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Re: [TenTec] The Eagle inflation costs, etc.

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Eagle inflation costs, etc.
From: "CSM\(r\) Gary Huber" <glhuber@msn.com>
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:18:51 -0500
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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/
>>> J e e p
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>>>
>>>
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