I'll have to agree with Jim here - this is a good price for a quality unit.
The average outsider looking at our hobby will find all of our
equipment expensive, except for the $35 chinese talkies.
It's all relative.
Ria
N2RJ
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Joe <nss@mwt.net> wrote:
> Wow!
> I guess Contesting is not an aspect of this hobby for those with not a lot
> of money.
>
> I am amazed at the level of Flames and number of them, I got from MANY
> people on this E-Mail list about my comment about $200 dollars being "Low
> Cost".
>
> AGAIN! I was NOT picking on him about the product he was posting about. Just
> the comment about it being "LOW COST" Alternate or not.
>
> I guess I am in a super minority here. But I'm sorry, $200 dollars is close
> to 50% of my whole station cost! So at least to me it isn't "Low Cost" Even
> relative to what one Flamer Said of being a "Low Cost" "Alternative". Even
> being an "Alternative" Low Cost is Relative.
>
> Like a 2017 BMW ALPINA B7 - at a "Low Cost" of $137,000
>
> Compared to a
>
> Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Coupe $397,500
>
> The Beemer is Low cost. But is it?
>
> Again, I'm a Minority here I guess, When my whole station cost less than
> $500 bucks, and 90% of the other hams that are local to me that I know, in
> my neighborhood $200 is far from "Low Cost"
>
> I mean Like Many many have no hesitation to go out and buy a almost $100
> dollar Signal-link so they can try FT-8. Yet I have been having a Blast on
> FT-8, and my "Signal-link" is lucky to have $10 bucks of parts in it and 30
> minutes of assembly time. And thats even at Radio Shack parts prices.
>
> Sorry gang for this message. But I was truly amazed at the level of off
> list Flaming I got for that comment.
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
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