[Elecraft] The Value of Kit-Building (OT)

[Dauer, Edward]

FWIW, my wife has developed an algorithm for calculating the value of
radio kit-building.  I told her yesterday that I had just ordered the
K2/100.  She asked ³How much?² I confessed that with all the accessories
and add-ons and the shipping, it was about $1,700.  Then she asked, ³How
long will it take you to build it?"  I told her that the reviews I read
said about  30-40 hours, so for me it would likely be about 80.  She then
reflected on the fact that our 8-year old grandson builds twenty dollar
Leggo kits in about two hours; thirty dollar kits in about three; and so
on more or less linearly.  So, she said, ³It costs about $10 an hour to
amuse him.  For you it¹s about $21."
 

Impeccable logic.
 

Ted, KN1CBR