[Boatanchors] Upgrade controversy

[Glen Zook]

If you look at the cost of things after inflation, the new entry level rigs don't cost any more than rigs like the Heath DX-40 and Hallicrafters S-38 combined and the new rigs can do a whole lot more!

Everything is relative!  Frankly, even the worst of the new HF SSB transceivers can run rings around the average Novice Class station of the late 1950s into the early 1960s.  When you consider that $100 a week was a very good wage in the late 1950s even a Heath DX-20 took a good "chunk" out of one's income.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Bob Macklin <macklinbob at msn.com> wrote:

From: Bob Macklin <macklinbob at msn.com>

All the recent changes to the licensing has done is to open up more of 75/80M to more phone operation.
 
>From my location I don't see any real difference. We have people that got NOCODE TECH tickets to use the 2M FM repeaters as an alternative to operating on 11M. And these people seem to have no interest in HF operation.
 
Part of the problem may be the entry cost of a HF rig these days. These people could not build their own rigs. The simple QRP SS kits are a joke. Besides they are CW only. A decent new RICEBOX is over $1K. A decent 2M FM transceiver is only $200.
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