[Boatanchors] STUFF

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AMEN....  now we know why "everybody loves raymond"  HI HI

Dave Roscoe wrote:

>Raymond:
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>Very well spoken.
>Hear ! Hear !
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>73   de Dave W1DWZ
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>----- 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
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>>Hi, Gene:
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>>If you are flamed, it is more about the "flamer" than the "flamed." Some
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>people are just in the "argumentative mood" most of the time.
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>>We've had "flamming" going on (they used to call it "debating") since the
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>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.
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>>What difference does it make? A radio for sale is where you find someone
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>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.
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>>The American Way is we all have our freedom of choice. Even those who
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>choose to spend their limited time on earth arguing that their way is the
>only way. That's their American Way. God Bless America!
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>>73     Raymond       W5VPU
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>>Eugene Hertz <ehertz at tcaf.org> wrote:
>>Jfor said: "... list it on eBay, and have it actually go to someone who
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>REALLY WANTS it, as evidenced by the fact that they are willing to pay for
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>>it."
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>>Well, at the risk of begin flamed. I personally love ebay as a buyer (I
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>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.
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>>I was largely into collecting boatanchor receivers until I spied a
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>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.
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>>Without ebay, I would be forced to only own rice boxes because thats whats
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>commercially available.
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>>2cents
>>regards
>>Eugene
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