Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:
Wasn't the speaker usually an add-on option at extra cost? That would
probably make it much more rare than the radio, right?

I'm guessing most boatanchor users either used whatever speaker they
had lying around or a pair of cans (earphones).

Hams are notoriously cheap. They hate paying extra for stuff they
can scrounge out of the trash. Even if it ends up looking like
they scrounged everything out of the trash.

SnapOn has the same problem with thier big roll cabinets. People
buy the bottom cabinet, or the top box, but not at the same time.
Then there isn't the matching box later when they run out of room.

Jeff

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