[GreenKeys] RE: what is a polar relay?

[Jim Haynes]

Yeah, somebody must have really wanted that one.  At least it is a lot
rarer than the W.U. 17-B that we were talking about.



jhhaynes at earthlink dot net


On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, eugene at hertzmail.com wrote:

> Here is a nice polar relay for $400
>  
> 130277144797
>  
>  
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of bonamod at bellsouth.net
> Sent: Tue 12/30/2008 1:02 PM
> To: amourdutigre
> Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] RE: what is a polar relay?
> 
> The cost may well be 70.00 to ship to the US, the seller is located in
> Bohemia, Czech Republic
> 
> 
> Item weighs 5lbs, from the US to Bohemia, Czech Republic it is about 40.00
> to ship USPS, maybe more expensive from there end.
> 
> Also the seller could have made a mistake in the listing, I run accross this
> all the time and a quick email resolves this. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "amourdutigre" <amourdutigre at kc.rr.com>
> >
> Thank you all again for the help with this. I had no idea that the landlines
> used polar signaling. I simply thought that they blasted a make/break signal
> with lots of voltage to compensate for the high resistance steel wires. Now
> it
> > seems to make sense to me.
> >
> As far as the relay on e-bay, I suspect that the seller is an antique
> dealer,
> and often antique dealers have very little idea what an object is worth.
> They
> either charge way too much for the item, or sometimes, the item is very
> valuable, and they will sell it for far less than what it is worth. I guess
> that
> anything is worth only what somene will pay for it though. As for me, I will
> not
> pay $140 for that relay, with a nice $70 on top of that for shipping. (This
> is
> one of my real complaints about e-pay...there are those out there that use
> the
> shipping charge to up their price in a semi-stealth way. I once bought a
> Heath
> SB-301 and the seller only charged me 7 dollars to ship. This guy wants 70
> to
> > ship a relay that I would dare say weighs a whole lot less than the '301
> does.)
> >
> > Thank you a again for the information!
> >
> > Best and 73
> >
> > Joe KB0TXC
> 
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