[SixClub] Real value

[Howard Bingham]

Long live the days when manufacturers offered both kits and ready 
built radios, so those just beginning could buy the parts & put it 
together, learning while you go in order to make better decisions 
down the road..

Long live E.F. Johnson and Heathkit, love them or forget them, they 
both made kits and completed radios with quite a wide range in prices 
and degree of completion..

How many of you started out with a crystal receiver when you were 
knee high to a grass hopper...?

I bought my first radio used, knowing what it cost when new, then 
went from there..

Maybe we ought to be aiming beginners to swap meets & similar shows 
so they could learn by experience & go from there..?

End of story,

Anyone have a boat anchor for sale.....?

Howard Bingham
KE5APJ

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At 05:41 PM 6/6/2006, martin glazer wrote:
>Ham radio is definitely not a inexpensive hobby to get into.
>
>John Carson <em15hf at yahoo.com> wrote:   Well put Mike...
>
>In my humble opinion, if you like a rig and you can afford it new or 
>used, then buy what you like...if you get in the old "cost is most 
>important" mindset then you may miss out on some very nice 
>equipment. Just because one rig is lower priced than another is no 
>way to judge its performance. Cheaper is not always good or bad... 
>Maybe the question should be, does the rig do what you want it to 
>do? . Just take real good care of your rig and when and if you 
>choose to sell it to "upgrade" or whatever price it fairly to the 
>market and go from there. So what if a fellow ham gets a good deal, 
>you promote the healthly attitude of this hobby and hopefully the 
>other ham you helped will pass it on....
>Perhaps I should end this by saying , if you're in this for the 
>money, you're in it truly for the wrong reason...this is not an ego 
>trip. I am sure we have all encountered Hams with a shack full of 
>the latest and the greatest, with no concern for cost whatsoever, 
>more power to them...That said, is it a useful tool or just 
>something to brag about...
>
>I you have it and you can affort it by all means use it...
>
>I could be wrong on all counts, but to quote Randy Newman in the 
>Monk TV show theme song..."I don't Think so...."
>
>My thoughts only, agree or disagree.
>
>73de kd5srw
>
>"Mike (KA5CVH) Urich" wrote:
>I think what a some people, myself included, have in the back of our
>minds but haven't verbalized is, if I buy this rig and don't like it
>(or any other reason), what would the resale value be? Thus with that
>in mind I think some people again myself included, will look at the
>cost of a Ranger or MFJ-9406 and go ... gee for $XX more I can pick up
>a used IC706 or FT100 or any other of the HF w/V/UHF and have a much
>better rig, that will be easier to sell if I need too. Or if you do
>upgrade to Gen/Extra you now have an HF rig to get on the air with
>too. Even if you don't it will be much more down the road than the
>Ranger. When you look at cost per band say a new 100 w Ranger 5054 @ ~
>$400 times the 12 bands in my FT-100 makes my FT-100 equivalently
>worth $4800 (less being 5 years old and original purchase price of
>~$750), kinda puts things into perspective doesn't it!
>
>--
>Mike Urich, KA5CVH
>http://ka5cvh.com
>
>Amateur radio ~IS~ a contact sport.

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