[ARC5] Prices in "ye goode olde dayes"

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Thu Mar 7 12:38:12 EST 2013


On 7 Mar 2013 at 6:54, Glen Zook wrote:

> A little high for the DX-35.  The price in 1957 was $56.95

Ah! Yes. You're correct. I EARNED about $85.00 during that summer. I must 
have used the remainder for the AR-3.

> which
> equates to $458.01 today.  However, that was still a LOT of money for
> such a simple transmitter!   Glen, K9STH

Yes. And I used that transmitter, through two original power transformers, for 
many years afterwards.

Ken W7EKB


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