[Elecraft] Interesting Conversation about FT-5000 vs K3

[Edward R. Cole]

Last spring I went hat in hand to my wife with the 3-year old K3 
brochure.  I did make an offer that she could not refuse (pay off the 
loan on her Toyota Sienna).  We plundered my 401K account for $12K; I 
got $4K and she got $8K.  Of course the interest on her car loan was 
way more than what the 401K was earning.  Also, we had been laid off 
six months before so lessening the monthly cash-flow by $600 didn't 
hurt.  It's amazing how laid-off at 66 turns into retired!

I waited at least three years before buying, but that was because I 
did not figure that we could afford it.  My wife really surprised 
me.  She did say that Santa was going on vacation for ten years!  Ho! Ho!

73, Ed - KL7UW

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:27:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Wes Stewart <n7ws at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Interesting Conversation about FT-5000 vs K3
To: Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger at bellsouth.net>
Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
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We are in the same boat.  I've been working on and off on a LPD 
antenna to replace my HB 20-meter monobander.  After chasing ZL8X 
around the bands using just a 40/80 meter inverted vee (22 band/modes 
worked) I was saying to my wife that maybe I should just breakdown 
and buy something.

She said, "How much?"  I said, "About $1500 or so."  She said, "Buy 
it, we have the money."

Of course we have the money because I've been frugal.  Also she 
thinks I'll get the bathroom remodeled faster if I'm not working on 
antennas. :-)

Whenever I've thought that there was something that I absolutely, 
positively couldn't live without, I have just waited a month to see 
how I felt then.  Usually, I could live without it, if not, I bought it.

Wes  N7WS




73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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