Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/14
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Actually there's a thriving business in selling "Glowbug"
transmitters and receivers at hamfests. Remember the Ameco AC-1 QRP tube
transmitter? About $25 for the two-tube kit with plug-in coils. One
recently went for more than $4,000 on eBay.
Nowadays the fun is building small QRP rigs into Altoid cases and other
containers. It's possible for a new ham to have a transceiver on a band
for less than $25 + connectors. It cost a lot more when I got a license
in 1964.
Unfortunately I can't say the same about the new M4 body I bought
in 1972 as a GI for $250, sigh.
73,
Michael Fletcher KL7IXI
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