W6JCW Bob ) writes:
"Brian Hill" wrote in
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...73&item=572237
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Because those bidding are NUTS!! I'm showing my age, but we used to buy
those things for $5.00....

But remember, the fact that they were so cheap and plentiful at one time
meant that people used them, and discarded them when finished with them,
like any commodity. It's almost sixty years since the end of WWII, and
each year decreased the number of Command sets in existence. When they
were common and cheap, nobody worried about perpetuity. But all these
decades later, the price rises as they become less common.

Back in 1972, I bought my first and only Command set, a transmitter
that covered 40Meters. I could get it at the local surplus store, which
still existed and still sold WWII surplus. I paid all of ten dollars for it.
Those surplus stores are gone.

Michael VE2BVW