[Boatanchors] STUFF

[Dave Roscoe]

Raymond:

Very well spoken.
Hear ! Hear !

73   de Dave W1DWZ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond Perkins" <w5vpu at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Eugene Hertz" <ehertz at tcaf.org>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] STUFF


> Hi, Gene:
>
> If you are flamed, it is more about the "flamer" than the "flamed." Some
people are just in the "argumentative mood" most of the time.
>
> We've had "flamming" going on (they used to call it "debating") since the
spark gap/no spark gap, tube/solid state, design and build your own/buy a
ready made radio, build a kit/design and build your own radio from scratch,
code by hand/code by computer program, code/no code, repeater/simplex,
straight key/paddle with a keyer, and the many other "debates"  by people
who don't have enough to do. They prefer to argue about their preference in
ham radio via computer than to actually turn on their radio and be on the
radio. It almost reminds me of the "shame" some homemakers felt when they
bought and baked a "box cake" instead of actually starting from scratch.
>
> What difference does it make? A radio for sale is where you find someone
willing to sell it. On eBay, a reflector, a Commercial Dealer who buys and
sells large number of radios, at a tail-gate sale on a parking lot, eHam,
QTH, a hamfest, a Trader's Net, an estate sale from an SK, an advertisement
in the local paper, talk on a round table or simply visiting with another
ham over coffee. The price of a radio is what the seller is willing to take
and the buyer is willing to pay.
>
> The American Way is we all have our freedom of choice. Even those who
choose to spend their limited time on earth arguing that their way is the
only way. That's their American Way. God Bless America!
>
> 73     Raymond       W5VPU
>
> Eugene Hertz <ehertz at tcaf.org> wrote:
> Jfor said: "... list it on eBay, and have it actually go to someone who
REALLY WANTS it, as evidenced by the fact that they are willing to pay for
> it."
>
> Well, at the risk of begin flamed. I personally love ebay as a buyer (I
never sell--yet!) I have no other access to such a broad array of goodies.
Do I overpay? You bet. But I am willing to paying a premium to have a single
place I can go for a huge assortment of marvels.
>
> I was largely into collecting boatanchor receivers until I spied a
BEAUTIFULLY restored CE 100V transmitter on ebay (from a swell fellow!). I
had to have it because it was so beautiful and so advanced. It ended up that
buying that rig was the push I needed over the edge to get my ham license.
>
> Without ebay, I would be forced to only own rice boxes because thats whats
commercially available.
>
> 2cents
> regards
> Eugene
>
>
>
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