[Elecraft] "Cheap Hams" ???

[Matthew Pitts via Elecraft]

Ken,
I suspect it comes from the fact that new hams either don't have, or don't want to spend, the money on a good quality radio that will last them for years; instead, many are satisfied with a cheap hand-held radio that might break if you look at it wrong (I have several that fit that description myself). Myself, I tend to be a thrifty ham; I don't always buy the cheapest radio out there, but I spend the money wisely when I do spend it.

Matthew PittsN8OHU 


      From: Rose <elecraftcovers at gmail.com>
 To: Jim Lowman <jmlowman at sbcglobal.net>; Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 8:42 PM
 Subject: [Elecraft] "Cheap Hams" ???
   
After 64 years in the hobby I still don't understand where this
idea that hams are cheap comes from!  I simply don't accept
this urban legend.

Jim is certainly correct about the funds changing hands at Visalia.
My Lady ... Rose of ElecraftCovers at gmail.com ... hasn't been
able to make the trip from Montana because of health reasons,
for a couple but the last time she was there with her tables she
came home with $3500+ in orders!  Took her many weeks to
fill them. (:-)

She's free of cancer now, and steadily recovering.

73!

Ken Kopp - K0PP

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Jim Lowman <jmlowman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Obviously you've never been to the International DX Convention in Visalia
> that happened last weekend.
>
> These guys (and ladies) are dead serious, and are not afraid to spend some
> money.  Don't confuse them with the guy at the local swapmeet who saved the
> 50 cents on a bar of soap so that he could haggle with a seller to get a
> dollar mic for his half buck.
>
> It was obvious from who the vendors were - most of them hawking high-end
> products like amplifiers, antennas and the like - and what they didn't have
> on display.  Even at the Yaesu and Icom booths, there was nary a thing that
> would appeal to the shack-on-the-belt members of the fraternity.
>
> Back in the late 90s, when US Tower was located in Visalia, they would
> have an open house and lunch for anyone from the convention who stopped
> by.  It was not unusual for some of the visitors to pull out checkbooks or
> plastic for thousands of dollars worth of purchases.
>
> I'm sure that Eric and crew took lots of orders for the K-Line and
> KX3-Line products.
>
> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
>
> On 4/21/2015 4:54 PM, David Cole wrote:
>
>> Yeah right...  Never going to happen...  Hams are without a doubt the
>> cheapest people I have ever met.
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