[Icom] IC-761

[Ken]

AND, if you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it
would now be worth $49.00. With Enron stock, you would have $16.50 of the
original $1000.00 investment, With Worldcom, you would have less than
$5.00 left. BUT, if you had bought $1000.00 worth of actual Budweiser
beer, not the stock, just one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in
the cans for the deposit, you would have $214.00. My current investment
advice is to drink heavily and be sure to recycle. Hi,hi, Ken

--- Paul Playford <w8aef@worldnet.att.net> wrote: And while I am on my
soap box: Amateur Radio is a very inexpensive pass time.  Ignoring the
public service aspects entirely for justification - I recall paying $2400
for a brand new 1967 Camaro and buying a new house (in 1965) for $8000.00.
 And paying $295 for a Heathkit SB-301 receiver and another $295 for the
matching SB-401 transmitter. Today your new Camaro will cost in excess of
$24000 and who would want to live in a new $80000 house?  Which puts
today's inflation rate at about 10x 1967 dollars.
> And computers.  We didn't have them in 1967, and they keep getting less
> and less expensive and can do more and more.  But how many of us have
spent $10000 on computers in the last ten years and still have obsolete
junk? So here we are, paying $3000 for a top of the line transciever which
> will perform as well as an adequate receiver and transmitter that by
todays inflation rate would cost in excess of $6000, and we will use the
> transciever for ten years or so. And if the better half protests, how
about going fishing?  You gotta  have a $30000 pickup to tow that $50000
boat, and of course the pickup will only last four or five years and the
boat has to be replaced every year or so. And the other half won't even
know where you are half the time. 
> de Paul, W8AEF
> 

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