Scott wrote:
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
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I fully support that approach . Station accessories can often be easily
home-brewed as can simple QRP equipment , and usually at very modest
cost . All wire type of antennas can be readily home-brewed as well at
minimal cost using 'alternative' materials for insulators ,etc.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH