[ARC5] ARC-2 on Ebay

[David Stinson]

On 9/14/2020 1:41 AM, Doran Platt wrote:
> Dave, et al ,
> In my particilar case, the salient point in visualizing the two Radio 
> Shack ads was not to in any way indicate what they should or could 
> bring today. Rather, it was to show the relative size of the 
> investment in those days.
Thanks for the clarification, and your point is well-taken.
It's no wonder so many of us, in our youth, would wear-out
the latest Fair Radio catalogue, day-dreaming and calculating
how many lawns we'd have to mow to get the scratch for
a BC-454.  And a 348?  "For-getta-bout-it."  $15 or $20 was a
tall hill for a 14-year-old to climb in 1965.

Amateur Radio always has been largely a "rich man's hobby."
Mil-radios connected us with our history, which we were taught
was valuable and honourable, not the shameful lies excreted today-
and even though not really "cheap" by the standards of a 1960s
teenager, they were possible for us
when that NC-183 or HRO were not.

GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S


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