On Oct 29, 4:48 am, "Harold E. Johnson" wrote:
"Scott" wrote in message

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Part of the reason might be that building piece by piece is getting pretty
expensive for what you end up with. For $700 or so, you can buy a radio
that works all the HF bands plus 6, 2 and 432 with all kinds of features.
Try homebrewing that for $700... Seems that most stuff homebrewed
these days is station accessory equipment that just makes some task around
the shack a little more convenient (I'm guilty of this as well). I do
still hombrew all of my own antennas

Scott
N0EDV

Not really so Scott. Try the PicaStar group. By the grace of Analog Devices
in their enlightened policy of providing samples of even their most
expensive devices, and the price of SMD ((NOT really so difficult to work
with, just different. And you purchase new resistors and capacitors at
$0.003 each (Not a typo, 3/10ths of a cent) from DigiKey!)) Mine came in at
something under half your $700 figure for a 160-10 meter transceiver with
more bells and whistles than the average $2000 radio, and more performance
than most radios costing twice that!

W4ZCB

And I'll tell you, I am damned thankful that there are people like
Harold, and Bill Carver, and Martein Bakker, who set the bar pretty
high and give me inspiration to work on projects that will provide
even better performance--performance that you simply cannot buy
anywhere else at any price. Largely through an understanding of the
goals that Bill and Harold, especially, have been working toward, I've
become rather rabid in my pursuit of excellence in certain aspects of
receiver behavior.

Cheers,
Tom