Steve wrote:

Congrats on the 2010. It was a pretty good deal in terms of price and
performance. At least you've owned one portable that you don't have to
feel defensive about.


Hmm, I bought a '2010 new in 1988 for $325 at Ham Radio Outlet, Atlanta
(Larry Galecki made the sale). Good radio, although it's no longer in
proper working order now. I did get my money's worth out of it,
though.

Of course, the dollar was worth more when I bought that radio. In 2006
dollars, we'd be talkin' about $530.75 for that purchase in 1988.

http://minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/

((Needless to say, I understand your argument, Steve: you're weighing
the cost of the E1 relative to other radios on the market today when
making the assessment that it's not a good value for you. Still, I
throw this out there because it's worthwhile to note that our dollar
has declined in value over time.))

Good point, Junius.

junius wrote:
Steve wrote:

Congrats on the 2010. It was a pretty good deal in terms of price and
performance. At least you've owned one portable that you don't have to
feel defensive about.


Hmm, I bought a '2010 new in 1988 for $325 at Ham Radio Outlet, Atlanta
(Larry Galecki made the sale). Good radio, although it's no longer in
proper working order now. I did get my money's worth out of it,
though.

Of course, the dollar was worth more when I bought that radio. In 2006
dollars, we'd be talkin' about $530.75 for that purchase in 1988.

http://minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/

((Needless to say, I understand your argument, Steve: you're weighing
the cost of the E1 relative to other radios on the market today when
making the assessment that it's not a good value for you. Still, I
throw this out there because it's worthwhile to note that our dollar
has declined in value over time.))

Steve's the kind of guy that has poured a lot of money into some junk
receivers. And to justify those purchases he feels the need to tear
down the purchases of someone else. I guess he can't stand the
thought that a portable could run circles around many tabletops.

So you think an R8B and a 7030+ are junk? You're really going to have
to overwhelm me with your "expertise" before I believe that.

Why are you so upset about all of this, anyway? You don't even know me,
and some casual remark I made on a newsgroup has reduced you to a
raving imbecile. Life is too short! Go have a beer or something. Laugh
at a joke and get things in perspective.

It's all gonna be okay. I promise.

Laugh at a joke? y'all might as well google it, Jiggs and Maggie comic
strips

Me all time favorites.

Hey,can y'all say MoBro? More about that later on.
cuhulin

"Steve" wrote in
ps.com:

So you think an R8B and a 7030+ are junk? You're really going to have
to overwhelm me with your "expertise" before I believe that.

Why are you so upset about all of this, anyway? You don't even know me,
and some casual remark I made on a newsgroup has reduced you to a
raving imbecile. Life is too short! Go have a beer or something. Laugh
at a joke and get things in perspective.

It's all gonna be okay. I promise.



Don't ever, ever, insult John's radios, them's fight'en words.

SC

junius wrote:

Hmm, I bought a '2010 new in 1988 for $325 at Ham Radio Outlet, Atlanta
(Larry Galecki made the sale). Good radio, although it's no longer in
proper working order now. I did get my money's worth out of it,
though.

Of course, the dollar was worth more when I bought that radio. In 2006
dollars, we'd be talkin' about $530.75 for that purchase in 1988.

$325 seems high for a new 2010 in 1988. Are you sure it wasn't $225?
They were originally priced at around $230 when they came out in 1984. I
bought a new one from 'Grove' for about $275 in 1991. I had seen them on
the gray market at that time for about $225 but I didn't want to take a
chance on the warranty. After Sony succeeded in eliminating the gray
market for the 2010 they raised the price to well over $300. They must
have been making a good profit in the latter years of the 2010 since
their design and tooling costs had long since been recovered.

HFguy wrote:
$325 seems high for a new 2010 in 1988. Are you sure it wasn't $225?
They were originally priced at around $230 when they came out in 1984. I
bought a new one from 'Grove' for about $275 in 1991.

No, that was a good price. I had a friend who was a grey market importer
who brought some in when they were first made before they were imported
by Sony. I got one of those, his cost was over $350.

The "legal" ones sold for almost $400 for a long time.

Geoff.
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