is this the most expensive HAM radio? It seems ICOM keeps rasing the
bar and I guess hams just keep plunking down the cash. I guess lucky
for them 98 percent of ham radio operators are retired folks with
plenty of disposable income. Most of the young folks are tinkering with
Microprocessors,networking equipment and linux.

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is this the most expensive HAM radio? It seems ICOM keeps rasing the
bar and I guess hams just keep plunking down the cash. I guess lucky
for them 98 percent of ham radio operators are retired folks with
plenty of disposable income. Most of the young folks are tinkering with
Microprocessors,networking equipment and linux.


I'm still waiting to see the price on the Yaseu monster that'll be
competition for the IC-7800.

Your generalization on the age and income of ham ops is outside of reality.
Ham radio offers a unique benefit that no computer network or operating
system can give. Join a ham club and become involved. Involved in your
community and local disaster preparedness team. The most fun and
fulfillment I've ever had as a Ham is working those events. Try that with a
network gaming session.

FWIW, I am an IT professional... Been working with computers about as long
as I have with radios, 28 years.

On 5 Feb 2005 12:57:51 -0800, wrote:

is this the most expensive HAM radio? It seems ICOM keeps rasing the
bar and I guess hams just keep plunking down the cash. I guess lucky
for them 98 percent of ham radio operators are retired folks with
plenty of disposable income. Most of the young folks are tinkering with
Microprocessors,networking equipment and linux.

Really. I'm retired, but don't seem to have lots of disposable
income. And if I did decide to dispose of $10K it wouldn't be for a
radio, especially an ICOM. Down payment on a new Corvette maybe...but
not a radio.

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 06:52:28 -0700, Wes Stewart
wrote:

On 5 Feb 2005 12:57:51 -0800, wrote:

is this the most expensive HAM radio? It seems ICOM keeps rasing the
bar and I guess hams just keep plunking down the cash. I guess lucky
for them 98 percent of ham radio operators are retired folks with
plenty of disposable income. Most of the young folks are tinkering with
Microprocessors,networking equipment and linux.

Really. I'm retired, but don't seem to have lots of disposable
income. And if I did decide to dispose of $10K it wouldn't be for a
radio, especially an ICOM. Down payment on a new Corvette maybe...but
not a radio.


They weren't ham operators, but a couple won a large lottery here.
They invested all their after-tax winnings into tax-free municipal
bonds and now draw a monthly interest income of over $200,000. To
people like that, buying that $10,000 icom would be like you or I
buying it for $100. It would just about be pocket change.

Oh, well, that's life.



Buck
N4PGW

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Buck
N4PGW

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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:49:21 +0100, "Jim Phelps"
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Your generalization on the age and income of ham ops is outside of
reality.
Ham radio offers a unique benefit that no computer network or
operating
system can give. Join a ham club and become involved. Involved in
your
community and local disaster preparedness team. The most fun and
fulfillment I've ever had as a Ham is working those events. Try that
with a
network gaming session.



Disaster preparedness? Hams? LOL! I was involved in a backcountry
avalanche years ago & could only get one ham repeater in the area,
when I announced that I had an emergency ,the folks on the repeater
suddenly went silent (no help or response)!
A few years later I joined ( temporarily) a ham emerg/disaster
group..I didn't stick around long because of the infighting/language
issues..a bunch of uncoordinated clowns with the physical , social and
mental charcteristics of water filled balloons!


heh that is funny, I heard this happens.