I just pulled the sales slip for my Corsair II, 263 ext. VFO, 282 and 288
filter, 705 mic, and 961 PS purchased on 10-21-88.
(still on the desk as the back-up rig and psk-31 radio)
The total price then was $1940.00 ........ what would that be in 2010
dollars?
73,
Gary - AB9M
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From: "John Molenda" <cdistflatfoot@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:36 PM
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Eagle inflation costs, etc.
Well said Art ! John kb2huk
On 9/27/2010 1:57 PM, Art Trampler wrote:
One needs to remember that the surge in American prosprity, post WW2, was
largly because with the possible exception of Argentina, the US had the
only sizable industrial/manufacturing infratstructure left in the world.
Bombs took care of the rest.Peron took care of Argentina.
So for 25 years the only place one could turn for halfway decent to good
consumder goods was the US; and for another 15 years, the only place to
go for decent capital goods was the US.
Under that system wages and benefits grew considerably as there was
little (price) elasticity of demand for US made products, as substitutes
were largely unavailable.
This is no longer the case and said change, coupled with comparative
advantages in labor and tax rates (and in many countries regulatory
costs), makes the US goods relatively mroe expensive worldwide, even
without an artificially devalued yuan. Of course productivity benefits
used to offset the wage differential, but that gap is closing too.
I think we need to recall the state of the world's industrial base post
WW2 to understand the arc that we are on.
Art, KØRO
PS: I'd happily own an Orion II and maybe an Eagle (let's hope it does
not turn out to be a screaming chicken). There aren't many rigs for which
I'd give up my Omni VI.
PPS: Good thing this is not another reflector concerned more with
vertically oriented implements of steel and aluminium; we'd have been
warned to find a more suitable venue by now!
--- On Mon, 9/27/10, Kris Merschrod<Kris@merschrod.net> wrote:
From: Kris Merschrod<Kris@merschrod.net>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Eagle inflation costs, etc.
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"<tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:48 PM
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.
<Clip>
Mike, WB8VGE
SunLight Energy Systems
The Heathkit Shop
http://www.theheathkitshop.com/
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