced cosmic filtration system, there is absolutely no intermod. What 
> is
> one of its most impressive features is that it even communicates with 
> other
> stations automatically, executes an entire QSO without any intervention on
> my part. I can be listening to a football game and my Zelaron 4000 will 
> scan
> all of the frequencies, and initiate QSOs, fully interact with the other
> station, and then, go into what we call the "73" mode to conclude the QSO,
> all while I am listening to the football game. What is really incredible
> with my Zelaron 4000 is that at the end of each day it automatically
> connects up with my home network and downloads to my computer all of the
> QSOs it has executed on my behalf for that entire day, and it puts it all 
> in
> my matching log. So, you are right; that is, you get what you pay for, and
> for that reason, I really much prefer my Zelaron 4000 that cost $12,449.95
> plus shipping. So, I am the one here who really has the biggest, baddest,
> best, most expensive radio of all radios. It took a little time to get it
> from Zelaron, but with the implementation of "String Theory" in their
> interstellar shipping plan, it was really amazingly quick!
> 
> Ron, K8HSY
> Dr. Ronald E. Milliman
> Retired Professor of Marketing
> 
> President: Millitronics, Inc. (millitronics.biz)
> 
>