Dumb question #1

[Mark Graalman WB8JKR]

  I think it went for about $250 in 1975 so I'd
guess it would sell for about $850.00 today.

Mark  WB8JKR


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:44:20 -0600 Justin L Hall <justin.hall at JUNO.COM>
writes:
> 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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