Well said Jerry!
I have several old Ten-Tec radios, a Power Mite 3,
Argonaut 509, and two Omni "D's. I also have the
Drake "B" line and a Kenwood TS-520. My newest radio
is a Icom IC-706MKIIG. I use all of these radios on
too on CW and SSB only. Using Yagi antennas that are
about 30 years old, I work all of the DX, both QRO and
QRP that I can handle including the big DX-peditions.
Computer radios at my age (72) are of no interest to
me! 73, Karl, KO8S
--- "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson"
<geraldj@storm.weather.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 20:43 +0300, Geoffrey S.
> Mendelson wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:12:00PM -0500, Lyle
> Dunlap wrote:
> >
> > > New generation of hams are like the new married
> couples. They want to start
> > > out with everything, complete with white picket
> fence and new car in the
> > > garage.
> >
> > My point exactly, but written from the what can
> Ten-Tec do about it
> > point of view.
> >
> > Ten years ago, my landlord saw my bug on a table
> and said "the Internet
> > made that all obsolete". This is in a country that
> had only had private
> > access to the Internet for less than two years.
> >
> > The new generation of people see things
> differently than we do, and
> > they are willing to spend money. Most of the
> people I know have limited
> > budgets for hobbies, so $200-$300 is about as far
> as they would go.
> >
> > For that money you will not find a used rig that
> can be plugged in,
> > connected to a wire antenna and used. Bear in mind
> their entire
> > "ham radio experience" if they have been on the
> air at all has been
> > 2m FM.
>
> Well, the Kenwood TS-120 and 130 have been selling
> in that price class
> for a couple years. They do need an antenna tuner
> (like all solid state
> radios) but have enough bells and whistles to be
> useful, but not so many
> as to confuse the neophyte.
>
> Otherwise for CW and digital modes there are many
> QRP products that can
> be a learning experience to build and to use. Might
> not cover DC to
> light, might only cover 7040+/- 10 KHz.
> >
> > I figure we have two choices, tell them how good
> they have it,
> > and why they should make do with 20 year old
> radios that don't
> > work the way they think, or sell them something
> they understand
> > and want. You're welcome to do what you want, I
> prefer to try the
> > later.
> >
> > Geoff.
> >
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
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