[ICOM] FW: Icom Prices

[Ben - ne5B]

Compare the $3000 Drake TR-7/DR7 to the price of a nice 1980s model sports car.  (3 Drakes for the price of a nice one right?)


Now multiply the price of an Icom 756 ProIII and see how much sports car you get today!

In 1980 I was in College and driving/sometimes pushing a '76 Pinto.
That Drake was worth more than my car!


73 Ben - ne5B
 
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Cam and Juli Hedrick" <walnutcreek at appstate.net>
Reply-To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Date:  Wed, 23 May 2007 10:07:19 -0400

>My 2 cents:
>In 1980 I purchased the complete Drake TR-7/DR7 line on the employee
>purchase program and it still set me back over $3000.00.  Today, you can buy
>the IC-756Pro III and a very nice amp for the equivalent currency.  My
>Collins gear would amount to tens of thousands of dollars at today prices if
>it was "state of the art" due to inflation alone.   Given these examples I
>feel that current market pricing is fair, and many hams today make high 5
>figure and up salaries and can thus more easily afford these rigs.
>Cam
>WA4JKW
>Very open to comment and criticism, just remember this is just an opinion. 
>
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