[Boatanchors] Vintage Radios--LOTS

[Don Merz via Boatanchors]

I wasn't trying to make my impromptu survey into any sort of exact statistical endeavor. Your guess is as good as mine <grin> -- so have at it!

But my guess is that there are somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 communication radios of all types (home broadcast RX excluded), entering the seller's market during the course of the average 52-week period. 

To me, that is an amazing number. It is almost certainly unsustainable, given the declining number of active collectors and the 60+ average age of ham radio operators. So yes--I bet a lot of them are being relisted--at lower prices.

Be interesting to know how much old gear is going straight to the landfill or metal scrapper on a monthly basis. I bet that tonnage number would surprise us all.

73 de N3RHT



On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 6:46 PM, Gary Hitchner <talgarth at comcast.net> wrote:
 


This is one of the reasons I have a love/hate relationship with EBay. It has
diminished the flea markets or hamfests, and the find under the table, but
on the other hand, a lot of things have been saved that would otherwise not
exist today.  

Gary


WA2OMY

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