On 03/07/06 11:03 pm Noon-Air wrote:

Whatever happenet to a simple to operate 100watt HF rig that transmits and
recieves??... something in the way of an inexpensive, baseline, HAM band
*only* rig... maybe along the lines of the re-production of the TS-130S.

Maybe there's not enough demand for such a thing. Moreover, the
threshold gets raised for so many varieties of technogadget. If we take
a possible parallel from the world of computers, a 6MHz PC-AT clone with
1MB of RAM and a 20MB hd should now cost perhaps US$25 and might well
suit the computing needs of a lot of people (as long as they didn't
insist on trying to run any version of Windozzzze on it). But, as
somebody wrote a few years back, "The computer I want always costs
$2000": the bar keeps rising.

"Perce"
(aka Alan NV8A)