I actually know someone in the second category. The house should be
condemned but that ham radio station is a nice one. I'd probably be close to
that if I didn't have a family but now, we won't get in to my situation but
it's not good all around.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Cost of ham radio was: Hex Beams, cheap?
> lol you got it Jim.
> What I find kind of funny sometimes is a ham guy will be talking about how
> he can't spend this much money on a radio, lets say 1500 or something for
> a
> nice HF rig, and how this hobby is so expensive and his wife won't let him
> buy this or that...and then in the next sentence, he's talking about how
> he
> just built a 10,000 dollar deck on his house, or bought a 20,000 dollar
> holiday trailer etc. Yet the thought of even spending $500 for the hobby
> seems too much for some.
> Of course, there is the other way too where the guy lives in a run down
> old
> house, hardly showers to save money on water, yet has a 50,000 dollar ham
> station lol.
>
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Shaffer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:46 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Cost of ham radio was: Hex Beams, cheap?
>
> Honestly, I've always felt that ham radio was not an expensive hobby.
> Consider what folks spend on hunting gear, and then hunting trips. Or
> look
> at skiing with the equipment and then the ski resort! It costs a bundle
> to
> own, feed and stable a horse. And there's a good reason why they say the
> best two days in a boat owners life are when you buy the boat, and when
> you
> finally sell it.
>
> In ham radio we tend to have a few big outlays, but the day-to-day cost of
> the hobby is pretty minimal when you consider the incidental expenses
> involved with other passtimes. My wife, for example, loves animals. We
> have 3 dogs and 4 cats, and it looks like we'll be adopting another cat
> soon. I'm sure that if you add up the money we've spent on animals,
> including food and medical care, it's much more than I've spent on ham
> radio.
> --
> Jim, ke5al
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan R. Downing
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:20 PM
> 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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