N2EY ) writes:
In article ,
Leonard Martin writes:

A big question looms: Most boatanchors are the past "wish" radios of
people now in their 60s - 80s. Those people are often sitting on a
lifetime of savings and know they will soon be leaving this earth. If
they are ever to have the super radio of their teen years they must buy
it now, no matter what the price!

I'm sure that's true in many cases. But I know of more than a few BA folks who
are young enough that BAs were old when they were in their teens, yet they are
avid collectors/users/restorers.

And of course, as has been discussed, some of us came along when many of
the boatanchors were outright cheap, because they were AM and CW only, when
SSB had taken over. I had a bunch old equipment go through my hands in
the early seventies, because nobody wanted them. I'd play with them, and then
trade them.

It's only in more recent years that there's been an interest in such equipment
for collecting (well I imagine there have always been a few collectors), and
since we passed through the period when boatanchors really had only appeal as
cheap equipment, what remains is even more rare, thus demand is getting
greater than supply, raising prices.

MIchael VE2BVW