[ARC5] Inflation, radios, and cars

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I want one or two!
 Jay






-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 12:16 pm
Subject: [ARC5] Inflation, radios, and cars


One reason it is difficult to compare is that today you can buy things that you 
ould not buy for any price years ago.  What would a rather pedestrian 2.4 GHZ 
omputer been worth in 1946?
But that goes both ways.  I have an ad out of QST for a place called Radio Shack 
n 1946 that shows a full set of brand new SCR-274-N components, including 3 
eceivers, two transmitters, and all the control boxes for $39.95.
Now, around 1980, buying all that gear at a southern Cailf ham swap meet might 
ave have cost you a total of maybe $15.00; it would have not been new, but 
robably in pretty good shape, unhacked.  Today imagine what it would be worth.  
ertainly a lot more than you would pay for a 2.4 GHZ computer.
As for cars, did y'all hear about the new VW that is going to be built in China 
or that market? Single seat, carbon fiber body, bubble canopy like a P-51D, 1 
ylinder diesel engine, gets 250 mpg, at a sales price of $600.  And that is not 
 typo, SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.  
Y'all have a good weekend.

ayne, WB5WSV
    
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