MLS has been appointed as the dealer of the Hilberling transceiver which retails for just under £12k. Yes, you read correctly - twelve thousand pounds!!
I am sure it would be very good and some will buy it. At that price it should be superb. Add a linear, tower, rotator and beam and you won't see much, if any, change from £20k. To me this is not amateur radio.
OK, each to their own, but I prefer to spend my money more modestly. Even for a professional radio, this is stupid money in my view, but we are all different.
If you want to spend this on a hobby - go ahead. Just remember you can communicate just as well across the planet with amateur radio spending a tiny fraction of this and you can video chat for free across the world with a low cost tablet or PC.
I agree. It is now retched excess. No wonder young adults with new families are put off and think HR is a Bill Gates pastime. Problem is they are not exposed to the majority of operators who have modest stations.
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ReplyDeleteOr a Micro 80: https://www.qsl.net/g3pto/micro80.html
How about the FETer: https://sites.google.com/site/g3xbmqrp3/hf/feter-80m-qrpp-cw-transceiver
All more fun than wasting 12K
73's Steve
A more recent link to the FETer on the new website is https://sites.google.com/view/g3xbm4/home/hf-mf-and-lf/homebrew/80m-feter-transceiver.
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