Re: New P3 "meters"

[Kevin Stover]

I do get a chuckle out of these product announcements from Elecrafdt on the reflector.

THE Design Engineer - "The new Widget 2000 should have this and this and this or it's a waste of time".

The Average Ham Radio Buyer -  "The Wideget 2000 BETTER have this or this or this feature and be FREE, or I'll stamp my feet and hold my breath, or go on EHam.net and leave a bad review, till it does"!

The product hasn't even been released yet. A little perspective is in order I think.

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[NK7Z]

Yeah right...  Never going to happen...  Hams are without a doubt the
cheapest people I have ever met.

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On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:32 -0500, Kevin Stover wrote:
> I do get a chuckle out of these product announcements from Elecrafdt on the reflector.
>
> THE Design Engineer - "The new Widget 2000 should have this and this and this or it's a waste of time".
>
> The Average Ham Radio Buyer -  "The Wideget 2000 BETTER have this or this or this feature and be FREE, or I'll stamp my feet and hold my breath, or go on EHam.net and leave a bad review, till it does"!
>
> The product hasn't even been released yet. A little perspective is in order I think.
>

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[Jim Low man]

Obviously you've never been to the International DX Convention in
Visalia that happened last weekend.

These guys (and ladies) are dead serious, and are not afraid to spend
some money.  Don't confuse them with the guy at the local swapmeet who
saved the 50 cents on a bar of soap so that he could haggle with a
seller to get a dollar mic for his half buck.

It was obvious from who the vendors were - most of them hawking high-end
products like amplifiers, antennas and the like - and what they didn't
have on display.  Even at the Yaesu and Icom booths, there was nary a
thing that would appeal to the shack-on-the-belt members of the fraternity.

Back in the late 90s, when US Tower was located in Visalia, they would
have an open house and lunch for anyone from the convention who stopped
by.  It was not unusual for some of the visitors to pull out checkbooks
or plastic for thousands of dollars worth of purchases.

I'm sure that Eric and crew took lots of orders for the K-Line and
KX3-Line products.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 4/21/2015 4:54 PM, David Cole wrote:
> Yeah right...  Never going to happen...  Hams are without a doubt the
> cheapest people I have ever met.
>
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