[Milsurplus] Dayton day one

[mikea]

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:46:52AM -0700, Hue Miller wrote:
> Good report, Ray. Only surprised me that the prices generally seemed
> quite reasonable - at least before the reseller mark-ups were applied -
> and that the LM's were that unreasonably high - i'm used to seeing
> them in the $10-20 range - at least out West.
> I think the trick to pricing the gear must be, low enuff for the 
> average enthusiast, but high enuff to discourage the re-marketers.
> 
> And why are the R-1051 still that high? Who wants a digit by digit
> step tuned receiver???  Useless! -Hue Miller

They're that high because people will pay that much for them. They are
not all that useful for hams, unless you want an RX that you can set 
to a frequency and have it there a few months later. I have two, and
keep them set to 15.0 AM for WWV/WWVH monitoring and 11175 USB for the
USAF GHFS nets. If you don't mind a case of knob-twister's wrist that
will make your orthopod or chiropractor ecstatic, they're not terrible
for band-cruising, either. 


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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin