I, too have been drawn into the QSO here. If you use the US currancy
inflater at :
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Then at $700 in 1978 the Titon would be $2,343 today. So T-T is running at
the inflation rate. Unfortunately, the competition started off way below
our wage rates and is still way below - hence the low cost of imported
radios.
Our blind faith in free-market ideology has kept us from looking around to
see what is happening (or what was happening to other countries when we had
the comparative advantage). Balanced trade would have been a better
strategy, but, heck, when you are sitting at the card table and the chips
are flowing your way, who would want to change the game?
I wonder why the house keeps giving us more chips to play with when it is
obvious that our luck has run out? Actually, the answer to that question is
in a great book called "1421" It is about the Chinese navagation advances,
but also about their trading policies way back then.
We are playing checkers and they are playing Go.
Moral of the story? Buy Tentec!
Kris KM2KM
Merschrod
123 Warren Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
www.merschrod.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pumbaa" <pinkertontommrs@bellsouth.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Eagle
A lot of people did not have their income increase some 285% from 1978 to
today. That is the problem as companies can't sell as many ham radio sets
as they do large LCD TV sets. HTs now seem very cheap especially a certain
brand made in China. If your income has equaled the inflation rate then
today's radios are probably cheaper than those of 1978,
----- Original Message -----
From: "mike bryce" <prosolar@sssnet.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Eagle
This has been an interesting thread. It got me out of the shadows.
I haven't looked it up but in 1978 the triton was someplace around $700
stripped with no noise blanker or cw filters, analog version.
today that's about over two grand.
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Mike, WB8VGE
SunLight Energy Systems
The Heathkit Shop
http://www.theheathkitshop.com/
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