[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[Michael Clarson]

Phillip: CPI and other price indicators are used to indicate what things
would cost today, but we are speaking of electronics which does not track
with these indicators. For example, a 21" table top color TV in 1959 was
about $500, and, when the last of the CRT sets were being sold, a 19" Table
Top (WITH UHF) typically sold for $49.
The $500 TV would cost almost $3000 in year 2000 dollars, but, working
backwards, the $49 TV from year 2000 would cost $8.42 in 1959 dollars.
Electronics is an exception. The calculator I used is at
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl . ---Mike, WV2ZOW

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Phillip Carpenter <carpenterpa at tds.net>
wrote:

> It is interesting to note that $79 in 1950 escalates to $801.55 in 2017
> using inflation escalation factors.
>
> Phillip W4RTX
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 13, 2017, at 12:38 PM, J Mcvey via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
>
> The thing is, the command set transmitters worked fine in their original
> state.
> So the question is WHY did they go so crazy on the thing.
>
> I suspect it was a lack of information and those "converting surplus"
> books.
> Did people know that they were designed for low Z capacitive loads back in
> the day?
> Maybe they got frustrated trying to load into their 300 or 600 ohm ladder
> line, so they started hacking it up without really knowing what they were
> doing.
> However this guy went above and beyond the point of absurdity.
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 13, 2017 11:23 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <
> kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 13 Jun 2017 at 7:22, DSP3 wrote:
>
> > have to agree with Robert, in part.  If one does a value of money
> > comparison, the $79 BC-348 in 1950 could cost over $500 dollars in
> > today's environment.  Exceptions, of course... the new 50-cent J-38
> > would be about $10 today.  I wish.....  So, things weren't as cheap as
> > they appear.
>
> Absolutely correct. When we "correct for inflation", the cost of
> everything works out to be far
> above what a 13 year old kid could afford.
>
> I know I sure couldn't.
>
> Thinking back on it, it amazes me that we did so much with what we had.
>
> Like my first "good" receiver was a Hallicrafters S-41G which a
> sub-contractor for my
> step-father's construction company found abandoned in the basement of the
> home he moved
> into.
>
> I worked the world with that thing,(after fixing it) and a DX-35 I bought
> after working all one
> summer as a water-boy on one of my step-father's jobs.
>
> I have an S-41G now and cannot understand how I did it. The thing is
> unstable, insensitive,
> uncalibrated (the entire 20 meter band covers something like 1/8" on the
> dial) and essentially
> a real piece of junk.
>
> I would have been in ham heaven if I had had a BC-454 or BC-455.
>
> Finally, my Mother took pity on me and managed to buy a very lightly
> modified (added power
> supply) BC-348 very cheaply from one of my Elmers to which he had added a
> BC-946B
> "Q-5er". Then I really WAS in ham heaven.
>
> I eventually traded that back to my Elmer for a brand-new RAL-7 because I
> wanted to be able
> to work 15 meters. I came to love that receiver.
>
> I have at least 50 "ARC-5" receivers now, all of which have been "hacked"
> mostly to ribbons.
> Yet every one of those I have "attacked" can be made to work at least as
> well as they
> originally did, although none are, in my opinion, restorable to original
> condition.
>
> The only transmitters I have, with one exception, have also been hacked to
> ribbons and I
> cannot see how even one ever was used on the air.
>
> The single exception is one of those ARC-5 transmitters which cover 2.1 -
> 3.0 MHz. I have no
> idea where I got it. That one hasn't been touched, and it won't be touched
> by me.
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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