[geeks] Moved to geeks: Cheap Ham radios (was Dayton Hamfest)

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: wa2egp at att.net
>Date: 2008/05/18 Sun PM 11:05:25 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Moved to geeks: Cheap Ham radios (was Dayton  Hamfest)

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>It would be nice to have a cheap rig.  The cheapest, new HF rig of decent power runs around $500-550.  A little expensive for beginning hams and those reentering the hobby.

The "cheap" radios of days gone by (Henry Radio Tempo One, Yaseu FT-101, Kenwood TS-520) all cost around $500-700, IIRC - but those were 1970's US dollars. Five or six hundred dollars today is much more affordable today than it was then...

Lionel