[R-390] EK-07 Appreciation Tour

[Mark Donaldson]

I wonder if you flew to Germany to get it, if the
airline would mind if you took it back with you as
checked on baggage... ohhhh my back. 

Seriously, I have been in the international terminal
at LAX waiting for a flight to Asia and saw people
with carts stacked with televisions, VCRs, microwaves,
kitchen sinks etc. waiting to check this through as
baggage. Has anybody ever tried transporting a boat
anchor this way and was it worth it, assuming you had
to be in the country anyway for other reasons.

--- Dan Arney <hankarn at pacbell.net> wrote:
> First this unit crated ships at 215 pounds so to
> heavy for UPS.
> 
> Someone must be smoking funny stuff to think we are
> going to send out a 
> $3000.00 radio for a year and let every one and
> their brother get hold 
> of it and try to re-engineer it. Maybe if the panel
> was WELDED shut.
> 
> Better yet why not get a group of guys together to
> buy it and then pass 
> it around to the next guy in the chain, say 3 to 500
> miles apart and 
> drive and pick it up. use for the agreed time and
> pass it on.
> I would still be inclined to weld the panel closed
> for the tour.
> 
> It is modular in construction but not for the weak
> hearted to work on. 
> It is not a 39XX type for field work.
> 
> They are built like a tank.
> There are few available in Europe at different
> prices and condition.
>  From 300 to 1000 Euro's.Then they have to be
> crated, taken to an 
> airport and shipped. Airfreight for personal cost
> will run 6 to 1000 bux 
> depending on location.
> And if you go to Germany to look at it and check it
> out add $1500.00 at 
> least. Now you want to go and the XYL says not
> without me and now you 
> are down another $4000.00 because she has to see
> this or that and go on 
> her shopping spree, add another $2000.00 now the
> EK-07 is at 10K or so.
> 
> Hank
> KN6DI
> 


		
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