Dumb question #1

[mike bryce]

justin...

when you're looking at any project, one has to look past what is before
their eyes.

an example I am working on

the HP23 power supply boards.

The boards will sell for $15 a pop. And a lot of people will moan about the
price of "just a board"

however when you look at it from an overall view, then the price really is
cheap. that's the same thing about the $10 oscillator.

in my case, there's the setup fees, tooling fees, photoplot fees, shipping
fees and gerber file fees

now add on top of that the three prototypes I had to make.

and then the artwork for the project, copies of the instructions and well
you can see what starts out as a simple practice oscillator ends up costing
$10 a pop.

I guess one could compute the price of the HW-101 in today's money knowing
the rate of inflation and all, but I would hazard to guess the price would
be about the same as a multiband ssb radio goes for today. About $1200 to
$2000 a pop. It's hard to compare today's dsp radios with an 101, but a good
HF radio today will set you back a bit over a grand.

--
Mike Bryce WB8VGE
SunLight Energy Systems
"Electricity at the speed of light"

> From: Justin L Hall <justin.hall at JUNO.COM>
> Reply-To: Justin L Hall <justin.hall at JUNO.COM>
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:44:20 -0600
> To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Subject: Dumb question #1
>
> 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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