[Boatanchors] Vintage Radios--LOTS

[Bob Young]

There are probably millions listed per year under various headings. I just put in Vintage Radio and got 48,216 hits. Tube Radio got 30,255 hits.

Bob 
KB1OKL

> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:00:49 -0400
> From: rbethman at comcast.net
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Vintage Radios--LOTS
> 
> Don, Et Al,
> 
> The numbers are even higher when you look at Craig's List postings, and 
> private items.
> 
> Picked up an HR)-50-T1 simply by accident with a post on one of the 
> QTH.NET lists.
> 
> We haggled and came to $50 for it with four or five coilsets.
> 
> When I got to the local home, he insisted that He'd only take $25.
> 
> So the numbers are higher.
> 
> BTW, I couldn't get him to go with the original $50, so $25 it was.
> 
> Bob - N0DGN
> 
> On 9/16/2014 10:36 AM, Don Merz via Boatanchors wrote:
> > Have you ever just searched eBay on the general category VINTAGE RADIO RECEIVER? Right now you get around 250 listings. Where are all these radios going? Supposing 150 is the average over the course of a year, times 52 weeks is 7800 vintage radios a year! And that is probably very conservative, since some listers will use ANTIQUE, some will use HAM, some won't, etc. But add up all the variations and a conservative assumption is that over 10,000 vintage radio receivers are being listed in a year. Am I the only one who is impressed by that number?
> > 73 de N3RHT
> 
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