Dumb question #1

[Justin L Hall]

This is a really dumb/hard question- But here goes.
I have an HW-101.  If I bought the kit in 1975, how much would it cost in
Year 2001 dollars?
I know if you save the labor on building things you save money, but I've
looked at Ramsey's site and $10 seems too much for a battery and a board
for a code oscillator.  Seems like a ripoff to me.  I frequently get sent
to some places in the world where I'm there for a few weeks and it would
be a lot of fun to take a kit and work on it.  But I don't want to pay
all that money for something that's just a toy.  An HF rig even with ICs
would be fun to have and use.  Not to mention I could carry it with me
and use it.  There's even a market for HF/shortwave radios that are PC
cards to put into a tower computer, I'm sure, but it's a hard sell.
So those of you that have built them, how much would it have cost?
Justin
KB7LAK/VQ9JH

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