Brian Reay wrote:
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gareth wrote:
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TS-440 on semi-permanent loan to a new ham
TS-870 currently on backup status
TS-2000X main rig


Aaah .... a Cheque Booker (CBer) which explains the technical ignorance and
the rednecked abusive persona.

To make it worse, I didn't build my house, cars, or airplane myself either
though I have thought about building a kit airplane when I retire.

But I do build my own antennas for the most part and they work exactly
as predicted before building.



Jim, Evans has owned or owns a raft of commercial radios, inc: FT101, F7?7,
FT221, FT817.... he has
bought homebrew equipment made by others but, as for actually building
radios, it seems to be vapour ware.
This is all supported by his own posts. He couldn't use the 101 due to not
having the manual, or some pages to
be exact, so wasn't able to tune the PA. Hard to believe I know but you can
check the archive.

I concider the choice of build versus buy to be based on price and performance
criteria.

For ham radio specifically, the cost to build a modern DSP based radio
would far execeed the cost of just buying one, even neglecting the
time it would take, not to mention the test equipment required to
align and calibrate it.

For antennas it is not quite as clear cut as sometimes the antenna I
want is not available commercially and/or the raw material costs in
small quantities is in the ball park of buying commercial.

As for airplanes, the airplane I would like to have is simply not
available as anything but a kit or used and I will not fly used kit
airplane unless I know a LOT about who built it.

Gareth is just a gas bag blowing hot air.


--
Jim Pennino