On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:33:49 GMT, Lazy Senior
wrote:

Chuck Harris wrote:

The rates can't go down, because the economy keeps inflating.
The inflation rate may be slow, 1% to 5% per year, but it is
inflating none the less.

Everyone wants their salaries to keep rising, so ...

-Chuck

The economy keeps inflating cuz we have a president who spends money
like a drunken sailor on a saturday night. The national deficit is
trillions cause he doesnt know how or want to balance a budget. Course
we got a War going that is costing us billions and dont forget our
prez's oil buddies who got a nice tax cut while making billions in
profits. Not surprising UPS has to raise rates when diesel is $3 a
gallon or more....

I havent even mentioned about ham gear going up cause the yen is strong
against our deficited dollar- and its going to get much worse.

Lazy Senior



Better reason to buy boatanchors!

Beerbarrel wrote:

Better reason to buy boatanchors!

Dunno. But it's interesting... after the end of WWII, the amount of surplus
equipment on the market was amazing. Even considering the total cost of
the war being so high, it was amazing.

After Korea, after Vietnam, after the Gulf War, there has been a move to
shrink the size of the military a little, but nothing like what happened
after WWII. And nothing like the amount of surplus stuff came out either.

(There _was_ a lot of interesting captured radio gear on the market after
the first Gulf War, though. Lots of ex-Soviet VHF-LO gear. Prices weren't
so low, though.)

Some of the wideband HF surveillance systems that were installed in the
eighties should be about getting ready for boatanchor status, shouldn't
they? I'll be looking forward to that.

But it'll be very interesting to see what happens after this war is over,
or at least when the buildup is over. Lots of UHF satellite gear coming
down the pike in another five to ten years?
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On 20 Nov 2005 19:49:37 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Beerbarrel wrote:

Better reason to buy boatanchors!

Dunno. But it's interesting... after the end of WWII, the amount of surplus
equipment on the market was amazing. Even considering the total cost of
the war being so high, it was amazing.

After Korea, after Vietnam, after the Gulf War, there has been a move to
shrink the size of the military a little, but nothing like what happened
after WWII. And nothing like the amount of surplus stuff came out either.

(There _was_ a lot of interesting captured radio gear on the market after
the first Gulf War, though. Lots of ex-Soviet VHF-LO gear. Prices weren't
so low, though.)

Some of the wideband HF surveillance systems that were installed in the
eighties should be about getting ready for boatanchor status, shouldn't
they? I'll be looking forward to that.

But it'll be very interesting to see what happens after this war is over,
or at least when the buildup is over. Lots of UHF satellite gear coming
down the pike in another five to ten years?
--scott



I'll keep my fingers crossed Scott. I sure would like to be on the
receiving end of some of those goodies!