[Boatanchors] SX-88 for sale, wish I was rich!

manualman at juno.com manualman at juno.com
Tue Nov 15 13:18:03 EST 2011


This is what equipment Joe Walsh and Bob Heil donated for the vintage
ARRL station back in 2004. An SX-88 wasn't even close.
http://home.comcast.net/~w1qwt/arrl04.html

Pete, wa2cwa

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:40:42 -0800 Robert Fish <rwfish at comcast.net>
writes:
> I suspect it was on Joe's bucket list too. He donated some AM gear to 
> 
> the ARRL station a few years ago. That may have been the receiver.
> 
> Bob  K6GGO
> 
> > Yes,
> >   
> > I think the last two I saw were around $2K.  Radio ledgened has it 
> Joe Walsh bid up one of the big money ones a few years ago.  I 
> wonder if that was true.  My theory, whats worth less than the power 
> cost to display it on your screne, is to throw out the highest and 
> lowest prices and then average out the rest.  At the risk of 
> offending the boatanchor gods, along with Todd's list, I'd consider 
> some of the "premium" SS rx  from WJ, Harris and the like before 
> this.  However if money wasn't an object, I'd make him an offer on 
> it just to play with it for the bucket list.
> >   
> >   John Flood


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