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  • Re: Ham Radio - entry price?

    From Mike G@oilpan@optonline.net to alt.discuss.life,alt.ham-radio on Fri Jun 1 20:09:45 2012
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    depends if you're talking new equipment, used, vhf/uhf, HF or both, also
    if your going mobile or staying home with it.

    Mike, w2aiq

    On 2/15/2012 8:34 PM, G. Morgan wrote:
    What is a entry-level price to get into the hobby of Ham radio? Middle
    of the road equipment.

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  • From doc1941@doc1941@gmail.com to alt.ham-radio on Fri Apr 11 15:23:54 2014
    From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio

    On Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:15:52 AM UTC-7, Eagle wrote:
    It happens that G. Morgan formulated :

    dave wrote:



    On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:05:01 -0500, Peter Foldes wrote:



    "G. Morgan" <sealteam6@osama-is-dead.net> wrote in message

    news:p5noj7t49i50a14kd4c0pf8feekiclnp7r@Osama-is-dead.net...

    What is a entry-level price to get into the hobby of Ham radio? Middle

    of the road equipment





    I have no idea today. My equipment dates from the 70,s and at that time

    it cost me $1600 including the tower and antenna and it's installation.

    I usually were on the 70 m band and I have not fired up the unit in 3

    years but kept up with my license. Thinking seriously about starting

    again but time restriction is holding me back. I saw a Motorola

    transceiver a few weeks ago for $2100



    JS



    You just want VHF and UHF? There are a lot of nice radios under $500 that

    will run circles around old Moto stuff as far as features go.



    I want to be able to have a big enough antenna to get signals

    worldwide. UHF I guess?



    Do you want to talk around the world? The HF bands are meant for just

    that. UHF is for local line of sight.



    --

    Eagle





    Ham Radio Voice of the wind
    actually vhf and uhf are usful for quite a distance. on 2 meters SSB we are working easily 175 miles and almost the same on 70cm. KØIMJ beamspinners.com
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