I suspect the charge card is alive and well with amateurs too. Charge it today; worry about paying for it tomorrow. HT's are also easy to carry on the belt. I'm not sure I would want to hang my IC-7000 + battery supply on my belt just to bring it to a meeting.
Pete, wa2cwa http://www.manualman.com On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:50:19 -0700 "Bob Macklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect that most of today's entry level hams can't afford much > more than > a 2M FM transceiver. I know when I was younger (even in my 40's) I > could not > afford the HF transceivers (iCom, Kenwood, Yaesu) that are available > today. > I did build some Heath CW/AM rigs but I could not even afford the > Heath SSB > rigs before 1980. > > So I did a lot of surplus conversion and homebrewing. > > I don't see that in today's people. What I do see at the meetings I > have > attended is everyone seems to has a VHF FM HT! > > Bob Macklin > K5MYJ > Seattle, Wa, ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
